Search for Joy: Kenya

My apologies go to any of you awesome supporters of the one love, every time I want to write something I am far from a computer and when I am near a computer I am far from idle.

For the very few that know who I am, I make the Really Real Shows for Family Force 5, and I am mostly known as 'Tub-O'. If you know that much you may have already heard that I have decided to move on from touring with bands and start doing some world touring.

I think the 'One Love' is a very appropriate site to announce this because of the sites mission and purpose. 

I left the band [and most of the music industry] to take on the film industry. 

For over two years now I have been hoping to make Comedy Documentaries on poverty, showing that you don't need money to laugh and that there certainly is, Joy in the midst of poverty.

Angelina Jolie said that she used to cut herself and wallow in depression until she saw how people lived and loved with nothing. She then saw that if you have everything but lack Joy, it's meaningless. Since then she has never intentionally hurt herself. 

I think sometimes us Americans have been lied to, we have saw nothing but commercials with children with bloated stomachs, tears in their eyes and flies around them and began to think "the only difference between them and myself is money, so money must buy happiness". 

Though there are loads of things in this world that cannot [nor should not] be ignored, like starvation, disease, famine and sex slavery to say a few, we shouldn't ignore the fact that people in other countries do not and cannot hide behind their money. They face problems head on, they are forced into community, they depend and love each other. 

These sides of poverty and dependancy are sides that I would like to show in my series, "Search for Joy". I want to show that though there are hard times, I am not denying that, they is also joy.

Another thing I would like to show is that there is joy in serving. I've grown up thinking that if I was called to be a missionary overseas it's all malaria and suffering, but loving others is where we find that joy. 

I recently returned from Kenya, Africa to film the first of hopefully many, "Search for Joy" and I am very excited to start editing because I think there are some very hilarious things from me helping them cook goat to playing soccer in a feces infested field. 

I will certainly be excited to keep you updated on everything. I hope to tour it soon as well.

thanks for all your love and support. It means a lot.

your friend,

-Isaac