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Less than 6 days left for us to finish our short for the 10X10 Challenge.  We have what I feel is a pretty good script for having come up with it in 2 days, and a great cast and crew (none of this would be possible without the hard work and kindness of some very talented people).  We have a pretty hectic schedule planned, but at this point there is no looking back.  If we don’t finish, or come up with a subpar product, we waste the time and energy of a lot of really good people.  No doubts.  No excuses.

And speaking of waste.  A while back, I attended a pretty cool presentation (for my day job) by Scott Abel, on being more efficient with your time.  It was good because he gave lots of ideas on tools to use to be more efficient, most of them online and free. 

Two tools that seemed promising (but I haven’t got a chance try out– see!– guess I am wasting too much time) are “pipes” and iwantsandy.com, an online personal assitant. Don’t be like me–stop wasting time– see his slide show: here

Since Thursday at 7pm– We have been working on a short film, in conjunction with Chick Flick Productions for the Sacramento Film and Music Festival for the 10X10 Filmmaker Challenge program.  You had 10 days to make a 10 minute film using the given theme (which was rings), the use of a prop that is picked in a drawing, and a festival poster that must to be displayed somewhere prominantly in a scene. 

We had first choice from a stage full of props and chose a red suitcase– Pic is below (well actually we were number two, but # one left for some reason and came back half way through the choosing).  There was a Sesame Street Record that also caught our eye– but the red suitcase was just too cool to not pick up. 

Should be fun.  I think I will wait to tell what our concept is, but I’d be interested to see what concepts you would have come up with if you took part in the project.  Our deadline is Sunday August 3rd at 7pm.  Less than eight days left!

The finished resuls will show the last saturday of the festival.  see here for schedule.

Apparently, I am late to this,

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo]

In the past– I wasn’t big on self help type things, but the older I get, the more I realize that I don’t know everything.  Sounds like dude had figured some things out.

Here is the story on Randy

Here is a very short (do you have 60 seconds– come on click on it )audio primer from the 60 second marketer on why most corporate blogs fail (I’m not an expert at marketing by any means, but I can play one on the internet– and 60Sec Marketer seems like a pretty good resource)

There are additional stills on the page, and I should have a teaser up there soon too.