OR, alternatively, Tempus Fugit. It's been half-a-year since we shot The Mayfly short film, and now finally it is complete. Even I wonder why it has taken so long to edit a 10 minute short film.

To look at it with a 'glass half full' mentality it has been a fantastic learning experience. Fixing syncing issues, learning green screen technology, animating clouds and skylines, creating moving 3D text, constructing video walls, learning how to use more complex computer software, colour correcting, animating scrolling computer text, creating crawling news ticker headlines. Fantastic. (And in between shooting and editing a music video, and editing our other recent short film American Rebellion).

Of course I love it. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. But it all takes time. Time, time, time. And unfortunately, bitterly, the day job gets in the way. And socialising. And sleep.

There have been times when I have been literally falling asleep at my keyboard, having already spent a long day at work, while editing The Mayfly. OMG. I love coffee. Coffee is my blood.

As a good friend, sadly passed, kept reminding me... there's plenty of time to sleep when you're dead. One of his once-favourite songs was So Many Men (So Little Time), hence the title of this blog, which he often used to burst into un-tuneful song. But the often-said phrase came to mean that one can squeeze so much into life, and then you try and squeeze that little bit more, but so little time to do it all.

This blog is ultimately an apology. Probably the longest apology ever. I think I'm trying to justify the six-month wait I have put on the actors and those who all helped with the project. And to negate the constant, and justified, nagging put upon me by my Nebula Gate Films partner Richard. I'm trying to justify it even to myself.

Anyway, now for the next project...