Hi all,
It turns out that I'm going camping tonight instead of this weekend. Who would have thought (since I'm without a job, I work around the lady's days off).
Anyhow, here is the conceptual framework for the video that I came up with today based off of Chris, Sam and my statements of fact about letter writing:
I. Letter writing has historically been a tool people have used in America to communicate with their elected representatives and others in power.
II. Communication between elected leaders and their constituency is essential for democracy.
A. There could be a whole shitload of subcategories to this: take your pick
III. News provides information to people about the world in which they live, but what are people supposed to do with that information? How do they use it?
IV. People can write letters to leaders using the information they learn from the news.
V. Letters are good because they're personal, a historically approved of thing (see I), and they're cheap (I was going to put that they're easy, but I don't think that's a very good selling point).
VI. The Internet makes it easy to both receive information and "send letters" to leaders all in one place, possibly all in one site using one application...
So yeah, it's rough and not visualized (that's the next step, right?), but that's what I've got. Since I'm going camping I wouldn't be able to meet tomorrow until evening-ish, but I could meet on Wednesday or you could meet without me. I care not.
In other news, were any of you at the Yello Sub closing party last night? I was there until about 12:30, and things were getting hairy (people throwing chairs through walls, etc.), and then this morning they found a body there. Crazy shit.