Measuring Tape Girl is now on YouTube

Measuring Tape Girl is now on YouTube!

‘Measuring Tape Girl’ now available for download on the iPad.

‘Measuring Tape Girl’ now available for download on the iPad with the Play Festival Films APP. To download click on this link: PLAY FESTIVAL FILMS. You can download the iPad APP and watch the films' trailer for free. Further, you can check the nominations and awards, that each film earned at various film festivals. And you will be able to read the biography and filmography of each film's director. You can share the film’s poster art and recommend the film to your friends by email.

Each film can be bought for the displayed listed price. After you have bought the film, there is no expiration date for viewing the film. For all your bought films, you have an option to 'STREAM' (watch immediately) and/or 'DOWNLOAD' (watch later) the film.

Once you have downloaded the film to your device, you will then be able to PLAY (watch anywhere, anytime) that film, from your device only. You do NOT need any network (Wi-Fi or 3G) connection to watch the downloaded films.

Please note that both options (stream and/or download) requires the high speed Internet connection, i.e. Wi-Fi. We do not support any streaming or download of videos over WWAN (i.e. 3G network). PLAY FESTIVAL FILMS.

MEASURING TAPE AND MICRO-BLOGGING THE FOCAL POINT OF COSTUME DESIGN AND SELF-ACCEPTANCE FILM

Measuring Tape Girl Screening at the National Film Board of Canada

Hosted By Influential Canadian Female Blogger: Casie Stewart fromhttp://casiestewart.com/

Measuring Tape Girl is an examination of self-perception and indecisiveness. A young woman approaching her thirties and turns to online video blogging as a means of expressing her doubts and fears. Creating an alter ego named ‘Measuring Tape Girl’, she measures herself against others and before anyone rejects her, she does it herself.

Measuring Tape Girl screens at the National Film Board of Canada in Toronto as part of Culture Days on October 2nd at 3:00pm and 4:00pm. The Measuring Tape dress and Jacket will be on display at the screening.

Starring : Jessica Embro http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2630834/

Has self-doubt and pressure to measure up within social groups been taking to a new level by using social media? You tell us. To attend the Measuring Tape Girl screening during Culture Days, please email Chrissy@vocabcommunications.com to save your seat!

***LIMITED SEATING***

About Pasquale Marco Veltri

Pasquale Marco Veltri is a Canadian filmmaker whose unique vision crosses the boundaries of culture and language. His films, Politics of Fear, Measuring Tape Girl and A Day in the Life, have screened in Canada, France, USA, Britain, Italy, and Egypt. www.pmveltri.com

To blog or not to blog

I’ve decide to blog about my inability to blog. I don’t feel my thoughts quite have the value needed to be spread across the internet for just anyone to read. My thoughts are my own and being such I believe they should be kept private and safe from prying eyes. I have a lot of hopes and dreams I’d express in public if I actually believed one of them might come true. Is that enough self-deprecation or should I continue? I think that’s my problem...I never stop turing things into a joke or a sarcastic comment. Not only is humor my shield it’s all I have. I’m afraid that if I ever faced a problem head on without turing it into a sarcastic game I might realize that I actually can’t do this. That I’ll never be good enough. It makes me angry. And I have an anger problem. I hold on anger until it ferments into unbridled rage. Anger is weakness. I’ve always know that, I have. I just wish I wasn’t so weak. I have made drastic attempts to let go of anger this year and it’s been working but sometimes I fall off the wagon and get upset. Maybe it’s the heat or the attitude of the people that surround me at work but I’m having trouble holding in my sanity. Hey, what’s the worst thing that could happen if I just stood up on my desk and told everyone to go to hell? My frustration leads to more frustration. I can and I can’t cope with all of my thoughts. This is why it might be a good idea to blog a little more. Blogging yearly is not the best of ideas. How about I try to blog once a month and see what happens. I’ll turn my pent up rage into verbal diarrhea and pray that no one reads it. I will release my anger into the universe and set myself free from the bondage of my own self-hate. I have good news though. It’s coming soon. Stand by for my postcards from my journey towards self-acceptance.

Eeyore kinda day:

I’m having and Eeyore kinda day, week...month. Is wallowing a life skill I should be exceedingly proficient at? I see darkness everywhere. I don’t want the holidays but they’re here and they’re holding my self-esteem and happiness at gunpoint. Every year. Every year I let the holidays sneak up on me and I don’t get ready in time. I don’t plan ahead and get things done so I get overwhelmed. I don’t know what to buy, I don’t know what to write and I don’t know who to be. Which me am I suppose to be during the holidays? Loving daughter, supervising adult, little girl, patient listener or drunk embarrassment?

With so many choices it hard to choose. I don’t want to be any of them. There’s never enough money, time or perfection for me to make it through the holidays. I usually run out of one of those things before Dec 15th and then it’s down hill from there. I just want to be me but I haven’t figured out who I am yet. I haven’t discovered who I want to be, I just keep finding out who I don’t want to be. Maybe we can cancel christmas? Maybe I can make canceling christmas my christmas wish? I do believe in canceling the holidays....I do...I do... I do. But you all still have to buy me presents.

New Mistakes

My fresh start.....wasn’t so fresh. I can’t keep falling into old traps and making the same mistakes. At the very least I need to make new mistakes. Things go up and down and down and up but the trick is to say on course. To keep moving forward. It’s so easy to get distracted. I know where I want to go and I basically understand how to get there so....off I go. Looking back it’s easy to see where I went wrong. It’s easy to laugh at the old me. Thank god for that. At least I can laugh about it. I’m getting too old for mistakes. I should be closer to my goals by now. I should have more things.....or at least that’s what they tell me. I don’t need or want what they have so why does it matter. I have my mission, I have my life. I’m not following the same steps everyone else is taking....so to them I’m heading in the wrong direction. I’m making mistakes. What others consider to be my mistakes, I consider to be my greatest successes. I don’t know which me I want to be today but I know I don’t want to be you or anyone else. I’m willing to make new mistakes. I'm willing to run in the opposite direction of everyone else. I know who I am and I know what I want. When I grow up, I want to be me.

Fresh start

I need to Restart my mind. I need to let go of the numbness caused by repetition. When we were all in school starting over was easy. The new year began and it was an automatic do over. A clean slate. We started again and built our hopes and dreams for the new year. Lately I’ve been forgetting to dream. I wait in line for over priced coffee and think of nothing. I wonder when the work day will end and I forget to dream. I've forgotten to hope. Losing yourself is easy when you have no direction. I’m building a new path for myself. I new direction to run in. I live each day without goals or hopes or dreams. I feel like I’m just breathing and going through my days like a robot. Automated pilot is not a way to live. To stop all this I’ve created new projects to work on. New goals. New dreams. Of course my first new goal is to get new goals but even that is a start. I’m heading somewhere. I just haven’t figured out where somewhere is. It’s always easy to get where you going if you know where you want to go.