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Back in 1993, several FSU film students came into our shop, Sarasota Lock & Key, to ask us if we would allow them to do some filming in our shop for their final thesis project. We agreed to let them film on a Saturday when the shop was closed. Their class was separated into teams and each team was required to write an original story and screen play and hunt for filming sites, set up the filming locations with lights and sound equipment and food for the crew. Each member of the crew was required to work on every phase of the production including post production and editing.

They arrived at our shop at 7 a.m. in a huge truck and went to work setting up all their equipment and food and discussing how they were going to film each scene. It was fascinating watching them filming a scene from one angle and then doing it all over again from a different angle. That went on all day until 7 p.m. and the final editing netted about one and a half minutes of film showing our shop. That's a lot of work for one and a half minutes.

The plot of the film was very clever. The premise was that chaos has a pattern and in this case the pattern was that of a butterfly. The different problematic and chaotic events that happened around the state were tracked on a map with push pins and at the end the push pins formed a pattern in the shape of a butterfly.

As an interesting side note, at the 1994 Alamo American Film Competition's "Best in Florida" contest, "Chaos in Congerville" won first prize. Life was/is good.