My short video, AMERIKUH! has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Stockstock Film Festival, along with 19 other films.
It will screen during the so-called Super Secret Stockstock Event on March 10… wherever that may be. I have no clue. But yea, the finalists and grand prize winner will also be announced that day. Hip-hooray.
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“An Arctic “doomsday vault” aimed at providing mankind with food in case of a global catastrophe will be designed to sustain the effects of climate change… The top-security repository, carved into the permafrost of a mountain in the remote Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole, will preserve some three million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet’s crops…. Construction on the seed bank, also dubbed the “Noah’s Ark of food”, will begin in March.”
This is insane, frightening, and… well, frightening, yes.
Just playing around with Vodpod and their neat video widget feature, as seen above… You can check out a bunch of my different shorts all within this self-contained video player, instead of navigating to different pages.
AMERIKUH! has been included on The Daily Reel’s Top Ten list of best online videos for February 7th. Yeeeea!
I devote a pretty significant amount of energy to thinking about what I should be eating. Unfortunately, a lot of these thoughts never make the transformation into action. Partly because I’m still living at home for the moment, and everything that entails, and partly because… well, there are a number of factors. But I’ve only been working on creating a more wholesome diet bits and pieces at a time, by either eliminating individual items one at a time, or choosing to eat more of a specific food.
It’s been on my to-do list to read more about food and health to really kick-start my food attack plan, and recently this New York Times article came along: Unhappy Meals. Thankfully it sums up a lot of my feelings about food pretty succinctly, and the suggestions for “what to eat” are sound and simple. (”Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”) I think I really needed to read something straightforward like this article to put me on an actual, concrete course to changing what I eat more completely. (Not that I have a really poor diet, but I’m an idealist and I want to eat as closely to the “right way” as possible.)
But yea, read that article. It’s a good one.
AMERIKUH! Come one, come all! A land of unparalleled liberty! Bask in the glory of democracy! Seriously.
(Higher quality version here: QuickTime)
Ok, so I wrapped up my video entry for the 2007 Stockstock Film Festival. (Stockstock provides a bunch of totally random stock footage clips, and it’s your duty to assemble something using only that footage. You can mash it up to your heart’s content and add any kind of audio.) So, this is what I came up with. I might tweak it a bit before officially submitting it, but that’s the gist of it.
Check out my webpage for AMERIKUH, where you can download Quicktime and iPod versions, or view the low quality version.
But yea, I think this short is pretty self-explanatory.
So, my main source of income was cut yesterday. I’ve been writing for DVGuru since last June or so, and it was an easy and secure (or so I thought) source of money. Best of all, I could work at my own pace and do as much or as little writing as I wanted, without someone breathing down my neck everyday. Anyway, the sudden closure announcement kinda threw me off, because I was really banking on still writing when I go to Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage this April. It would have worked well because I wouldn’t have to devote a lot of time to writing, and I could focus on other things, but still cover my base costs. I’m writing for a different site, but I won’t be able to write nearly as much since I cannot cover the same type of news and content. But, so it goes!
