Jeff Ridout

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Time to make my Documentary - Raise Money!!!

Greetings. It's been awhile since I posted here. I've been pretty busy lining up work and trying to get my name out there.
Being a creator of content is a damn hard job.

I want to announce, that even though I am working on other projects, I want to go full tilt behind my documentary.

I will need money though. Investment in the project. I'll spend the next week putting a nice package together to showcase around town to investors, hopefully angel investors and maybe some grant money from the Government. This is the toughest easy part of the whole affair.
I shall produce Crack if it's the last thing I do damnit! LETS ROCK AND ROLL

Monday, February 14, 2011

Big Equipment Purchase.

OK I GOT IT!!! JVC HDCAM GY HM100 with a Brevis35 attachment. Look at the pretty picture
Let's SHOOT

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

My Reel is Done!

SO my reel is done. Please check it out at jeffridout.com under My Work.
It's not a masterpiece but it will do for now until I make some key changes.
I do not want it to be too showy or pretentious but I have to say, my little animation version of me is cuuuuttttteee.
Please check it out friends.
Feedback would be great!
Cheers

Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Price of Monopoly in Canada. MIND THE CAP!

The CRTC is a puppet organization, clearly serving the whims and Fancy's of Canada's largest Telecom Providers. 







The CEO of the CRTC, a twitchy, nervous little man named Konrad von Finckenstein has decided without contacting or talking to the Canadian public to levy surcharges onto us, the Canadian for overages.

I already pay a premium service for Internet connectivity, and with this ruling it would reduce my caps and make me pay more. Why?
Because Bell wants that.
It is well documented that the executive team of the CRTC are friends of the Bell and Rogers Camp. They are made up of ex-executives.
This backhanded bullshit spits in the face of every Canadian out there.
Why?
Are Bell's servers crashing left right and center? Are Canadians using too much bandwidth? Is the infrastructure unable to keep up with technology?
Nope. Just an easy cash grab.
The world is moving to online streaming of content.  The CRTC is a dinosaur and needs a radical change.
If Canada is to be part of the Global Conversation, we can't have our voices silenced once we hit the virtual word count limit.
Even our politicians are telling the government body of the CRTC to reverse this decision. Are we a nation run by Bureaucrats? 
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/02/03/crtc-internet-clement.html?ref=rss
Sign the petition

MIND THE CAP
and tell our ELECTED officials to get their employees in check!!!!!!!!!!!!!