Oh sorry, … of course … these birds are twittering…

Bedamat

this is a very interesting discussion and I thought it might be good to add my personal recession Impact as for me it is a somewhat ambivalent thing that changed a lot. I still can’t really decide if it’s really that negative… Maybe in a longer time view the recession is
1. not as huge as everyone in the mass media stated it to be.
2. Something that had to happen, just like fever and a flu… In the end you spend a couple of days at home, recover and start again with a better view on things..

For me personally as a Freelancer in the Movies (Gaffer/DoP) with more than 12 Years spent working on German and International Productions, High Budget Hollywood as well as low Budget, trashy Music Video stuff, the Media blast about recession was just another Hype when it startet about 1 1/2 Years ago.. In the beginning I didn’t at all believe that it was real.. In that time I was shooting some Television stuff that is as slow as the main stations work quite unaffected by momentary economic ups and downs. When I finished that Production the Winter hole was about to come.. Which is quite usual. Nobody want’s to shoot outside, at night, in winter.. Well last Spring the winter hole just didn’t want to end… No Commercials to shoot, the TV Budgets decreased by 50%, and worst of all ALL of last years Hollywood Productions that were going to be shot in Germnay were stopped and some of them completely canceled. After many years of a career in the Biz I suddenly had a lot of time to think what else I could do.
As I was not too worried about that business might start again soon I didn’t really think about long time projects but only about what to do in the moment. I started concentrating more and more on photography, which was lost a bit during the previous years of Hollywood-24/7…
I spent a lot of time reading stuff on the Internet, experimenting with wordpress, Ironing, Cooking, photography, and a couple of badly paied but huge fun low Budget Flicks that were mostly shot by Friends that needed my help… Jobs I wouldn’t have done without the recession, ’cause these Productions wouldn’t have been able to afford my old Day Rates..
I became some kind of a drifting wood in Berlins shore tides of broke folks.. Until… ell until my Girlfriends Blog started to grow and grow and she started to ask more and more questions about what and how and now and hurry…
The result can be seen at http://www.metropolitan-circus.de …
Now we have a long term business plan which is not becoming rich by blogging but which started with discussions about Content, Concepts, Reasons and Motivations. the Blog is somehow the reason to get active in Times of aimless day to day string at the phone. The first effect will be that I will have to find someone whos willing to borrow us some Money, ’cause I just don’t have any time to got back to work in the Movies.. This thing has completely changed everything. I found something I can put all my passions and interests into, 20 hours a day. Monetarizing this work would be fine, and will be possible somewhen. But This is definately NOT the motivation for our work on the Blog.

Final Words: Blogging is a fantastic way to live and experience freedom. Thanks to the Recession. What happened in my life and led to blogging could be called a return to the real core of what is important in life. The recession is just a natural phenomenon: A gas-explosion stops as soon as all the gas has burnt. The 00′s Capitalistic overkill has stopped as soon as all the CashCashCashCredits were spent.
Let’s listen to the silence after the blast, there might be some birds singing….

Enjoy Life, everyone, and greetings from Berlin.

Great post by the way, has anyone else used the Chikita? It looks really interesting from an advertiser perspective as well xx
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