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There is a fish in Arkansas that breathes air.It can survive out of water for short periods and walk across wet ground. ...
07/22/2026

There is a fish in Arkansas that breathes air.

It can survive out of water for short periods and walk across wet ground. It has been spreading through Arkansas waterways since 2008.

If you catch one, state law requires you to kill it on sight. There is no active program to remove it.

We first heard about it through research for a documentary we are currently developing. The more we dug in, the more we realized the story was bigger than the fish itself.

So we spent two days on the lower Little Red River with a local guide who has fished those stretches for years, learning the water and the terrain before we bring a full crew out.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is involved. More details on that soon.

Pre-production on something like this is not optional. You do not just show up with cameras. You learn the water first.

More to come.

We drove from Northwest Arkansas to East Texas. Two people, full kit, 5am start.The forecast called for rain. It deliver...
07/17/2026

We drove from Northwest Arkansas to East Texas. Two people, full kit, 5am start.

The forecast called for rain. It delivered. By the time we had our first setup going, the sky had opened up and stayed that way for most of the day.

Documentary work does not come with controlled conditions. No studio lighting, no guaranteed audio, no clean setup. You figure out what the location is giving you and build around it.

Heavy cloud cover turns out to be surprisingly good for filming. A wet pine floor looks like nothing you can recreate indoors.

Sometimes the conditions that seem like the worst case end up in the final edit.

More to come when we can.

An aerospace manufacturer decided to enter the razor market. Their opening line:"We actually landed on a fairly poor bus...
07/09/2026

An aerospace manufacturer decided to enter the razor market. Their opening line:

"We actually landed on a fairly poor business model."

That's their About Us page. No spin. No sales language. Just an honest explanation of what they built and why the industry went a different direction.

The company makes components to tolerances designed to survive a decade in orbit. Satellite parts. Rover components.

When they turned their attention to razors, they found a market built around selling blade refills, not engineering a better shave.

So they fixed the blade geometry, machined it to aerospace standards, and designed it to last a lifetime. No proprietary blades. No subscription. Buy it once.

Then they published exactly why that's a bad business model. And why they did it anyway.

That story did what a product page never could. It gave people a reason to trust the company before they ever looked at the specs.

Do you know which company I'm talking about?

Flew SAR missions in this airframe.There's a category of knowledge in rotary wing maintenance that never makes it into a...
07/07/2026

Flew SAR missions in this airframe.

There's a category of knowledge in rotary wing maintenance that never makes it into a logbook.

Not the procedures. Those get written down. Not the specs. Those are in the manual. What doesn't get captured is what a mechanic learns after fifteen years on the same airframe.

Which torque sequences behave differently than the book says. Which inspection point shows wear before the schedule predicts it. Which symptom means something different on that specific platform than it does on the rest of the fleet.

That knowledge doesn't live in a system. It lives in one person.
When they retire, it goes with them. The next mechanic learns it the same way the first one did. Through the airframe. Through trial and error. Through time nobody budgeted for.

We've gotten good at documenting what to do. We haven't solved documenting what someone learned from doing it for a decade and a half.

That's a maintenance risk. And it's one that doesn't show up on any inspection checklist.

Happy 4th, America!!! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
07/04/2026

Happy 4th, America!!! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

We got introduced to a property advisor in Phuket through a previous client.Her husband had watched us build her travel ...
07/03/2026

We got introduced to a property advisor in Phuket through a previous client.

Her husband had watched us build her travel agency content around what she actually knew, not just the destination. That introduction led to a conversation.

When we looked at his market, the pattern was the same everywhere.

Every property advisor was running drone shots, polished walkthroughs, cinematic edits. It all looked the same. And none of it answered the question buyers were actually asking: "Can I trust this person?"

For English-speaking buyers looking at property in Phuket, the options are everywhere. What separates one advisor from another isn't the footage. It's whether they seem like someone who will give you a straight answer.

That became the direction.

We didn't need to make him look bigger than he was. We needed to show why people came to him in the first place. So we stripped out the things that made him blend in and built the content around how he actually talks to clients.

The result wasn't a property tour. It was a credibility piece.

Full video here: https://youtu.be/nqMihuD9LhA?si=IJOdXuLPKgTzFcSG

UTM records what your drone program does. It doesn't record whether that still matches what it was approved to do.A prog...
07/01/2026

UTM records what your drone program does. It doesn't record whether that still matches what it was approved to do.

A program gets stood up. Parameters get defined. Approvals come through based on those parameters.

Then the program runs for six months and the actual operation quietly becomes something different.

Different corridors, different altitudes, different response protocols than what the original framework described.

Nobody flags it because the flights are going fine, until they're not.

An incident triggers a review. The UTM records show one picture. The flight logs show another.

The gap between them isn't a systems failure. It's a documentation failure that built up while everyone was focused on keeping the program moving.

UTM infrastructure is only as useful as the operational intent behind it. If that intent drifts and nobody captures the delta, the system becomes a record of what the program was supposed to be, not what it actually became.

That gap is where accountability goes when something goes wrong.

06/29/2026

The cuts that hurt the most in a defense program aren't always obvious when they're made.

Documentation. Training content. Knowledge capture. The record of how the program actually ran.

None of it touches hardware. On a spreadsheet, it looks like overhead, and overhead is the easiest thing to cut when a program hits budget pressure.

But that documentation is the record of how things actually worked. Who made which call. What the workaround was after the third test failure. How the integration sequence changed and why.

When the program restarts, that knowledge doesn't come back. The people who held it moved on. The new team spends months rebuilding what the previous team had already figured out.

That's not a documentation problem. That's a cost that shows up in the next program review with no clean explanation.

The cut that looked like savings becomes the most expensive decision in the restart.

Shoes off at the door. Socks on marble. Camera on shoulder.That's how the first temple shot happened on this project.We ...
06/25/2026

Shoes off at the door. Socks on marble. Camera on shoulder.

That's how the first temple shot happened on this project.

We were in Phuket producing content for a tourism operator, temples, islands, speedboat runs, open markets. The kind of footage that markets itself.

The locations did their job. But every sequence kept ending on her.
That was a deliberate call.

When her clients leave reviews, they don't lead with the temples. They talk about her. Her presence, the way she treats people, the experience she creates.

She's the face of the business, and her customers single her out every time.

So we built everything around the operator. How she moves through a space. How guests respond to her. The moments that happen because of who she is, not where they are.

There's a version of this project that leans into scenery and produces something visually clean and forgettable. Most tourism content does exactly that.

When the thing that sets a business apart is a person, the content has to find them first.

Full video here: https://youtu.be/poIP_Yverms?si=_IKKVCyxtqSmb99P

When a SmallSat anomaly happens on orbit, you're usually solving two problems at once.The first is the technical issue i...
06/24/2026

When a SmallSat anomaly happens on orbit, you're usually solving two problems at once.

The first is the technical issue itself. The second is figuring out why it was built the way it was.

Someone pulls the design files. Goes through integration records. Tries to reconstruct the logic behind a specific component decision. And at some point, somebody asks why that part was integrated that way, and nobody has a clean answer.

Not because the team was careless. Because the decision made sense at the time.

It was made quickly, by someone who understood the tradeoff in the moment, and a commercial SmallSat build doesn't naturally create space to capture that reasoning before moving on.

The satellite is 400 kilometers up. The context that built it is gone.
The design file shows what was built. It doesn't show what was weighed, what was rejected, or what the builder knew about that component that never made it into the record.

That's not a gap in the hardware. It's a gap in what was captured alongside it.

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