As you’ve have seen on the site or Twitter, for the past year I’ve been working on a documentary on high school combat robots called Bots High.

The national championship is approaching, where the teams I’ve been following will battle it out to see if their robot is the battling king of the nation for the climax of the film.

I started a Kickstarter campaign to fund filming this championship with multi-cameras, and also to finish the film.

View the Bots High Kickstarter Project.

I’m in the last few weeks of the project funding, and I’m determined to reach the goal, so I have an offer for you. Pledge $25 or more, and I’ll send you a link to a digital download of You 2.0 with all the interviews. That’s the $10 version, plus access to all future interviews.

Just forward your backer email to lifehackdoc@gmail.com and I’ll send you the link. You don’t even have to wait for the project to end.

Please tell your friends, fans, and followers about this deal, since it’s only good as long as the project is active.

This post is about an idea I’ve had for a while, but I’m fast tracking it to try to get it out this week.

I’m sifting through the transcripts from most of the interviews I did to compile them into an eBook, which I’ll be releasing for free.

Now don’t feel like this renders the videos useless. Some stuff that’s in the book is in the videos, some stuff is in the book and not in the videos, and some is in the videos but not in the book.

Plus the written word does not do justice to the way some of the writers deliver their message (Merlin Mann comes to mind).

So stay tuned to find out how you can get it when it comes out. If you want to purchase an ad in the book, contact me. I’m trying to fund my next documentary.

Check out the order page to get the documentary and over 1 and a half hours of interviews for only $9.99. Plus, when you purchase this option, you’ll get all future interviews at no extra cost!

If you just want one interview in particular, you can also purchase each interview on its own for only $1.99 each.

It’s been a long time coming, but it finally happened. Download your copy here!

Because You 2.0 is made of about 30+ videos, it’s not an easy ‘find the best export option and throw it online.’ My original plan was to put a close duplicate of the DVD design online. Encore, which I used to author the DVD, has an export option to create an exact version the DVD, menus, videos, and all, in a Flash movie.

I thought this would be easy and the best solution (so I could maintaing the options of watching the interviews by interviewee or subject and the play all playlist) but for whatever reason WordPress does not like to display this. I’ve tried a million different plug-ins and code and nothing.

So I could export each video as an individual Flash movie, but then I lose the option to play all.

I know Flash is very powerful and there’s ways to make what I want (like playlists) but I don’t know Flash, ActionScript, or XML that well. If someone out there does and wants to help out, I’ll give you a big fat link and logo for you in the sidebar.

So anyways, what I’m thinking now is I’ll export everything as Quicktimes and play it that way. This does have an advantage that I like, which is I’m a big fan of if you buy media, you should be able to watch it anywhere, anytime, on any device. So publishing in Quicktime would allow you to put the file on your iPod or iPhone, or convert it to something else for your device.

Hopefully this won’t kill the servers, but we’ll deal with that if we reach that point.

So please bear with me. Like I said, it’s 30+ movies so I have to re-export them all and build a page for each of them, and do a whole link web.

I’m starting a 1 for 100 contest. For every 100 new Twitter followers or Facebook Fans, I’ll pick 1 from the bunch and send them a free copy of the DVD, anywhere in the world.

The selection pool is out of the total followers for each service, not just the new followers, so spread the word around (retweet, post to your profile, etc.) and get more chances to score a copy.

Here are the three different pages (you can join all three):

Twitter – C47

Here’s a post you can retweet

600 – mrviet90

500 – hugepediafan

400 – shiprachauhan

300 – yellochick

200 – PhaontomLessons

100 – Michiels

Facebook – You 2.0 Page

Facebook – Coffee and Celluloid Page

Some details:

• As far as contacting goes for notification, for Twitter I will direct message you on the first day and again three days later. If I don’t hear anything by the fifth day, a new winner will be selected. For Facebook, same deal but via Facebook Messages. So make sure you get notified of these types of messages.
• Twitter accounts that are auto-following me back and have no hope of making contact with (ex: BarackObama) don’t count.
• I’ll keep doing this as long as I can, but just to set a date, after July 4, 2010, the contest will continue at my discretion.
• If you’re already following or are a fan, thanks, you’re already in the pool. I’ll be back awarding for the current numbers I have.
• If you win from any of the three services, that’s it, you can’t win anymore. However, if you already purchased a copy, you can still win another one (and then that’s it).
• This post will be updated with the winners.

