Posts by dan from why.movie

[March 17, 2019] Why.movie is a unique application of WordPress. Neither blog nor store, rather an enhancement of my own cognition, specifically with regards to a very complex project. I am deliberately offering access to anyone with a computer and some fluency with the English language because I’ve been inspired by so many others who…

Bought the domain 3EB.us. Prolly should also buy Third Earth Battalion . us √ 3rd Earth Battalion . us √ TEB . us (taken) for coverage. Premise At the close of the 20th century, the New Age Movement and the United States Military were merged in Jim Channon’s First Earth Battalion Manual. Misguided and incomplete…

Wow, another synchronicity. I’ve been building a flashback rationale based on Christina’s humming of a few notes from Veronique, a mis-remembering of the tune Dominique, a song by Dominican nun Jeannine Deckers that topped the Billboard charts around the world in 1963-64. I was singing a snippet of this on the big boat back in…

Sequins and bubble wrap conjures campfire A campfire, with sparks rising up juxtaposed with Christina and bubble wrap being popped. Close up of hands and bubble wrap with sparkle dress perhaps. We hear a hint of Christina humming and the snap of the popping bubbles. The snap and crackle of a fire and the popping…

Preparation March 1, 2019, shot list for Slam Person Lena is coming today to shoot a lone Tribal Archaic Revival preparing for the big blaze of the People’s Poetry Slam. She’s going to practice performing Arborealists, Fauna and Prelude, as well as read all the and green orange as a safety. Shot list medium to…

What’s the point of launching the first Iteration of the festival screener at Cannes? Why climb Everest? In your shorts? Because, it’s there. Here’s a few links about sending a work in progress. Of course this is a highly competitive festival. But as Shri Fugi Spilt so adeptly pointed out in the podcast, somebody has…

The repurposing of Signals from a Nearby Now, becoming the People’s Poetry Slam, an oral history of the before times, slightly garbled and embellished from repeated tellings. Akin to reciting blockbuster movies from memory, complete with vivid descriptions of visual effects sequences. A gathering of tribal archaic revivals, with each take a turn, men and…

February 26, 2019 Now 9 days before Cannes screener ships. There’s prolly lots of arguments for a gentle deadline approach, that is to say being ready before readiness is required. Which is antithetical to the concept of deadlines. Deadlines are like, oh shit, got to be done by such and such. What if we were…