Reality Leaves a lot to the the Imagination
Organic Process Productions started life in 2005 -- telling stories and creating compelling and sustainable art and media projects.
Since 2005, OPP has produced award-winning documentaries, books, video projects, and multi-media events with artful insight.
In 2009, we began an active participation in our local farming community. What you see here is a mash-up of what we are good at and what we enjoy doing.
We operate in pursuit of a vision that learns from archaic traditions while fully embracing 21st Century digital existence. We believe a balance between both is integral to happiness.
GIDDY GOAT CHEESE HOLIDAY STORE
We have packaged up the Giddy Goat Cheese into some interesting gift packages for the holidays. 1) For individual gifts you can get a 2 oz. sampler of five flavors and 2) for a little extra, get an original piece of goat art in your package. Makes a great gift for the farm lover, cheese lover, art lover...well any lover.
3) We also have a special package to make Giddy Goat part of your holiday party - with a full size sampler including the new holiday flavor - Cranberry-Walnut Honey.
Check it out in the OPP Store.
Giddy Goat Cheese - Video and Upcoming Events
Video featuring the goats of Split Creek Farms and a peek inside the cheese making process. Part of the GiveGround.TV film series so check it out over there also. Many thanks to Rosebank Farms, Limehouse Produce and Evan @ Split Creek Farms for supporting Giddy Goat Cheese. We are still selling out at the Charleston Farmers Market and continue to expand production.See below the video for upcoming events.
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Giddy Goat Cheese from OPP on Vimeo.
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UPCOMING GIDDY GOAT CHEESE EVENTS:
What: The Winemakers Premiere
Where: Culinary Institute of Charleston
66 Columbus Street, Charleston, SC 29403
When: Thursday, Oct. 8 from 6-9pm
Details: Not open to the public but please, mark your calendars for this great new locally produced television show.
What: Nosh Mob
Where: Avondale Wine & Cheese
When: Saturday, Oct. 10 from 6-8pm
Details: Be a part of Charleston's food scene, sample locally made goat cheese by Farrah Hoffmire of Organic Process, support a locally-owned food and beverage business, free wine samples, special prices on wines by the glass, become a starred restaurant reviewer on the City Paper website, Win a $100 gift certificate to Al di La
What: Lowcountry Field Feast
Where: Walterboro, SC @ Keegan Filion Farms
When: Sunday, Oct. 11 from 3pm-Dark
Details: A farm field trip to benefit Lowcountry Local First. A family-style supper by Chef Mike Lata of FIG.
To Purchase Tickets: www.lowcountryfieldfeast.com
OPP Launches GiveGround.TV
OPP has launched our first local farming / new media mash up at GiveGround.TV. This site seeks to re-invent the relationship between products and marketing. Rather than marketing driving the media, the media is a philanthropic project that is supported every time you purchase OPP's Giddy Goat Cheese or join the Rosebank Farms CSA program. You can visit the site to read the mission, but basically we want to preserve and tell the stories of the people and places of the sea islands around Charleston.
We have put up the first Webisodes (including Oyster Man Mike and a new video produced for the Friends of the Kiawah River) and will be adding new OPP produced content monthly. We will be sponsoring a art + agriculture film fest this Winter (Feb 2010). Stay tuned for more information.
ETV Premiere - April 23rd - Tune In
We're excited and proud to announce that 2 OPP productions; Finding Pura Vida and Web of Water will premiere on ETV's Southern Lens this Earth Day, April 23, 2009 @ 10 PM - be sure to tune in! Both films will be aired in a one hour block along with interviews with Mitchell and myself. We are happy to represent, y'all! Please, tune in to some homegrown programming!
Rosebank Farms' CSA
Rosebank Farms' CSA from OPP on Vimeo.
Oyster Man Mike
Oyster Man Mike from OPP on Vimeo.
We are thrilled that Oyster Man Mike was invited to screen at Charleston International Film Festival. All Oyster Man Mike wanted from this was "a walk down the red carpet, a couple of cold ones, and a chance to shoot the shit with some good folk." Thanks Brian & Summer from CIFF for making Mike's dream come true! If you need some oysters (or clams) for your after parties, you know where to go!
