Sitting here in my best friend’s mother’s basement, not having my own home, my own place to put things like my computer or camera – or self – wondering how I am going to find the money to fix my car, to pay for gas, and where I am going to sleep this evening, I feel like the luckiest woman in the world.  This week this project begins – out of pre-production and into actually producing.  Making this idea that I have been talking about for the last three years into something others can see, too.   I am more than gratified, more than grateful, I am honored.  The last few days I’ve been scrambling to learn the basics of DIY websites so that American Other had a virtual home from which people could find out what it is that I am doing.  This week I will launch the Kick Starter fundraising project, and the social networking requisites for any modern day project. I will be out of excuses for sitting in front a computer, and will trade in the keyboard for a steering wheel, and follow those double yellow lines where they lead.

And so for the next six months I will fly by the seat of my pants and my car will drive on its last legs and I will break in my brand new shiny Panasonic,  - and we will see how many miles of travel and hours footage it takes. but at the end of it, we will all have a little bit of a better idea who the other is. But more importantly, perhaps, we will all see outselve as other, and feel what it is like to cross the road.

To all those who have supported me, who continue to do so, who believe in what it is tha I am doing, I will do my best by you. Thank you.