My computer crapped out. I lost any progress I made editing the footage from the Renegade Craft Fair. I moved. I’ve spent time enjoying my new digs. I let my job (which I happen to like a lot) take over. In the meantime, I rolled up this big wad of guilt around posting again. What do you say to someone who you let so much time lapse with?
Well, I still don’t know, but I finally said, screw it. I want to post again. I miss 1 Bite 7 Days terribly, so I’m coming back.
So what’s happening?
• I brought my computer to Tekserve today! She’ll be all fixed and improved soon, and I’ll be back to editing.
• Erin King, the project’s Co-Producer and Chef moved back to Boston. She helped open a new restaurant and currently works there. I hear it’s amazing and am really looking forward to going. If you’re in the Boston area, visit Ten Tables in Cambridge. That’s the place!
• Some of the folks who helped on 1 Bite 7 Days have their own projects cooking. Steve Maing who shot at the fair, and who I’ve worked with on quite a few other projects, is in the midst of producing a documentary feature. He’s been invited to pitch it at Tribeca All Access. (Good luck Steve!) Trina Rodriguez and Sara Frank who also both shot at the fair also both recently completed the graduate documentary program at The New School. On Valentine’s Day I got to see the short docs they made at the MOMA – they were wonderful!
• I’ve been thinking a lot about this thing I’m tentatively calling Taste & Tell. Since I haven’t had the computer to look at footage, I’ve been thinking about ways the project can exist outside of video. Anyone, anywhere can really have a 1 Bite 7 Days – where you taste something new and ponder what you might do with 7 extra days of life – moment. And since we all photograph, email, tweet, and update our status about what we’re eating anyway, I figure I, and maybe you if you’re willing, can do some long-distance 1 Bite 7 Days-ing. Or, Taste & Tell. I already brought this up when I posted about that longan I ate on the train, but in the coming weeks I’m gonna show you how serious I am about getting folks out there to Taste & Tell. I mean it.
For now, one from me:
Where: my apartment, Brooklyn, NY
When: Tuesday, March 10, 2009; 9:30 pm (or so)
1 Bite: Edamame Hummus, which I’ve since learned is actually inaccurately named since hummus means chickpea and this “hummus” had none. I was on an absurdly long line at Trader Joe’s and saw the man in front of me grab it; and figured that given his decision to buy Aloe Vera Juice, the Edamame Hummus might not be tasty, but it would at least be good for me. Well it was tasty! If you work with me you’d know, because I’ve been blabbing about how tasty it was all week.
7 Days: Since it’s this very pretty bright green and tastes healthy I’ve decided to spend these 7 days in a lush green place far from computers, phones and cars. Something I should already be doing more of anyway.
