The story of us.

What is LightWithin Productions? We are a blog (we don’t believe in limitations, topics are limitations) that has graced the internet with our presence for about 3 years now.  That’s the basic jist of it – however, if you wish to learn about how we managed to steal the Mona Lisa in 2007, and replace it with a lookalike, while evading French authorities; then please proceed.

There once was a boy who one magical May 26th 2006, started a website on a freewebs host.  The server was cramped, dirty and had sweatshop like conditions.  Freewebs (like Nike and Wal-Mart), to this day, refuse to improve conditions in their Cambodian servers.  The webmaster, quickly realized that this website had the potential to become big, and decided to move it out of the slums.

The site managed to get a host in the better side of town; however, this side of town did not have their own street names. Instead, they had sub-street names, and so the website known as LW would stay here for years to come, jumping from one house to another in between.  However, LW was quickly forgotten and neglected by its owner. Until one day, he decided to change it into a blog.

The site initially started with a humble staff of 4, all good friends from a nearby virtual pets discussion café , working in the basement of the host house. The “newsroom” was messy, cold (heating was done via burning old scraps of disoriented stylesheets) and smelled of coffee, cheese and Pepsi Shizo; but the team managed to make it home.

Three members of the team spent their day working at a mediocre magazine, and when the sunset; they would all go to work in the basement of the host house; compiling code,  correcting spelling errors, and occasionally sending a Rickroll or a zerochan picture.  At the magazine, the leadership underwent a change, and with it, so did the quality.  The humble writers found themselves being censored and their right to freedom of speech being strangled.  They planned a revolt, however, never got to use their Che Guevara powers, due to the fact that the magazine basically folded.  

So, the 4 commandants of the site set out on a journey; to the four corners of the globe; to build their newsroom.  They crossed the vile Arabian deserts, braved the London rain, and avoided the Romanian gymnastics team to get the writers they sought.  Once they had the writers they wanted, they all agreed what the site’s main principle would be based upon; freedom of speech.  Learning from their previous experiences, they agreed that no writer would have his or her work censored at the blog, unless it violated a code of ethics.  The site stands by this rule to this date.

Later on, the site discovered the microworlds that existed underneath the surface of the streets.  Word had it, that everybody who was anybody, had a page set up in the undermicroworlds.  In this mysterious world, conversing was only done via 140 characters and fancy applets. The site decided to send in a team to a set up a bureau in the microunderworlds; but not without flap jackets and hardhats.  It was a risky move, and the team was nearly ambushed by a flying whale; however the commandants decided that for the sake of humanity, it was their duty to bring the people of the undermicroworlds back to the world of paragraphs and grammar.

Finally,  the site managed to get itself moved to a proper .com street; however, they are still working out of that cramped basement. :(

To this day, we have a staff of 14, committed to getting the stories out; both the serious and the bizzare.  We do admit though, that we are not like those brave journalists who risk their lives, (see: Oslobođenje).  Press freedom ftw.