life’s everyday adventures in an ecovillage, plus other intentional community, filmmaking, and random musings
New short narrative-ish video project in progress…
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Oil Standard: “Oil Standard is a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from U.S. Dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil. When you load a web page, the script seamlessly inserts converted prices into the page. As the cost of oil fluctuates on the commodities exchange, prices rise and fall in real-time.” This is pretty damn funny/smart. (WorldChanging bit.)
OilCrash: “A 90 minute documentary on the planet’s dwindling oil resources.” Simple enough description, eh?
Maxed Out: “Maxed Out shows how the modern financial industry really works, explains the true definition of “preferred customer” and tells us why the poor are getting poorer and the rich getting richer…”
Game Set Watch: Cherish the Chips: A new bi-weekly column writtern by nullsleep about assorted chiptune music developments. Fun. This first entry serves as a nice intro. to those unfamiliar with the concept of chiptunes.
Farmadelphia [1] [2]: “…In this scenario, vacant lots around Philadelphia would be converted into agricultural plots, and the abandoned buildings that occupy many of those sites would stay put, only they’d become useful again in the context of the farm. As a community renewal effort, Farmadelphia would bring people together around both the labor and the rewards of having productive crops growing in the neighborhood. “
The Show-Me Missouri International Film Festival recently went down this weekend, and two of my shorts screened there: The Immortality of Man and Does the World Need to be Saved? I just got an e-mail from one of the organizers saying that The Immortality received a first place prize in the college competition. Nifty! That feels pretty nice…
Filmmaking for the Poor: “Why Be Indie?”: Sujewa talks briefly about independent film distribution and culture, and comparisons to the indie music scene… Good little bits for thought.
INTERNATIONAL CHIPTUNE RESISTANCE 2006 World Tour: nullsleep and Bit Shifter are planning a worldwide chiptune tour… you can help make it happen by donating! Good luck to them. Hope it happens.
Corporate Knights magazine: “Bad corporations can poison the water we drink, prop up brutal dictatorships, assassinate inconvenient indigenous leaders and swindle billions from shareholders and governments through tax evasion and accounting shenanigans. We belief that bad companies will be eclipsed by Corporate Knights, corporations that make money for their shareholders, enhance their national and local communities of operation, leave as small a footprint as possible on the environment, treat employees well, and keep customers happy. We believe the age of the zero-sum game between business and society is over because business and society permeate each other like never before, making it impossible for either to succeed or fail without the other.”
Chaos Union: Official site of Susumu Hirasawa: One free track (titled “The Westward of Time”) from Hirasawa’s recent release, “BYAKKOYA-WHITE TIGER FIELD” has been posted.
Lynch Weekend: (March 24-26, Maharishi University of Management Fairfield, Iowa) For $100, spend a weekend with David Lynch and other guests, listening to Lynch himself talk about Filmmaking, Consciousness, and the Creative Process, and learning about ‘Samadhi: the fourth major state of consciousness.’ Organic vegetarian food included.
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