such a tease

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Teaser 001 from mike ambs on Vimeo.

I recorded a weekly-update vlog two nights ago, but I literally don’t have any USB ports left open right now, and all the drives are busy backing up at the moment, so I guess I’ll have to wait till tomorrow to post it. Not that anyone is holding their breath I’m sure, but still.

I have the next five days off and I plan on shacking up in my room for most of it writing more of Episode 9, which Amanda and I are embarrassingly aware has taken way, way too long to release. I guess we lost the balance we had going for 6, 7 and 8 and shifted our energy onto the film. We *have* been meeting a lot to discus where all the remaining episodes are heading, as well as the film.

I mostly wanted to write this quick post to share our first official “teaser” of ‘For Thousands of Miles’, I have several timelines in Final Cut for the film, most of them are simply for SmoothCam preparation, others are for other things like clips that need to be trimmed up and re-exported for what-ever reason… I have a lot of random clips scattered around my extra timelines and we thought it would be fun to share them.

So we’re hoping every two weeks to post another clip – it’s Amanda’s turn to pick the next clip, and she’s leaning towards something funny, so we’ll see. The clip above is very short, I wanted it longer, but Amanda talked me down on the time. So… it’s very much a teaser. Let us know what you’re interested in seeing and we’ll post those clips first.

  • dylan
    This is totally awesome, amazing camera work. What is the song on the background of this?
  • Hey Dylan :) Thanks so much! The song playing is called 'The Sun Smells Too Loud' by Magwai... it's a really great song.
  • hi, Mike, I was following Project Pedal religiously a few months ago on Vimeo but fell out of reality basically for a while. I'm incredibly glad to see you're still moving forward! Your story still touches me and I can't wait for the finished product. I'm sure it will be an inspiration!
    -Lori D
  • Hey Lori - well, I'm very glad you came back... but sometimes it helps to fall out of reality every once in a while.

    Thanks so much - it's very, very encouraging to get comments like yours, it really keeps us moving :)
  • Awwwwwwww! Gorgeous cinematography Mike! Can't wait to see more :)
  • Ele!! I got so happy when I saw a had a comment from you :) Did I ever mention to you that your blog was the reason I started this one? I think I wanted to and I kept putting off that email - but it's true, I was so inspired by what you'd been doing with 'Girl with a Movie Camera' that I began to work on my own blog.

    Thanks so much for the compliment :) means a lot - hope to see more of you on the blog!
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