Seventy minutes concentrated into five (from the mind and mouth of Charlie Kaufman).
Here’s the whole talk for the soul:
https://soundcloud.com/bafta/charlie-kaufman-screenwriting-lecture (no longer live but here’s the transcript)
Caesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is without commentary but text frames appear on the screen in Cree, French and English.
“We went to the moon and we discovered the earth.”
A great video for the Penny 4 NASA crowd-funding project.
But kicking ass on the minority:
Fifty years, twenty two projects and we’ve failed to get permission for thirty seven projects.
A lesson there maybe…
For without the back story and insight into the whole 10-year exercise, the outcome would lose it’s importance.
Here’s where to buy the $35 version of the wonderful piece of art (as the deluxe copies shown in the video is from an edition of 26 is $4600, but there is also the regular run of 100 books (doesn’t have fingertabs) in $3200 binding, $2600, and $1800).
Wonderous.
School Scrabble is a big thing in the USA.
You can buy specially designed starter kits to start your school clubs:
The kit contains 6 boards, 6 sets of tiles, 6 tile bags, 12 racks and as a bonus The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition.
Great idea, superbly presented.
I hated art history in school (even though art was the only subject in which I excelled in some small way).
Most of it was taught through text with a few pictures thrown in accompanied by the ramblings of a bored art teacher who was trying his best to make it all come alive.
It didn’t work.
Since we now have the technology, get a kick ass icon with a voice of gravel weave a sweet narrative over some impressive visuals. Let it sink in. Then discuss.
Job done.
Well it left me wanting to know more about John Baldessari.
Delightful.
“We’re not asking the government for money, we’re not asking for power, we don’t want to take away the industry’s right to profit. We’re simply asking that the government recognize the atmosphere as part of the public trust to be protected for present and future generations and once and for all to govern as if our future matters.”
From Alec Loorz, 17-year old plaintiff on the Federal atmospheric trust lawsuit and founder of Kids vs Global Warming.
The right to pollute the earth vs the right to protect our atmosphere / environment.
American law, your move.
Can’t find any further information about the hearing on Friday 11th May, here’s hoping it was successful, for all our sakes.