On a canoe and Pond 5

I have just been canoeing again, it was incredibly beautiful journey with thames canoes last year I got a free holiday with them for making this video


But this time we paid, less zen like but you can't really continuously make videos for companies when they only need one. I have however filmed another not sure how I can use it but will edit anyway. This was last year's trip, interestingly enough An Argentinean saw this, said he was coming to England and wanted to find out where I hired the canoes from, I thought that was pretty cool.





I'm going to start doing Telesales for my company - very unzen its going to involve calling people up and trying to sell to them, how hard is that? I wonder - very very hard, I tried it once and made four calls untill my soul was dead, I thought about doing it by the river surely that would get me working harder, what you think? then I could film it that would make it a project and more fun.


I made a bit of cash on pond 5 its 40 dollars every month now which is cool but lets get motivated again shall we, lets make a shed load of sales!!! So I can go on holiday before July.


This is starting with doing stock footage of people at work for the documentaries, its stuff that people cant be bothered to film, but I shall go forth and do it yes yes yes.



I did Corkeyburger's Ramshackle last month it went pretty well, its a night of comedy and entertainment, it felt pretty good, You should come next time...

Mix of Library footage

Its winter time, time of desperation, time of hoping something might come up, something positive - nah, aint gonna happen. So I have put together a selection of library footage to show to companies, so that I can film in there companies filming them making stuff. Strange things sell people, strange things sell. I have contacted Clipper Lemon Tea about the advert I made for them in exchange for free Tea, I have still heard nothing back. Bad news.

I was phoning up Hotels in Bath to stay for the weekend offering them a free video if they let me stay for two nights, I was receiving a frosty response! "I don't want the hassle" "We don't want a video." Pretty demoralizing it was. In my Cold calling book it says you should get up to 8 calls before you get a sale I got through 4 before my humor started to wane. I did try 3 more but they were all not answering, thank God.

Things are cruddy. crud crud crud.

"I'm phoning cause I want to stay at your hotel for free, in exchange for a video." "Yeah but its winter time and the flowers are dead. I'd rather it in the summer." Lesson learned there do it in Spring, when its sunny but not full up.


Below is my video of Library footage.