BlueDot Productions

ri — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:49:50 +0000

Roadside Attractions

ri — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:36:28 +0000

What is it about this crazy stuff we find on the side of the road that I love to shoot? Is it the broken dreams? The shear realism of it? Or is it the degradation brought from abuse or carelessness? I think it just reminds me how this is all temporal and fleeting….

Metanoia

ri — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:53:41 +0000

Ten years ago, Hollywood filmmaker Betsy Chasse co-created a movie on science and mysticism (subjects she knew nothing about), and was forevermore plucked from the oblivion of Valley Girl “shoe consciousness.” The movie, “What the Bleep Do We Know!?,” changed her life and the life of millions as it went on to make spiritual cinema history.

Her latest creation, a “little book of essays” called Metanoia: a transformational change of heart, reveals a much wiser and infinitely more humble woman than the post “Bleep” successful thirty-something who hit the New Age conference circuits and radio shows back in 2005.

“After the movie was released, people were coming to me for advice about how to make their lives as perfect as mine,” Chasse recalls. “I had it all. I knew everything. All you had to do was ask me!”

Enter life, stage left.

Metanoia: a transformational change of heart is, above all, a book about getting real. The nineteen short essays poetically and ruthlessly reveal a woman in the aftermath of public and domestic success; a woman in the process of being humbled by life; a woman who yearns for vulnerability and authenticity even as she rails against the need for facing the limiting self-concepts she holds inside that keep her from embracing—and loving—her true self.

An “every woman” journey that every woman who has lived and loved and lost it all … and then yearned for something greater and deeper to blossom within her can relate to.

Delicate, surprising, potent and raw, each essay is accompanied by relevant quotes from sources as diverse as Victor Hugo, Rumi and Lucille Ball.

Available here for $4.99 in eBook format (PDF) for your computer or iPad. Also available on Kindle. (The PDF format is graphically more fun!)

Capoeira Exhibition

ri — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:35:54 +0000

US Premiere of Fly Away Beetle at the Eugene Celebration 2011

Capoeira: Fly Away Beetle

ri — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:54:59 +0000

A NEW FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FROM
THE STREETS OF SALVADOR BRASIL

Please visit the movie website at www.flyawaybeetle.com for additional information on this exciting new project!

Extract – O – Rama

ri — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:28:08 +0000

A creativity machine by Brian McWhorter has been on display at Opus Gallery in downtown Eugene as part of the “Design of Sound” Exhibition. Bluedot has been filming the process of creating this sculpture, and looks forward to completing a short film on it Winter of 2011.

Mollitude

ri — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:23:17 +0000

Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Barth performs “Mollitude” from the Beta Collide album ‘Psst!Psst!‘

Filmed and produced by Bluedot Productions at the Oregon Coast Heceta Head light and innkeepers house, Spring 2011.

A special thanks to the Oregon Arts Commision
University of Oregon School of Music & Dance
State of Oregon Parks Department

Maroon Belles & the CARE Channel

ri — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:01:18 +0000

For the last three years, Bluedot has been filming some of the most beautiful places on the West Coast. A dream project – Bluedot has been shooting and editing 1080p nature cinematography for Healing Healthcare Systems, who operate this great idea… the C.A.R.E. Channel.

The CARE Channel provides beautiful imagery with soft jazz across America’s hospital system, where users can tune into the beauty that nature has to offer, instead of just their regular choice of television programming.

This has become close to our hearts. All through the winter we anticipate our Spring and Summer travel schedule so we can provide a completely different environment for the patient.

Shooting on location up a long trail, a gentleman came up and struck up a conversation.He told us of his experience being hospitalized for a heart attack.

“Are you filming for that hospital network? I just can’t thank you enough for what you’re doing. It gave me the inspiration to go walk amongst those images, and made my time in recovery bearable”.

Cinematography & Editing: Bluedot Productions
Music: Dallas Smith & Susan Mazer

More Powerful Facebook Fan Pages

ri — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:33:05 +0000

Facebook! A name that draws fear or disgust from many web developers. Fan or Foe, facebook is the hot place right now, as everyone is using it. What does this mean to developers and graphic designers? It means we get to learn yet another constantly changing API.

To add more interest and stickiness, there are some new tricks that will allow us to add images, video, tabbed browsing, and many other features normally reserved for only our blogs.

Here’s some great tricks I came across:

http://www.johnhaydon.com/2009/04/create-interactive-facebook-page/

http://www.labnol.org/internet/create-custom-facebook-pages/17957/

A touch of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

ri — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:40:36 +0000

It was an exciting 10 days in Los Angeles, filming the Gaden Shartse Monastery Tour, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama at both the Long Beach Convention Center, and University of California at Irvine.

All the approvals, all the state department reviews, all the driving were worth this one moment of His Holiness coming on stage at UCI while the Gaden Monks provided an introduction purification ceremony. Look for more in the upcoming feature documentary “For All Sentient Beings”