You know all those movies you love? You know all those TV shows you loathe? You know how every time you see something inane you shout at the TV, 'I could do better than that!' Yeah, everyone says that. I think my cat even thinks it, secretly, about my work, but he's a true diplomat and says nothing aloud. I love him.
Well, in the spirit of I can do better than that, I've decided to try my hand at it. I'm embarking on making the most important movie about a citizen journalist ever made! What's that? There haven't been too many movies about citizen journalists? So be it, we'll start a new sub-genre: movies about making shows about citizen journalists.
That photo above is an example of one of our great triumphs and failures. Kate commissioned the Butter Cow Lady of Iowa, Duffy Lyon, to sculpt a butter head of Obama. While doing research on Duffy for our piece I found the story on the NY Times, thousands of references to it and later that night on Keith Olberman. I was aghast! Also excited. Our butterhead was going to help Obama win. I mean, what self-respecting dairy farmer wouldn't want to vote for someone as wholesome as a butter president endorsed by the butter lady? Obama got a great positive bump, we got bupkus.
That story was not attributed to us. Why? If you're the Obama campaign and the Butter Cow Lady is making a butter bust of your candidate, do you want a story about an upstart group of nuts commissioning this or do you want a sweet old lady to just present it as a heartfeld, outsider artist kind of effort?
Ah, but in New Hampshire, we caught up with David Axelrod, he said of the butterhead "I think it was the secret to his success," we have that on tape.
How many citizen journalists, or real journalists, can boast that? I'm waiting. Yup, it's great to be a citizen, you can say or do anything.
That story was not attributed to us. Why? If you're the Obama campaign and the Butter Cow Lady is making a butter bust of your candidate, do you want a story about an upstart group of nuts commissioning this or do you want a sweet old lady to just present it as a heartfeld, outsider artist kind of effort?
Ah, but in New Hampshire, we caught up with David Axelrod, he said of the butterhead "I think it was the secret to his success," we have that on tape.
How many citizen journalists, or real journalists, can boast that? I'm waiting. Yup, it's great to be a citizen, you can say or do anything.
In the coming months I will be tearing my hair out trying to turn these 200 hours of footage into a movie. Something tells me it may not be that easy. But I know that it will be funny, and hence, it will be successful.
Is that something that you would be interested in? You the audience or you the investor in this film. If you like it - drop me a line.
Peace and Hugs
Carey
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