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We said it before, and we’ll say it again: We are soliciting your feedback here. Your comments are welcome, your constructive criticism valued.

I don’t know why the google video version we uploaded looked so crummy. Took it down. Probably should go through a different encode to optimize the file for them. We’re not sure how important that is just yet, and are hoping Vimeo will get their act together.

At least now they seem to have some acknowledgement that the thing’s busted. Wish us luck. Crummy timing for Vimeo’s service to go down, but it is a free service, so we’re mostly not getting too pissy about it.

In the professional opinion of Vimeo, the hosts of our recently cut trailer, it no longer exists. 

And I’m like, “Awesome!” It is a free service after all. Wonder how this will shake out. We’re uploading a version to google video here that I hope will be posted shortly.

For some reason, Vimeo.com seems to be down, site-wide, as far as I can tell. This means that the video embedded in the post below probably won’t work for you. Which is a shame. I’ll try to get to the bottom of this.

It has been two weeks and it is feeling that finally we are really, actually home. The first week was like being underwater– words came out of my mouth, but I didn’t really expect them to reach people’s ears, so I didn’t, couldn’t really spend too much energy on being coherent. The afternoons were spent battling the urge to curl into bed and stay there. 

Then after that, came the week of editing the trailer–a different kind of blur. The kind where we didn’t collect our mail and ate off the same pizza for breakfast and dinner. After three long days including two very late nights, we finished it and are continuing to finish it. It is difficult not to pick at–like a scab or zit–no, it is more like a painting on the wall that never looks straight, so you keep gently adjusting its placing and then move back to take a look at it again. 

However, it is time for the trailer to stop being babied by us and for it to leave the nest for the real world. We would like to invite all of you to give us feedback. We would like this trailer to continue to change and get better and better. We need ya’lls comments to do that.

We need to look at it with some new eyeballs. YOUR EYEBALLS. What do you see? Hear? Feel? When you watch this thing? Let us know. 

Three: Stories From The Struggle For Girls’ Education from NonFiction Media on Vimeo. 

A note on Vimeo viewing: If you have a fast computer, you can expand the screen by clicking on the little four-outward-pointing-arrows glyph on the lower right of the viewer window. Make sure HD is on and scaling is off. Also, probably best to let the whole thing load in first (hit ‘pause’ if needed). This will give you the best viewing experience (we’re still experimenting with the best way to output stuff for internet viewing).