"Vinny Pinto Public Page" Now Online at Facebook

Hi folks:

I did something today that I had imagined that I would never do.... I broke down this morning and created a "fan page", called the "Vinny Pinto Public Page", at Facebook.

I did it because the volume of Facebook Friend requests that I was receiving on my personal Facebook account from total strangers -- who perhaps had read and enjoyed some of my websites, articles, or books, or who belong (but never post) to one of my list groups -- had grown to 4 or more requests per day, and I had  been rejecting almost all of those requests because I did not really know these people. However, I finally realized that I did not wish to abandon these folks, and rather, that I wished to offer them some way of connecting with me on Facebook, and so I created the "fan page", which I prefer to call my "public page". The page may be found at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vinny-Pinto-Public-Page/284608972816/

Enjoy!

with care,
--Vinny

News: Official Premiere of Peter's Sungazing Film "Eat the Sun"

Hi folks:

Here, for now, is just a brief announcement of the official premiere of Peter Sorcher's sungazing documentary film, entitled "Eat the Sun", and I am sure that it will be followed up at a later date with further posts offering more information.

As you may remember, there was an unofficial premier of an early cut of the film a couple of months ago at a small arts film festival in Seattle, WA. Filmmaker Peter Sorcher has recently advised me that all editing for the final release version of the film will be completed within the next 30 days or so, and that the film will make its official premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival in California (USA) in October 2009; the film festival runs from Oct 8 thru Oct 18, 2009.

The film contains lots of footage of a number of well-known sungazers, including myself. Peter and his film crew spent a day here several years ago filming me sungazing and talking about sungazing. The film should be fun...!

Enjoy!

with care,
--Vinny

Announcing Pre-Release Viewing of Peter Sorcher's Sungazing Film, Seattle, June 7, 2009

I have just heard from Peter Sorcher of Peter Sorcher Films that his film on sungazing, entitled "Eat the Sun", and which features some footage of me talking about sungazing, will be showing, in a rough "work in progress" form, at a Seattle film festival in June. Here are the details:

There will be a "work in progress" (very fine rough cut) showing of the "Eat the Sun" film at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival on June 7th at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle at 7:20pm with Q and A to follow. I have been informed that I have been highlighted in my own section of the film.

Here's the link for Seattle tickets:
http://stiff.bside.com/2009/films/eatthesun_stiff2009

I will keep you informed of any further showings of this film in its rough pre-release form, and also of its final release and disposition, as time passes!

Enjoy!

with care,
--Vinny