As we begin the new year, I’m reviewing what I have on my plate so far.

First, I need to finish up a video slideshow for a wedding I am shooting next weekend. I’ll need to test the DVD on my new portable DVD player to see how it works with the video projector. Then I’m going to

I’m meeting Donna next Tuesday to discuss the business plan for the Artists’ Essentials (working title) DVD series we are producing, so I need to finish fleshing that out. Luckily, Donna has been talking with people and has come up with some great ideas that have focused the project down to a manageable level. Lots of friends and family have volunteered their services to the project, so we should be able to build a crew soon.

I shot a student theater project (mime) for my old high school theater director last November. It’s sitting here on my Mac, shot and edited, but I have to add titles and a menu and burn it to DVDs for the students.

Later in February or March I’ll be setting up a meeting with a small consulting firm about producing a two-hour training video.

I’ve committed to a fall movie project with Matt Eppright. The plan is that we’ll each shoot a short thriller/horror story and combine them into a one-hour movie, ala George Romero/Dario Argento’s “Two Evil Eyes”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100827/combined — it should be Twilight Zone-ish in nature. I’m working on two scripts. Right now I’m not sure which one will make it into the project.

I’m also working on a feature script and reconstructing a treatment that got lost in the move from Japan. Dakota is working on a script titled “Orchid.” I read the first act, and it’s terrific so far. We’re batting a 10-minute short script between us, called “Twosies,” but neither of us are happy with it yet. When it’s done, we’d like to submit it to “triggerstreet”:http://www.triggerstreet.com in the short films category.

I also need to finish “this website”:http://www.richrental.com by February. I’d appreciate any comments on the design, and whether or not it displays correctly in your browser.

I’m finding it tough to balance the paid jobs with the creative ones. I really want to spend my time working on the scripts, but I have an obligation (both to the people who hired me and my wife) to get the paid jobs done first. Sometimes it seems that there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

Returned Christmas cards are beginning to trickle in with undeliverable addresses. If you didn’t get a Christmas card from us and would like one, go to the “about us”:http://www.toddkuhns.com/index.php?=about page, click the link to email me and send me your address!

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