Showing posts with label fliss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fliss. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2014
pardon me, my stats are slipping
Yikes!
I popped over to kickstarter.com to update my backer information, as I've recently received more rewards for successful projects I've supported. Nice to keep up to date with that, you know!
As I had noted in March, I had allowed that responsibility to slip past, unaware of that page in my profile. No more! I have been working fervently to remedy that situation, writing reviews of the fabulous rewards the project creators have graced me with, even friending them on facebook.com or linkedin.com and posting my links on their pages.
THAT has been very gratifying to both me and them. They are reminded that there is an appreciative audience for their creative outlet. I am reminded of how much I enjoy being a responsive part of that audience.
Definitely: win, win!
So, as I was saying, today I took a moment to update my backer information.
After all, I wanted to let Marty Kelley know that his red-cape-bedecked book had traveled safely to my waiting hands and would soon continue on its journey as a birthday gift to my nephew, Conner.
And, while on that "Backer history" page, I noticed an odd thing.
My "pie" didn't look right.
In March of this year, the "pie" had thirteen colorful wedges. Each brightly-hued wedge represented that I had given financial support to at least one project in the category represented in the "pie".
In March of this year, my "pie" was complete.
No more.
Two white wedges, nearly bisecting the "pie" into halves, stared blackly at me.
I ran my cursor over the wedges.
"Crafts"???
"Journalism"???
Say what???
Yikes!
Sadly, the two white wedges are real.
Shortly after I had anteed up on "The Broken Hearts Table", the folks in charge at kickstarter made a few changes. Noticing that some of the subcategories had generated quite a few projects, two were deemed worthy of becoming slices in the pie of categories.
The announcement was posted in their blog on June 11 of this year.
Seriously, I only missed knowing about this by two days.
Then again, I imagine I was notified by email about the new post in their blog, but, at the time, I didn't truly comprehend its meaning.
Those two white wedges in my "pie" gave the news the needed impact.
I am certainly conscious of it now.
Time to complete my "pie" again!
Friday, September 30, 2011
flissening
This year, I begin something new, something I've wanted to do for some time. This year, I help promote the artistic endeavors of the hard-working creative folk which dwell in this fine city by the sea.
What? Haven't I been helping all along, perhaps more so these past four years? Hasn't being part of the audience always been my dominant form of support? Hasn't responding to the art in a visual and audible way been reward enough for the efforts of those enriching the culture of this town?
Well, maybe it has been sufficient reward for some, and it has certainly been rewarding to me as well (by enhancing my enjoyment of life and allowing me to experience delight!). But times they are a-changin', as a song once said, and I'm changing, too. Being part of the audience and passively waiting for new ventures to come forth simply isn't enough anymore. I want to be PART of the forces bringing new art, new tales, new viewpoints to my hometown.
That said, I still prefer to be part of the support group, not one of the players. Perhaps my experiences have led me in that direction. After all, I have had an audience to "perform" to for the past eighteen years and currently do so five days a week for most of the year. So, allowing others to take the foreground for enlightenment and entertainment is preferable when I am out and about.
I have been blessed to find a new way to be in the background of these events I so love: angels. Specifically, the angels in my life: Mama, Frank, Grandmama, Daddy, Grandpa, and others who have taught me their love of the creative spirit. This new group of angels, known as "fliss", are taking on projects in film, theatre, art, and music, not only here in my fair town, but elsewhere in this country. Film Lovers In Scenic Savannah are not limited to cinema efforts, having their first engagement with a theatrical project last May - but film is certainly a primary focus of the group.
Why film? Film allows many people to share a life-changing, life-engaging, and life-affirming experience within a small time frame. Film allows many people who don't have the time to devour the knowledge in books to still gain the benefits of that knowledge. Film allows many people to realize they are not alone in dealing with a particular problem, a type of person, or troubling experience - films show the methods of others tackling, and perhaps solving, the same issues as those of the film-goers. Film allows many people to travel to other towns, other countries, other worlds - and all you need is the cost of admission to the cinema.
I'm looking forward to sharing the efforts of this group. I'll try to document some of their efforts here along the way, as I attempt to pay it forward for the years of delight I have already enjoyed from others.
What? Haven't I been helping all along, perhaps more so these past four years? Hasn't being part of the audience always been my dominant form of support? Hasn't responding to the art in a visual and audible way been reward enough for the efforts of those enriching the culture of this town?
Well, maybe it has been sufficient reward for some, and it has certainly been rewarding to me as well (by enhancing my enjoyment of life and allowing me to experience delight!). But times they are a-changin', as a song once said, and I'm changing, too. Being part of the audience and passively waiting for new ventures to come forth simply isn't enough anymore. I want to be PART of the forces bringing new art, new tales, new viewpoints to my hometown.
That said, I still prefer to be part of the support group, not one of the players. Perhaps my experiences have led me in that direction. After all, I have had an audience to "perform" to for the past eighteen years and currently do so five days a week for most of the year. So, allowing others to take the foreground for enlightenment and entertainment is preferable when I am out and about.
I have been blessed to find a new way to be in the background of these events I so love: angels. Specifically, the angels in my life: Mama, Frank, Grandmama, Daddy, Grandpa, and others who have taught me their love of the creative spirit. This new group of angels, known as "fliss", are taking on projects in film, theatre, art, and music, not only here in my fair town, but elsewhere in this country. Film Lovers In Scenic Savannah are not limited to cinema efforts, having their first engagement with a theatrical project last May - but film is certainly a primary focus of the group.
Why film? Film allows many people to share a life-changing, life-engaging, and life-affirming experience within a small time frame. Film allows many people who don't have the time to devour the knowledge in books to still gain the benefits of that knowledge. Film allows many people to realize they are not alone in dealing with a particular problem, a type of person, or troubling experience - films show the methods of others tackling, and perhaps solving, the same issues as those of the film-goers. Film allows many people to travel to other towns, other countries, other worlds - and all you need is the cost of admission to the cinema.
I'm looking forward to sharing the efforts of this group. I'll try to document some of their efforts here along the way, as I attempt to pay it forward for the years of delight I have already enjoyed from others.
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