Finish line in sight

I feel like a slacker somewhat with these sporadic updates on the blog; I know successful blogs are supposed to get updated daily... Truth is maintaining all the social media aspects of this venture - even at this early stage - is like another full time job. As everyone knows; this entire effort is being put together without any financial backing. In every aspect this is really a blessing. If you're launching a concept that says (a) you can do anything & (b) the conventional way of doing things is so broken that a complete overhaul is necessary, then this is perfect. We're launching several real estate development projects in a time that most people will concede is the worst in 100 years for the real estate industry.

perfect.

The Roosevelt has been transformed with the application of the waterbased stain; it is starting to look like a real venue now.

We also secured two more sponsors for the next phase of the Roosevelt buildout - the construction of the green roof:

www.cpifoam.com

www.wdgsilicones.com

We did meet with Mr. Vengroff (see previous blog) at the earthship site and it was certainly an intersting & productive meeting. Suffice it to say we are doing due diligence on a project right now - details to be released in the near future. Affordable shipping container residential & commercial construction.

Bryan also just received a call from Michael Reynolds - the original earthship builder - about building a second one in Florida. That means we are dealing with the two pioneers on the ground up construction methods we are working on - Mr. Reynolds on earthships & David Cross on shipping container construction. The business models of all our efforts are unfolding.

Oh yeah - and the Campus TV destination site template is finished. I'm writing the copy for it now. Sunday I'll be spending all day looking at video footage from the past 5 months with the video editor to put together the first 5 episodes. The idea is to have the first 5 episodes summarize everything that has taken place so far & by the 6th one the show will continue in real time.

The Campus TV is finally about to launch.

Every step we take

The new concrete stain is getting delivered in the morning. It was going to cost $ 150 to UPS the product from Georgia for Saturday delivery...but a rep from the factory just happens to be driving down to take his kids to Busch Gardens. Stars lining up. Just spoke with this guy on the phone & he's 100% excited. That kind of enthousiasm is very contageous and encouraging.

Already another potential synergy is surfacing - they apparently are also working a stucco finish for metal surfaces. It is currently being tested on...a shipping container! We have been working on several affordable shipping container house designs with several architects in our network. There are also several deals in that line of business under discussion that will be catalyzed by the Roosevelt deal. Shipping container construction we are aiming to begin in the summer.

Shelby McIntyre, the producer of the Redner documentary, has hooked us up with a friend of his that is in the process of downloading all our existing footage (still). Finger Monkey Productions is on board!! It amounts to the equivalent of almost 30 CD's of material. We mapped out a release schedule for the first 5 episodes yesterday. The idea is to release these 5 and have the show pick up in real time by the 6th.

The next level of construction will be focusing on the roof.as we are finalizing everything on the soy based insulation. Looks like the tech specs that Bryan has for the way he wants to install it will work according to the factory guys. It is usually put inside of walls or celings. Bryan wants to put it on top of the roof as a basis for the green roof. This will have to be co-ordinated with a whole host of other activities like getting architectural elevations, structural engineering analysis, cutting skylight openings and renting a crane - just to name a few. This adds a level of complication as all these will have to be sponsored & synchronized accordingly. So far, every contribution has been a "one at a time" type of application.

Those are sponsorships to be persued next week.

Critical Mass

We just secured our biggest sponsor yet - Tampa Electric Company. This is a huge boost in terms of credibility & publicity. TECO has gotten quite alot of backlash from the 25% rate hike (which has since been rolled back as fuel costs have lowered). We will be working together with the utility & their net metering program as we plan to sell power back into the grid:

TECO.

We also secured a green (water based) acid stain company for that finish on our concrete floor we just can't wait to do...

SIMSTAIN.

A sponsorship agreement with a soy based insulation company is all but finalized & is expected to be announced this week coming up. We will be using this product on top of the roof as insulation & basis for our green (food producing) roof.

Lastly, we attended the world premiere of "Strip Club King - the Joe Redner story" last night @ Channelside. Joe has been a most gracious landlord / sponsor in this deal. For those that aren't aware; he is the owner of the Roosevelt building in Ybor. He told us he loves the weekly updates we send him & we love him for giving us the shot to begin with.

Premiere Pix.

Sponsor List grows!

We have our soft opening this upcoming Friday the 20th - the hosting of the Tampa Bay Pecha Kucha chapter. Our architect Ken is the person that established the local division of this global network of architects, urban planners, contractors and design professionals. Each presenter gets 20 slides to talk about their project; each slide moves automatically every 20 seconds. Keeps it fresh & dynamic.

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

Current list of Project 3.0 sponsors:

• Patented water saving device making it's world debut : Xinergy Video
  
  
• Green Concrete for our floor : Concrete Sponsor
  
  
• LED Lighting Company : Lighting Sponsor
  
  
• Solar Tubing for power generator : Solar Sponsor
  
  
• Solar Turbine technology consultant : Solar Consultant
  
  
• 16 by 8 foot custom mural : Carlos Pons Paz
  
  
• Local recycled furniture company.
  

• Plumbing supplies : Ferguson and Busto Plumbing
  
  
• Plumbing Installation : Plumber Joe - independent plumbing company.

Roosevelt Grand Opening in sight!

Once again - sorry about the long radio silence; everybody is running around doing 20 different tasks. It is my intent to update this blog daily as things get situated.

Our current focus is on having the Roosevelt completely open and functional by the third week in February. We already have our first event scheduled for February 20th - Pecha Kucha Tampa Bay. Pecha Kucha is a global network of architects and real estate design professionals. Each presenter gets 20 slides to showcase their project and each slide automatically moves every 20 seconds. This keeps it short, dynamic & interesting.

