So, November has arrived. My third month on the other side of the country. Hard to believe it's been two whole months since my long awaited journey out here, and it already feels like home. However, that particular sentiment was thrown for a bit of a loop come the October 31st.
Halloween, it marked the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one as our previous roommate, Jaime, finally made a trans-Canada move of his own, by driving out to Fort McMurray, Alberta, to chase down some better work. Jaime had become one of my friends out here, and when you're in a new city, loosing even one of those new friendships is less than preferable. In his stead we were provided with our new roommate, Adrian. A man so totally different from us that we've dubbed him our "Straight Man" aka the Steve Martin to our collective John Candy. However so far things are very amicable, and Adrian has brought a substantial amount of furniture and kitchen ware, so that's a real big help.
Aside from that we also changed landlords, internet providers and have had to start thinking about the costs of heating the house for the first time. We're on an oil furnace so, as you can imagine, it can be quite expensive to fill, which only pushes us to hold off on heating the house for as long as we can, via usage of warm teas, coffees, blankets, house coats, winter hats and coats and our one, single, space heater. Which I think I probably hog the most.
The company is going well. Flow has been busy chasing down grants for projects, new contracts and building the website as well as our collective brand so we can be ready to start going after top contract prospects in the near future. We've also had some cool video work, including some videos for local non-profit organizations. But by far and away my favorite thing we've got going right now is The Flow Show our soon to drop podcast that focuses on the film making process and showcasing local film makers and artists, especially documentarians. We've spent the last couple weeks recording our first two episodes and are set to record the third and fourth ones tomorrow and the day after. Then shortly following that we're going to start releasing each episode on our website, free to download, so be sure to check that out, we're going to have a lot of very interesting guests on, including a man who visited every music festival in Canada, an award winning documentary film maker and a Holocaust survivor and his film making son. It's going to be a really cool thing and we're very excited about it.
Apart from that, one of the bigger things on the Flow-rizon is coming near the end of the month when Brad, and myself as well as our fellow Flow-stranaut Alexa head to the south shore of Nova Scotia once more to hopefully wrap up filming for our lobster documentary (formerly known as Lobster Inc.) which is coming back with a vengeance and a new title (yet to be revealed). We've learned so much about the subject matter over the last year and this time we're finally going down there to shoot with what we feel is a fully complete understanding of the issue we're trying to cover and the ability to tell the story we want to. A story that does not shy away from the uncomfortable truths of the lobster industry and paints as honest a picture as we possibly can. We're going down with more experience, better equipment and a plan. It's going to be magical.
Personally I've been really trying my best to acclimate to my new situation. It's weird. I think because I feel simultaneously out of place and that there's no where I'd rather be. It's really hitting home lately how long things are really going to take before I can finally do what I want to do full time. Work. You gotta do it. But I feel like, so long as you're down for the long haul, this is the city that's going to reward you the most. It's like Halifax just wants to make sure you're really committed to the relationship before moving in with you. But once it does... well there's a good chance you'll enjoy yourself at the expense of your mother's approval.
Not sure why I went for that particular metaphor...
But my point still stands. We got Irons in the fire, now we just gotta wait for them to be soft enough to hammer into something dangerous.
Tarah for now,
Matt
P.S. This month is probably going to see me doing some posting over at The Lobster Tail, my production blog for our Lobertin' doc as well as starting a tertiary corporate blog over on Flow's website (www.flowproductions.ca) so keep an eye out. It's going to be a lot of writing for me so please forgive me if there are some waits between posts.
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