Hi Everyone!

Things have been a whirlwind here in NYC! The New York Independent Film Festival has been great and Pete, Chris & I have made many contacts from cinematographers to producers through to various artists, and so many good people! 

While here, we've screened 'Another Time, Another Pace' to a packed cinema, we've met with the President of 'Steinway & Sons', as well as having a tour of Steinway Hall (Manhatten) and the Steinway Factory (Queens) where all the exquisite pianos are made.

We got invited to the studio of New York street artist, Bobby Hill & shot some 'continuous stills'; hung out at the music studio of Captain Hitz from Party 4 Eva & got some great samples. I've also been tracking street artists performing in subways all over NYC, cutting together some new Tokyo Love-In tunes.

We've all been well-submerged in the cinema (Chris even more-so), checking out some truly experi'mental' films, networking and connecting, and occasionally surfacing for a burger.

Tomorrow we're doing a photo shoot with Mag from www.punkyourchucks.com' who has done custom artwork on sneakers for rock stars & actors like Will Smith, Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson, Tommy Lee,  Jackson Rathbone & Peter Facinelli (Twilight), Alexa Ray Joel (Billy Joel's daughter), & of course, Tokyo Love-In, Pete Longworth & Chris Baron! Yeah baby! We got some custom chucks! Thanks Mag!!!

Pete is currently lining-up a state of the art computerized tripod for his signature day-to-night panorama that we'll shoot from Williamsburg to capture that famous New York City skyline! 

So we haven't been sleeping much, but we're very grateful to have a place to stay @ Novi & Diane's! 

I've been blogging all of our adventures on my 'tumblr', so please feel free to visit:

http://tokyolovein.tumblr.com

Thank you so much for all your generous support, we look forward to presenting you with your rewards so you'll have a keep-sake of this incredible project that came to be because of you!

We still have a little over 24hrs left on our Fundbreak project, so if you know of any friends or family who would like to have one of these limited-edition signed items at a great price and for a great cause, now's the time.

Love from NYC!

<3,

Mike, Pete & Chris

Hi Everyone, 

Please find below the details of our screening. If you happen to be in NYC or know of any family or friends, feel free to pass on the details, and introduce yourself =)

We'll have some limited edition DVDs with us to give away!

<3 

Mike, Pete & Chris

'Another Time Another Pace' @ the New York Independent Film Festival

Screening on Friday, Jul 23, 2010 10:10 PM EDT

City Cinemas Village East, New York, NY

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Hi Everyone, 

Thank you all so much for your wonderful support! We have reached our goal & then some! We look forward to sending you your rewards as a toke of our immense gratitude when the Fundbreak project wraps up =)

Our hearts are full, how blessed we feel to have your generous support!

We're in New York now & enjoying the warmer weather here. We've already worked with a New York artist, Shwa Losben (@shwamusic, www.myspace.com/shwamusic) - while waiting for a delayed flight @ LA X we tracked Shwa on guitar  & Mikey cut together some loops & produced the track while in transit ;)

We also met a very talented cinematographer, Christina Voros (www.christinavoros.com) who kindly took some video footage of our recording session in the airport. We'll post some of that up soon ;)

In NYC, Novi & his beautiful wife, Diana have kindly let us stay at their place, and we have presented them with a beautiful print of Pete's Sydney Panorama and a DVD of 'Life on Top of Hyde Park'. Novi & Diana are gorgeous people and we love them to bits! Their place is so cool, and I love the kitchen! I'll have to do a little 'Mikey's Cookin' Twitter session there I think just to show you how awesome it is! (@MikeysCookin).

In the meantime, please feel free to follow our adventures on Twitter via @plumjungle or @tokyolovein & also on Mike's Tumblr http://tokyolovein.tumblr.com

 Much <3

Mike, Pete & Chris

Dear Supporters & friends (yes, we mean all of you!)

Thank you for your continued support! Pete,Chris & I are blown away by the wonderful support you have shown us in getting our project 'off-the-ground' literally!

You've enabled us to put down money towards our flights to New York to be a part of the New York Independent Film Festival!

There, Pete, Chris & I have already set-up various contacts within the film, music & photography industry, and we'll be sure to keep you up-dated on all our adventures.

Novi & Captain Hitz are our heroes! They have kindly offered us their couches to sleep on and we are forever in your debt! Thank you, thank you thank!

Thank you Phil Sander (the pianist who features on the 'Life on Top of Hyde Park' album) for organising a tour of the 'Steinway & Sons' factory & showroom in Queens, we'll take you on a virtual tour, so stay 'tuned'!

Clayton & Gibson guitars, you rock!!! Thanks for sponsoring us with such beautiful hand-made guitars, and this extends to Rode microphones for their continued support.

Arigatou gozaimas Nikon for the camera gear we'll be using on this trip & for our next project (you'll have to wait & see).

Please feel free to follow us on Twitter: @plumjungle & also on @tokyolovein (Mike)

Mike also has a blog on http://tokyolovein.tumblr.com

To quote Chris, "See you on the other side of the world!"

Much <3

Mike, Pete & Chris