Or you can skip the suspense and order a copy today!

The DVD has a pod like design. You 2.0 is a short film, to keep things moving and interesting and not waste your time. It’s designed to be something you can show to someone who knows nothing about life hacking, GTD, or any other weird terminology and they’ll finally get it. And if you already know all about that stuff, you’ll still get something out of it.

The rest of the DVD is extended interviews with both people in the film and not in the film. It’s cut down into individual pods on different topics by each speaker. And the cool thing is you can sort the pods by speaker or category.

So say you watch the film, and then you want to know more about GTD. Well you can go to David Allen’s interview and get much more in depth. Or you want to know more about the science and studies done on how we work. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics, has you covered.

Here’s a DVD outline:

• You 2.0 – A Documentary on Life Hacking
• Commentary Track
• David Allen – Getting Things Done
  • On Getting Things Done
  • 5 Stages of GTD
  • GTD is not about GTD
  • David Practicing GTD
  • On Stress
  • Image of a Hard Worker
• Tim Ferriss – The 4 Hour Work Week
  • Information Overload and Selective Ignorance
  • The 80/20 Rule
  • New Rich
  • Productivity
  • Low Information Diet
• HackCollege – HackCollege.com
  • College and Life Hacking
  • Life Hacking in the Bedroom
  • Creativity and Life Hacking
  • Ethics of Life Hacking
• Merlin Mann – 43 Folders
  • The Attraction of Life Hacks
  • The Original Life Hacker
  • Work Culture
  • Creativity
• Gloria Mark – Professor of Informatics
  • Problems for Modern Workers
  • 21st Century Worker
  • Technology
  • Self Interruptions and Distractions
  • Stress and Work
  • Work Styles
  • Consuming Media
  • Communication Chains
  • Invisible Work
  • Email and Random Reinforcement
• Gina Trapani – Founding Editor of Lifehacker.com
  • Gina’s History with Life Hacking
  • Image of a Productive Worker
  • Purpose of Life Hacking
  • Systems and Creativity
  • Pen and Paper
  • The Modern Worker
  • The End Goal
• Ramit Sethi – I Will Teach You to be Rich
  • Life Hacking Money
  • Conscious Spending
  • ‘A La Carte’ Hack
  • Optimized Email

The clips above are sorted as you see them by speaker, with the option to play all or individually. You can also sort them by topic:

• Creativity
• 21st Century Work
• Productivity
• Life Hacks
• Everything Else

Everything you see above comes out to a total run time of about 2 hours, and sadly that’s how much you can cram onto a DVD. So with every purchase of the DVD, you’ll also get online access to even more interviews, including Danny O’Brien, new start-ups from TechCrunch50, and more podcasts.

Sound good? Cool!

Order you copy now!

I’ll also be posting a new podcast episode later on the week featuring Biz Stone, one of the co-creators of Twitter.

Hurry up and pre-order your DVD for less than $10. Once all the DVDs are manufactured that price will be history.

Man, I need to see this lifehacking film to get everything in order. Well I’m back (I was in Israel for 11 days) and going full throttle at You 2.0.

Other projects on my plate include the previous mentioned film UnderCover that I’m producing, some photo projects, and, you know, start my life and filmmaking career.

To make up for our long absence, and celebrate the historic day Tuesday will be, I’ll be releasing a very exciting podcast episode. Think of it as an inside look into David Allen’s world.

That’s all. Tuesday. January 20th. Obama and GTD.

I’m still alive. Sorry for the cobwebs growing here – I haven’t forgotten about the film!

About a month ago a friend of mine received a grant to make a short film and asked me to produce. This is the largest production I’ve worked on and a great opportunity, so I accepted, which in turn pushed the editing for You 2.0 back a few months to early next year.

I’m writing about the complete process of making the movie, which you can follow at my main blog Coffee and Celluloid. The anchor post for the series can be found here.

I hope you’ll join me and learn about the making of fictional films. Normalcy and new podcasts will resume here soon!