okay...

i have some words i guess to explain what im currently thinking. for the sake of multi-tasking with the work i do, i think im gonna go with video presentation (and then may additional info for the analogue site)

here are the notes i've made to myself as well as a photo of the diagram i drew out trying to show the connections, then trying to make it look more tree-ish.

rob and bob...this is very overwhelming. i have no idea what im doing!

i digress.


"So it feels like the real story is the connection of person to person. i've sketched it out roughly as a tree, which of course is pretty trite but it still it is appropriate since DIG is all about growing stuff.



DIG as an organization is mainly comprised of Sarah and Steve. Sarah connected to Terry who connected to me. DIG in general takes on volunteers on site as well. I shot all the people [roughly] connected with in Jinja. Terry and sarah and steve are all connected to donors. DIG is connected to four main sites who all have their own connections. Two examples: TASO. This is a group that helps all sorts of aids / hiv patients in the area. there are volunteers who work on the DIG garden on site. At least one of which has had DIG start her a home garden...and the people who helped her put it in, from her community, have the opportunity to have their own home gardens too. Or the orphanage....you've got paul and rose...they have 4 kids. then they take on 20 orphans during the normal school year. they have their own crops, but also the DIG garden. even one of the children has his own tiny garden. they also have two small expamples of low-surface-area gardens too to help inform their neighbors with less land than themselves. it also indirectly impacts the living extended family of the orphans they take in. i'm sure each place has their on connections, obvious or not.

so i want to put together a video presentation that illustrates the story of DIG but way of possibly literally using an illustration of roots/branches to explain how individuals can directly impact others. have dig be the seed and Sarah and Steve and so on be the roots / source of life, and have above ground be the countries impacted, then branches to organizations, then sub branches to individuals and subs to who they impact, etc etc.

folding in audio recording from on site, photographs, and video interviews of sarah, terry, possibly me?. much less images than the thing i did for terry, and in a better way.

presented online for analogue via Vimeo. presented to potential clients of mine via DVD.




after effects?


god...this is so overwhelming."



the words i wrote BEFORE that taht i didnt feel like were going anywhere are as follows:

"Connection tree of how I am connected to Sarah Koch and how she is connected to Terry, DIG, Steve, Lisa, and how Terry is connected to donors, etc.

i keep on having this image of expanding concentric circles that are something like city, state, region, country, world etc.



idea starts with connecting Uganda to Birmingham. connection is immediate with DIG and the work they do. sarah from birmingham, goes to uganda. sub-connection points for this is AIDS/HIV work in uganda, and AIDS/HIV work in birmingham. the importance of gardening / nutrition to the people in jinja and the urban gardening we have at jones valley."