I've been working on our original website Oyate Ta Olowan.We've been working on adding digital downloads to the site, but it's still a challenge. Oyate is a public radio series that we did on traditional Native American music. We did 52 half hour shows and traveled over 100,000 miles collecting music from all over the Americas. It was a while ago, but people still seem to love it, so we keep offering the shows for sale. It's all a part of our little press Many Kites Press. Life is so amazing, and so full, but we keep on trucking. I hope things are going well for all of you, and that continue to create wonderful things. Later, Milt Lee
Hey, this summer nights downtown is getting to be so much fun. Last Thursday, we went down and were dancing. Everybody loved it, and really, we did to. So as we were walking back to our car, we ran into these folks. They were totally into their drumming, and so was Jamie. So cool.
Last week, I was lucky to be able to attend SilverDOCS film festival and conference in Silver Spring, MD. Jamie and I spent the week in Silver Spring, where there were over 100 documentary films, and a five day conference on documentary film making. One of the events that I attended was the panel given by the National Minority Consortia. At the end of the panel I asked what were the various organizations doing to promote vlogging on their websites. I thought their answers were instructive. We shall see how it plays out. Each one assured me that they were working away to make it very friendly for people to vlog on their sites. If you go to the link, you can get to each of their websites to judge for yourself.
Folks, you may or not know about our international peace project - The Bead People. Jamie started by making a few bead people - then she realized that there was a story there - so she wrote - The Wind of a Thousand Years. Over the last year, we’ve gone through 2000 copies and we are waiting for our next edition of 1500. Amazing, and they are soooo much fun - not to mention spreading a little peace with every bead person and every book. But now, we really need a Spanish translation. Some folks have been asking for it, and one person wants to take them to Nicaragua. This project is basically a non-profit operation, with people contributing money for printing, beads to make more bead people, and now I am asking for somebody to translate our book in to Spanish. We’ve been told that we really need a native speaking person to do the translation - basically because the book is very poetic, and we want to keep the feeling of it.
If you would like to give it a shot, please send an email to me or Jamie - at milt (at) thebeadpeople.org or jamie (at) thebeadpeople.org You can actually read the story on line right here, and see the famous short film, Beads Beads Beads at thebeadpeople.org
In Rapid City South Dakota, we are trying to get folks to spend more time downtown - a familiar issue for lots of small towns. The other night we went to event and ran into an old friend, Fred Thurston, an architect that loves to work on restoring old buildings. He is now restoring them and turning them green at that same time. It’s called LEED Certification.
