A quick state of beartaria address. So much going on I wanna make sure that I do a better job at communicating.

Piano students! I’m very impressed with the growth and enjoyment people have in the group. We not have 22 lessons ranging from simple finger exercises to the emotional mechanics of writing movie soundtracks. My goal is to do more live interaction with you on a private stream. This app is great for that but downloading the videos after is an issue and not all the students are on here and I don’t want to deprive people of content who sign up. We are working on solutions. Tech-wise we have been focusing more on ladle and the festival donor portal and ticketing technologies but once things settle down I will put more resources and time into piano streaming ability.
My goal for the lessons as well as my ladle exclusives and live streams is always the material and the content. Then the community building which is an amazing engine of its own that grows in ways I couldn’t have thought of. I love seeing the students posting videos and having discussions in the private piano group. That encouragement and curiosity you give each other is crucial. I only use videos you email me never the ones in the group for the lessons.
Also I have decided to limit the lessons I show the public to the two I have. This limits promotion and out reach but I want to keep them private for just the group. I love what we are doing and am excited to see here it goes.
The challenge I face is how much do I just write the lessons and how much do I look to you and what you want to learn. Both are important and I feel good about the balance we are learning together.
Ladle.tv is doing great and I’m so glad I have a team that can fix and improve things as we go the bottom up coding and server security. Enough of you have signed up where I’ve been able to make improvements, develop better support communication for you, and make it look awesome. It’s a work in progress and it’s a completely private unfunded endeavor so our pace isn’t as fast as the big boys but our foundation is stronger.
The festival is approaching so I will be more engaged with the actual planning of events and infrastructure of it. Because I’m not doing a special there will be less people but so far the turnout looks incredible. We can do more fun activities, talent show, workshops, and fire hangs. And I don’t have to pace around with a weird look on my face trying to remember a joke about a butterfly.
I’m working on a better system of delegation of tasks. Since I can’t provide an HR department and a 401k and things change in beartaria very quickly, it has to be decentralized and there will always be a huge amount of spontaneity and “just role with it.” But at the same time I need to provide tasks and leadership in order to make things happen. It’s a balance.
The ticket revenue goes to the fundamentals that allow the flow necessary. Like police security, first aid, tents, bathrooms, and people to check everyone in etc. Everything else is basically whatever we want it to be and are willing to make.
Nameless bear is doing a great job organizing and taking lead on the sporting events. Cactus eater and bunny are crushing Beartaria’s got talent. Board game, Permie, and Ccow are crushing logistics, vendors, tech.
I will be there a week early to work on stuff. So if anyone has ideas, time, resources, experience in anything that could make this festival better comment here or email me at [email protected]
I will do my best in any way I can but a lot of this is gonna have to be regional dukes that can strategize and command projects. We will all
Work together and crush it.
So that’s what’s going on. Happy 4th everyone
Courses.owenbenjamin.com for the piano community
Ladle.tv for the streams and exclusives going all the way back to episode 1
Beartariacampgrounds.com to become a donor and find out about ticketing information.

We are also thinking about doing more festivals. Maybe October or the spring.

Once we can get a little infrastructure and finish buying the land (almost there) we can do festivals a lot cheaper and easier brought the year. We just need resources and a willingness to put in the effort which I now we have.
Onward!

Freddy loves America

The best comedy film ever made is 121 years old. Fact

My mom just did another book review on the app. Less than 100 spots left and then no one can sign up unless someone leaves. I’m capping it at 10k for management reasons. So if you want to be on the beartaria times social app it’s 15 bucks for the year. No politics no vulgarity, just awesome people sharing awesome stuff. App.beartariatimes.com

This is a brilliant joke. I knew Patrick in LA and he was always one of the best joke writers.
But I’ll take this joke where some may find uncomfortable, but we are all thinking. Statistically, it’s pretty obvious that Adam, Eve, and Cain were ni*gers. Abel had just got his electrician license and didn’t want to do dirt like his ni*ger brother.
Eve wanted free shit and Adam couldn’t say no cuz she had caught him with a side bitch. This is why I think there is an argument that the whites come from the angels. Cuz Adam and Eve were obviously hood rats. And calling us “fallen” angels is just a hater move. It was the original “white privilege.”

630 pm pst tonight