Hollywood is Dead
Hollywood is Dead
6 // Momentum Baby!
Embark on a theatrical odyssey with me, Tyler Lockamy, as I recount the transformative experience of becoming Frederick Treves in "The Elephant Man". The raw emotion and authentic performance that emerged on stage was a journey in itself, challenging me to navigate the complex landscape of a character's psyche. The conversation then shifts gears to the lighter tones of "Baskerville," where I don the deerstalker of the infamous Sherlock Holmes. And it doesn't stop there; I also delve into stimulating discussions with my colleague Daniel Hill on the "Redding Sound" podcast and shed light on the "Leaders Playground" podcast with neuroscientist Dr. Irene Salter, an endeavor close to my heart that aims to fuel creativity and personal development.
The narrative of this episode is one of perpetual motion—how the momentum of creativity can carry us through the peaks and valleys of artistic endeavors. I draw parallels to the indie filmmaking landscape, where perseverance and the luxury of time often go hand in hand, and share my joy in exploring various avenues of expression, from drumming to the serenity of farm life. Coupled with personal milestones like a significant health transformation, this episode is an invigorating mix of introspection and celebration. As I look forward to sharing more on my upcoming ventures, including a play project update, I extend an invitation to you to join this vibrant community and share in the excitement of these narratives unfolding.
What's up everybody? Tyler Lockamy here, the Hollywood is Dead podcast bringing you another episode. It's been too long, I mean. What the hell man? What is up God?
Tyler:It's a beautiful kind of a deceptive spring day today in Northern California. I'm in the shed, which is my office in my backyard, got the doors open, got the sun shining through, got a nice little cool breeze. It's a beautiful day. How you doing? I'm doing pretty good, doing pretty dang good. Got a lot going on, got some more theater.
Tyler:I left you, I left you all as I was preparing for the Elephant man I was playing at Axiom Repertory Theater. I told you that I would take you along on the journey. I did not. The reason I did not was because of a few things that play man.
Tyler:I hadn't done a drama like a straight drama in quite a while and it totally consumed my brain power. I've not invested myself in a character like that for a very long time and I really do feel like I got it. I truly understood what Frederick Treves, my character, was going through in pretty much every moment of that play. It was the writing is. It's almost Shakespearean. So there was a lot of you know like what does this mean? What does this mean? There were just multiple like. The whole thing was just like this kind of like what is going through this man's head? And I was able to crack the code and, I'm not gonna lie, it felt really good. It felt really, really, really good. There was a moment at the end of the play where in the script it says treves, weeps.
Tyler:And as any actor, you're just like, oh my God, like I can't, just I can't fake it. You know, like I've got to understand what is going through this man's head in that moment to make him weep. And that sounds like if you're, if you're an actor out there, obviously right, like we have to know why he's sad. But I didn't want to just put on the crying face and you know, like weep and yeah, I just was able to really really get into it. And yeah, you know, there's kind of a lesson there too. It's it's when people are showing emotion. Typically they're not trying to show that emotion, they're trying to suppress that emotion. And as actors, we kind of see something like that and say, okay, I want to show that I'm, I am. You know, if I'm angry I'm going to yell. If I'm sad, I'm going to pout. If I'm weeping I'm going to wail and in real life that's, that's just not the way it is. You know, we really try to suppress those, those feelings, and so to have that kind of undercurrent of trying to to hold in this weep, it's. It's just a, it's a different beast and I had a blast doing it. Thank you everyone that came out. You know it's not an easy play to see. It's it kind of you get a couple of chuckles here and there and you also maybe you well up a little bit if we did, if we did it right. So had a blast, had a lot of fun doing that, because two days ago I was on a podcast which is called the Reading Sound. It's a live stream podcast hosted by Daniel Hill and Daniel was John Merrick, joseph Merrick, and completely immersed himself in the character. It was truly amazing. You know it was David Bowie, esk and it was just so, so, so good. I had a blast and so if you'd like to hear more about that, go check out his podcast. I'll link it in the show notes here. But yeah, it's a, it's cool man In another play right now it's called Baskerville.
Tyler:It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery. This is a British force. So it's over the top and ridiculous, and fun and funny. We have some truly talented people in this one. Mike Spence, local actor. Here is my Watson.
