Thank you to Jeanne Koploy, one of our BIGGEST sponsors!  We greatly appreciate all the support you’ve given to our film and we were so glad to meet you at National’s this summer!  We hope you enjoy Dimitri’s amazing musical talents:

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I love this!  Link to Website

This may or may not be done by a 5 year old, but it is still fantastic.  Link to Website

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Saanens love bubble gum.  Link to Website

And ice cream, apparently.  Link to Website

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Beautiful!  Link to Website

P.S. If you were wondering about the phrase “Get Your Goat,” i.e. to be angry, here’s some info on the possible etymology of the saying: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-your-goat.html  “A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase’s origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne’er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they ‘got someone’s goat’, the horse became unsettled and ran badly.”

This past week the “Goats Yelling Like Humans Supercut” seems to have taken the internet by storm, with over 4 million hits.  All my friends keep emailing it to me because I’m the “goat person” … but no one seems to realize that at least six of these “goats” are actually sheep!  Including the main thumbnail photo!  What a shame.  This is just another reason that Goat Show Doc is important – because so many people don’t actually have a clue what a goat looks like.  No wonder goats get such a bad rap if they’re mistaken for sheep all the time.

It’s been almost a year now since our Kickstarter launched, so it’s time to start properly thanking our biggest donors!  And what a better day to start than Valentine’s Day!  For the next several weeks, we will be releasing our donor thank you videos.  They’re short and silly, but made with love.  We hope you like them.

So, thank you Marci Miles!  We hope you like this video, starring Puff the Goat and Julian Broudy.

157 hours
9,420 minutes
565,200 seconds
13,564,800 frames

How do you measure, measure a documentary?  In goat kids? In saanens? In Larsons? In cups of coffee? In ribbons, in milk, in vet checks, in chevre?

Over the last eight months, Trevor, Julian, Peter and I have been working tirelessly to sift through all the video and audio footage we have, syncing it, transcribing it and logging it.  On Monday we reached an amazing milestone: We have now have logged all of the footage in FileMaker, which amounts to 7,546 unique entries.  The next step is assembling everything into a rough cut, so we can screen it for our friends, get feedback, and make a fine cut.  Then there’s sound mixing, color correction, post effects, and if we can raise money for it, some animations.

The moral of the story is that editing a documentary is no simple task.  We have already spent countless hours in post-production and there are thousands to come, but we are all confident that it will be an AWESOME documentary in the end.  The footage looks great!

157 hours of video footage doesn’t seem like a lot, but to give you an idea of the scope, here are some things you could do in the same amount of time:

- If you drove At 60 mph, you could travel from Paris  to Beijing AND BACK.

- You could watch every NFL Superbowl for the last 35 years.

- You could bake 10,276 Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies (assuming you already have 101 pounds of flour, 85 pounds of butter, 120 pounds of sugar, 342 eggs, 170 bags of Chocolate Chips and 1 quart of vanilla extract at hand).

- You could watch 11.5 seasons of Saturday Night Live.

- You could walk from San Diego to San Francisco on foot.

- You could listen to all 7 Harry Potter Books, 3 Hunger Games Books and 1/2 of the first Twilight book.

- You could watch all 202 episodes of The X Files, plus the two X Files movies AND still have an hour leftover.

- You could watch every episode of Seinfeld and every episode of Friends back-to-back

- You could listen to the entire Beatles discography 16 times.

- You could watch the Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King 36 times.

And, you could listen to the song Seasons of Love 3,305 times

It is with great sadness that I announce that one of the Goat Show Doc family has passed away.  Pinky Hawes (pictured above) passed away Friday night after complications with knee surgery.  Our condolences go to Jack and Pinky’s family.  Pinky’s story is truly amazing and her influence on the goat community will last for generations to come.  Thank you again to Jack and Pinky for appearing in our documentary.  We are so glad that we met with you when we did so that Pinky’s story would not go unheard.

If you are looking for more information on Pinky Hawes and Laurelwood Acres, here are links to two previous posts on this blog:

http://goatshowdoc.com/2012/05/10/remembering-laurelwood-acres/

http://goatshowdoc.com/2012/04/21/day-1-jack-and-pinky-hawes-of-ripon-ca/

Rest in Peace, Pinky!  Our blog is pink this week in your memory

UPDATE: Pinky’s funeral is Saturday 2/16 at 11am at the Ripon Church of Christ – 600 W. Milgeo Ave. Ripon, CA 95366.