Introducing Expanded Environmentalism
This summer, Shannon and I have been hard at work on a new platform/initiative, Expanded Environmentalism.
On Perfection
Something about the phrase, “nobody’s perfect” bothers me. The roteness with which people utter the phrase gets under my skin, yes, but what I think bugs me even more is that the phrase implies that there is a perfect out there - an ideal form, without flaw against which people can never measure up. But what does this even look like?
Maybe Your Art is Not for This World
I’ve been making films for a while so I occasionally get the question, “what advice do you have for young filmmakers?”
I’m not young. I’m not old . . . but I’m definitely not young.
My first advice would be, “you shouldn’t take my advice,” but aside from that, if there are some wisdom nuggets the reader finds useful, great!
Neither Believing nor Disbelieving: Impossible Futures, Conspiracy Theories, Aliens, and More: Part IV
Speculations about the future don’t accurately predict the future as much as they reflect the collective mindset of the present.
Neither Believing nor Disbelieving: Impossible Futures, Conspiracy Theories, Aliens, and More: Part III
December 21, 2012 - the end date of the 5,126-year Mayan long count calendar. Planetary destruction of a cosmic new age? As modern, non-Mayans, with little to no understanding of the Mayan culture, cosmology, and concept of time, some of us scoffed, some of us were were perhaps disappointed, and I’ll venture to guess most of us paid little attention when this date passed and delivered neither of the above outcomes.
. . . Then again, the last ten years have been freakishly weird. I have playfully speculated to a few that the world as we knew it really did end and we’re in some surreal alternate timeline.