Saturday we went on a moving and rich tour of the Ahogado watershed and a portion of the Santiago watershed with two classes of students from Iteso, a Jesuit college located on the outskirts of Guadalajara. While we are still wrapping up our workshops in Juanacatán and El Salto, we began workshops with approximately 50 students at Iteso in collaboration with the professor and our friend, Étienne. There are some great photos of the journey, click here to peruse them all.
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The final rains of the rainy season fell today in Guadalajara, according to our friends here. We captured the sounds and sights from our apartment. The picture is of Arthur leaning out the window to record the rain, thunder, bird calls, noisy buses and church bells intermingling. In documentaries, it’s always good to have background noise and transition shots, so we began collecting that footage today. It felt great to embark on the documentation process visually and aurally.
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Tags: audio recording, Fred Pearce, Gujarat, Hyderabad, monsoon, rain, rainwater harvesting, Rajsamadhiya, tanka, video library, When the River Runs Dry
Equipment, Literature | sarah | 
10 October 2009 0:12 | 
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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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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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We’re in out last two weeks in the Bay Area. Wow. The trip to Mexico is getting much closer (late September), and there are still many loose ends to wrap up. This Thursday we’re hosting our last fundraiser in the Bay Area. We’ll be bartending at Tonic Bar in San Francisco from 6-9pm this Thursday, August, 6th. All tips will go to our project. Please come out, and bring your friends!
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We are very pleased to report that Adapting to Scarcity is now a Flip Spotlight Partner! Flip provides one free Ultra 60 minute camcorder for every camera purchased by our organization. Along with that excellent deal, the Spotlight program has a channel on Youtube which will increase our visibility on the internet. The next step is to apply for non profit partnership on Youtube, because that will provide many more online tools and resources for posting video online. With rapidly evolving technology, the face of media is following suit. We look forward to working with IMDEC and the communities in Guadalajara to make our contribution to the new wave of grassroots reporting.
This week has been a week filled with logistics: plane tickets, travel insurance, belongings, apartments, the list goes on. We’re getting ready to leave the Bay Area mid August and then we’ll head to Guadalajara in late September. There is much to figure out over the next few months. Once we arrive in Guadalajara my partner, Arthur, and I will enroll in a two week language intensive home stay in Guadalajara and then look for an apartment for the next six months.
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