My partner Jen and I will be visiting to Boulder, CO from the morning of Wednesday, December 27th and leave early morning on Tuesday, December 2nd.

We're looking for Zaadsters to meet up with – as well as a New Year's Party with a good mix of spiritual activists and integrally-minded folks.

We've moving in early April and have narrowed down our choices to Boulder or San Francisco.

Please let us know if you have any suggestions for some places we should check out while we're in town to get a good sense of the community. 

Below is a compilation video blog of us over a six-month period that we did during videoblogging week 2006.

Thanks,
-Kent.

 
I was tagged by Jen for the 5 Things People don’t know about me.

1.) I won a Twister Tournament in college. Bring it.
2.) I love to dance, and am known to go out on a dance floor even if there is no one else dancing.
3.) I recorded an audition tape to be on the very first survivor, but I never sent it in.
4.) I helped produce two 16mm films — a college comedy and a kung-fu action film — before directing my first documentary about a summer camp for adults who are mentally disabled — all while working an engineering day-job
5.) I just received an anonymous grant to support the next year of The Echo Chamber Project.

The five people I am tagging are:
William Harryman of Integral Options — UPDATE: Here's his Five Things post.
~C4Chaos — UPDATE: Here’s his Five Things post.
Charles Hope — UPDATE: coming soon.
Mike Lensi  UPDATE: Here's his Five Things post.
Darshan — UPDATE: Here’s his Five Things post.

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Here's a summary of Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky's 10 Rules that he follows for documentary filmmaking:

1.) Film only if you can't live without filming
2.) Film only when you want to show something
3.) Allow the film to change you while you discover the world
4.) Film something only if you hate and love it at the same time
5.) Film using your instinct and intuition, not your brain
6.) The best films capture the unrepeatable moments of life
7.) Include shots that provide new impressions that the viewers never had before
8.) Structure your story around the arc of changes in the viewers' feelings
9.) Ethics and esthetics are intertwined in documentaries so be human yet "not nice."
10.) Don't follow these rules.  Find your own rules.

(via Re:Sources)

Wow!  These could be applied to narrative films as well as to videoblogging. Go read his full version as he adds a lot of other things NOT to do as well.

These rules really resonate with me because I find that I've been following them as I've been making The Echo Chamber Project.
* I felt totally compelled to document the pre-war news media by recording over 800 hours of coverage.
* I wanted to show the world how the media was glibly treating the war as inevitable
* I allowed myself to be profoundly transformed through the journey of learning why the media does the things that it does
* I was infuriated by how the media performed leading up to the war, but yet I love the idea of intrepid journalism so much that I'm driven to help heal the underlying illness.
* I was using my instincts on who to interview and my intuition for which questions to ask
* The pre-war television news is unrepeatable for everyone who wasn't recording hundreds of hours of coverage
* Aggregating and recontextualizing the pre-war news coverage with interview analysis will hopefully provide a new perspective on it
* There is a balance between allowing the journalists to defend themselves and calling out their combination of laziness and ineffectiveness.

Okay, time to start putting these into action!