Update 4.26.1 Money. I hate dealing with it, but here we are. A broken furnace, replacing a water heater, and many other expensive expenses (e.g. oral surgery for a child) has me spiraling. Because any personal financial thing is connected to all the business financial things, like income streams, I'm also thinking about those. To sell videos, we have to make videos. The shows that inspired us, like Mister Rogers and Reading Rainbow, cost a lot of money to make. While I'm confident we can make ours for less than half of what they spent (when we start paying ourselves in the future), I have to spend money today. And tomorrow. And a year from now. I have certain values that conflict with making money. I don't want children watching ads. I don't want to add another subscription for families. I don't feel good about taking money from people today (it's complicated). On top of all that, getting videos to people is a financial-technological challeng...

Update 3.26.1 What's taking so long? All of it. But let's consider scripts today. .Writing is extremely difficult and we're still trying to lock down the vision for this project. Currently, we are exploring two potential shows: The first, codenamed "The Heart Show", where we use a well-loved public domain story as a framework for the events in our script. (No, we are not using Moby Dick for our first season; I used it in the video for the easy imagery.) The second, "Explorations", where we start with something as simple as a toilet and end up at water towers. I like this for a lot of reasons I'm sure we'll discuss in the future, should we get it off the ground. Personally, I am discouraged by how slow this is going because I'm such an achievement-oriented person. Not that I'm the least bit surprised. With our last project, it took two years from an already established idea to get a product out the door ... and that...

Update 2.26.1 Built largely from pieces of The Birdhouse* (our previous studio space), the Library is starting to take shape. Construction has been an exercise in doing what I do well and then leaning on the expertise of others for everything else. Collaboration has been so important, and I would not have made it this far without all the help. There is still a ton to do, but it is nice to see things come together and have something physical to show for all the work we've put into this project. If you're intrigued by where else we've used magnets in production, check out my short film Eros Elinore. The magnets are featured in the Behind the Scenes: https://blog.production-now.com/2022/10/short-film-eros-elinore.html * You can listen to the old Film Team Playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtAwogksyQQ&list=PLBvbxFVSVFlAayuPUNsEkpsCgbgtWeIyf Or on Spotify if that's your thing: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1LPReeCIz9fDrhVJAHrCZr Huge...