After our Neat-o-Rama appearance last week brought hundreds of thousands of visitors to our MintyForest.com photo project, we were delighted to discover that we have just been featured on Ehrensenf - Germany’s most popular web video blog! (Oddly enough, this is the same show that attempted to send my fellow minty-photographer Nina and my friend/her husband Danny to Plano, TX back in 2006 when they let the internet vote on where they would move.)

Still, we are thrilled to have all the German photo-enthusiasts! You can watch the clip by clicking the linked image below — we come on around minute 2:00.

For those non-German speakers, my friend Tyler Mark has put together this super-quick, literal translation:

Not behind on another, but rather set next to one another, you can take a look at the pictures of Minty Forest — a project by two photographers where every day for a year they have published a photograph without consultation, with, for the most part, fully different but also to some extent astonishingly similar motifs.  And an equally interesting photographic comparison to see is found in N.Y. Secrets, namely the New York from 1961 compared with the New York of today.  Yes, and much there has actually not changed . . . OK, the time of the golden trashcan is for the most part in the past.

I’ve just launched the news/blog site KissingMatters.com. The site’s focus will be on everything and anything related to love, sex, relationships and, of course, kissing. There will be new posts every weekday.

 Kissing Matters is really just an exciting, uplifting project with the main aim of delivering a little more positive news that people can feel good about receiving in their inbox or rss feed every morning. (It doesn’t hurt my spirits to write every day either.)

I also have several film projects in mind that would be perfect for Kissing Matters content-wise and it gives me a great excuse to produce them!

Visit KissingMatters.com

Thanks to our good friend Brit Horvat, this week over at yourhub.com they printed an article I wrote about the production of Lowered Expectations and its conception. Through a magical and tortuous route, it eventually found its way to the cover of the yourhub section of both the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News this week. If you’d like to read it, I’m including the article below - or, for the purists amongst you, you can read it in its original setting here.

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Editing on Lowered Expectations Episode 02 - Easter Island is complete!

This was a fast-paced production all the way down the line. Shot in 2 days and edited in a week and a half to meet our deadline, we’re going to need a bit of a rest over the weekend. But it was all worth it. We’re particularly happy with the level of production design in this episode - from colorful pie charts to complicated, cardboard Easter Island Head Costumes - engineered and constructed by Janice - we are continuing to push the boundaries of what you can produce on a zero budget.

WATCH the EPISODE HERE: Lowered Expectations Episode 02 - Easter Island

PHOTO: Brit, Josh and Tyler on Pearl Street filming Episode 02

For the last couple months, we’ve been hard at work on creating the first episode in what we hope will be a continuing web series — Lowered Expectations. The show will be a comedy revolving around Josh, a filmmaker who, after losing a career-making film deal, has no choice but to leave New York and move home with his parents in Boulder, Colorado.

Starring writer/director Josh Shayne’s real family — his co-writer Vic Shayne, sister Tasha and mom Janice (in addition to numerous friends and acquaintances), the show is not quite reality, not quite fiction. We’ll leave it to you to figure out exactly where the lines blur.

The official premiere of Episode One is Friday July 6th, 2007. However, for those of you who can’t wait, we’ve shot a couple of trailers for the show and are posting them here on Floating Lightbulb Films.

You can WATCH the TRAILERS HERE:

Trailer 01 - Cut!

Trailer 02 - International Banana Phone

Also, you can join the Lowered Expectations group on Facebook HERE. And if you like the show, tell a friend.

Thanks! We appreciate your support.

on the set of the trailer shoot