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if anyone is in LA area sunday, we will be setting up our credit stand at the Lummis Day festival where the Evangenitals are playing a free show! Should be fun; we are going to be selling $1 producer credits and fundraising for our road-trip this summer. We need to buy a bus! Speaking of... here is a road-trip flickr set with pics from our road trip planning with the Evangenitals last week.

road to oprah plannin'

today i missed b-day bbqs, plays, and parties. instead stayed home to work at the atomic pixel level. i didn't mean to miss everything, but just became totally absorbed. computers, computers, photoshop. sometimes i lose track of time. but i'm happy to have made some progress. mike and janeen have been helping mock up new blog layouts so we can give them to jason for the next round of web cleanup; we need to design layouts for all the different blogs (my blog, the producers' blog, plus the individual blogs) so that they are more intuitive, especially with regard to the content in the left side column.

Got word from Hal yesterday that a couple of big companies are interested in potentially donating some equipment (computers, harddrives, cameras, etc.) to help complete our film. That's pretty exciting news. I'll keep you all posted of developments. We are trying to get whatever equipment we can donated to cut costs whenever possible; companies who make donations will receive producer credits in exchange for the value of the donated services. Speaking of which, pair.com moved up another $997 thanks to their continued hosting services.

got back in LA today; started working on T1SF before I got home, catching up on calls while riding the Fly Away to Union Station. I love the Fly Away: $3 from LAX direct to downtown. good deal.

We are getting ready to start with a new round of web development to make several small fixes to our site. Gianelle has been interviewing a few potential summer interns and organizing our various projects. Also got a 1 Second Magic Trick video from Matthew LaCurts , aka bagheadinc.com, who is one of our Executive Producers:

i would like to start by saying that i've been involved with this project since i was 17, so it's been about 2 years. the reason i was interested at first is because i knew that this would be the start to my film career, all i've ever wanted to do in life is work behind the camera... but now, this project has taken on a new light for me. as i've grown-up a bit in the last 2 years, graduated high school, left home, moved into my own apartment, have a full time job and go to school year round, it forced me to appriciate other things in life. Love, art, real beauty, friendship, money, sleep and time.

The last few days have been a flurry; Janeen, Gianelle and I got together collectively for the first time, which was really good. Janeen brought a lot of structure to my 6 page list of web site goals. I had typed it all out on a word document, but Janeen brought it into Excel and broke it into different catagories (enhancements, fixes, new features), and helped prioritize and track each task. It is obvious she has tackled these sort of challenges before, and it's really helpful to have her experience to help organize.

Yesterday, I met Janeen, who is going to help us out with all of the tech stuff. Thank God for her because she knows A LOT and A LOT more than me about how to develop a website and web pages and the likes. I was so happy to meet her, and I know that she is going to be a great addition to The 1 Second Film team. Janeen is so organized and has so many great ideas, not to mention she's very sweet! Yeah!!! I like nice people. I'm so excited to be working with her. Welcome to the team Janeen! In terms of my own stuff, progress is being made. Especially during the first couple days, I got settled in, set up a bunch of stuff, such as e-mail accounts and learning about different websites, and now it's all about using what I've already learned and working everyday to accomplish our tasks and goals. I'm so excited, and I love every second of it! We have so much to do, but I'm optimistic, and I know that with everyone's creativity and hard work, we're all going to pull together and make it happen! 

Things have slowed down; I'm not sure why, but we haven't had any new producers in a bit. Meanwhile, we have been getting busy getting organized. Gianelle has been comming in the last few days; we have just been getting up to speed, setting up e-mail accounts, organizing piles of email, putting out calls for Interns, etc. Meanwhile, Janeen has been reviewing Drupal and going over our web site plan to help prioritize and budget our time and resources. Resources are a tricky thing to budget, we had been pretty steady raising funds, but after IMDb dropped our producer credits, things have been more spotty with fundraising spikes tied to increases in web traffic. we are still getting by, but strategies for fundraising are shifting.

There's a lot going on in Juli/Evangenitals land these days. The "day job" is just crazy as hell, so I won't go into that particular mouth of madness at the moment. The rest of it is full to bursting and only getting puffier every day.

This past weekend I went up to Vegas to meet up with my brother, Jaisen Crockett, the bomb-ass photographer, who was flown out there from New York to shoot a band -- KOR! Kinetic Origins of Rhythm (website, myspace page, and really awesome band photo taken by my brother forthcoming). I also got to see "Spamalot" which was lots of fun, play some video poker, go to the Ghost Town Calico, and take a bunch of silly photos with Ptryxxx, who was paying his first visit ever to sin city and did not leave disappointed.

Hiya, partner.

I need your help; or rather your body. :-)

If you be in the Greater Los Angeles area this Saturday night, the Evangenitals would offer you our eternal thanks and many a good character reference for years to come if you would come to see us perform our musical magic at Molly Malones at 11pm.

You see, this show is what is called a "great opportunity" in that "business" called "showbizzness".

The booker at Molly Malones also books for a bunch of other clubs on the western side of Hollywoodland, and this is our first and last chance to make a first impression.

It seems when a band ventures over to Hollywoodland, the band must "draw" at least 20 people in order to not be considered a "catastrophe" by the club owners.