Hi everyone, this is Dennis Hartwig. Some of you may not know who I am. Thanks okay, I’ve been working behind the scenes for a while now. I wrote the first post here on July 4th, 2008 and now 8 years later I’m here to write the last.
Don’t worry we are not going anywhere, to the contrary (more on that in a bit). When I founded this site it was late on that July 4th evening (like it is now). It was a mad rush to get everything up before the end of “Independence Day.” At the time it was symbolic of our move from MySpace (ask your parents what it was). That’s where I met John and some other friends. We didn’t exactly move from MySpace, we were all banned (it’s a long story involving Grandma’s Cookies). However it wasn’t that move that gave us independence, it was something far greater.
I have always hated the word “Blog”. When we started out I thought of us as a forum where filmmakers could interact. The “Blog” posts, in my mind, were just a list of links and videos to support the forums. This was before Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and others. There were only a handful of sites that aggregated filmmaking content and most of those are gone now. As the years progressed the posts kind of took over the forums and our interactions moved to Facebook and Twitter.
Around 2010 we started to make short little video tutorials. A year later we started “The Wrap” podcast. Those where fun little experiments, but not very inspiring. We decided if we where going to make videos they should be something we would want to watch. After a lot of fine tuning we released our first course lecture in April 2013.
As more videos were released we knew what we had been doing before must change. But into what? We were the dog that caught the car. So we built a new website with courses and lessons and proudly proclaimed on May 2013 “We are Not Fucking around Anymore“. Well, that was over 3 years ago and sadly we continued to fuck around. We still didn’t have a clue what we were doing, other than how to make good videos.
So that brings us back to today. First, let me say sorry for having you deal with this shitty old website design for so long. Behind the scenes we have been working on a new version for over 2 years. That’s why I have been MIA for so long. We have gone though dozens of versions, but we are now on the verge of releasing it to you.
In the next week or so we are going to be going offline for a few days so we can get things into place (check our Facebook and Twitter pages).
So, what’s going to be new? What’s going to replace the “Blog”. Well I could run down a list of features and tools, but I think to understand it you will need to see it. Stay tuned…
Thanks for dealing with all our bullshit over the years.
Best,
Dennis Hartwig
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