Posts by dan from why.movie

Uncle Joe and Kuhn dolls, 3-5 frame stop motion mother and daughter plaster from the Redlings parallel toy movie as truth, live action as lies. stories are always lies unless they aren’t

11/3/24 Two tomes building, the Cosmology and Novella. The Cosmology is a check on the internal consistency of the story’s scaffold, is the logic of the world fairly consistent? The Novella is a paper test of the story’s flow, utilizing movie elements that already exist and ranging beyond in the way only written words can.…

The wheels spin, and the road unravels. Head down, Joe sees the speckled blur of faded pavement oozing by, his charcoal gray pin stripe pants churning the pedals. The tails of his matching suit coat flap softly in his peripheral vision. He savors the thrill of not looking ahead, of not watching where he is…

Here we hammer out the rationale of the scenario, checking for internal self consistency. Is there a big hole in the hull of the ship, cracks that the illusion can leak out of? Not only reacquainting myself but updating and distilling. It’s a Story Words are inadequate to parse the concept of god. An exquisitely…

The wheels spin, and the road unravels. Head down, Joe sees the speckled blur of faded pavement oozing by, his charcoal gray pin stripe pants churning the pedals. The tails of his matching suit coat flap softly in his peripheral vision. He savors the thrill of not looking ahead, of not watching where he is…

The now is all that we have, (some people say) but the excellence of theme park earth is that the past and the future are just as fluid as the now. The past and future are cognitive constructions that become the lattice, the framework for what we are in the now. There’s a perspective that…

They would rather not know facts, nobody wants to find out the fedgov demolished the twin towers or invented limes disease or advocated mass adoption of a dna editing protocol. So that’s why it’s easy to pull off big scams, because no one wants to find out, people would just rather not know. From this…

Why all the dreams and schemes in one book? Not to organize them or chant their names, but for the reason I initially dreamed them, which is to get excited about them. To feel the joy of imagining them, and get fired up as they instantiate. I create and the fun is both the realization,…

You are the leader of the world. The Clique is rife with subtle variations on the theme of stewardship.  Improving humankind through contrast…YES! But how much and how often? Could extremely high levels of contrast maintained for long periods cause a sort of spiritual capitulation, a collapse of expansion? Blaa, blaa. They try out their…