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David, Sam and I will be jumping into a car in a few hours to head down to Charleston, SC for the wedding of a close friend. We’ll be back next week to continue posting and to also announce a bomb of a secret. Hint, it involved some mega interviewees and a massive road trip.

Till then, we all hope to make it back in one piece… the Palmetto state awaits! Hopefully some roadside boiled peanuts do to.

via: Forbes

Where does your metro area rank on the budget scale? Seems like all my favorites are too expensive.

via: fake is the new real “The fifty largest metro areas (in blue), disaggregated from their states (in orange). Each has been scaled and sorted according to population. The metro areas are US-Census defined CBSAs and MSAs.”

Must be on some info-map kick lately, but jesus these beautifully composed content driven graphics get me so jacked up.

Thanks for the tip Braulio.

Check out Forbe’s List of the healthiest to the unhealthiest states in America.  The ranking is set up where 1 is the healthiest and 50 is the most unhealthy.  The criteria is based on smoking, obesity, death rates and hospital visits.

If you have not figured it out yet from the last post on here or some of the other hints around our website, we just added a secret weapon to the project’s arsenal. That weapon is our new team member, Pierce Cook, shown stepping out of his packaging above. He is an amazingly talented filmmaker from South Carolina with his own production company Whispering Statues, and a depth of professional experience. We had been in conversation with him for the past few months regarding some of our technical questions leading up to production. We re-routed ourselves through South Carolina to meet with him briefly on our cross country road trip. We arrived in New York, and just after New Years, he sent along some of his work samples for the editing requests. David and I watched them twice, and he was on a plane to NYC less than a week later. Simple right? It is when you see someone with this kind of talent, maturity and potential. He will significantly increase the film’s quality on so many levels. In a few long days he has become our third, day-to-day member of the production crew. His immediate goal is to help create, capture, edit and cut our trailer for the film. This will be sometime in March at the Center for Architecture with support from AIANY. We are still trying to slip into their packed schedule and should have the date available in a few days. We can’t wait to show off the footage we have already captured and will have to wait till mid March to reveal. For the time being we will have some video blogs/podcast coming online shortly. We’ve also been receiving a pretty strong interest from the students regarding their blog and should have the first posts coming within the next week.