caliblog: based on a true story: "getting the word out"

Originally posted at Project Pedal...

Now that the domain is up, I've been eyeballing the web-stats to see how I've been doing at 'getting-the-word-out', the results, not exactly positive. It could be worse - but not by much - I am feeling very "underdog'ish" to say the least. So here the project is, with five months left until production, and the pressure is building [daily].
I'm finding it hard to focus on training or the actual film's preproduction in contrast to it's lacking budget - not to mention its lack of awareness.

There's the obvious solution: stickers - which I am in the process of ordering at the moment [anyone who would like a handful, feel free to email me]. But I need something more, and at the same time, something cheap, which pretty much leaves me with stickers.

So I'm sitting here listening to 'Sigur Rós' + 'Garden State' iMix, staring out my second-story window at the palm trees, fantasizing about the trip ahead. Trying to focus not on the 'things-left-to-do', but the open road - that feeling of going to bed at night knowing that there was no better way to spend the day. I can't wait - and I think that's what scares me the most - I can only stay lost in my day-dreams so long, until the point where I am reminded of how important this is to me, that's when reality sinks in and the fact that I have over $7,000 left to raise. And this isn't simply an attempt to pity my readers into emptying their pockets - this is, plain and simple, how I feel at the moment - how I feel most of the time lately.

Moving on; I have a folder tucked away inside my "project pedal" files that is stuffed with pictures that I find inspiring or, in most cases, reminiscent, many of the places in these photos are places I've actually been to during my first trip - and that we'll be traveling through again during this one. I think I'll share a few;