It’s been almost a year since we released Thrive With Less! We’ve been so encouraged by the response and support we’ve received from YOU our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and greater audience as a whole.
Would you like the chance to revisit our journey or share it with your community? Our DVDs are now on sale in a limited, hand-stamped case made from recycled materials. Visit our website to purchase: http://blog.thrivewithless.com/dvd
Thanks again!
A huge thank you to everyone who came out and supported our film at the Capital City Film Festival! It’s always great to get to show our film to a wider audience, and we saw many new faces at the screening, who brought up some great ideas while we talked about the film.
We’ve been a busy team as of late, and we’ll have more updates coming very soon - including information about Kickstarter rewards and DVDs. Stay tuned!
Only 4 days remain in our Thrive With Less KICKSTARTER. We’re getting closer to our goal, but could really use your help. Would you take a minute to consider donating to furthering this message? Or if you can’t financially help out, please share this post with your networks! Thanks so much for all the support we’ve already received!
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Today is a very exciting day for Thrive With Less. It’s been a heck of an awesome journey through the process of making and releasing this film. We’ve had wonderful responses from our community and have people we’ve never dreamed we would connect with.
But, we want to take this further. We want this experience to be able to effect lots of people in the same way we’ve been profoundly effected by it. And we need some help if we’re going to get there. We’ve decided to launch a Kickstarter campaign to help us raise some money to keep spreading the word about our film and our mission. We’ve funded this entire project by ourselves thus far, for six college students, it’s been incredibly challenging. So we’re looking for some help from you.
Check out the video above and then head over to our Kickstarter page. We’ve got some really cool rewards available if you decide to partner with us, so please do what you can to help us out. And even if you don’t want to contribute monetarily, help us out by spreading the word about our campaign so we can connect with more and more people.
As always, thanks so much for your support. We’ve got a month to raise the funds we need to get this off the ground, please do what you can to help us out!!
Happy Monday everyone!
We’ve got some very exciting things in the works for you over in the Thrive With Less community, starting with two opportunities to see the film!
First, this Wednesday we’ll be hosting an event at the former Barnes and Noble space in East Lansing, MI. It’s going to be really special, not only will we be screening the film and having a discussion with you about it, but we’ll also be having a potluck dinner and participating in a community art project. We’re partnering with MSU Students for the Broad Art Museum, who have been working with a Los Angeles based artist named Fritz Haeg to create a giant crocheted rug for the opening of the new museum. The MSU and East Lansing communities have been helping in the creation of the piece, and, to make it even better, it’s all made through found and reclaimed materials. We hope you’ll check it out!
Next, we are thrilled to announce that we’ve been accepted into the East Lansing Film Festival’s Lake Michigan Film Competition. We’ll be showing our film as part of the festival, as well as competing against other films. The cool think about LMFC is that all the films in that competition have to have been produced in the states bordering the Great Lakes, so everything in that competition is a product of this midwest community we call home. Pretty cool! We’d really appreciate any help you can give in supporting us and spreading the word.
We do have one more announcement for you coming very soon, but I can’t say anything about it just yet…. Stay tuned though, we should have some information about it this week!
Lastly, thank you all so much for helping us out in the ArcLight Cinemas contest. We haven’t found out the results just yet, but we are hopeful!
Thanks as always for your support!
Hey there friends! It’s been a while since we’ve talked, but we hope you haven’t forgotten about us. It’s been an incredibly busy summer for the TWL team, but as it comes to a close, we want to give you some updates on our team and our film’s journey.
As I said, we’ve all been very busy this summer. Many of us have traveled: Josh and myself visited New York City to begin work on another film project, and Colin visited the Big Apple as well on different trip. Ryan has been to Chicago a couple of times, and Mo ventured down to Bonnaroo this year. Meanwhile, Jaclyn is about ready to start traveling around the world as part of a mission trip. Josh is also on tour with his band right now actually, traveling across the country and playing music. As of today, they’re in Washington, DC. We’ll have to map all our journeys this summer, we’ve been all over!
