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As Nirvan mentioned in his blog, I actually left the tech world to try my hand at film production. So why, oh, why, would I take a job helping out with the tech side of a film? Well, I guess it's because I believe in this project, and this is one way that I can contribute in a somewhat unique way.

I hope that by lifting some of the tech management burden from Nirvan, that will allow him to continue his fundraising and event planning work. I just hope to provide the backbone for his communications out to all of the other producers, as well as for the millions of future producers and media inquiries that are sure to be just around the corner. ;-)

So yesterday I met with Janeen Levin, one of our producers (listed just above Spike Jonze @ $12.01) who responded to our newsletter job posting. I had already hired Gianelle, but Janeen has a ton of experience  with IT development, and has project managed tech development for companies like Microsoft, Ebay, and several internet startups. I decided to allocate some of our limited budget toward having Janeen manage our websites development, which honestly should be a full-time job, and has been a bit overwhelming for me. I have already learned more than I ever wanted to know about open-source CMS, HTML, PHP, Apache servers, CRMs, MySQL databases, round-robin DNS servers, etc. I'm really just a stop-motion animator, so dealing with all this tech has been a slow learning curve. But as this project became increasingly internet based, it was necessary tho learn.

Hi there! It's past 4:00 am, and I just finished finals today at USC. No wait, that was yesterday. It's late. I have to go to bed. Anyways, I'm so excited to be working as Project Manager at the 1 Second Film. Here's a quick little story for ya'll.

About a week ago, one of my best friends from NJ called me, and we were talking about graduation and how we have no jobs and what should we do with our futures and how we must find eternal happiness and and how ... OK, I'm going too far. So, I told her that I'm graduating on May 11th, which is in two days. No, wait. It's tomorrow. Lord, it's late!!! And I was complaining and whining that I have no job and what do I do? Sure, I plan on going to grad school at USC next year, but what about a JOB?!?