Admin, randomness and selling my clothes for funding

So, unfortunately, I've had no time to make a video this week as I spent it all on administrative duties, documentary workshops where I learned that my career prospects include severe starvation and got me dizzy with all the techie details about camera specs. I've also had to sort which ones of my shirts I will be selling to fund my documentary trip to California - for real. Under duress, I've also decide to turn my hobbies into a micro-documentary funding venture by going to sell my handcrafted (recycled / sustainably produced of course) vintage charms along with my clothes at the Hackney Wick Flea Market. Told you it was random...
Have a good week-end!

Tar sands exploitation Redux

After I posted my little Boo BP rant last week, my environmentally-versed friends pointed out that tar sands exploitation was NOT like extracting oil from cement. True, I was trying to invent a figure of speech akin to "drawing blood from a stone". But, just in case my English-as-a-second-language creativity would damage my credibility, I have tried to describe the process more accurately:

Friday Procrastination and the BP Tar Sands Resolution

So, my disappointment at BP shareholders failing to vote in favor of transparency for one of the most polluting operation in the world and my lack of work concentration on this sunny Friday afternoon spurred an infantile (and slightly scatological) tune... ... ah, well at least I got a good laugh out of it!

Mission to California

So yesterday I pitched the Emission Impossible documentary at the Green Drinks in London and managed not to fall from the stool or otherwise look like too much of a fool. It was really invigorating to witness peoples' enthusiasm about the project.

Anywho, first step: start with the solutions...

Emission(s) Impossible: It's a start...

Someone somewhat famous said that if you have a crazy project, you should tell as many people as possible about it so that you'll definitely do it to avoid the social shame next time you see them and they mention it. So there: I am making a documentary. I am making a documentary. I am making a documentary.

Although it's about climate change, it WILL NOT be your typical depressing guilt-ridden movie about environmental destruction. It will be fun. It will be relevant to ordinary people.

Until that happens, this blog will document my own trials and tribulations of putting this project together.

So here I start with a video of me practicing my pitch to prospective contributors and investors in the dark at an Earth Hour party. The annoying little buzzing sound is my dynamo powered torch...

There. It's a start. Enjoy.