passion

for reasons unbeknownst to be, a lot of people visit my little blog. a handful of you email, others comment, but going off the stats, only about 0.02%. which is fine. but what I’m going to need over the coming weeks/months is your help with something…let me explain:

here’s what I have: a computer. a camera that shoots video. a good pair of boots.

here’s what I don’t have: money

here’s what I want to do: see a few things before it’s all over

…so, as you may or may not have read over the past few days, I got a bit of a shock when I found out that the $ I had coming in wasn’t there yet. it might be, it might not be, but it was going to be used for an adventure. but maybe the adventure begins because I don’t have it. so I spent the past few days worrying, thinking, moaning, blaming – lots of things that end in -ing, but few that ended in peace. in excitement.

but no one really has any $ these days to do anything.

that shouldn’t stop the adventure – it should start it.

so, here’s my idea:

passion

wait that might have come across wrong, me mentioning having a camera and ‘passion’ being the answer. there’ll be no adult films, but what there could be are films about adults.

lemme ask you – if someone was willing to shoot a short 2-3 minute film on what you were passionate about, be it your work, a story you have, your charity, your hometown, anything, would you give ‘em a place to sleep and a bite to eat?

I think you would. I think anyone would.

the tricky part is that I want to do it in countries I know nothing about. people I don’t know how to speak to. etc.

but time-and-time again, I’ve met those who comment on how lucky I was to have English as my mother-tongue – and could surely find someone, somewhere along the way who could help.

so, here’s what I need – advice.

how could I do this? what am I not thinking of? is it even possible?

help me with this initial set-up and then I’ll start throwing out the places I want to go…

it would start with Turkey.