life’s everyday adventures in an ecovillage, plus other intentional community, filmmaking, and random musings
WorldChanging’s book releases tomorrow.
Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century: Make it number one on Amazon.
This will end up on the to-read shelf (among many, many others.)
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Book: Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America
Whether you find the government oppressive, the economy on a devastating course, or if you simply want adventure, you’re not alone. Over 300,000 Americans emigrate each year. Getting Out walks you through the world of the expat: the reasons, the rules, the resources, the tricks of the trade, along with compelling stories and expertise from expatriate Americans on every continent.
I am going almost on gut instinct with this new mini-feature project. There have been two significant shooting sessions, both of which well fairly well. As soon as we are doing shooting, I review the footage and dump it onto my hard drive. I edit it the same night after shooting. After that, I reviw the little new material I now have to get a sense of the vibe, where I think the film is headed, and what I think I might want to add.
There is a rough sequence of events. (A rough plot, that is.) The structure is very loose, however, and I can probably add in or subtract select elements without disrupting the story. You could say that this is an experiment, in some respects. And since a lot of the plot itself is unscripted, I will have to keep compensating throughout. I don’t know what the next day will bring, what the next shooting session will add.
It’s exciting like that, but also precarious. I am always unsure if I am doing “the right thing”. Will this get anywhere? I am hopeful, but I am also enjoying it as it happens. So, I just need to follow my gut.
I recently did a little interview with Sujewa Ekanayake, director of Date Number One for DV Guru. Sujewa is a big promoter of the DIY filmmaking ethic, something I very much admire, so it was great to hear his insight. The DIY ethic is a very appealing strategy / “style” / philosophy (whatever you want to label it) because it encourages self-reliancy, independence, and ingenuity, ideas that can be adapted to things other than filmmaking, big and small. That’s a good thing. I like that.
On a random note… there is a bunch of good news regarding ¡Sí, Se Puede! that I will hold off on revealing for now, but it’s getting some more exposure and I’m really thankful for that.
We went to Pyramid Mountain in Montville, NJ to do some shooting yesterday. Beautiful, sunny… perfect conditions. Felt good. Here are a few random screengrabs from some of the footage. And, no, these images probably aren’t a very good indication of the final product, whatever that might be. Well, I guess you’ll just have to wait and see. But, yes, production is finally on its way.
Whew. Look out for more updates. Gonna do some ‘location scouting’ tonight. (Doesn’t that sound so professional? Really though, I guess you can call it that, but this film production is about as low key / low-budget as you can get, I think, and using real terminology to describe any of the process makes it sound like something else.) Anyway…
Who Killed the Electric Car?, a feature documentary about electric vehicles and their sudden death, is available on Google Video. It is bound to be removed very soon, so grab it while you can.
Synopsis: WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the GM EV1, examining its cultural and economic ripple effects and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.
Treehugger: Doomsday timeline: Environmentally-themed order of events after humans are (theoretically!) wiped out!
Columbus Day sucks. Excerpt from “The Canary Effect on Columbus Day”:
(Gogo Anthropik.)
Autumn is a good thing.
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