Tyler:I am Sherlock Holmes. There are three characters, so there's five of us total. Three of them play like 50 different characters 60 different characters, very fast paced. I do not envy them. I've done a few plays like that. I did the complete works of Shakespeare abridged and I did every Christmas story ever told and then some, and those are just so fast paced. You're just flying, you know, into a character ripping off costumes, getting costumes thrown at you to put on real quick, yeah, so yeah, it's super, super great, super great. It's so much fun. Jocelyn Carter, Nick Brown, Danny Lindberg is there, the three that are going to be running around and you know the audiences are going to lose their heads. So, excuse me, yeah, so doing that, rehearsing that, I just.
Tyler:The other reason why I was not podcasting myself was because I was producing my first client podcast called the Leaders Playground. It's a great podcast for anyone that is trying to do something on their own, you know, like whether it's creative, whether you're running a business, whether you're trying to push through the doldrums of day-to-day existence. It's a great podcast that gives you, like, actionable strategies to implement, and I'm super proud of it. It's hosted by Dr Irene Salter. She's a neuroscientist, so she knows the brain and she knows what's going on when you're trying to pursue creativity and the blocks that we all encounter along our chosen path. Super cool, I'm super proud.
Tyler:We have four episodes out as of April 1st, so the first three out right now. The fourth one will be out on April 1st. That's gonna be on a continual basis, so I will be editing and producing that podcast for the foreseeable future. But I did not want it to bogart my own podcasting and so I decided to jump on today and give you guys a little updates. Also, some updates on the movie the Dresden Sun, which, yeah, remember that we made a movie up here with Christina Ricci, minisuvari, steven Augh, linus Roach, lee Miklosky and a bunch of other people, and we made a really kick-ass film that's been in post-production now for a year and a half.
Tyler:It is a beast of a film and for all you indie filmmakers out there, you know how it is when you try to do a project on your own and it kind of you know, the snowball builds and builds and builds and then at a certain point, you hit the maximum snowball size and you really get a scope of what it is that you created. And we discovered what we created a couple months ago where we were like, okay, this thing is much bigger than we ever anticipated it to be, and it's not a bad thing. What's beautiful is, you know, we don't have anyone breathing down our neck to get this out. We are taking this thing as seriously as we can and realize that we get one chance to to get this thing out into the world and we get one chance to show that we are capable of doing big, big films. And that's our goal is to use this opportunity that we had to create something really, really cool the Dresden Sun and continue making projects. So we are, I would say, about 75% done with our post production. You know that number is subject to change as we go, you know, but we're making extreme progress. This thing is by far the biggest project I've ever even been in close proximity to, and my production team, my producer, michael Ryan, director, is working on this thing every single day and has been for you for, you know, now years since we filmed in 22. So you know it is getting done. It's very, very exciting.
Tyler:I've seen a lot of the special effects that we've put into the film and it's looking really, really good. So you know we were talking. There's a movie that came out in 2006 called Bale Wolf with Ray Winstone and that movie had like 1300 special effects shots. They had a hundred million dollar budget and our film has 1500 special effects shots and we've got a very, very small team and a very, very small budget. So you know we want it good, we want it great, and that takes time if you don't have money. So you can't have all three at the same time, you know, unless you have a lot of money. So if you have a lot of money, you can get it good, it can get it fast, but when you don't have a lot of money, you're gonna take some time but you're gonna get it good. So that's what we're after. But yeah, I mean, that's kind of where we're at. You know, just chipping away at that.
Tyler:I've got some fun projects in the pipeline that are going to impact the film culture in Reading, in Northern California, that I will come out with relatively soon. And you know, ultimately I just wanted to jump back on here and get something out. You know I'm a big believer in momentum and sometimes, when you get into these lulls of creative stagnation, it's good to just throw something at the wall. And right now that is this podcast episode and I just want to, you know, not let myself slip into my analysis, paralysis of you know, I don't have anything to talk about. I don't know, I don't have any interviews lined up. You know, and you know I'm just not going to do it and I've done that for so long. And so you know this is for my creative friends that if you're also feeling that way where you're just kind of like I don't have the resources, I don't have this or that to do the thing that I want to do, then you need to do something. That's close and you need to move. That's kind of the lesson Is that, you know, today I was sitting here and I was just like I don't have anything to talk about.
