Colophon

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A few people have noted that I’m blogging again more frequently. They are correct.

Or, at least, I’m trying.

2.

A few other people have also noted, however, that I’m not talking much about Cyan’s movies on the blog (and haven’t since the start of production on our Yankees film, The Keeper of the Pinstripes, a year and a half back). They’re also correct.

Fortunately, Cyan is very busy. We’re currently in production with one film and in pre-production on another, and are pulling together a new venture fund for non-movie investing.

However, blogging about the fund puts me in dicey territory regarding SEC regulation of public solicitation.

Whereas saying anything at all about specific movies seems to somehow piss off somebody, somewhere, who’s somehow crucial to the film getting made or released. I’ve by now determined that whatever small promotional bump I can drive through this blog is more than offset by the headaches that produces.

So, in short, don’t expect to see much movie stuff – or even, really, Cyan stuff in general – around here any time soo.

[And, in answer to the specific questions I get about Keeper: it’s not dead, it’s just slower moving (by far) than we expected, having already been ‘lapped’ by other films we started later and have already theatrically released. Hang in there.]

3.

Finally, while I’m totally smitten with this new, clean, single-column design, it does make for a strange intermixing of real blog posts and salmagundi links.

I’ve also been trying to Tweet more frequently (see @joshuanewman), and have been posting links there in parallel.

Going forward, I’m going to try only posting links on the Twitter feed. If that ruins your life, please complain vigorously, as I’m still on the fence about this and might go back to posting links / videos / etc. here, too.

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January 18, 2011

Walk the Talk

This Saturday (1/22), from 2-4pm, I’m giving a talk for the (700 member!) NYC Paleo Meetup (along with CrossFit NYC’s Communications Director and resident Paleo Diet expert Allison Bojarski) entitled:

Caveman Lessons on Performing Better, Living Longer, and Looking Good Naked.

As I just blogged about, the Paleo diet is getting all kinds of press these days. But the basic underlying hypothesis (we evolved for one set of conditions, yet currently live in another, which causes an array of health problems) dictates a much broader prescription than simply diet – from sleep schedule and stress management, to how we move, stretch, exercise, and play.

In particular, the talk explores three main questions:

– What is fitness, and how can we tell when we’re ‘in shape’?
– How fit were cavemen / hunter-gatherers, and how did they get that way?
– What does that mean we should do to be healthy and fit in today’s world?

The talk isn’t focused on CrossFit per se, but rather covers fitness in general, in a broad evolutionary context. Admission is $5 through the Paleo Meetup, but if you email me in advance, I can squeeze you in for free.

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