A freezing day outside the studio

Here’s a new 1-minute winter video we shot on a very cold day outside our studio. Set to a little original music:

We met a very friendly man who talked to us about the economy. Look for more short videos from around Chicago, especially concerning the economy, as we start the early stages of our next project – Empire’s Sky: A Chicago Documentary.

In other news here we are very close to completing our Boxer film festival submission schedule for Jan-March 2011. I’ll be making a detailed post soon that will cover our basic strategy and approach to this process.

Also, for Chicagoans interested in Media, Marketing, and Advertising, there’s a MeetUp Event for Chicago Marketing tonight, 6:30 PM at Yak-Zies in Wrigleyville. The topic is mobile media. If you haven’t heard of MeetUp, it’s worth checking out: a great way to connect, meet up (ha-ha), and network with people who share your interests.

Finally, if you have some extra time this week(end), I suggest checking out Benedict Carey’s awesome article on the brain and creative problem solving. In it, Marcel Denesi, an anthropology professor at University of Toronto, discusses puzzle-solving: “It’s all about you, using your own mind, without any method or schema, to restore order from chaos.” She’s talking about crossword puzzles and sudoko. But as an avid chess player, I’m always going on (and on) about the creative element of chess and how a beautiful chess game is not unlike a collaborative artwork – albeit a little more competitive. Check out the article if you can, it’s more focused and better researched than my musings about the Queen’s Gambit.

-Rami