{"id":3341,"date":"2016-10-21T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:41:45","slug":"dry-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/21\/dry-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So great to hear from some of our key peeps, thanks so much everyone who contributed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/massive-update\/\">Massive Update<\/a>! Great to see there&#8217;s plenty of commercial studios thriving AND a few fanatics passionately flailing, of which I count myself very much among the later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what does an M3 restart look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re probably not going to start a non-profit anytime soon. Or hire staff. There isn&#8217;t a charismatic celebrity itching to herd us cats.<\/p>\n<p>To the relief of many I&#8217;m sure, I will not be leading the M3 resurrection. I don&#8217;t mind stepping up as a tasty spokesmodel infrequently, organizing a Micro Movie Marathon once in awhile, posting a slightly amusing rant now and then&#8230; but I&#8217;m beautifully booked. I&#8217;m ranging way farther as an artist than ever before and having a blast, generating and deploying lots of actual CONTENT in support of the gentle release for <a href=\"http:\/\/dog.movie\">Daughter of God<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shri-fugi-spilt-1-e1477051602850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shri-fugi-spilt-1-e1477051602850.jpg\" alt=\"shri-fugi-spilt\" width=\"370\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shri-fugi-spilt-1-e1477051602850.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/shri-fugi-spilt-1-e1477051602850-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tasty spokesmodel head shot<\/h6>\n<p>I&#8217;d like some version of M3 to be in MY mix. I love the idea of keeping the network connections fresh, of sharing what I&#8217;m about and hearing what everyone else is up to. Of somehow encouraging collaboration. Of letting the wider world know there are movie making resources in Northern Michigan. I&#8217;m guessing many of us feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So is there a plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meetings once in awhile. Show and tells occasionally. Posting things here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s keep it simple and sustainable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who wants to schedule and organize an informal gathering? Consider this your call to action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So great to hear from some of our key peeps, thanks so much everyone who contributed to the Massive Update! Great to see there&#8217;s plenty of commercial studios thriving AND a few fanatics passionately flailing, of which I count myself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/21\/dry-dock\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1E9El-RT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3353,"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michiganmoviemakers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}