Blog4Reel Begins

September 26, 2007

I think I conquered my fear of public speaking at the screening for my first short film (The Theory of Everything) last night. I think it’s been something like 14 years since I’ve spoken in front of an audience. I’m excited to say I even kind of liked it once I realized my heart really couldn’t fly out of my throat. Remember that Seinfeld riff where he’s joking about how more people would rather die than speak in public? Anyway, what’s to be afraid of? A tomato? I digress.

At the screening we officially announced the existence of blog4reel.com. (whoohoo!) A concept/idea/artform that we’re super excited about. But in any new adventure there are always twists and turns. In case you run across any… I promise they’re all being worked out. Check back in on the official launch date - November 1, 2007! Please be patient with us while we find our sealegs. But since this is the Internet, I guess I should call them our ether-legs.. or weblegs? I don’t know.. any ideas?

May 21, 2207

Making Progress – which is always good, especially since I’m not a patient individual, and my patience has been doing it’s exercise lately – with trying to finish up the blog site and also the short film we shot like a decade ago (ok, maybe only 3 years) and is still in post production. Our web designer and I are meeting tomorrow to finalize some things on the site. I can’t figure out the forum at all.. not sure if I’m being dense or if WD needs to tweak something. Good times. I’ve never really gotten much into forums although I was a chatroom pioneer in my day when AOL was just breaking ground. It was fun meeting people from all over the world. People were more leery back then of meeting people on the Internet, but it seems to me that Internet deception has grown into an art form and is far riskier than before. Still, people are people and given enough time, most people can’t hide their true intentions. What’s my point? I don’t really have one, so I’m definitely not discouraging anyone. Just musings. Fairly boring, late night drifting.

May 7, 2007

For me, this is the day that blog4reel became a reality because I committed to it in the way you commit to something when you know you’re in it for the long hall. Maybe you feel that way about your partner, maybe you don’t. Maybe something else – your child, your dog, your job, your friend. For me, I’ve felt that way about many different things throughout my life. Sometimes you just know something good is coming your way. Something that makes you step it up or stop and just breathe. Those are nice moments and they’re even nicer the longer they last. At this point, as I’m writing this, we haven’t launched the website. I’m just crossing my fingers that we get it all up and running soon. I have high hopes for this site. I have a bunch of offshoot ideas I would love to explore, especially where film’s related. This is such a creative time. Sometimes things just take a while. I keep thinking I’m 35 yrs. Shouldn’t I be doing something important with my life by now. Then again, I guess that depends upon who’s criteria I’m using. Hopefully, my own. Everyone has a dream – has this beautiful idea of what they want for their life. And yet I see so few people just enjoying their day, not to mention their life. I’ve been feeling it lately – the pull.. the almost magnetic power of the drain, of the depressing bull-ogna we live with, it doesn’t matter where you live. Every country has its issues and its shortcomings, just like people. It doesn’t matter who you are when people who live half way around the globe are finding our plastic in their blood cells. (just saying what I’ve read.) So a dream doesn’t have very far to go when the ceiling is getting so low. Bill Maher told us about the bees on our planet disappearing for some unknown reason(s) – could be all our cell phone’s radio waves disorienting the bees, could be global warming, or possibly the energy bar equivalent food they’ve been feeding the bees that are being driven around in trucks from crop to crop in order to pollinate them. Who knows. They’re still trying to figure it out. In the meantime while we’re waiting to see if our world could be heading towards a famine, I’m trying to keep pushing towards creating the life I want and doing what I love as much as possible, which includes a pretty awesome world to live in.