Posts by dan from why.movie
The bunker that ate the world
Growing up, we had a sweet cave in our backyard. A natural cavern that the previous owner, (I’ll call him Mr X) had fortified with a vault door from a defunct bank and cleverly hidden air shafts emerging under lichen encrusted boulders or disguised to look like fallen trees. The whole shebang wasn’t even listed…
Read MoreExposition isn’t talking
Story comes from actions, characters opinions about things (training, past experience, their acceptance or rejection of norms), observations of the environment, interactions with others both friendly and antagonistic. Stories are basically the experience of characters, whether we are supposed to resonate or feel discord. A character who we cannot fathom, whose motivations don’t make sense,…
Read MoreUncle Joe articulates Clique morality
“The world’s weapons are money, fame, and power, that is to say control over others by whatever means. But these are the not the most delicious weapons, the most elegant and fun weapons to wield. These worldly weapons are for those with little imagination, those who are blind to the best weapons ever, who don’t…
Read MoreNovella
Yesterday wasn’t such a long time ago, or maybe tomorrow. When and where, once upon a spacetime. Please keep your tray in the upright and locked position during takeoff. We invite you, nay compell you to enter the alternow, our allegorical theme park, Earth. Where divinity forgets herself and plays among the lapping waves, collecting…
Read MoreStarting narrative roll
Roll at the start This may or may not be a true story. In some universes, this following characters and scenarios will never exist. In many others, they will. Realities that we imagine as discrete, supposedly separated by the hard edge of quantum collapse are often quite leaky. Individuals either by accident or through…
Read MoreThe opinions and narratives offered on this podcast are not necessarily my own. At least, not quite yet. They may never be my own. I reserve the right to test drive iconoclastic perspectives and paradigms so as to evaluate their usefulness. This podcast is my creative wind tunnel. Note that btw, usefulness – utility, pragmatica,…
Read MoreHallucinogenic Realm
What if Veronique’s haunt is actually a sort of prepper bunker, a metal womb. Also the biomass of Gerry and Christina surrounds her, but she maybe has pushed it back to give her more room to breath. Either the bunker itself has sort of translucent walls and we see the womb beyond, or the womb…
Read MoreMotorcycle
close up pix of gleaming components, feeling like models, very shallow depth of field, getting bigger, filling the screen motorcycle as erotic photography, what makes erotic photos erotic? Steve Ballance library, and in the non physical. Let’s do it Steve!
Read MoreReturn of the King
This virtousic, gorgeous starship, keel caught in slag and frozen lava. This 500 year old Hobie 16, stored in grandmother’s extra big root cellar and dragged out for the adventurous and dream sparkled shamanic girl child, who must sail to kill the reactor monster. Every movie with a talismanic chariot, transport of some sort. All…
Read MoreRe: Re
What was a movie, a metaphor, a game is now actuality. The movie to make is the guide book to the now, so many stories, that which doesn’t fit into a prior category, here we are. The kitten and I create a circuit together, configured in posture, I in a sort of Nuit like sky…
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