It’s a busy time for the Biggest Little Media Empire To Have Recently Sprung Out of Thin Air.
First and foremost, of course, is the establishment of highwatermedia.com, the web presence of (you guessed it) High Water Media. Here we sit in our basement studios, tinkering with Wordpress blogs and placeholder pages, activating stores that won’t see business for months to come. As everyone knows, the creation of a website is what makes a business entity real and the actual filing of LLC forms and such is a mere future formality providing tax and debt shelter.
Make no mistake, High Water Media is a business. Soon it will even be a legal business with the imprimatur of the Great State of New York and all that comes with it (mostly a confusing tax situation, as far as we can tell)
What the public is more interested in is the product, of course, and that is what we turn our attention to now.
We have just returned from North Carolina where we shot nearly sixteen hours of footage for the forthcoming, as yet untitled, feature documentary film about aspects of the Everything2.com community. Will and Leah Woods were our hosts and subjects, and many thanks to them. The footage looks great and has been added to the pile begun when we interviewed Tedd and Christa Terry up in Boston back in February. Shooting will continue through January of ‘08 and then editing begins in earnest.
Next up on the production block are two short video projects, one a contest-entry music video for Carolyn Sills of Boss Tweed fame, and the other a promotional video for up-and-coming comedian Dean Weber.
Seize Them!, a band of delightful young men from Astoria, Queens, continues recording their first EP this month. New songs are being written and a few of them will debut at a private house party at The Jam Factory a mere week from right now. Seize Them! recently printed up logo-bearing stickers and the ST! street team of minions has already begun infecting the New York City psychescape with the appropriate promotional memes.
So there we are.
Keep your feet dry, people.