Many of us have been working this summer and starting some cool projects. As I said, I’m starting on another film project which will serve as my undergraduate thesis. It’s exploring non-traditional art and community spaces, ones that work outside of institutional spaces to bring people together and share knowledge. I’m also wrapping up a shorter video which is going to kick start efforts to start some really cool things in Livingston County, my hometown. Colin and Josh have both done work for MSU, and Mo interned with Common Ground, a huge music festival that takes place every summer in Lansing.
Needless to say, it’s been a very full - and fulfilling - summer for the team. We launched the film, hosted a premiere in Lansing, and have continued to spread the word online and through communicating with people every day. But, we’re taking some steps to move outward of this community as well. Right now, we’re submitting to film festivals both in Michigan and across the country in hopes of giving more people the chance to see our film. We’ve had really positive reactions from many who have seen the film, so we want to do what we can to show it to as many people as possible.
That is the reason you may have noticed we’ve taken the film down off the website. We got up to over 5,000 views before doing so, which truly unbelievable and absolutely outweighed our expectations already. So, THANK YOU. But, many festivals are hoping that screening a film is a special event, so they don’t want to screen films that are available to watch online at any time. That wouldn’t really give people any incentive to come out to their festival. So we’ve taken that step for now, but stay tuned as we’ll hopefully have many more opportunities for you to check out the film in the future.
So that’s the state of the film, but if you know anything about us, you know that we intended to make more than a film with this project, we wanted to make a community as well. Once we all get back into a firmer schedule and are back in school for the fall, we’re hoping to have a lot more community dinners and other community events where we’ll invite all of you to come hang out and enjoy a little TWL hospitality. We don’t have anything confirmed yet, as most of us are still all over the state/country, but stay tuned to the blog as well as our social networking sites (or, better yet, just talk to us in person!) and we’ll let you know as soon as we set something up.
We’d also like to continue sharing stories of minimal living like the ones we presented in the film. So please let us know if you know of anyone doing anything cool in their community and we’ll try and share it with ours. We’re still figuring out what those will look like, but we’d like to somehow use our media skills to share more information, so please let us know if you’ve got an idea or story you think should be heard! Even it’s just an article you read or something, we’d very much love to see it and pass it on, so send it our way.
I know a lot of this is vague, but please stay tuned, we’re very excited about the future of this project, and we hope you are too. And we’ll have more specific details soon.
And of course, thank you all so much for the continued interest in this project and this film. This would seriously be meaningless without the people that have been interested and affected by this, we cannot thank you all enough.
Thrive With Less is officially here.
Sorry folks, we’re having some technical issues in uploading the file, so it wont be up right as noon as we originally planned. But keep on eye on Facebook and Twitter, we’ll let you know there as soon as it gets online. Thank you for your patience and support!
Today, five months of really really hard work comes to an end and we finally get to show you all what we’ve been working on so hard. Today, we are releasing Thrive With Less to the world for everyone to see.
We hope that you will take some time to check out the film today or in the near future. More importantly, we hope that you will come back and have a conversation about it with us - whether it’s digitally or in person. We’re aiming to help community grow in the production of this film, and we really want to hear what you think about it, good or bad. Whatever your reaction to it is, we hope that you will react, and that you’ll share what that means for you with us.
If this is your first time checking out Thrive With Less, be sure to look at our challenges page and read our story to get a little background and how we got here. We’ve also got tons of blogs and videos to check out if you want to go more in depth.
This has been a very long few months, and it’s going to be a bizarre experience to no longer have a constant flow of work to do on this project. But we’re all looking forward to people seeing it more than anything.
Thank you to everyone who has been along for the ride with us, your support has always come at a point where we needed it and has kept us going when things got difficult. We hope that you will continue with us as this film is seen by the public.
We do plan to keep this blog going and to continue sharing our experiences and the experiences of others as they relate to living minimally. So tune into the film, and stay tuned here, as we’ll have lots more to share as we move forward.
Again, thank you, and enjoy the film.
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