It's been a few weeks and sorry for that, but many exciting things happening in the background!

First off, Christmas is two days away, so for those of you who celebrate, Merry Xmas. For those of you who don't, Happy Festivus. The rest of us, are enjoying holiday cheer and what not. I'll be traveling and in California for several weeks and not returning until mid January, so this may be the only post until after then.

So what's new? Well, there is a lot going on in the background that I've been eluding to, and will continue to be vague about until they are done deals. But, RMM will be enjoying a new Name in 2016 and that's only a matter of time. We are also in full discussion now about the exact nature of how RAVA and RMM will be working a lot more closely, which at this point is happily not an "if" but a "when". This was also firmly solidified in the wonderful combined Holiday Gala that RAVA so graciously invited RMM to join along with RocDoc, who we will also be hoping to form a more active partnership with in the new year.

Meetings have been going really well, and the new intensive focus on educational content is very well received. I'm hoping to have the cuts of the recordings fully converted to video and posted to our website very early in the new year (Shooting for by the end of January). Potentially in conjunction with our name change if that all works out by then.

In other exciting news two of my good friends S.Micheal Smith and M.Micheal Curasi of Buddies in Space who host a syndicated pod cast through a 3rd party distributor currently and we've decided to work together on a new pilot variety/improv show to be aired across the local cable access network. This is an exciting project as it will be the prototype for the Bicycle Model Carvin of RCTV and I have discussed working on in 2016. Essentially it will start at RCTV and be passed around the local network of community stations until it cycles back to RCTV. The exciting idea here is that any one of the community stations will be the origin point of a production, but the sequence will follow. This is exciting because it gives our local content creators more ways to get their work in front of the local communities. Good stuff.

I will be spending the first two weeks of January in California for a training conference, and while I'm out there I'm hoping to reconnect with some old RIT classmates and former RMM members alike. The goal will be to network and drum up some potential interest for more established professionals to do Skype or similar presentation sessions to help RMM members up their game. Who knows, we may even be able to convince a few to come out our way in person.

One final note that is exciting for me, is I'll be working on a new film project in 2016. It's been a while since I've really poured myself into production and I'm very excited to get back into it. I've had a few very good and very productive meetings with Avery Munger and we are really in sync with how we'd like to handle a project and future goals. I think it's safe to say that when I return in January will also mark day 1 of development of a sizable and hopefully notable production in Rochester. Definitely more to come on that!