I wanted to post these two videos with the actual interview - but it took me several days to find a connection strong enough to upload the full uncut interview phone-conversation with CNN.

Now, to be perfectly honest, the full uncut interview isn't something I would recommend watching: it's fairly long and awkward, due to poor cell phone reception. It's also super washed out because I adjusted the iris, sat down, and then, of course, the rain stop pouring and the sun came out behind us - completely washing us out and creating a blinding white light behind Larry and I.

Well, now that I've talked it up, here it is (you've been warned):



This second clip, however, is very short, and much less boring then the above one. This is the voice-mail that was left on my phone from CNN about their wanting to interview us for the project.

Labels: Blip.tv, By Mike, CNN, Interview, Larry

The 5 of us are on our way to Washington to begin filming for Project Pedal, the crew is made up of the Black Sheep, they brought this little toy sheep along for goodluck. I'm having a blast filming this project - but I'm also very sad I can't be at Pixelodeon, I hope it's a great event... I know it will be :)

Labels: Black Sheep, Blip.tv, Driving, Pixelodeon2007

A few weeks ago a bunch of us went to Mr. T's Bowl to watch our friends, A Faulty Chromosome play. Justin had me do the camera-man thing while he talked to AFC and some of their loving fans. I thought this turned out really fun, so I figured I'd spread the love.


Also, if you want to see one of the funniest conversations caught on tape, check this out. Leave your comments on Justin's blog, I'm not trying to steal his thunder. I'd like to remain on his good side, I've seen him punch a baby in the face for kicks. Okay, not really, that was ammusing for me write.

Labels: A Faulty Chromosome, Blip.tv, Justin

Originally posted at Project Pedal...

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The idea of Project Pedal came about, thanks to Amanda, almost exactly four years ago - and for the last three years, I've been pouring myself into it with my fair share of difficulties along the way.

But thanks to the encouragement of close friends, family and the readers/viewers of this site - I've always picked myself up and kept trying when things dead-ended with Pedal.

I can't imagine where I would be without this site and without everything it has directly been instrumental in sending my way. My amazing crew, the Black Sheep... the professional advice and support of Matt... the much needed and much appreciated relationships with total strangers who've stumbled onto this site in there own ways.

I've learned so much in the last three years, and if I had any advice to pass on to people reading - it would be, whatever your passion or personal project may be, don't go it alone. Start a blog, and be as transparent and inclusive as possible.

I'm excited about these last two months and the two that will follow - I can't wait for the trip to come. I'm nervous. I'm excited. "Breath in pink, exhale blue". There's a lot of details to get into place - but... this is it, two months left. Here we go.

tags: pedal, documentary, indie, vlog, blog, bicycle, coast-to-coast, community, network2, blip.tv, the black sheep, the flux, von 2007

Labels: 9 Years, Another State of Mind, Black Sheep, Blip.tv, Episode, Network2.tv, Project Pedal, The Flux, Veoh, WOM

[ Originally posted on 03/16 on Project Pedal ]

I have a feeling, as I sit down at my desk to write, that this post is going to end up a bit on the lengthy side. Which is entirely my fault, there has been *plenty* to update people on in the last few months, but for the wrong reasons I didn't want to add any post to the site. That wrong reason being: I didn't want to bump the most recent video-post off the main page - I know, I know, that's silly. So I've added the above yellow banner that many of you have probably noticed, which is going to help me get over my obsessives nature.

So let's get started:

Meeting with Matt. I'll start here because this meeting lead to much of the following news. The last week of February I had a quick lunch with Matt at Universal, the same Matt that this time last year was producing Pedal. On one hand he expressed how much he loved the project and the recent work I had been putting into it, on the other, he was concerned / confused / worried about the lack of attention it was getting - both real-world and online.

This has a lot to do with my long-time reluctancy to talk about things I'm "doing", as opposed to things I've done. It's hard to bring up to people that I'm working on a "project"... because in LA, *everyone* is working on something. I guess I just feel like every other "up & coming director" when and if I talk about Pedal to people... but on some levels I'm going to have to get over that uncomfortableness in order to have "this" work.

Which in many ways has to lead to the next five things.

If you want to read the rest you'll have to go go here :)

Labels: ACA, Blip.tv, Casting Call, Festivals, Project Pedal, Update, Veoh