Hello World Bike and Eileen,

This video is a great idea, and needs to happen, and be good.  i feel there is a race happening in the devoping world, a race to establish tasteful, simple, and human powered energy applications before industrialization and burnout, as we now know it, can take hold.  A video that demonstrates the power of the bicycle as a community tool should blow away videos of Africans getting electricity.  I have volunteered as a shop facilitator every tuesday night for over a year at Community Cycles www.communitycycles.org in Boulder Colorado and I have experience in filming and in editing backcountry ski videos.  I don't yet have final cut or other expensive editing software, but I know that I can use microsoft to rough cut footage, save it in DV-AVI format for further compilation in imovie or final cut.  Rough cut footage is much easier to work with and facilitates flow of creativity and agenda.  Send me a CD or DVD of the raw.   

I have never left the United States, and I am eager to know what life is like prior to industrialization.  I may be interested in traveling and bicycle touring to capture footage of nitty gritty cargo bicycle usage (Rwanda, etc.) if the opportunity arises.  It would take a little planning, as I have a full time job.  I am good at backcountry filming, and cycling and repair.  I have a mini Digitial Video camera and can do technical stuff, and have a nack for candid filming.  I could use help with management/organizational stuff: planning, scripting, interview needs and execution, etc.  

Cheers,  

Evan Mitchell find me via community cycles