Gearing Up

As we count down the hours to our departure, we paused today to inventory our documentary equipment. It’s been arriving piece by piece over the last few weeks, making it feel a bit like Christmas around here. Now that nearly all of it has arrived, we thought we’d tell you a little bit about it.

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Trickle Down, Groundwater Up

Trickle Down, Groundwater Up is a documentary film project our friends Moriah, Katie and Tarini are launching in New Delhi, India.  To quote their website, the forthcoming film:

explores the challenges of consuming and accessing water in New Delhi, India. These challenges are examples of the social and ecological impacts of globalization [. . .] It also tell the stories of people who are working from the groundwater up to reclaim access to the most vital natural resource, and, in turn, to regenerate their ecosystems and communities.

Check out the work they are doing, and prepare to be impressed and inspired.

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Storytelling

It’s interesting to think that in a time when so many cultural traditions are being lost in the flurry of globalization that technology may be able to preserve the ancient practice of storytelling.  In researching all the many technologies we can employ in our multimedia project, I was reminded recently to not let technology get in the way of the story.

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hello, i’m arthur

I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself – consider it an e-handshake: my name is Arthur Richards and I am the co-director of Adapting to Scarcity.

Since the inception of Adapting to Scarcity, I’ve helped Sarah flesh out some of the overarching ideas and goals of the project. Over the past few months, I’ve taken on a more integral role; helping to make bigger decisions about direction, logistics and the technologies we’ll be using. Due to previous professional obligations and time constraints, my presence and influence has been primarily behind the scenes. Now, I have taken the plunge and am fully immersed in the project.
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Lights, Camera, Action!

We are revamping our website and honing our Spanish skills before we arrive in Guadalajara at the end of September.  There is a very long list to check off prior to our departure, so we’re hunkering down now that we’ve arrived on the East Coast.

Our drive across country was enlightening and enlivening.  We’ve been told it is very”in” these days to create multimedia projects that are available in multiple forms – in film, on the internet, etc.  This field of work is called New Media or Transmedia.  The face of media is rapidly changing, and it’s exciting to be riding on that breaking wave.

We’ll be a lot more active on the website in weeks to come, so please keep on coming back, and be in touch if you’re interested in collaborating.