Revelations & Preparations

I've narrowed my "characters" list down to Charlie Moor (community), Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition (environment), A local business (local business, haha), and I have a handful of contacts from my meeting with the West Side Neighborhood Project (local Housing Market).

I want these to be my strong four story lines.

Problem: the more I learn the harder this gets! There is so much information to sift through it's crazy. Everything I look into expands like life is made of .zip files and I'm an unarchiving program.

Solution: what?

I've taken my issue of overcomplicated subject matter and have decided that's the opposite of what I want my documentary to be. It's overwhelming and disengaging to be confronted with so much information. This is why I need my four storylines to be simple but representative.

I get really excited when thinking about making the documentary. how I'm going to edit it together and everything! in my brain this whole process will be a rush of activity and creation but I know it's going to be a slow and cumbersome process... but I am totally o.k. with that. I guess that means I chose the right career for me :)


I need to make a storyboard by the time classes start back up (September 4) so I don't have to worry about classes And how I'm going to make this work at the same time. classes will definitely be slowing my process to a crawl.

BLEAAAGGHHHH I'm excited and hesitant all at the same time! I'm a ball of ambition and naivety and that's the way I like it.

-Kevin

Is This An Update?

There's not much to report and I feel bad about that. Research just isn't something people want to hear about. It's full of dead ends, circular thought, and seemingly unrelated topics that remain unrelated.

I withdrew my KickStarter funds from my Amazon Payments account today. so hopefully that all goes into my checking account. It's nerve wracking to hit "confirm" on a transaction you don't completely understand. This money isn't real, it's digital, I mean people donated from their digital accounts or credit cards those numbers got communicated to Amazon Payments, a digital hub, and I just digitally transferred those numbers to my digital checking account. It's not money and never has been, it's just numbers in databases until I withdraw some from an ATM which probably won't happen. Chances are, everything i buy or register for with this money will be through my credit card or purchased over the internet.

It's strange to think about how much trust is involved in these numbers floating around in cyber space.


-Kevin