There are good reasons

people don't make feature length films on their own. We are stretched
to our absolute capacity now. Trying to get through the footage we
shot, the footage ASO and Versus shot and schedule retrospective
interviews to shoot MORE footage. It's daunting, overwhelming,
frustrating and downright abominable. There are usually entire teams
of people to handle the promotions, computer/tech issues,
communications & scheduling, funding/accounting, travel, legal,
research, writing, editing and and directing. We are 3 guys.

Needless to say we're a bit Gripped.

Living Dangerously

Life in the RV was usually tranquil albeit cramped. On the rare occasion when Jason wasn't in a team or sougnier car during the stage, he would diligently copy footage while the RV traveled. Curtis followed suit.

Usually this happened after filming wrapped for the day, late after dinner. Then we would wake at 7am, drive to start of the day's race and park as close to the action as possible yet far away enough to not get caught in the departing traffic. Jeremy became adept at squeezing that pig into any available space.

By no malice or cruel intention, Curtis livened up one evening by nearly incinerating the RV from the inside out. We often ate dinner with the team but would occassionaly eat in the RV. Post dinner with 4 guys in a small space the air would quickly become, ahem, unpleasant. We had a plan for this and would light a candle in the sink - a seemingly safe place to have it. Curtis, most likely focused entirely on his work, accidentally placed Jason's very new Patagonia rain paints over the sink for just a second and WHOOSH - up they went in a blinding flash of flames. His rain gear was the first casualty of the trip. Unfortunately the camera wasn't rolling. There will be an entire out-take video on the DVD of our RV mis-adventures.

Not always fun

Curtis and Jason head out for a day of filming in the rain - after
getting stuck in traffic, lost, turned around and generally frustrated
to no end. Glamorous. At least Jason scored a 4th floor view speaking
to the locals with broken French. While it looked inevitable there
were no crashes on this corner.

Part of what makes the Tour so exciting is the fans

Cav's bike

after only 4 wins

Spinning Along

So much footage it's hard to explain the amount of work involved in
taking it all in. Imagine walking into a library and needing to know
every word in every book so that from them you can formulate a story.
That's about how it feels these days. On a bright note I goto meet
with Haik this evening to have our first talk about the soundtrack for
the film. Haik is such an artist I'm excited to get the ball rolling.
Or in this case, spinning.

Photos are from an interview with Brian the day Jens wrecked. I had
planned on interviewing him but alas, this is bike racing and nothing
goes according to schedule.

More Legends in the bag!

We finally made it home and I'm going through the Paul Sherwen and
Jens Voigt interviews. Great score from our trip!