Tyler:I pressed record on my mixer and it probably sat there for about 30 minutes just picking up me going what am I going to talk about? Like, what am I doing? And I decided you know what? I'm just going to throw some stuff at the wall and you know, you never know what happens when you do that, but what it does is that it creates a bit of momentum.
Tyler:You know I was feeling overwhelmed. I have to learn lines for the new play and, for whatever reason, it's more difficult this play than most that I've had in the past, and so I knew that I needed to just do, you know, do this right now. This is what I need to do right now is talk to y'all and then I'm going to feel good about being able to sit there and focus on my words, focus on my lines. You know I've got another podcast episode to edit for leaders playground, and so, you know, I kind of started chipping away with that yesterday and I want to make some progress on that for rehearsal tonight. And I knew that I, if I just got on here, did this with. You know, it doesn't take much effort to start building momentum. You know, obviously I'm not putting a whole lot of effort into this, but I am trying to, you know, do my best with what I've got right now, and so if you're out there feeling that same way, I encourage you to just kind of throw something at the wall and don't see it as a failure, see it as building momentum, and so, yeah, so that you can then clear your head of that thing, so that you can move forward into what you really need to be doing. I don't know if that's clear, but it makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, so that's, that's what I'm up to, guys.
Tyler:I've been playing a little bit of drums, trying to get back in that little bit, just trying to fill my life with creativity and movement. I've been working out a lot. You know, since September of last year I'm down 60 pounds, feeling good about that man, feeling really good about that, eating good. Chickens are laying eggs. So I've been eating eggs, god, every day. The goose is laying eggs and they're gigantic. They're just huge eggs. They're a little bit smaller than an emu, which is a little bit smaller than an ostrich. So one goose egg is like three chicken eggs. So the ducks are laying eggs. Those eggs are amazing. Those are probably like one and a half chicken eggs and yeah, that's been really amazing.
Tyler:But dreading summer. If you're up and ready listening to this, our summers get to be 115, 110, you know over, let's just say, in the triple digits for weeks and weeks on end, but right now it's like 59 degrees out. So I felt really good about that. And I know, summertime I tend to kind of dip into a little bit of a lull because the heat really affects me. I don't like feeling that, you know, just stifling heat, dry heat. But I'm hoping to spend a lot of time out on the, on the, on the lakes and, you know, taking in as much cool water as possible. But I hope you guys are doing good. You know, drop me a line if you, if you want.
Tyler:You know I've been reading a lot of scripts, got a couple couple of scripts that I'm looking at, trying to get some producers attached to and I'm really excited about that. Actually there's some. There's some really good stuff, guys. There's some really good indie movies that are not made. You know, and the job of a producer my job as head of production at archetype pictures is to find projects and then put those pieces together. So typically the number one piece that you know that is the most sought after is money, right, and so trying to track down funds to make, to make, to make movies. So I've been putting together some of those pieces. You know, I read a couple of scripts that I'm willing to, you know, attach AP to so that we can, you know, knock on some doors and see, see if we can get something going. So I'm really excited about that, and a couple that I think would be perfect to be filmed in Reading and yeah. So I'm going to wrap up this episode.
Tyler:Guys, this is a short one, sweet, but again, momentum he's got to, just got to do something. Just keep moving forward, don't let those doldrums bring you down. And you are capable, and you are, you are able to to do, create creative things. You are capable. So that's the most important thing I am capable, you are capable, and let's go out and live our passions, live our dreams. You know what passion is real quick Passion is the, the suffering in pursuit of a goal. That's what that's what passion is. So you know, we have to have passion in order to achieve goals. You will never achieve a goal without feeling that you are walking through the pits of hell, and so I just I kind of frame my, my, my pursuits with that in mind, that it's going to be hard and that's okay and it's all good.
Tyler:All right, guys, I'll check you on the next one. I hope I have a huge update on some gigantic project that I'm working on In the next one and you know, I'm going to give you guys some more updates on how we're doing in Baskerville, because I like that, I like, I like giving you guys some updates on that stuff. So, again here I am saying that I'm going to update you on a project, a play that I'm in, and, yeah, so I will, I promise I will. I will at least once before we open, which we open in two weeks. So, all right, guys, I'll talk to you next time, peace.
