1/26/12



One last post before I go radio silent for a while. I'm burnt,
I'm tired and I need a little break. The Heart of the Driftless
DVD is off for replication so at his point it's a done deal.

   If everything goes according to plan I should have them
   back end of Feb or early March. I put it on the home page
   but incase you missed it there is going to be a premier party
    for the DVD the Saturday of the early Wisconsin opener.
    You can get a hold of Drifltess Angler in Viroqua for more
     information. It should be a fun night; beer, food, give away items
     and both full feature from the DVD on the big screen.

      The feature article on Reverb is live in the current issue
      of This is Fly. I think it turned out pretty well. I supplied them
       with a bunch of pics, video frames and answered a few
       interview questions. I think they do a great job from a
        design standpoint laying out each issue. Anyway, check it
       out...regardless of Reverb or not. In my humble opinion
      they are the only game in town as far as I'm concerned
      when it comes to fly fishing e-zines.

       When I resurface in March I'll start to think about
      the Chicago Fly Fishing Film Tour show. I'm not going
      to obsess about it this year like I did last year, I
     suspect it will take care of itself.  So at this point all
    I have right now is the date and venue.

                  MAY 2nd, Wilmette Theater
                 doors: 7pm   show: 8pm
                    $12 advanced
                    $15 online through tour site                    
                    $15 day of show




The Michigan fly fishing show in March is also on the to do list.
If everything goes according to plan the whole Reverb crew will be there.
Larry Damore (subject of piece & Pegboy vocalist) will be getting a booth to
show off his new Liquid line of fly rods under the name
Flying Pig Performance Flyrods. I believe Joey and Herb ( the other
two subjects of piece) will be on hand as well. It'll be a cozy
booth with all four of us...but it should be fun.

Pegboy are playing a show that Friday night in Chicago and heading over that night or early in the
                morning, I suspect they will be a little banged up by the time they roll into Michigan.

                   I'm going to try and finally get the August video done and get it up on line sometime in
                  next week or two and shortly there after swap out all of the videos to this past
                   seasons. I've been dragging my feet on that deal.

                   I'm also going to change the music page and through a little review on the next
                    music documentary...I'm not sure which one I'm going to do. I guess I'll figure that
                   out once i get over there.

                    Then after that...I'm out for a while. I'm going to pay exactly zero attention to fly fishing
                   for at least a month.





















1/26/12

Well folks I think there is some light at the end of this
  very long tunnel. I stayed at work late last night  and
  threw together a trailer for Heart of the Driftless. I'm not
  going to lie, the trailer could be better, but I'm also not
  going to lie...I'm burnt!!!

    I started shooting this project in April, finished end of
    September and started cutting it beginning of October.
                   I cut Reverb first; a 52 minute full feature, 44 minute broadcast
                   version, 17 minute tour version and a three minute trailer.

                         I finished the above end of November then immediately started
                           HOTD the beginning of December.  HOTD comes in at
                          61 minutes, I'll start to cut the broadcast version tomorrow
                       and I took care of the trailer last night. So in all the dvd will
                      consist of the following:

                HOTD: 61 minutes
                Reverb: 52 minutes
                Thunder River: 31 minutes (2011 Colorado trip)
                Aerial behind the scene: 6 minutes
                Driftless season: 5 minutes      

  

  

     That's a ton of cutting to do in  3 1/2 months...all of
     which was basically done on nights and weekends,
    thats a long haul!!!

   So, the content is done, the surround sound mixes are
   done, I've designed the box covers, dvd menus and the
  authoring should be done by Monday...then ship it off for
  replication and if all goes well I should have a stack of
  dvd's by early  March.

I've posted the HOTD trailer over on the video page, it's sitting
as the default video in the player if your interested.








                                         Wed, May 2nd Wilmette Theater
                                 Doors 7pm, show 8pm 

If all goes well, I'll have a plie of give aways again but will I make no promises that
                         it will be like last year, that was ridiculous...in a good way!!!