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Today I released the Third Edition of Uncovering Oklahoma’s Date Guide! The biggest change with this edition is that the book expands further away from the Oklahoma City area and includes places like Tulsa, Medicine Park, and Pauls Valley. No matter what type of date you want to go out on, Uncovering Oklahoma’s Date Guide has it. Here’s a detailed list of what’s new:

• Updated cover design with logo, featuring the SkyDance Bridge in Oklahoma City, with thanks to Jeffrey Burleson and Susan Riley
  
• New Section: Tulsa with the Center of the Universe, Queenies, Gypsy Coffee House, First Friday Art Crawl, and the Oklahoma Aquarium
  
• New Section: Elsewhere (for places that don’t fit into one of the larger cities) with Medicine Park, Wichita Mountains, Magnetic Hill, Turner Falls, The Toy and Action Figure Museum, and Bedré Chocolate Factory
  
• New in the Oklahoma City section is Paseo District, t an urban teahouse, Castle Falls, and Kaiser’s
  
• Updated video links for OKC Improv to showcase them at their new home
  
• New in the Norman Section is LOCAL, Coriander Café, Syrup, and the Norman Wine Trail with Redbud Ridge, Canadian River, Native Spirits, and Redland Juice Company
  
• No businesses were removed in this edition!
  
• Updated and replaced pictures, quotes, links, etc. throughout the book

I hope you enjoy this new edition! I have amazing plans for the fourth edition to be released in January, including more places in Tulsa. I only managed to make one trip to Tulsa for this book. I have time scheduled to personally visit the First Friday Art Crawl in the Brady Arts District.

I’m just going to share this information on my personal blog: the fourth edition will be dramatically different as I will include a printed version. I’ve been doing researching into making this completely feasible. I already have a new page making program to produce it. I’ve decided to format the book in the standard 11×8 magazine size. I’m really exciting about 4.0.

The mock trailer for the action-spy movie with a library theme, FINAL CHECK-IN, is ready to be checked-out! Watch it above or here on YouTube.

Even though it was a short movie, we have the following blooper reel:

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Tonight we held the watch party for the movie and it’s bloopers. Lessa and I were still doing some last minute editing when people started to arrive at six, forcing guests to make conversations with each other. We were only behind about an hour so everyone took turns talking about their day/week in a dramatic story-telling fashion while enjoying pizza. Yum. We also watched some of the raw footage that didn’t make the final cut and afterwards went out for gelato. More yum.

From all of us involved in making this movie, we hope you enjoy it!

I created this one-man-production-team comedy video for an eyeglass shop for a contest. The final date for entires was on August 31, so I’m free to share it now. The winners should be announced soon. The top ten winners get $500 and a two-day trip to Dallas, Texas to be in a commercial. I feel pretty good about my chances. I’ve gotten lots of positive feedback and laughs. I just hope I make it to the top ten.

Yesterday was Day 2 of filming for the library action movie trailer. Well, technically Day 3 since the writer/producer, Lessa, solo shot a quick scene of herself falling from ropes in the style of Mission Impossible on Saturday, but I’ll count that as a B-Team day, so there. Day 2!

Today’s shooting involved the Foes of the Library and the CIRC team fighting, chasing, and killing each other. Of course, one of the villains was British and they were all dressed in black. Filming went from 3 to 7 p.m. at various locations done guerrilla style. Several of the shots we were like, “Hey, since we’re here, we should do this cool shot.”

One of the actors commented that was his one of the better shoots he’s been on and I have to agree. We were prepared (I got props for having a spare battery), collaborative, and fun. I realized (although I might’ve known this, but got it reinforced) that collaboration on a movie works best if there is a person in charge and they present a solid idea first and there is such a thing as too much collaboration. For example, instead of saying, “Here’s an elevator…?” say “I have this idea to incorporate the elevator where we do this.” The shooting process goes by faster too.

I’m going to edit all of the footage together this week and present a rough cut Sunday. From there, we’ll decide if we need any more footage, but everyone thinks we have enough. Lessa still needs to decide on a title for the movie. After it’s done, we’ll have a watch party and publish it online for everyone to watch.

From Lessa Keller-Kenton yesterday: “Huge thanks to everyone who donated their time, equipment and acting ability today for the trailer shoot today! You all ROCK!”