More info: www.pecha-kucha.org/

Our current focus is on attracting like-minded tenants to sublease the space from us. A leasing proposal can be downloaded here:

Roosevelt Leasing Proposal

Heavy Metal BBQ ROCKED!

Very happy to say that the event was a big smash. We managed to power all lights and sound with about half of a 6 gallon tank of used vegetable oil funneled through a diesel generator converted by Bryan.

Major thanks to everyone that showed up; we had a turnout of about 150 people. Huge props to O' Youth and Beauty that drove all the way from Dublin to perform. After their set the local Tampa boys of Sins of the Father knocked out an impromptu set of their classic shredder style metal. DJ Kaos & DJ Nemesis spun some heavy molten metal ear candy!

Support these fine artists; add them if you haven't already and together we march on:

www.myspace.com/oyouthandbeauty

www.myspace.com/sinsofthefather

www.myspace.com/dj_kaos55

www.myspace.com/fusionproductions

We have an enrormous amount of content from this event; 6 cameras were rolling at all times. We are just now starting to catch up with all the other footage that we have; an ongoing documentary of the evolution of Project 3.0 has been filmed on an ongoing basis for the past year.

Content from the Heavy Metal BBQ will be edited for the Campus TV show "On a Heavier Note" in which we will broadcast empowering information about the sustainable lifestyle with a fist full of metal punch. We are all about uniting the extremes and doing things in a fun unconventional yet effective way.

Many great contacts were also made at the event, notably the web techies now seem to be coming to the table. Stay tuned and hopefully all our efforts will be online in TV broadcast format soon.

This will only be the beginning we've been working towards.

Event pictures:

• The Campus TV MySpace Pictures

• The Campus TV Facebook Pictures

• The Campus TV Flickr Pictures
  

If you have pix of the event, please feel free to add them to the Facebook & Flickr pages. The Flickr just got set up so at the time of this writing there's not much up there yet. We are building our presence on the existing web social networking infrastructure now. Everyone is wearing 5 hats and doing this under enormous pressures of all kinds imaginable.

Web techies wherefore art thou!?

Closer

Project 3.0 rolls on with the renovation of the Roosevelt!

We picked up the temporary walls from a previous art show to frame up the bathrooms with. We have the dividing wall in between the male and female bathrooms framed up - so now everything is ready for plumbing; which we will knock out tomorrow. Thanks to Isaiah & Craig for helping out today.

We have one custom made concrete sink (6 feet) already cast. We have a diesel generator that we converted to run on used vegetable oil to power the Heavy Metal BBQ; we also have the used oil from 2 local busineses.

The plan here is to do whatever we need to have functioning bathrooms for the Heavy Metal BBQ on January 1st. During the month of January 09 we are planning to finish the bathrooms with custom cast concrete sinks, custom LED light display and of course permanent walls. A host of other bells & whistles are in store for that buildout.

We are aiming to demonstrate a slice of what the total buildout will look like by knocking out the bathrooms full tilt.

Onwards towards Heavy Metal BBQ!

The Project 3.0 team is holding the first event at the Roosevelt - Heavy Metal BBQ featuring all healthy and organic food. The Meditteranean tapas restaurant the Nest - currently under construction next door - has generously agreed to provide a sample of their wares. Beer will be available courtesy of the Project 3.0 crew in addition to Bryan Roberts' AWARD WINNING chili!

The Heavy Metal BBQ will be filmed for our upcoming show "On a Heavier Note". DJ Shard (Steve Francois with Tek-Nique Entertainment) and DJ Rudeboy (Rudy Arnauts of Zenlofts & the Campus TV) knocked out a great guest DJ set on WMNF 88.5 FM's metal show Psycho Realms last night.

Link here: http://wmnf.org/programs/play_archive/78?type=music.

Looks like DJ Rudeboy will be a regular spinning the Vntage Vinyl at least once a month from now on!

In the meantime we are racing against the clock to get functional bathrooms in the building for the event. We just put down the new concrete overlay for the bathroom floors over the past two days. The concrete mix was supplemented by a fly ash aggregate which reduces the overall amount of concrete used. The material was kindly contributed by Seperation Technologies:

http://www.stiash.com/pdfs/2007_June%2021_TECO%20Next%20Gen.pdf

We also picked up our plumbing permit from the building department - the Friendly Plumber is coming over in the am!

Introduction.

Project 3.0 is a Tampa Florida based collaborative of talents uniting toward a new business paradigm. That paradigm can best be described as an open source collaborative that utilizes web 2.0 technology to advance it's objectives through the execution of offline projects.

You can download an intro package on the core team here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?5fuql2ymdom

The free residential retrofit discussed in the package will launch in 2009 once the site infrastructure is in place.


One of the central themes of our webcast wil be the conversion of the old Tampa Brew Co. building to a zero energy use. Progress will be documented in weekly episodes & will be packaged in an entertaining wrapper.


Here is our latest press coverage on the project:

http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories/project-30-a-new-standard-for-environmental-community-development

http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/environmental_group_project_3_0_greens_ybor_city/Content?oid=567520.


This is our other project; the first Earthship to be build in Florida:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jul/20/couples-home-will-be-down-earth/

This article made the front page of the Tampa Tribune and was also featured 8 times that week on Fox 13 news. It was the most watched story that week.

Here is Bryan on that newscast:

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=48197F8D6074D8C635E2B0D978784AC2?contentId=7542006&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

The idea here is that our original content serves as a catalyst to attract like-minded participation.


If you have any idea or input that will improve / accelerate what we are doing you are encouraged to step forward and join our team.