These DVDs are beauts! Had to sell ten of em' to pay for shipping to you guys! Your friends can buy them on Amazon , you will get them in the mail if that was what level you supported the project at. Thanks again!

It's been a whirlwind of a summer for me, didn't want to leave you hanging with updates on the project, so here it goes in nice little list.

* Screened in Chicago, DC, Seattle, and Miami
* Won a film award for merit from the online Los Angeles Hollywood Film Festival
* Spoke at Gnomedex (on the fly, was invited to speak after my screening - 48hrs to prepare!)
* The film is right now getting color correction and some new graphics, maybe a new website.
* I've been contacted about selling the film, not sure what to do there.
* In the next two months LIPB will probably screen in the NYC area, LA, and at a couple huge tech
events. Still talking details w/tech events so I can't say which quite yet.
* LIPB as a series is probably happening, there are just too many really amazing people with interesting world views out there to close up shop at this point.
* LIPB has an IMDB page. It's not pretty, but it's there, which is remarkable in itself.
* I've started writing your thank you cards.
* A "directors cut" version of LIPB should be ready for download in the next two months.
* Limited edition DVDs of that "directors cut" will be sent out to Kickstarter backers in the next two months as well.

That's all I got right now. I'd be running on empty if it weren't for all the enthusiasm of people like you keeping me going, this project is bigger that I ever imagined it would be.

And I can say that because Life In Perpetual Beta is over 100% funded and premieres in a mere 5 days! Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you. I have never been so excited to say thank you.

If you are going to be in Chicago May 26th, I'd love to see you at the premiere of Life In Perpetual Beta during the Chicago Independent Film Festival! Life In Perpetual Beta is actually showing on the opening night of the festival at the Charlie Chaplin auditorium of St. Augustine College. The auditorium used to be the production stage for silent films back in the day, so I'm a little excited to show my film about where it all may be going in a place where essentially film began.

The film premieres at 6pm, and is free to attend. Hope to see you there!

The other day I was having breakfast with a friend of mine who casually mentioned that he was hanging out with "his architects." I thought it was a little pretentious until this morning when I met for the first time, the audio engineer that will be doing the sound design for Life In Perpetual Beta.
He is serious business, he's not working out of his home office like I am, his studio is almost as big as my apartment... yet he was totally into Life In Perpetual Beta, which is pretty cool.
To tell you the truth, I was more than a little intimidated just walking in, and felt lost in all the sound design lingo once we started talking, I would have never started this project had I known what kind of work I would have to put in, which I guess is kind of the beauty of the filmmaking in perpetual beta; the unfolding is so much easier than the knowing.
He was impressed that as a first time filmmaker I had made it as far as I had, a.k.a. into his studio. I am humbled, proud and frightened all at once, but am mostly just so very excited that my project is about to be a completed movie. So excited in fact that I am willing to take the risk of sounding utterly pretentious to tell you that yes, today I was hanging out with "my audio engineer" and it was freaking awesome.

Thanks so much for helping me get to this point.

Life In Perpetual Beta was selected to show at the Chicago Independent Film Festival!
I'm not sure yet of what day etc. but LIPB has been selected to show sometime between May 26th - May 29th at Chicago's free independent film festival. The festival is run by friends of mine, and they really gave me a hard time during the selection process by waiting till' the very last day of selections to tell me whether or not they'd picked Life In Perpetual Beta to be in. I'd call them jerks, but THEY PICKED ME so lets just call them wonderful ok? It does mean I have to get this film finished even before the Kickstarter campaign countdown is done. The pressure is on to get the audio engineering, design, and score ready before the screening, although really, the film title lends itself so well to changing things just a little for each successive showing doesn't it?

If you happen to be in Chicago that week, let me know, we can have a Kickstarter Friends Cocktail Party, Picnic or High Five-athon!

Holy Freaking Crap.

Both in my in-box AND on your hand written thank you cards!

Check it out! Life In Perpetual Beta made it to the front page of Coudal.com on the Fresh Signals blog!

But I didn't mind because it tasted like Awesome. Thanks!

My family has mono; My husband, my three year old, me - we've all got it. It makes it a little tricky to do the work of a filmmaker/promoter/editor when my husband is sleeping in the office and my three year old daughter is miserable (and bossy - holy crap is she bossy). I'm jonesing for time with my film, and just can't get it in the current situation. Hoping this week was some kind of divine intervention to keep me from changing things too much, but goodness gracious - a tropical vacation would have done the trick just as well Lord.

I decided to try my hand at combining my fledgling Finalcut skills with my neophyte Photoshop skills, mixed them both liberally with a little time, and voila, this lil' scene was the result! I always get so excited when I take the risk and figure out how to do something new on my own, thought I'd share.