A Continuing Conversation on Right Livelihood :...

²¹ Recently a couple of you have asked me to explain what I meant when I alluded that the ‘Tumblranger’ Project, The One I’ve been calling ‘Rolling Tumbler’ for the last week or so, They asked me to explain just how It might generate income for those involved, Those six or seven blogger’s who joined in as I have asked. The best way to do so, to illustrate what I meant, is by example.”

” Two years ago, primarily on Gather, in what has become my secondary web site now that I’m a Tumblr, I wrote a very brief introduction to a site called ’10 MPH. ’ A small team of dedicated young filmakers using the tools of the internet shot a film- I used that term very loosely as it was all digital. The shot a film, distributed it themselves on a web site they built. The even sold it in an auction model. People bid whatever they wanted to pay.”

” The whole concept was two guys on a couple of Segways. If you don’t know what a Segway is, Google it. Two guys on a couple of Segways slowly cruised across the country, at - You guessed it. 10 MPH. It took a while. They had no sponsors to speak of when they left. It was only when they were eighty-eight percent of the way through the trip, almost home, that people took them seriously.”

To date they have raised $ 12, 107.00 US. That’s a little misleading as they have moved on since then and done a couple of other ‘films’. Mind you. They did not have the tools of the contemporary internet, or todays resources, to work with.”