This isn't an update. It should've been.
I'm at the beach, and was gonna make my first On Location puppet movie. I bought a Mme. Alexander doll (Michelle Loves Kermit: It's Not Easy Being Green edition) to have touring the hotel to various Christophe Beck jazz tracks.
For one of the last scenes, I bought a little plastic boat for her to ride in the ocean.
I held the camera in one hand, and her boat in the other. The first time, a big wave comes, she goes under, comes untied, and I have to hold the camera above my head, and go under for an emergency doll and boat search and rescue mission.
The second time, I turn facing the shore, and a giant wave comes up behind me right before I get the shot. This time my camera goes completely under and, sadly, drowns.
It would've been a great movie.
If I can salvage the digital tape out of my camera corpse and find some way to get it back in the computer, I'll put up the accidental footage of the first search and rescue mission. Language not for the kids.