days go by

Sorry it's been so long since my last post, this past week has flown by, to be perfectly honest, not much worth noting has happened - things have slowed down a bit - which is fine, sometimes everything seems to happen at once, and sometimes you look up and several days have gone by in a flash.


Most of the past week was spent waiting – the stickers still haven’t come in the mail yet, those of you who contacted me about the stickers, don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about you, I will mail them out the day I get them…

I’ve been discussing some advertising possibilities with Bicycling World, that’s been going well, more on that to come…

Olivier, Olan and Quetin have been very busy shooting a music video with the new HDV35-kit, I haven’t seen any results yet, but they say the kit is working perfectly and the results look amazing, so I’m very excited about that…

I’ve spend a lot of time recently working out the kinks in the film’s fundraising letter, with a lot of extremely helpful feedback and expertise from Chris…

I’ve also been debating the possibility of a fundraising party for the film - an idea suggested to me by a great friend, Tricia, who has done similar events in the past to raise good-amounts of money for theatre projects – the only aspect of it that makes me nervous is the fact that I’m not the best at mingling in large crowds of people I’m not familiar with, I get very shy and reclusive, I hate to admit it, but it’s the awful truth. Put me in a room with four or five strangers and I’m completely fine, put me in a room with thirty strangers and I get the sudden urge to go hide in the bathroom, especially when a handful of the faces I recognize from tv shows… then it gets really weird. Regardless of any irrational-fears I’ll have to overcome, it sounds like a great idea, plus it’s the perfect opportunity to meet up with Eric Simonson again, the director of “On Tiptoe: The Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo”. Months ago, I got to sit down with Eric and pick-his-brain about ‘project pedal’, I’ve been anxious to fill him in on the progress. There are still a lot of details to work out, but I’ll keep everyone posted…


[This just in] The stickers arrived a few minutes ago, that’s the good news - the bad news is; I can’t use them, to explain: when I originally sent in the order, I gave them a file with a misspelled word on it, but I realized this right away and, five minutes later, sent a follow-up email explaining what had happened with the correct file attached. The next day I got an email that assured me they’d check the files and take care of everything, but then days went by and I didn’t hear anything, after a week and half I sent an email double-checking if everything had been fixed, I got a reply that re-assured me they had caught the bad-file and it was being sent to film, but it had caused a slight delay. This was fine with me as long as I was getting stickers I could use. Well, tonight when I opened the package, they looked great, I was very excited and getting ready to sit down and send them out to people, that’s when I noticed a problem, it was the wrong file… two weeks later… and I’m still sticker-less… how frustrating.