life’s everyday adventures in an ecovillage, plus other intentional community, filmmaking, and random musings
Participate.net: Oil Change: A new campaign launched by Participant Productions to coincide with the release of Syriana. Things are a-happening…
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Open-source software = “intellectual property socialism”: Haha.
“Film-makers asked to spread Firefox word”: I like.
Wikiscripts: decentralized scriptwriting: Wow. This could be very worth watching. Most interesting.
[Notice a theme, here?]
Video: The Immortality of Man: I just finished work on this short video… You can read the brief premise at the linked page.
Also, I rendered out a H.264 version… appropriate for some iPod video watching… maybe…?
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price: Got the chance to watch this last night. The info. is solid, but as a documentary the presentation is a tad bit weak. There are plenty of valuable nuggets of info. about the company and its doings, in terms of treatment of workers (healthcare, wages, etc.: this gets the most coverage), environmental concerns, exploitation of Chinese workers (wish there was a bit more of this), lack of safety concerns for customers, etc. The coverage was wide. As an actual film, I think it could have performed better… it could have used an extra layer of polish. The fact that it is low budget probably could have been covered up a bit better.
But, definitely worth the watch.
The Future of Food DVD release: Two disc DVD release on December 6. Film Forum has it for 10% off ($22.45) before it officially goes on sale. Need to see this.
Michael Wolf: Hong Kong Photography: “One of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the world, Hong Kong has an overall density of nearly 6,700 people per square kilometer. The majority of its citizens live in flats in high-rise buildings. In Architecture of Density, Wolf investigates these vibrant city blocks, finding a mesmerizing abstraction in the buildings’ facades.” (Go Buts.)
Journal of Short Film release party / vol. 1 screening: The PDF is pretty light on details, but: cool. I am greatly looking forward to future releases…
Wired News: “Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die”: It’s no passing bug…
Cookies Shorts schedule: The Cookies Shorts film festival schedule is now complete.
Paul Slocum - time-lapse homepage “m y _ h o m e p a g e”: “The minute-long video was made sequentially, frame-by-frame from beautifully hand crafted HTML and images found on the web, taking a screenshot after each change until I had 1000 frames.” Pretty hilarous. Gotta love the aesthetic.
Treehugger: Bucolic EcoVillage in Virginia: Must read into this one later, when time allows…
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