Hello in a new 2026 !

That's a super calm, almost like a lake Baltic sea. I was on a short trip in Latvia. IT was super freezing there, temperature was between -10 and -15 degrees. But I have done quite a lot during 3 days.
1) I filmed Baltic Sea and some shoots for my documentary.
2) Did Interview at radio NABA (students Radio station)
3) Interview at Latvian Radio, which was live , and in a program about hunting and fishing :) Which I did knew before. But everything went very good.
4) Had an interview with Latvian larges news portal Delfi LV - there will be big article about activities which I do. It will be out this Sunday.
5) Was filmed by National Latvian TV Channel in a program "Vides Fakti". It's a series about nature, wildlife, ecology and conservation. Very good program, and I am super happy to be in, and that they filmed me for the next series.
6) Filmed some video for another Latvian TV show for kids.

Some other plans for January :
I am still waiting for permission to release video from Turkey with Dolphins. Hopefully this days.
I need to finish video from Madeira - this week
Work more on documentary.
Next week we are going to Sweden, to film Eric, for almost final episode of the Documentary.

+ I am applying for some grants. I hope to receive at least 1 tiny grant this year. otherwise it's getting harder and harder keep going.

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As some of you may know, at our last project in Hungary I felt down from the canoe :)
(It was my stupid fault - sorry Max :) ) Max was with me in it at that time.
We were all soak wet, but while falling I lost my tiny camera which was attached to my chest.
I couldn't find it anymore, so it stayed there in Hungary, ehh, more plastic in the water.

Anyway because of support on Patreon I was able to order a new one. It was actually first time I took money from Patreon account and I ordered a replacement camera. The good thing I lost only 1 half of the camera :) So I have to order only this part which is black in the picture. And the white one is camera controller from my original camera.

So it's arrived this week, I paid 250 euro just for that tiny black thingy - half of camera. But it's very essential for the videos I do, and i like how small and easy to attach it is (and easy to lost:))

Anyway without people donating and supporting Be Brave To Act, I wouldn't be able to replace this camera. So Thank you everyone!

September Updates :
It's been quiet I was editing feature documentary and now will start editing Albania project about sharks by-catch. Because of the bad weather all the time I had to cancel 2nd trip there.
Also Mara's back was injured so we have to stay at home, but now she is doing much better and recovering, so everything will be fine with her.

Next week we are going to Warsaw Poland, Mara will be doing vocal workshops there, and I will join some local clean up actions because next weekend is a World Clean Up Day! So all around the world millions of people are going out to clean the environment, you can also find some local clean ups in your area if you want. worldcleanupday.org/

Then week after we are going to Croatia I am trying to arrange a project there with cat sharks, we have to scuba dive to deep places and monitor shark eggs. But I am not sure if it's going to happen, but we are going to Croatia anyway, if not this project I will try to join some other.
That's the plan for September.

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August started quite busy. First of all I've been in France in town Chamonix, that's next to the Mont Blanc - highest peak in EU.

We were at the glacier to have interview with a scientist which study glaciers but also create music with the sounds of the glaciers. That's for the documentary of 101 project inspiration101.org/ I am filming now

To be on a glacier was quite depressive :( Every year it shrinks so much.

Right after France we went to Hungary, where we spent the whole week in an super intense but amazing event. Trash boat race :)We build boat out of trash and were sailing for 5 days on the Tisza river. petkupa.hu/hu_HU/

that's the boat we have build :)We struggle a lot, but at the end 15 teams collected 8.5tonnes of garbage. INSANE!The bad thing ,I was flipped over on a canoe, my phone, my main camera and my small camera like a go pro went underwater. Phone now don't really charge, I will have to have a new one, super fortunately my main camera is all good and working, it's just microphone have some problem, but hopefully I will get trough it. BUT my mini camera (like a gopro) drown underwater :( with all footage.... SO I will have to buy a new one.

At the end it was quite expensive trip because of the lost and damaged gear and phone. But no regrets, all was worth it. (that's just from 1 day)After Hungary I had to rush to Germany, was driving almost 900km to the charity event .Again that's for 101 documentary, I was filming Aaron who collects musical instruments and send them to kids in Africa.

All of these instruments were donated :

Now I ma finally home, but still have to do few more projects in AugustIt's already 3rd time where I need to visit a project of Bald Ibisies, - Human led migration of birds. They teach birds to follow micro plane and they just started migration today, I hope in the next few days I will be able to catch them up and spend few days

I need to visit Albania to finish a project about Bycatch of sharks. Have some communication problems, but I hope I also will manage it at the first part of September.And I planned to visit one more project in Austria - Bird of Pray camp, hope to volunteer there for at least few days. + I need to edit videos, and documentary...super busy times.. Also autumn looks the same. So it's all good. All for the nature and wildlife...

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Thank you

Here is a short documentary which I've made for one documentary competition. Basically it's about my music life and my life of environmentalist. I went trough a lot of old archive footage for the last 23 years to make this video, it was interesting to see and remember so much which somehow been forgotten.
In such moments I understand the value of "saving" some of our lives moments. With pictures, sounds, or videos. All of this usually don't feel something important, but looking back 20 years I really was experiencing joy of finding some old - home made videos or pictures. Something unimportant and not significant suddenly feels like a treasure.

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Be Brave To Act

2025-03-13 15:16:06

From Rockstar to Street Cleaner

Short documentary about my life as a musician and nature & wildlife conservation guy.

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