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Weekly Update(s) 03/07/2010

My computer died last Tuesday. There’s an update for ya. I still don’t really know what happened, but something somewhere shorted out and it put the whole following week into a bit of a fritz. It was okay though, the hard drives are all fine, it’s just something in the motherboard that’s mad at the world. In honesty, it was time. It was a bit old, and it had served me well over many, many, many long hours. So while waiting for the new parts to arrive, I spent a lot of time just searching through internet databases doing market research. We did some budgeting and projections. We’ve just been working on a lot of the little things that a proper business needs to do properly. It’s been good and worthwhile, just relatively unblogable.

This blog has so far been mainly us writing about creative endeavors or thoughts on creative processes, but the last few months have primarily seen us working to progress the business of Brainroot. This isn’t as exciting to talk about as movies. But it is at some points interesting. I’m going be talking about the business at more points from this point forward. I’d say “we,” but I haven’t actually talked to Paul about this possible content amalgamation. I think he’s probably been thinking about it himself. If not, I’ll just come back in here delete these few sentences, because it’s the internet and it’s ephemeral and I can do that so Nah. But, yes, Business! Not always, don’t fear, just at points.

We’re going to India. There’s an update for ya. That’s on the business side. Got our shots on Friday so that we hopefully don’t die while over there…cause then we couldn’t do the work we’re to do, which is to document World Water Day with Water.org. They’re a really great organization and we’re really happy that we’ve been able to work with them…and that they’re taking us to India.

While that’s big and exciting, it’s the only really exciting thing coming up. So for now, that’s all I’ll update you on. Now, if you’ll excuse me ladies and gentlemen, I need to stretch because there’s hoops we need to jump through.

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Weekly Update 02/21/2010

"What does the future hold?"

Truth is, not much to say this week.
It’s been a ‘heavy’ sort of week.  We celebrated the first birthday of Brainroot on the 18th, but along with the festivities came an extended period of brooding.
We’d like the company to start looking like a real company this year, but there is a lot that needs to [...]

Weekly Update: 02/14/2010

The gloves are on.
No, I didn’t mix up my metaphors. We’re gearing up to enter the ring. No more bare-knuckle boxing in the back alley. Sure, it’s fun and it gives you a sense of adventure and makes you feel tough. But when you operate outside of the mainstream where only a few people know [...]

The Yoga Fly Experience – Part 2 A

I wrote a fair few words in Part 1 of The YogaFly Experience, but if you haven’t read it and don’t wanna (tsk) here’s the necessary info: three high-school buddies were about to leave college and enter the real world and they wanted to make a movie together; around March or April of ‘08 they settled on a roughly treated, underdeveloped, unwritten story called The Yin of Gary Fisher’s Life; they would shoot it in July; come mid-May the script was still unwritten and all subsequent details were undetermined; and it didn’t matter because they had one mindset: “Let’s do this.”

Read on.

Weekly Update 02/08/2010

Good day to you.
As you’ve become accustomed to, nay, dependent on, the weekly update normally comes out on Sundays.
Today is Monday.
On Sunday, the time when the weekly update normally comes out, I was, rather than writing the weekly update, hanging with the Prairie Village police.
I was not, as you may have assumed, working on my [...]

Mastering your Eye

'F' This!

Or
“Your Eye Can’t See”
A little while back a wrote a post entitled, The Straightest Path to Better Cinematography.  I had considered including a long section about light and the way we see it, but I realized the post was already too long and someone like me wouldn’t read it.
So consider this part II.
First, lets get [...]

Weekly Update: 01/31/2010

So what the heck have I been up to? Simply seeking the Runes of Power. That’s all.
The majority of my fairly fractured time over these last few weeks has been spent rehashing the Brainroot pro site. A lot of 12-16 hour days sitting in front of my computer monitor (which, thanks to my family+Christmas is [...]

The YogaFly Experience – Part 1

At present there is one major instance in our video-production past that stands untouched, un-blogged, un-discussed, and relatively underlooked. And that instance is the The Yin of Gary Fischer’s Life. Our movie.
I’m gonna cover it in three four different entries; one for introduction, one for pre-production, one for production, and one for post-production. What I [...]

Weekly Update 01-24-10

A wire diagonally spans the creek

-or-
The Importance of Getting Out
I decided to join you today not from the peaceful serenity of the Brainroot national headquarters, nor the nourishing mayhem of my favorite coffee shop, rather, I decided to write this weekly update from deep in the Kansan tundra.
As I wandered off the beaten path, searching for the perfect writing location, [...]

Another Timelapse of our Workings

Just before Christmas we acquired our first office. Twas a joyous occasion full of happiness and happy thoughts. This is a time lapse of our first walk down to the office and subsequent putting together of furniture. It covers three days in three minutes.