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Something Very Revealing
Thursday, September 26...

Something very revealing is going on. Here it is, Thursday, almost a week after the market, and I still haven't sent out videocassettes to the buyers who expressed interest at the IFFM.

Yesterday, I started to send a brief e-mail reply to the good folks at indieWIRE, thanking them for naming me one of the most buzzworthy films at the IFFM, and wound up turning it into a press release for The D-Word. Didn't mean to-- was like my fingertips just took over, I swear.

Then Carl Steadman e-mailed me, wanting to know how things were going, and instead of just saying great, thanks, I sent him my url and attached the release. Clicked on the ol' "Send Message" and thought, geez, I just sent a notice out to the co-publisher of Suck, one of the Web's most popular sites.

Silly me. It's like I invited the whole world into my home and I haven't swept up the mess. It's not ready. I'm not ready. But it felt right. As I'm sure you've observed by now, dear cybermate, the whole point of The D-Word, the whole point of the Web itself, is it's never finished, it's a continuous work-in-progress. I'm such a damn perfectionist, it would never feel like the "right" time to let people know about it.

So, little by little, d- word is getting out. And it sure feels a wholelot better than sending out my video sample to HBO or POV or ITVS or Channel Four or the BBC or ZDF or any of the usual suspects. They're tv programmers. This project is some unique hybrid between theatrical film and the Web, with a synergy that even I don't fully understand.

I'll send them the cassettes but I can't help thinking that funding is gonna come thru the computer screen, rather than a tv entity. And I trust my instincts.

Meanwhile, I'm just gonna do the work, develop D-Word, and keep following Justin's links with my trusty Hi-8 camera. The money will come. I don't know from where but it's gonna come.

Why, maybe it'll even come from you.

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