I had heard about this but it wasn’t until I was reading my feeds and reading the post “Peat Wollaeger Mountain Dew Bottle Project” on Bill Streeter’s website that reminded me of the newly aluminum designed bottles that Mountain Dew was planning to distribute. Mountain Dew calls on twelve young artists to design 12 bottles for their Green Label Art series. On the website for the series the artists will put up videos either explaining their motivation behind their design or just giving us a taste of their creative aura.
Peat Wollaeger is a friend of Bill Streeter (check out Bill’s weekly video blog Lo-Fi Saint Louis to catch up on the music, art, and culture of St. Louie) and Bill helped with the making of Pete’s video for the series. Check out the designs and the videos. Think you can be one of the artist? Well you got until June 30th to show off your stuff. Just click on contest. I’m looking forward to seeing these bottles on the shelf.
I am on vacation this week and I am also helping a friend on their film. I came home for a couple of hours so I can receive something I’ve been waiting to come for about a week or so. I received my Canon XH-A1 and could not be more happy. It is the third video camera that I now own, with the other two being a Sony VX2100 and a Canon Elura 100.
But at the same time I have become reflective with a bit of anxiety. Why is this? Because the purchase of the camera was a step toward me making things happen in the world of vlogging, Internet filmmaking/TV, and filmmaking in general. I am a writer/screenwriter/filmmaker. If you noticed filmmaking is at the end and that’s there for a reason. I have always been somewhat afraid of directing or producing my own work. Not because I have a strong belief that I couldn’t do it but because I am a perfectionist. As a screenwriter you really must learn that perfection is not your main objective but the completion of your story. It’s then when you deal with the rewrites. Well, I always thought that directors and cinematographers never truly had that luxury because of time and money. But now that digital filmmaking is coming to the forefront, I don’t know if that statement washes anymore. Now we’re back to me. I have a chance here to try and make art with all the ideas in my head and I have decided to do that. Even if it starts out as a montage of scenes. I have had the chance to communicate with some great people over the Internet, Clint “Clintus Mcgintus” Comer, Chris Brogan, Steve Woolf, Zadi Davis, Michael Ambs, and that’s just to name a few. Most conversations were through constant emails and IMing, others just complimenting them on the great work that they are doing on the Internet. At this time I’m at my friend’s film shoot and I am so proud of him for making it happen and that reminded me of how grateful I am to just know those I have named. And there are others who I have just met. I hope in the future to actually talk face to face with everyone and hopefully getting feedback on the work I have done. You guys are awesome and are a big motivation to me. And as Clintus would say “Vlog On!“.
Yeah I have been away for a while but only for a short time and I’m back. Plus, I have the summer off to finally get some videos up and to start working on some short scripts. I hope to start entering my scripts into screenplay competitions and also work on actually putting one in production with hopes of getting it in some festivals. So look for a new post to come over the weekend and maybe even a video about…I don’t know, about something because it’s time to get to work.
