*Watch the film here.

This weekend I shot my first short film with an amazing team of talented friends for the Boulder Shoot Out Festival. The film, "Love's Invitation", placed in the Top Ten and I won the award for Best Screenplay. I am so very honored and grateful to everyone on the team and everyone who gave feedback on the screenplay.

"Love's Invitation" was written to invoke a visceral experience of the dark night of the soul and the process of moving through that and opening up to the Divine, to Love itself, and doing that through life, through the suffering that we already have. Suffering can be the way beyond itself.

*Watch the film here.

A few quick notes about the film:

• It was shot in 24 hours!
• There was NO EDITING. You had to do "in-camera" editing, which basically means - shoot a scene, keep it or rewind the tape, shoot it again, move to the next scene!
• We had to use 5 out of 11 possible items in our film, which we didn't find out until the start of the 24 hours.
• Had to be 7 minutes or less, including title and credits.
• We didn't do any post on the audio except the music and the voiceover.

Written by Ryan Oelke

Directed by Ryan Oelke and Jason Digges

Cinematography by Jason Lange

Starring Stuart Davis and Hokai Sobol

Cameos by Sharon Rebek, Ryan Oelke, Abby Bader

Music by Stuart Davis

Boom by Charles Gammill

Sound Design by Ryan Oelke

Production Assistants Lindsey Wilkinson, Seth Harris

Title Slides by Abby Bader

Special Thanks to Chelsea Brady

(I'm a producer for SGRR).

Zen Buddhist-indie rocker Stuart Davis is launching a new comedy series: Sex, God, Rock 'n Roll.  Season One of of this ground-breaking tv show debuts April 26 on HDNet across the U.S. and Canada.  Sex, God, Rock 'n Roll is written, directed, and hosted by Stuart Davis, and features edgy humor from the open-hearted maniac.   Each episode follows Stu performing stand up comedy, news, sketches, and his acclaimed music.  A twisted mind and a sensitive soul, Davis has made a career out of parsing tricky topics, and Sex, God, Rock 'n Roll finds this 'Punk Monk' at his multi-faceted best.

“We are excited to welcome Stuart Davis and Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll to HDNet.  Stuart is one of a kind, and we are thrilled he is on HDNet.”
 -Mark Cuban, President of HDNet

Davis has studied his heroes (Ricky Gervais, Amy Sedaris, Jon Stewert), but is finding a unique voice with his 'spiritual' brand of comedy.  SGR&R is a delirious dive into life's Mysteries through the mind of a Cosmo-centric comedian.  It's no wonder Davis has become known as the Twisted Mystic.

"Without exaggeration, Stuart Davis is one of the most fascinating and exceptional songwriters in modern music."
 -San Jose Metro

While Davis is a happily hyphenated artist (writer-director-actor-

I am pleased to share with you the first video to our short film/month challenge. This video is for Klondike's contest. I would love it if you checked it out and voted for it (and at the same time you have a chance at winning 25K - not too shabby).

Here's the link to vote.

If you have time, we submitted it to another category. Link to vote for that..

We had a blast shooting this and, all in all, it was a great experience. I am really happy with the quality, especially given it's my first time out of the gates:) Everyone I worked was/is amazing. It looks like we have the beginnings of a wonderful crew.

I learned a ton writing and directing this, but most of all working with a time limit - tough stuff! Thank goodness for post in this case.

Credits for the video:

Director, Writer, Music: Ryan Oelke
DP and Editor: Jason Lange
Actors: Scott Cooper Ryan, Tony Vo, Ryan Oelke, Charles Gammill
Production Assistant: Bonnie Arnold
Boom Operator: Charles Gammill
Sound Engineer: Ryan Oelke
Dolly Sound: Richard Frohlich
Special Thanks: Troy Omafray, Niwot Market

If you dig what Falling Fruit is doing, please nominate us for the Crunchies for the category of "Most Likely to Make the World Better". Just insert our website into the box and click nominate. This is put on by TechCrunch, which emphasizes start-ups, and is one of my favorite blogs.

If you want to get a behind-the-scene look at the Falling Fruit Studio, check out my post on Shoot the Fruit, the official blog for Falling Fruit.

I'm happy to announce a new show on the Falling Fruit network: Modern Immortal. This is a fun and irreverent show delving into health issues from an alternative and complementary approach.

Now, it's easy for me to say that this show will be great: I helped develop and produce it:P But, as much as I can give an ubiased opinion, I am very excited about it from a personal stand point. I am very much interested in complimentary health and have slowly been trying out approaches. It's difficult, however, to know what is effective and what is plain crazy, and my experience with Ben and Marco is they do a good job at being critical and fair in their assesments. Also, I love their energy: they're upbeat, humurous, and have a lot of energy.

The answer to this question might depend on which type of media you're talking about. I divide media broadly into two types: traditonal/big media and new/niche media. Media is being transformed as we speak and so will the role of media overall.

Media, I think, is actually quite devoid of meaning: it is a technical term, the plural of "medium", and all the various forms that media takes are just vehicles, or mediums, for communication. Media includes so much, good and bad, meaningless and profound. To talk about media in general terms simply misses the point. A better question might be, in what ways can we use media to transform the world?

I understand that it is common for people to mean "news sources" to mean "media", but I'm hereby reclaiming that word:) If we can bring it to its broadest meaning we can begin to see all of the possibilities that media offers us. There were always be media for entertainment and media that appeals to the shallow parts of our minds and souls. So, what? I'm interested in how I can use the different media platforms as vehicles for goodness and transformation. With that in mind, we have moved into a new period in media where new media has arisen in the Long Tail and can have a significant impact on the world. Technology is allowing us to take advantage of media in lightening quick ways that big media can't do, and therefore we can act more quickly in response to the opportunities and problems that we are presented with each day. I plan on writing a more in depth post on this over at Falling Fruit, so stay tuned there and I'd love to hear your thoughts on all of this:)

I'm happy to announce that we've launched our company blog at Falling Fruit.

This blog--called "Shoot the Fruit"--will contain short posts on interesting tidbits related to business, new media, consciousness, and more, as well as longer articles written by the Falling Fruit staff and show hosts. Subscribe to the blog in your favorite feed reader to get automatic updates, or just visit us regularly.

We'd love for to join the conversation on the blog as well, and you can do so by clicking on the blog post titles and leaving a comment.

Let us know what you think!

Hey Zaadsters - Alia from Falling Fruit has created a Wikipedia article for conscious business. We would like to enlist your help in making this article an excellent entry that meets Wikipedia standards and will last scrunity. Conscious business is an important movement and development in the business world, and having an entry on Wikipedia would be an excellent way to provide references for those new to it.

So, if you're passionate about conscious business, passionate about Wikipedia, and/or skilled in writing and editing Wikipedia articles, please take a little time to contribute:)

If you're like me, DIGG doesn't really "do it" for you. It works well for the tech crowd, but it sucks something bad for anything outside of that realm, particularly for the LOHAS community. MindBodyGreen is a new site that functions similary to DIGG in that you can submit sites, articles, news, stories, etc. related to mind, body, green. People can then vote submissions up or down, which brings them to front of the pack or buries them.

I'm looking forward to seeing how they do, and if you check them out, be sure to support Falling Fruit if you like what we're doing:) (I've already submitted our two current shows and our site. ABM = Always Be Marketing. See, Casey, we do pay attention to you:)

Hat tip to William Harryman.