CELEBRATING 25 YEARS AS A FILMMAKER INTRODUCTION Hi. I’m Ken Sheetz. That’s me on the right with client Oprah Winfrey  and her president of the time Jeffery Jacobs. The photo opp commemorated the successful completion of the $28 million Harpo Studios project that my firm managed the development for on time and on budget. Welcome to my blog founded on a mind-blowing vision I had in Italy in 2010 of ETs building a force field around the earth. Wild I know. Please take this blog in the spirit of exploration of the human psyche in which it’s offered and not as literal fact. Heck, all of these vision could simply be my own overactive imagination, as my Irish grandmother warned me not to get too carried away by. Speaking of getting carried away, my meditations took me all the way to Antarctica in 2012 for the CoolestMeditationEver.  And it has taken me to Egypt, Mexico, DC and soon the Arctic to set intentions in the quantum field for a better tomorrow once again in 2022. That is if all goes as planned, which some happy times it manages to do. John Lennon’s words come to mind, “Life is what happens while you are busy making plans.” Raising funds for my film projects led to over $2 million raised in crowd funding for my social media practice BuzzBroz. And this in turn led to founding CoolestTechEver.com (CTE for short), with my wife and partner in all things Elizabeth England, to bring the very best of the conscious community’s thought leaders health boosting cool tools to the mainstream. I hope you’ll drop by and see some of the cool stuff we’ve curated over there for you. Look me up on IMDB sometime. It’s hard for even me to believe that this son of a blue-collar Milwaukee welder has been making movies now for over 25 years. All kinds of movies on all kinds of topics, from politics to the coolest tech and meditation ever. Over this creative quarter of a century, I’ve crafted 4 feature docs, thousands of short films with well over 30 million views on the web, as well as 2 successful theatrical runs. SALAD DAYS From 1979 to 2003 I was blessed by a highly profitable and prolific 24 year span of virtually unbroken success. But no successful person is an island. And I had several great mentors and two synergistic real estate brokerage stars, one male and one female, who I trained from pups, that turbo boosted my career. During these salad days, I completed over a billion dollars in transactions for dozens of giant corporations like AT&T and Chase Bank, while leasing 4 downtown skyscrapers. In 1987 I won the prestigious Chicago Sun-Times award as the Commercial Real Estate Broker of the Year. And in 1991 I again won the  Sun-Times award. This time as Rehab Developer of the Year for the $28 million Harpo Studios project for the great Oprah Winfrey. Add to this biz bliss, a marriage to a brilliant and beautiful college sweetheart from our home town of Milwaukee, two delightful kids, a new million dollar custom home in tony Lake forest, and a thriving real estate firm that I established in 1987, featuring the talents of some of the best real estate brokers that I recruited in the city. I branded my firm Oxford Realty after the college because, well, it sounded cool and prestigious. Everything was going so incredibly well for this first person in the Sheetz family to ever graduate college.   . Here’s my heart wrenching 2005 short that I single-handedly produced, wrote, scored, directed and catered. I even voice acted two of the characters. This 9/11 tragedy is about a puppy, played by my little baby Sophia, whose master goes missing in the World Trade Center. My mostly voice-cast, calling in on an answering machine, was headlined by multiple Golden Globe and Emmy winner Ed Asner.   Here’s the 35MM short film that my feature screenplay STEPS grew from.  Michael Wilmington, film critic for the Chicago Tribune, attended my screening and mentioned the  film in his column, about the growing market for short films, writing, “New film director Sheetz’s family drama STEPS, that takes place in real time aboard a moving train, is a compelling watch.” I produced a series from 1996 to 2012 when politics were gentle enough for kids. The first one aired as the lead-in to the presidential debates on PBS, followed by a hit Amazon DVD and YouTube series. Here’s a video straight from the 2008 web KID’S TALK POLITICS series that’s been seen by over 6 million people as a stand-alone across several platforms. Here’s my film about actors and the struggle to make it in Hollywood. DISCOVER ME!  Enjoy the whole film right here. Next up DESERT SILHOUETTES. In 2009 to cope with the 2008 recession that scared off a lot of my film investors I began a social media company called BuzzBroz.   A highlight of this time of artistic struggle came when I was granted not one but two paid filming invites. One from Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the best-seller THE FOUR AGREEMENTS to film him in Mexico and the other from Connie Miller, a disciple of the great John Bradshaw, to film her in dazzling Pulia Italy. And before I knew it, I’d forged cool new connections in the conscious community. Connections that led to my taking up meditation at the age of 57 to help me reduce the high blood pressure that I’d acquired along my rocky road from stressful real estate mogul to an even more stressful filmmaker’s life. I learned a cool thing. Deep meditation simply sets my mind, or any mind for that matter, free of conventional thought and formulaic storytelling. The key is to never take one’s visions LITERALLY, even that includes ETs. That is the stuff of conspiracy theories and idiocy. A N T A R C T I C A See and hear the movie which has played to raves in a limited theatrical run. Offered here in it’s entirety free of charge. MY PERFECT MATE The best part of my meditation work was meeting my wife to be Elizabeth in the New Age community. She partnered with me on my last two film and is an absolute genius story editor and prodcuer. Shet worked with me on film about Dr. Partick Flanagan who in the 1968 in LIFE MAGAZINE was featured as one of the most promising young scientists on earth. I filmed him on a green screen set that I built in his warehouse in Cottonwood Arizona, near Sedona, to make it more convenient to get him on set. It was still hard to do and it took six months even with that. And by that time I was living in Sedona. The Flanagan film tells the stories behind the coolest tech ever of this world-famed inventor. Here’s my film about the man Deepak Chopra calls “A gift to humanity,” Dr. Patrick Flanagan. Sadly, Pat passed in 2019. Throughout the elections my wife Elizabeth and I have been out there warning of the dangers of extreme right and extreme left politics. The past ten years have been difficult to stay in the middle because the divisions and between the parties run deep. Rhetoric has polarized America to an alarming degree.  So we’ve begun a series of Political Cool Down meditation, 8 so far, that are non-partisan.  Here’s the latest in the series. Enjoy. What’s next? With Elizabeth’s amazing help I am in the process of raising funds for a project that blissfully has nothing to do with politics called JELLYBEANS that’s a candy coated sex-positive antidote to these stressful times.