Friday, May 20, 2011

The One-Year Mark

I am sitting in a darkened room in an apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is 3AM and I am now 29 years old. That means that I have exactly one year to pay off the rest of my loans in order to meet my goal. My parents agreed to contribute to my goal as their gift to me this year, so that is some unexpected extra income right off the bat. My weekly average payment needs to be $1,067.00. That is a sobering statistic.

Of late my blog has been less about paying debt, and more about just what fun stuff I am doing each week. That is all fine and good, but if I am going to make this happen, I MUST get serious about raising my weekly income to a level that will sustain those payments.

I'll have lots to share from Argentina when I get back to my video editing software, but for now, thanks to all for the birthday well-wishes, and I'll see you each week, as the 52 - week countdown begins.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Week 26 Mothers Day

Running out the door.  Relevant link.  And the video:



Also there is this video I did with a cool treatment for the invisible wounds of war.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Week 25: Pig N Brew

As alluded to in week 24's video, I got to go to an amazing event this week at the HQ for the Essex County Greenbelt Association.  It was the perfect day.  Such an amazing group of people were there!  The event featured a pig that was raised as sustainably as a pig can be raised and prepared expertly by the women of Chive.  They served a 6 course meal, 5 of which were different parts of the pig and the last was a dessert by Lauren Bell, another of the incredible people I am honored to associate with.

The video here that looks way better than my usual stuff was shot by Aaron Whitman (Thanks Aaron)

Jesse and his band Qwill can be found here.  The video for which he did music is here.

Chive is one of a new breed of businesses that internalize their externalities.  That is to say, they account for every possible bit of the impact they have on the world.  As Jen says in the video, they are a zero-waste company.  Everything they use is either recyclable or compostable.  They take excellent care of their workers, and all of their design elements are reused and reusable.  They are on the cutting edge of the way the world needs to operate - and we all should follow their lead.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Week 24: The Movie

A very light week in terms of content, (largely due to me deleting a ton of footage :(.  But here is what I got.  Be sure to check out the video below this too :)



A friend and former coworker from DC made this for a film class.  I was so flattered!! In her email, she mentioned that the professor brought in the producers of a couple major television programs to give notes on the trailers and meet the students.  My friend told me that thier reaction to this trailer was: "I'd see that movie."

Hmm....