Preparing to Play Myself

I'm currently in Bangkok, Thailand waiting for my Vietnamese visa to come through. Gabriel and I have shot a couple promo videos for the "Untitled Around The World Project" as well as a camera test in some beautiful caves near Krabi.

I'm essentially playing a version of myself in the film, the lead character is named "Donovan" and since I'm improvising my way through the film it's about as close to me as I'll get. Gabriel often describes the project as "an archaeological mystery series. Think Indiana Jones with a very very low budget."

At some point I asked Gabriel if I should bone up on history for any of the specific regions we would be visiting. He told me not to worry about it - that was until he found out I never took a world history class. Most of my historical knowledge is from the unit on Egypt taught by my 6th grade teacher: Ms. Culpepper at Longfellow Arts & Technology middle school.

This being an archaeological mystery, Gabriel explained, it would be prudent for you to know some things about history like the order of the Greek, Roman, & Egyptian empires.

Thus, when we stepped into a bookstore to buy the Lonely Planet's guide to Vietnam, I picked up a copy of Geoffrey Blainey's "A Very Short History of the World". So far so good, we all started out in Africa and over time migrated elsewhere. That's as far as I've gotten.