The Brink group of companies is a bite size conglomerate of entertainment companies run by a highly talented cadre of passionate filmmakers and renegade web developers. That's us. The BRINK. We believe in the niche, the edge, living on the margin. We believe in truth telling and tolerance and hard work. Above all, we still believe in a free press. Bottom line, even though we'd love to trust Google with all of the Internet and be done with it, somehow we just can't. Absolute power corrupts like fermented potatoes.

We have big dreams for Brink.com. Somebody has to be a counterpoint to all the crap out there on the web. We thought we'd pitch in and give it a try. No, we don't have enough staff, and we don't really have enough money to do this right. All we have is our wits. But wits seems to be enough to have gotten us this far.

Some ask what Brink is it that we are talking about? We answer that it's your Brink and that's obvious now that we've gotten to the point where all of our bad habits are catching up with us. We can't keep using so much Arab oil and making so many guns and expect the future to be as easy for our kids as it was for us. China is developing so fast it's almost exciting.They learn English in kindergarten and how to program computers by the time they are ten. We might elect a president who can't use the Internet. We are so very certainly, on the Brink.

If you like what you see and want to help out, contribute. Comment or upload some photos of your arts and crafts Hollywood Hills shack powered by wind, or those crazy photos your wife took from the Humvee in Afghanistan, or the song you just wrote about losing your money in a run on your bank. Subscribe to Brink.com and show us what you got. We want to see you, to hear you, and we want you to hear and see us.

And if you can't contribute that way then go to our store and buy stuff from us. Brink Members get great a great discount. That's what will keep us going: niche commerce. And if you have a film or music you want us to distribute, something everyone rejected already, send us a screener. Maybe we'll like it.

But most of all, if you really want to join forces with us, let us know what you are thinking. What we are really trying to do here is build a little community of thinkers. A community on the edge of reason, on the margin of sanity. On the Brink. Get on it.