Come one come all!!! Tell the pundits, your friends and family in red states blue states, libertarians, republicrats and everyone in between!

The documentary I was selected to be part of during last year’s inauguration will be screening this Monday night at 8PM on the web at www.outofmanythemovie.com.

Here’s a note from director Josh Apter:

Here’s the low-down:

MANHATTAN EDIT WORKSHOP and LO-FI PICTURES LAUNCH
GROUNDBREAKING, PUBLIC COLLABORATION FILM  “Out of Many”

January 19, 2010 (New York, NY) Lo-Fi Pictures’ feature length documentary “OUT  OF MANY” (www.outofmanythemovie.com) focuses on a unique group of people who attended the inauguration of Barack Obama, an event that changed American history.  On February 15th, 2010 “OUT OF MANY” breaks its own historical ground with a game-changer of a different sort.  The film will be the first feature-length movie to both invite and facilitate public collaboration and input into the editorial process. In association with Manhattan Edit Workshop, Lo-Fi Pictures will open the door to the public to help create the first truly “interactive” film.  Josh Apter, Director of the film notes,  “OUT OF MANY will be the first movie made for the people – BY THE PEOPLE. We are using this moment and this project to put creative power into the hands of the audience, not just the filmmaker.”

The film, originally initiated by an open call to independent filmmakers and to the creative community, will screen President’s Day, February 15th at 8PM EST as an “on-line rough cut” – the first screening of it’s kind at www.outofmanythemovie.com.  A live, post- screening web chat will allow the audience to interact with the filmmakers

OUT OF MANY tells the story of five people who traveled from around the United States with the common goal of attending the inauguration of Barack Obama. The documentary takes viewers on an unforgettable trip to the heart of our nation through the eyes of five very different individuals who were compelled to attend the Inauguration for divergent reasons.

Today marks the one year anniversary of that fateful Tuesday last December when I took off on my bicycle from Los Angeles en route 3000 miles to see President Obama’s inauguration in Washington DC.  I must say this entire month has been filled with emotions, some happy, others quite sad, as I reflect on what the past year has brought me.

I’d like to list some of the positive gains first: new friends, a passion for cycling, a belief in the American people that had shattered my youthful notions of nationhood.  Optimism unbound, and a deep knowledge that anything you dream can be achieved if the intentions are pure and your efforts are supported by like-minded individuals.

But on a more melancholic note, this past year has been such a wild ride through life that I find myself disillusioned and fizzling on my pro-Obama platform.   Much of the reason that I have not posted lately is due to travels to Rwanda over the summer

, and now my current job working with the under served youth in Long Island New York.

(Sure they look cute, but just step in for a day and see what happens!)

I stay so busy keeping up on the day to day madness of working with adolescent youth that I hardly have time to keep my nose in the papers to see what my oft-beloved commander in chief has been up to.

But I couldnt resist the headline today…30,000 more troops to Afghanistan?!

If this all goes through, and Mr. Obama becomes just another war president, then I am obliged to state along with Michael Moore that he “will do the worst possible thing [he] could do — destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. … You will teach them what they’ve always heard is true — that all politicians are alike. I simply can’t believe you’re about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn’t so.”

If there’s one thing I learned about politics in this last year, its that it is much more challenging than anything I could ever see myself get into.  While I wanted to celebrate the Nobel Committee’s decision to honor Obama, I repeat what I said then, “too soon, far too soon”.  Let’s hope we can get some pro-peace momentum heading forward.

So on my two-mile walk back from the train station a couple weeks back I decide to take a shortcut through the supermarket parking lot and came upon my bike, resting on a curb outside the Liquor Store!  I hopped on it and rode home fast as I could!  Must be all the energy I had put into it that drew it back to me.  Anyways, I told the whole story to Bike Talk: an online Bike Radio program in Los Angeles.

—>>Listen to bike talk interview here<— Hosts: Jim C of Orange 20 Bikes, Nick Richart and Steven Bowers of Bike Talk

Here’s my question for anyone reading this… Has anyone else ever had a reuniting experience with their two-wheeled best friend? I’d love to hear about it!  Tailwinds.

Read the press release here.

Does randomness exist? Well, ever since I started riding I’ve learned that just about anything can happen!

In a fluke encounter last week in Portland, Oregon, I ran into Chase, a fellow cyclist I met along my journey in Texas.  Turns out, he’s spent his summer doing the same thing I did last winter, taking off on his bike a couple months ago from North Carolina and has been headed West ever since. From the glimmer in his eye I could tell that he was having the best experience of his life… the natural high of cycling is so easy to read, it made me jealous!

Well when I saw him he was just about to finish his coast to coast trek, with only a two day jaunt to the Pacific Coast left.  From the looks of his facebook page, it seems like he made it to the coast safe and sound.  Well god bless you Chase, and the many others who opt to travel on two wheels and open themselves to the world!

The last time i saw him we were riding through central Texas stoppin to grub on some Kolatches!!!

And also, a new short put together from a student at the manhattan edit workshop, my good friends keep coming through with new great stuff

Biking for Obama preview from Logan Freeman on Vimeo.

From 10:00AM-4:00PM participants will ride through the city as they support the cause by raising pledges for each mile they go along the day. Checkpoints at various bike-shops, nonprofits, and businesses will provide refreshments, as well as an opportunity to connect with other progressive organizations throughout the city of LA. The bicycle is truly a vehicle for change, so come ride along and support the progress of the youth of Rwanda, as well as our beautiful and diverse city of Los Angeles.

This June-July I will be traveling alongside a team American and Rwandan basketball and soccer coaches, medical staff and others to Kigali, Rwanda.  We aim to provide an outlet to the thousands of children who don’t have any little leagues or organized recreational sports.  Looking back on the relationships that I have made in my sports career, I realize that they have truly been some of the most fulfilling in my life.  The lessons learned in teamwork and cooperation as well as the ability to push one’s self to the limit and compete at one’s maximum level is unparalleled.

Not only are sports VITAL to developing relationships amongst one’s peers, but they have the potential to uplift the spirit as well. Many Rwandan children have lost parents to genocide and AIDS and desperately need a message of hope and reconciliation.

As a photographer with a passion for justice, there is no way that I could miss this opportunity to document one of the most compelling, revolutionary events going on this summer.  Please support us, fundraising efforts have been difficult in these economic times. While we will work with whatever resources we get, this cannot be done without as much help as possible.