This is the 3rd video in a series on farm life; we are calling "Give Ground". Stayed tuned for the next 2 videos:
- Dairy Goats & CheeseMaking
- Rosebank Farms' Community Supported Agriculture
Web of Water - Spring Media Tour
There is a lot of upcoming action on the Web of Water video. Farrah and I were interviewed last friday at ETV studios for an upcoming boradcast featuring the half hour documentary on April 23. And now a string of showings have been announced for Spring.
Ian Sanchez, naturalist and executive director of LEEP will screen the Web of Water documentary at Southeastern Wildlife Exposition on Feb. 14th (1:30 PM) and 15th (11:00 AM) at the Riveria Theatre.
Below is a schedule of other events planned this spring. We will update this post as more screenings are announced.
Announced events and screenings:
- March 3 in Upstate Sierra Club (time and location TBD)
- March 21 / 6:30pm Cultural Dance Show with James Island Community Education
7396 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, - March 24th and 25th 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Naturescope at Old Santee Canal Park
- April 18th /11:00 am to 3:00 pm Earthday at Park Circle
- May Showing (TBD) // Sierra Club 7pm Baruch Auditorium on Calhoun St.
Watch all the Web of Water webisodes
Pura Vida Fundraiser - Cali Style
In a great example of good vibes spreading, a group of female surfers in Hermosa beach found a copy of the Organic Process - Finding Pura Vida movie on Amazon.com, watched it and were inspired to contribute to the cause. Over the past few months they organized the Pura Vida No Pro Fashion Show Fundraiser which happened in Hermosa Beach, CA on November, 23rd.
Fearless PVNP Media Director, Tim McManus (now with PDA doing full time video business development) took the trip to Cali to participate in the festivities (and of course catch a few waves) and brought back some photos. The event raised several thousand dollars for the Casa De Suenos orphanage in San Jose, CR.
Thanks to everyone who was inspired by the film and took action.
BEN TIMPSON's Inside Nothing: Is Everything
From an upcoming biography on Ben and his art process:
"When classically trained painter Ben Timpson turned his artist's eye from large canvases to tiny bits of the natural world, his work entered a mysterious realm of fanciful, dark beauty. Flowers, insects, blood and bone – the eccentric materials Timpson collects find their way into miniature compositions he assembles into slides in painstaking marathons at his light table. These haunting and whimsical photographs, published for the first time in "End of the Roll: Goodnight 35mm," capture a style that trades traditional notions of painting and collage for an evocative visual alchemy. The result is a gallery of alarmingly original images, and the publishing debut of a remarkable young artist."
(Rough Cut) Inside Nothing from OPP on Vimeo.
POSTED BY MITCHELL: I discovered Ben Timpson's art when I was at BookSurge. I was walking through the production facility one day looking at some of the books we were printing and his book "End of the Roll" literally stopped me in my tracks. He later came and signed books at the BookSurge booth at an American Library Association conference in Chicago. We had dinner and developed a friendship. He is one of the truest and most unique artists I have ever encountered and OPP is proud to be bringing his work to a larger audience.
Ben has recently released his second book titled "Inside Nothing: Is Everything" that at 174 pages shows his more recent works and will include a DVD. Above is Farrah's rough cut of a clip from that video showing the process behind the art. The book is currently only available directly from us so contact us if you are interested in getting a copy.
Ben's work is starting to pop up around Charleston and his first large scale installation/projection project is being set up for this Winter. Please also look for him at Kulture Klash III where his originals will be on view for the first time! The audience will be able to view the projections as well as the original slide under a 1940's slide viewer in 3-D (you can see it in the video). Interacting with Ben's media is a altering experience and we encourage everyone to take the plunge.
View Ben's Online Gallery on OPP
Visit Ben's website at www.goodnight35.com
SC Burned children's Fund
We finished the cause-marketing documentary short for SC Burned Children's Fund and Camp Can Do. It was great working with Jill Evans & Betsy McMillan from MUSC's Children's Burn Hospital! Hope the promo for Camp Can Do & the short cause-doc is put to good use. Thanks also to Dan Conover who worked the camera on the opening interviews with the teenagers. Thanks most of all to the children who were so very sweet & open.
SC Burned Children's Fund & Camp Can Do from OPP on Vimeo.