7/11 - A Place for Bus!

It's a lucky day- with only 10 weeks to go before our Road to Oprah starts, we finally found a place to keep our bus over the summer!

Levi and I met with the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena. The Armory is a great space and resource for artists, offering gallery and studio space as well as classes for kids. The place was packed with 3-15 year olds running around, making art. they have a super hero class where kids make their own superheros, complete with capes and comic books.

The Armory also has a big protected parking lot that artists sometimes use for big projects; they have given our project a residency over the summer so that we can work on our school bus for the Road to Oprah. This is a big logistical obstacle solved- we were wondering where we were gonna put a giant bus! The Armory is the perfect place to convert our bus to the bio-diesel road-ready green-machine collaborative-art concept-on-wheels that it's about to become. It's great that we will be part of an art community as well! Thanks Armory! :)

So now that we have a place to put the bus, all we need is to get a bus to put! Friday Levi and I are driving up to Fresno to meet a high school teacher with a passion for busses. Should be an adventure.

Look forward to some pics from the Armory as we fix up the school bus this summer. We also gave the Armory an Executive Producer credit in exchange for the donated space :). Leave em a comment here: http://www.the1secondfilm.com/producer/7541.

And if any producers in LA want to help fix up a school bus this summer, just contact us. The vision is to have it be like a musical montage fix-up-scene from Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo (where they fix up the community center to save it from the developers). It's gonna be a close call as we don't have a bus yet and are still raising the money to fix it up!

Producers keep tricklin in, like David M. Stibon, a liscensed Funeral Director and Embalmer from Pennsylvania. Thanks for chipping in David! With any luck, we will be getting even more producers soon.

I did 2 more interviews today, including one from my car at the park across from the Armory. that was for a radio station that sends out to 40 Australian stations. Tomorrow there are 4 more interviews scheduled, starting at 6am! Juli cstarted calling it a press junket, and I guess it's turning into that. Members of the media are starting to pass our story around to friends, which is cool. i'm glad the word is starting to get out.

I grabbed some groceries on the way home, lots of energy shakes and cliff bars. Sarah and I went jogging this morning again; I'm trying to take better care of myself as this is pretty exhausting.

Gonna go spend a few hours on the roadtooprah.com site. Jason has been programming it and it's getting close...

best to all,

n