I have 'Living on a Prayer' blasting off the laptop - "we'll give it a shot! ohhh, we're half way there!" - Amanda is trying to eat a melted 3 Musketeers while driving, I think I might have a heart-attack from all the drifting off onto the dirt shoulder.

But, I'll admit, the hypothetical mental-image of Amanda yelling "shit!", just before plowing into a row of corn field, with a mess of dark chocolate all over her teeth, is very amusing to me. Even if it is at my own my expense.


We're several miles east of Oxford Juction, Iowa - one thing that is very depressing to me, is just how apparent it's becoming that my memories, and the order in which I remember people & places connecting, is completely scrambled. It's only been 6 years - and already day 13 of my trip bleeds into day 38, not specifically, but you get what I mean... hopefully.

Maybe that's part of what is so haunting about the experience - it was such a strong moment in my life, and at a young age, and I know I'm loosing the details of it... it leaves a powerful urge to reconnect the dots.


I want to say "thanks!" to Duane, from Warm Showers, in Lansing, Iowa, for inviting us to crash in his back yard. Also, Anna, if you're reading this: we're looking for you. Let us know where you're at (Anna is a bicyclist we also ran into while staying with Duane).

It's a very surreal feeling to be only 20 days away from the east coast - we've been working so hard to make this project for the last three years - to be so close to the end of this baby-step is overwhelming to me. This is it - this is my shot... I try to remind myself daily to not "f' it all up". It's going to be one hell of a story to sort out in post - I look forward to the challenge.

The editing. The festivals. The promotion... the pimping. The distribution. The everything else.


I am anxious though, to sit down and cut more episodes for Pedal - it was a lot of fun explaining the what, how, who, when aspects of where Pedal came from. Telling the behind the scenes of filming and post will be... interesting. We have enough behind-the-scenes footage to cut a whole separate feature length doc'.

Okay, that's all for now - I just thought I'd check in. Don't forget to stop by and check out Amanda's Pedal Flickr photo set.

Labels: Project Pedal

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

As I mentioned recently on Project Pedal's blog - I submitted 'Episode One: From the Beginning' to the 2007 Flux iPod Film Festival.

I just found out that it was 1 of the 5 videos selected for their "Kitchen Sink" category (the category for everything else that's not a feature length or a short film)!

What happens now? A combination of judged and voters (anyone) help decide which video is chosen.

Your help (and time) would mean very much to me! All you'd have to do is make a free account here (I promise, it's easy and quick) and then rate 'Episode One' here.


Thanks so much!! Feel free to copy & paste this into emails, myspace bulletins, etc. I’ll keep everyone posted as to final results.

Digg it here.

Labels: Festivals, Project Pedal, The Flux, Vote

First off, I am super, super excited to be on this week's JETSET show! Which, I should mention, just signed a licensing and distribution deal with Next New Networks, which is great news for the shows creators: Steve and Zadi. Congrats!

Secondly, I promise that Episode 4 is on it's way very, very soon - it's a bit more elaborate than the first three, and I got a very late start on it. Which is another story for another time.

So in the meantime - please check out JETSET, they did a really great job with the episode (also, if you haven't already, watch their New Orleans episode from last week, it's fantastic.) Enjoy!


tags: pedal, documentary, indie, vlog, blog, bicycle, coast-to-coast, community, steve woolf, zadi diaz, jetset, next new networks

Labels: Coming Soon, Featured, JETSET, Project Pedal

[ 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