January 2011
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Jan 29th
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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (The curse of the creative class)
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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On Nonlinear Filmmaking:
The EarthCircle Films website has been updated with a recent interview of yours truly conducted by Nelson Carvajal of CineFile.com.  Topic: Nonlinear Filmmaking.  Good stuff - and touches on Refuge for those who saw it at the Chicago International Film Festival and wanted to know more. 
Jan 24th
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“The culture of the United States has always been one of massive internal...”
– Bram Dijkstra from Naked: The Nude in America
Jan 24th
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Jan 22nd
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“It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is...”
– Edmond Jabès (via aperfectcommotion)
Jan 22nd
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“Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an...”
– Betty Friedan
Jan 22nd
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“It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have”
– The Duchess of Windsor
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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How many can you find?
Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet around Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody’s ever really seen. How many can you find? -Lew Welch
Jan 11th
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Was there a time in your life when what seemed wrong was actually right?
Jan 10th
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“Unless we completely inhabit ourselves, it’s not possible to be completely...”
– Gina Sharpe
Jan 10th
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“We are created by being destroyed.”
– Franz Wright
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be...”
– Aldous Huxley
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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“The camera is a kind of passport that annihilates moral boundaries and social...”
– Susan Sontag
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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The Gift of Impermanence
The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. Homer The Illiad (~1194 B.C.E) PARTY TIP: You’ll never be as young as you are right now. Go overboard. Andrew WK Twitter (2010 A.C.E)
Jan 5th
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Consumerism - the elephant in the...
Micah White - Environmentalism is currently marketed as a luxury brand for guilty consumers. The prevailing assumption is that a fundamental lifestyle change is unnecessary: being green means paying extra for organic produce and driving a hybrid. The incumbent political regime remains in power and the same corporations provide new “green” goods; the underlying consumerist...
Jan 5th
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Real People in Fake Stories
A character is all about the insecurities and desires that lead to falling down and getting up.  If you concentrate on plot, their desires will function mechanically and will not be ingrained in the concrete experience of being human. If the character is truly human they will have built their own self-narrative.  Just like us.  And just like us, they will pervert it.  That’s the sort of...
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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Worship
measart: I don’t know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves, “Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.” You may have seen us praying for love on sidewalks outside the better eating establishments in all kinds of weather. Blow us a kiss upon arriving or departing, and we will climax simultaneously. It can be quite a scene, especially if it...
Jan 4th
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All Magnificance is All Invisible
The most beautiful things we see are not often shared so comprehensively.  A parent is always more enamored with their child.  A lover is always possessed by their counterpart.  Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.  Beauty is almost entirely formed by some invisible connection.  A holistic answer to a question I posed a few weeks ago: What is the most beautiful thing you saw today? ~ü
Jan 3rd
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A fantasy for reality:
In discussing beauty in fairy tales and myths, Trebbe Johnson outlines how the beautiful is inevitably revealed beneath the ugly.  It’s not only for princesses and frogs: show compassion; acknowledge the sovereignty of the other; confront the unbeautiful; love actively; turn suffering itself to beauty. Trebbe Johnson, Beauty Redeemed, Parabola Magazine, Winter 2010-2011
Jan 2nd
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“Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
– Terence McKenna
Jan 2nd
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