Howdy-ho from Neighbor Tim, folks! Well smack me with a sock fulla nickels and call me Senor Wences... the continued love that we have received following last month's 2008 RBSFF has been outstanding... we assure you that all the love is headed right back to you, and we want to give you the best show yet in 2009! The biggest thing that we'd like to bring your attention to is the memories captured that weekend by a couple of amazing photographers!
First off, friday night's festivities were captured courtesy of our dear friends at http://www.firebellydigital.com/, who hired an amazing photographer to chronicle what I hope we all can agree was a great evening. You can visit their Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/firebellydigital to see some pics (posted courtesy of our own Julia "Hobo" Yoder,) that are featured here as well as many more. Say... Jules or Dunc... can we get the name of your photographer so we can pimp him out a little bit here on the Blag? That's some GREAT work that was done.
As for Saturday, friend of the Fest, (and my neighbor,) Jammy Straub of Indy.com set up a "Party Crasher" page which you can find at http://www.indy.com/crasher, with plenty of pics featuring our filmmakers and guests. While you're at it, hit up his Indy.com profile and give him some love for making it out!
Also, as a quick note, we're going to keep you folks posted on the possibilities of our featured films being available for purchase here at YOUR Indiana State Museum. If you have any suggestions for how we can do merchandising in the future, (RBSFF t-shirts, anyone?) Let us know. Hit me up at tim.c.lofton@gmail.com. Yep. That there's my email.
OK, so now I'd like to switch gears and talk about what I'd like to accomplish from here until next year. Our first love here at RBSFF Central is giving exposure to and bringing together the Indiana Film Community. Craig goes a long way with the RBSFF and IMAXIndie series, but we'd also like to use The Really Big Short Blog to do that as well. If you have some ideas for projects or films we can highlight, or some pics you'd like to see go up, drop me a line and let me know. Whatever we can do to bring you guys together and build this Monster up, we want to be a part of it.
I'm going to be honing my chops as well. My own internet guru, Chalupa, was the guy who helped me cut my teeth over at http://www.lebowskipodcast.com/. He and some other Interblaggers have put together a site called bloggingamigos.net which serves as a pretty great tutorial for anybody wanting to get into it... like ME! Check their stuff out... not only is Chalupa a genius and an amazing chef, but he's hilarious as well. Plus, I'd love to see some of you guys do guest articles down the road... (See how we're bringing this all together here???)
Okay, youse dudes and ladies, that's it for me today, but I'm hoping to get something back up here pretty soon. It was great to meet all of you this past month, and I hope that in the months to come we can build a tighter relationship with many, MANY more of you. Let's make this thing happen, huh? I'll push the car down the driveway if you guys can CLUTCH FIRST!
