I just wanted to share with you all that filming has begun on on the Sundance Channel’s feature of Buffalo ReUse disassembling our largest house to-date. Obviously we’re excited, but we can’t divulge where we are just now because it’s quite a lot to orchestrate.

This home was also surprising full of personal property–like cologne, clothing, photos, spare change, coffee mug collections, baby items and medications. It is as if the owners left last night! like an abduction!–except that vandals already accessed the home and broke most of the windows and tossed all the contents of the dressers and cabinets. We spent most of yesterday just clearing out “junk.”

The film crew wired up Michael, Kevin and David (our consultant) for sound so that viewers can hear the directions to the crew–so many things compete with their voices: the forklift, the generator, the saws all . . . Jon’s stomach grumbling. We had to do a couple things over so the cameras could catch it, but it’s sorta fun. We don’t know when it will aire, but we’ll post it when we find out. Maybe we’ll even have a screening party–does anybody have a big living room?

We’ll invite you to come out on Mon&Tues if you want to assist with the hybrid deconstruction or processing materials. Tomorrow, the filmcrew will focus on the warehouse and the life of the materials we capture. Yes, we still need extras! Just show up–see the previous post below for more details. The goal is to visually demonstrate how careful evaluation of discarded materials can be revived or transformed into something useful again–instead of being buried in our landfills.
–c