Posts by dan from why.movie

Day 4 of my 5 day waterfast. I just took an actual poop, shaped as in the old days, no grooves. I think I saw a piece of gravel. There seemed to be nothing else, just the one, about 4-5 inches. The previous couple of days it’s been these tiny nuggets that had to assisted.…

Review, make notes and then delete the following Several hours had passed since Joe popped his magic CD out of her laptop and left. He had told her to go seduce the awkward recluse down the hall, “now, immediately”. Christina knew that “now, immediately” referred to her perception, not her actions. He was inviting her…

flashbacks Scene • Joe’s Farewell Speech to the Clique Uncle Joe, You’re Dead From 06 notes for Joe and Christina [Thought play for Carmen, she didn’t like.] C is staring into space. Popping bubble wrap. A still life. She is thinking about nothing, empty. ] Ring! She’s coming back to planet earth now, slowly her…

The weather deck, anatomy of a ship. What’s a weather deck? Feels like we’ll need more Gerry. Do we ever come back to his thoughts? Of course, there’s the seduction and dialogue, but will that be enought to care what happens to him? Also the juxtaposition of Gerry and Christina…

[The first clashing chord of the Star Wars opening theme, then silence. Scrolls up SW fashion] Collin at the Baltimore Worldcon (1–5 September 1983) advised me to never do fan art, original only. This roll would be a direct swipe recalling a ruined franchise and the iconic beginning of it’s groundbreaking first installment. Am I…

Notes [deprecated-Every vertical side of every box flickers solid black and then beige again. Each side displays a black exclamation point and then the chinese character for happiness and below in english, “YAY”. These flash three times, then all of the boxes go blank.} [chapter ends here. the boxes in the meadow are just boxes,…

Box Ubiquity Counter begins on screen, counting down until conception. Time lapse night into day. Box location 1 Boxes in field, quiet, no mediatronics. Far boxes begin display, the wave of one word moves through the boxes, approaching. “WE” Box location 2 Near boxes display “ARE” and this word wave propagates to the farthest boxes…

A silvery leviathan swims into the searingly bright, mirroring wisps of vapor and distant fusion. [Patches of oxidation make the hull discernable] A gently articulating airship, humped at the center and tapering towards the front and back.  Out of curving top, the tapered cables of neutrino sails arch up and away, drooping over at the…

What I learned from editing “Planting a Forest” was… 1) there was the long version utilizing as much footage as possible, as a way of taking inventory of what I had. The timelines and bins in Resolve were great for that. I Cut together vignettes with related content, (everything Jim said, everything I said and…

5/22-5/23/25 What the meta perspective is, what we really are is incomprehensible EVEN (especially) from a leading edge perspective, we can glimpse and get flashes, but fullness is not addressable with language or available to our perception because we are engaged in a deep simulation, (we are the simulation) and the real can never be…