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As some of you may already know I have been following this project for a long time and that I absolutely love it. Also you may or may not know that Mike Ambs and I have been diligently working on the second video feature for the How iMac Project on this very film. To a point we were making great progress, until we ran into trouble with getting the video footage from his computer to mine. You see the project is a collaborative effort between each featured person and myself. In this case, Mike shot a lot of awesome video footage about Project Pedal and For Thousands of Miles, and I edit it together with my own input and interview with him as a cohesive story.

The dilemma is simple, but increasingly aggravating because it’s so simple. First, the footage is Pre Resolution High Definition and approximately 4 Gigabytes large (zipped), approximately 7.5 (unzipped). My drop.io account isn’t big enough and I lack the funds at the moment to fund a premium account with drop.io. So, we tried DropBox, ftp transfer, and my MobileMe account, all to no avail.

My last resort–thanks to Mike’s great thinking–was to send an email to drop.io in hopes that they might sponsor the How iMac Project, or at least this one episode in exchange for a premium account. That’s all. I have my doubts, as I know it’s a tough economy that we live in, but the worst response I can get from the drop.io team is, “No” right? So, I hope to hear back from drop.io some time this week with a response one way or the other.

Meanwhile, I suggested to Mike, perhaps we can just go the traditional route by burning the files to a DVD and snail mailing it, USPS style. lol

Snail mail aside, do you guys have any other ideas for file transfer over the internet for future How iMac videos. I’d love to get your input!

Thanks in advance!

Stay Synced!

P.S.

Mike and Amanda are running an awesome Kickstarter campaign for their film and are honestly quite close to their goal. Please, if you check out their film and would like to offer support, maybe consider helping out in their campaign at krs.projectpedal.com. Also, you can see their new kickstarter campaign video there or here (below).

I have been rather silent on this particular topic, but not by choice. Anyway a person that I consider a good online friend (Mike Ambs)has an on-going online project called Stockpile.

This project basically allows you to submit both photos and video that can be added to Mike Ambs’ film project Project Pedal. To learn more details on how to do this, go to stockpile.projectpedal.com.

In short, this is a good and worthwhile project to get behind.

The submissions below are currently apart of the BABELGUM Film Festival. They are well done and it would be awesome if you would please watch each and vote for them. Furthermore, you can vote for them once each day. So if you really become a fan, then by all means.

White | Red | Panic

This is a short thrilling and impressive short film by Ayz Waraich. You can also follow Ayz on Twitter. He wrote, directed and edited this film himself and what’s also amazing is that he shot this with a Canon HV20.

Please watch and enjoy! Don’t forget to vote for this film!

Second feature to vote for…

64 Days

64 Days is not the film but rather a look into the 64 days of filming for the feature-length of Four Thousands of Miles. A lot of work, sweat, tears, and then some have gone into this long project by Mike and Amanda (click on their names and join them on Twitter.

So, please also watch this and enjoy! Don’t forget to vote for this film! ….daily.

From a fan of these filmmakers,
David

Thank you for reading and watching and “Stay synced!”

I have already seen this video and it was a long time ago. But it is still so artful to me. I just love it!