In the midst of moving apartments, Erica found that we still have piles and piles of stickers, plus a box full of pins, and, lastly, a Kinko’s sleeve of film flyers!
We’re making care packages and mailing them out to *anyone* who simply emails their mailing address to info@FToMfilm.com - free of charge. Help us run out of stock!
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After a 5 day straight holiday editing binge, the film is ready for the next stages of post-production! I managed to do everything I wanted to do with the timeline in the last few days. I might go into the details of those fixes at a later time, especially if anyone has specific questions, but!, for now, it’s getting past my bedtime and I do have work in the morning. I just wanted to say that I am very excited and feeling great tonight.
I wish I had more shots like this… but sadly the crane was snapped in half during the trip, but that’s another story for another time.
I have yet to really touch the film since showing the current edit to Larry. I am, as much as I’m scared to say it aloud, lost. I feel as though I stand in the way of FToM these days more than I help it inch the last distance of post-production; to be clear, when I say standing in the way, I mean that I’ve been too scared to let other people in, that I’ve had trouble trusting others with the film in a way that is starting to dramatically slow production.
So, what to do next? How to best get out of the way of FToM?
Here’s where I feel I’m at: when I heard that Larry was coming through Los Angeles on his way south, I spent 3 days cleaning up the first hour of the film, I was hoping to finish cleaning the second half as well, but he arrived in town about 4 days earlier than planned. Cleaning up was a pretty simple process, I had left gaps in the timeline where I was working, which was fine for me when working alone, but sitting on a couch with someone else while 20 seconds of black between cuts plays out isn’t very helpful.
What I would like to do is as follows:
- Clean up the second half of the film.
- Ditch a few music choices that aren’t working.
- That’s it… for now, at least.
WIth those two things done, which, taking into consideration how long things took before, should only take me a long weekend, I will be approaching others for help in a way that I’ve never been open to doing until recently. Here’s to some much-needed collaboration, and here’s to getting out of the way of my own project.
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via Vimeo : Somewhere between Anacortes and Bar Harbor
I came across this clip while re-checking the mp4 footage taken during the filming of FToM - I have hundreds and hundreds of clips like this one, but, for whatever reason, this especially made me miss the crew and the road. I can’t remember where this was taken; I do know that Jef and I made some extremely messy grilled-cheese sandwiches on the park grill, also that two little kids kept trying to skateboard for our cameras and time after time fell like a bag of bricks on the cement floor. Anyway - I just thought I’d share.
I have a challenge for anyone who is into Google maps and wild-goose-chases: it involved the last 30 seconds of a video I posted over 4 years ago already, back then it was called Episode One [above] of Project Pedal, but now, being that this video - along with the four episodes that followed - doesn’t smoothly tie into explaining FToM and its making-of, this video has been long-since collecting dust in the archives of Vimeo.
But, where was I?, right; the last 30 seconds of this video show a road bending slightly right, then slightly left, revealing a long, long stretch of desert highway somewhere between Goldfield and Los Angeles; more or less near Death Valley.
I need to find it.
I’ve been looking off and on for the last few months in Google maps / Earth for this exact stretch of road [update: road is running north to south, shot was filmed just before sunset and is actually playing in reverse: meaning we are looking dead north once we hit the straight shot] with little luck. So, the challenge being, if you haven’t guessed already, please help me find this lost place! I’ve marked down in Google maps the route between Goldfield and Los Angeles, and I also created a highlighted-boundary of where the above road almost certainly has to be hiding.
I don’t know what the person who finds this stretch of road will get just yet - I’m trying to think of something really special… it might be something I have to announce in private with said person; but that depends on a few things. In any case, I will try to make it worth your while and effort. And even if you don’t end up finding the road, please let me know you tried, and I will be sure to thank you for making an effort. I set the map to public, so, technically, people could add markers to the map letting others know an area has been looked at and nothing was found - maybe with a few people working to limit the search area this road will turn up after-all.
Update:
So, the very talented Ann Arbor based designer, Alex Jacque, was the person who tracked down the road [pictured above] seen in the last 30 seconds of Episode One - I owe a huge, huge thanks to him for helping me find this spot… on top of this road being very sentimental and symbolic to me, it’s a road that will play a part in FToM. I’ll be taking a road trip to Daylight Pass Rd. in the next few weeks and when I do, I have something special in mind as an extra thanks to Alex. Also, I wanted to say thanks to Eric Buist for looking as well. […]
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via Documentary:
64 Days is a making-of series shot during the filming of For Thousands of Miles in the summer of 2007. This is part 1 in a series of 8 pieces.
I’m really not sure how this happened, but the videos of 64 Days were never properly imported when I switched the blogging platform from Blogger to Tumblr, the only two pieces of 64 Days that exist as post are Parts 3 and 4, so, I’ll be adding in Parts 1 and 2, starting with 1, which was very flatteringly posted on Documentary.
Source: documentary
Sorry this took so long to upload - I recorded this friday afternoon, and wasn’t able to edit it while in Kentucky like I’d hoped.
But here it is - just an update on how I’ve been combing through the footage for the trip and making sense of it. It’s a basic approach, but the baby-step process seems to be helping.
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