I have been working mostly on updating the content at Susi's blog rather than working on the website. She sent me out on different events which I documented and wrote about on the blog. This has been very interesting since this is stuff i would never have thought about existed two months ago. But this week i went to a Rally at the City Hall. The government is cutting all financial aids to the "transgendered/gay/lesbian/bi-sexual homeless" shelters, which is a serious problem meaning all the people from that community will have to live on the streets with no help at all. Some of the footage is online now at Lost in the Crowd Blog While i was down there waiting for the rally to start, this guy asked me wheather i knew who those people were or not, and i told him what i knew, and that i was there to take some pictures. It so happened that he used to be a press photographer and he had some cool stories, he was also former mayer Rudolph Giuliani's campaign leader, a really interesting person. But the rally started and i had to run.
I think they hoped that more people would show up, but the mood was still high even though the cause was serious. Which i think was nice.
Susi is also having a visit from one of the editors of her documentary, Christopher. So Matt and Chris just finished editing the documentary this week, which is kind of a big deal! Susi has worked on it for many years, and Matt has worked on it for about a year. And from what my expierence is with editing shortfilms, which can be hard at times, this must be heaven for them.
From the statistics on Google Analytics we can tell that it has helped alot with the new blog, and people are starting to subscribe to our news, which is really awesome. It's the first time i have had a chance to spend that much time on blogging, and it pays out, so im happy.
torsdag den 2. april 2009
Maysles Sum-up
So for the past weeks a lot has happened to the maysles blog/ new website. As mentioned we are building it on the wordpress platform, because it's important that perople without programming-knowledge can update the website.
Last week Brooke, their current webmaster came to visit New York and to have a meeting with us. We got some info, that narrowed us down on how advanced we could make the backend of the site. The backend code needs alot of notes and if possible should be avilable to open in Dreamweaver, because Brooke is not a programmer, and used Dreamweaver to build all the pages for the site. We set up a deadline for a test site which the Maysles crew could play with to get to know the website before we leave, that will be two weeks from now, so they have two weeks to use it before we leave.
We struggled a bit about making a new page for the blog that could retrieve info from the wordpress database, and output it on a seperate page, but after we found out that there was a speacial "Header" section you have to include to have access to the wordpress content, everything worked out well.
Last night i was at a "first of all time" screening with a documentary in progress, which Gabriel is working on. He doesn't work with maysles, but his office is in the maysles institute building, so we had allready met before, and he invited me to the screening. It was a very interesting documentary he was working on, about this mentally disordered person, who suffered from compulsive "prison break" disease. That means he kept breaking of of jails and prisons. He was really smart, but damaged at the same time, and the story and this caracter was soo interesting, i can't wait for this doc to get finished!
Last week Brooke, their current webmaster came to visit New York and to have a meeting with us. We got some info, that narrowed us down on how advanced we could make the backend of the site. The backend code needs alot of notes and if possible should be avilable to open in Dreamweaver, because Brooke is not a programmer, and used Dreamweaver to build all the pages for the site. We set up a deadline for a test site which the Maysles crew could play with to get to know the website before we leave, that will be two weeks from now, so they have two weeks to use it before we leave.
We struggled a bit about making a new page for the blog that could retrieve info from the wordpress database, and output it on a seperate page, but after we found out that there was a speacial "Header" section you have to include to have access to the wordpress content, everything worked out well.
Last night i was at a "first of all time" screening with a documentary in progress, which Gabriel is working on. He doesn't work with maysles, but his office is in the maysles institute building, so we had allready met before, and he invited me to the screening. It was a very interesting documentary he was working on, about this mentally disordered person, who suffered from compulsive "prison break" disease. That means he kept breaking of of jails and prisons. He was really smart, but damaged at the same time, and the story and this caracter was soo interesting, i can't wait for this doc to get finished!
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