2009 January |

TRIP UDATE: Thailand, Singapore, Home

Posted by garyachristenson on Jan 26 2009 | TO INFORM

We left India and headed straight to Bangkok, Thailand for several days of recuperation. We relaxed, backed up all of our media, enjoyed THE BEST Thai food ever and had some time to check out the old city canals that run through Bangkok. Life on the river was so peaceful - someday we all want to retire to a small house somewhere on that canal.

We flew into Singapore a few days ago - it’s a tiny island state that is a crazy international business hub (check out all those boats waiting for cargo). Now we are flying to Japan and then home to Portland. We’re all excited to get back and see our families… and we’re looking forward to editing all the media we captured.

It’ll take a few months to edit, score and create the DVDs (it’s all filmed in High Def with superb location audio, custom soundtrack and custom motion graphic integration … basically, custom EVERYTHING… b/c that’s how we roll. Quality is our M.O.). We also have several other emote360 media projects to start on as soon as we return. Should be a great next few months for our creative team. Check back here and we’ll keep you posted on all that happens with emote360.

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TRIP UDATE: Parting Shots

Posted by garyachristenson on Jan 22 2009 | TO INFORM

Our time in India has come to an end. Thanks for keeping up on the latest happenings from our trip. Here are a few parting images from the amazing land of India.

Homemade Henna Tattoo

One of the freed girls sewing a purse

One egg a day with lunch for a student

The aftermath of the greeting line

Bishop Suresh (head of Harvest India)

Didn’t get many photos of the photographer in action (Gary)

Peter running the Steady / Glide Cam through the slums

Mark time lapsing the sunset on our final day of production

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TRIP UDATE: Lighter Side

Posted by garyachristenson on Jan 20 2009 | TO INFORM

Although this trip has been very intense, there’s definitely a lighter side to life here in India that we wanted to share with you all.

We’ve been hangin’ with some monkeys.

Had an article about our team in the paper.

And we keep having the most ridiculous error message on our Mac Book every time we boot it up. Mark is basically a celebrity around here (not really, but everyone loves him, knows him and appreciates him coming back to India time after time), Peter is sick… okay, that’s not funny, but he’s having a good attitude about it. All the mutlimedia stuff (video, audio, photo) has been amazing – no equipment failure or anything, and we have AC in our bedroom. Very nice.

Oh, we were also interviewed (when we visited some Heads of State for our own interviews for the documentary film), they asked our opinion on Obama & the economy, our interviews have been spreading like wildfire on all the news channels (b/c of the inauguration and whatnot- which we watched live from India).

Everywhere we go we are pelted with orange flowers (that’s pretty entertaining – even after the sixteenth time and everywhere we go the people stuff our faces with delicious food… can’t say we’ve been hungry this entire trip.

Here we are eating on banana leaves in the middle of a banana orchard… it was awesome - Fried chicken, rice, fried potatoes, mystery curry stuff… and of course, fresh BANANAS!

All the kids that we visit in the various villages have mastered the phrase: “Uncle, ONE Photo?!” It’s pretty comical. We also get to talk to our families every couple of days via our internet phone - fo’ free… so we’re pretty stoked! Overall, we feel so loved by the people here in India (especially the lowest of the low cast) and we are trying to treasure every moment. Life is good.

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TRIP UPDATE: Sustainability

Posted by garyachristenson on Jan 17 2009 | TO INFORM

Something that our team is really excited about is Harvest India’s (HI) vision for sustainability, so they won’t have to completely rely on the western dollar for their various projects and the thousands of people they help on a daily basis. A couple of examples that we’ve seen in the last few days are the crop fields that employ and help countless people (rice, corn, banana.. etc) and the trade & opportunity that help the people provide for themselves (sewing, loans for small businesses, education, medical school and training…etc). With the global economy in a downward spiral, this vision is extremely important and something we really appreciate about the staff here - they are forward thinking and about helping their people rise out of poverty and maintain a healthy life.

We also visited the Red Light District Project and it was truly heartbreaking, but also uplifting to see these young women given hope and a future through their freedom. Once HI purchases the girls from the local pimp, they are taught to sew and given medical attention for their diseases so they can live a better life and provide for their family. It costs about 1,000 U.S. dollars to free a woman out of this line of work… that’s it.

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TRIP UDATE: India

Posted by garyachristenson on Jan 16 2009 | TO INFORM

We have arrived in India and are in the city of Tenali (our final destination) where Harvest india is headquartered. It only took us 61.5 hours of travel to get here… no big deal, but we are safe and stoked to have arrived in such a beautiful town full of beautiful people. Harvest India is truly an amazing organization and have taken great care of our team. We feel honored to be here. Today we visited two of their local projects and are scheduled to do the same each day for the next 5 days until we compile all the footage, interviews and photos that we need to accurately retell their story… which is amazingly vast, so I hope we can do it justice. More coming in a few days.

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Suresh (Pres of H.I.), Gary, Peter and Mark

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TRIP UPDATE: Singapore

Posted by garyachristenson on Jan 14 2009 | TO INFORM

Well folks, we’ve arrived safely in Singapore and are just about to hop on a flight to Chennai, India. From there we have a long train ride to our final destination in southern India. So far, the travels have been fairly easy… just long. We left on 01.13.09 from PDX (Portland International), crossed the international dateline (lost a day), landed in Japan, flew to Singapore and have had a really long layover here. All in all, it’s ganna take several days to get to our final destination where we will start filming… but worth it. We’ve been prepping eachother for the various interviews and content we will need to gather for Harvest India. We have a good vision / script for the project but are trying to stay very open to whatever may happen. We’ll try and update again in India (depending if we have a connection).

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Off to India

Posted by garyachristenson on Jan 12 2009 | TO INFORM

We are on our way to India to make a documentary film about an organization called Harvest India. It’s just one of the many exciting trips that emote360 will be apart of this year. It’s a dream come true to help non-profits in this way. Please pray for safety while traveling and while on the ground in India. For more detailed information please visit this LINK (it will direct you to a hidden pg on our blog) which explains the purpose of the trip, the schedule, our funding needs and various ways you can help.

We still need to raise a small amount of money to cover the total project costs. Any donations over $25 will receive the final DVD that we produce for Harvest India - as a Thank You Gift for helping us. Visit our Donations Page to find out more information. Thank You.

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Archive for January, 2009

TRIP UDATE: Thailand, Singapore, Home

TRIP UDATE: Parting Shots

TRIP UDATE: Lighter Side

TRIP UPDATE: Sustainability

TRIP UDATE: India

TRIP UPDATE: Singapore

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