Here’s the history of ‘Why finish DOG?’ posts pre 11/25/11, references are mostly oblique to be sure.
The Whys of finishing…
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/01/13/a-coherent-plan-emerges-mission/
Daughter of God is my most ambitious narrative project to date. It’s a surreal exploration of how picturesque and hilarious a crippled global life support system can get. The backstory also explores colonization and exploitation on a planetary scale. With this project I model my theories, channeling the answers to the questions that Fia asked last night – who benefits from the demise of an entire planet? Follow the money, follow the extraction of wealth. Who’s targeting all the world saviors, whose running this prison?
So Daughter of God is a vehicle for piercing the veil. It’s a way of figuring some things out, of playing with the story. Ah, there’s an insight.
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In summary, DOG supports the mission by being a way to better understand what might actually be going on in RL, suggest in ways like the i ching, never the same movie twice, ya get me? Got cha.
(Also good reasons to finish ALM here 11/25/11)
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/01/14/coherent-plan-objectives-dog/
2.2.2 never the same movie twice, linear i ching
i like the idea of creating a visual oracle, almost like a tarot deck, each scene corresponding to a card in the deck.
2.2.3.2 a delicious ramble through my fav conspiracy theories, mental gymnastics to limber up conceptual capacity
(More what’s and hows here than why 11/25/11)
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/01/14/coherent-plan-objectives-common/
2.1.3 success
2.1.3.1 accepted 3 oscar qualifying festivals 2011
2.1.3.2 awards / recognition for innovation/experimental, visual impact/effects, story
2.1.3.3 vehicle for future funding, collaboration, career
2.1.3.4 500,000 views in first 6 months after release
2.1.3.5 favorable reviews and appreciation by relevant players
2.1.3.6 spanish or chinese subtitle versions
(How would accomplishing these make me feel? 11/25/11)
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/02/09/coherent-plan-future/
What do I want to be and feel in the next 2 years? The next 5 years? The next 10?
This was the 3rd question in my coherent plan. It’s a bit odd actually to answer this question last, after projecting plans for the next year. One might assume that the logical sequence would be to project long term plans first.
(One might also assume that we would ask about what we want to experience BEFORE projecting ANY plans. 11/25/11)
http://www.holyboners.com/2011/05/03/your-art-or-your-life/
I can strive to be fully alive. That’s what this art thing is all about, the art of life. Art isn’t an end, it’s a being and a practice. Paintings and plays are stigmata and signatures of an experience outside of time and place, a metabolism, maybe even spiritual spore. It’s shit! The artist can’t help it, they’ve got to toss it off or die. It’s natural and obvious. A masterful shit is enlivening in a cosmic context we might not understand, probably because we flush our own shit down the toilet and try not to think about it. Shit matters tho, take it from a guy with a composting toilet. The lessons I’ve learned…
So the point here is, perfecting the product is backwards and stifling. Waking up / deepening perception is the only worthy objective. Everything else follows.
(I want to have insights and deepen perception. Tho it boggles to imagine having nothing left to learn, (perfecting the product), this is also a desire. Immortality is less of an abstraction than having nothing left to learn, and would probably be a prerequisite to perfecting a product. If Kurzweil is right, we only have to stay alive for another 10-20 years and then we’ll never die, whoo. He’s silent on the completion of DOG tho, so I’ll have to handle that myself. 11/26/11)
… and the Whys of not finishing
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/10/13/bad-god-i-mean-dog/
vision / mission
http://www.holyboners.com/2009/02/23/glorious-8-fold-protocol-of-creation/
Vision is the convergence of imagination and prescience. Vision is the happy dream I have for myself and the world. I dream of awakened human beings enjoying an experience of themselves as stewards of the spaceship and adventurers in the cosmos.
http://www.holyboners.com/2009/02/23/glorious-8-fold-protocol-of-creation/
What’s the point of making movies? To transform awareness. Our spaceship is in danger, we’ve got to bust a move. My allies and I can have lots of fun on this mission and become something unprecedented in the bargain. Good times!
research and development
http://www.holyboners.com/2009/12/26/storycorps-flash/
what if there were b-roll custom built from scratch that took the moment to another level? What if we could see what the talent saw, an impressionistic glimpse of the talents own experience? Is this an opportunity to innovate the whole technique of b-roll beyond present art, redefine b-roll?
http://www.holyboners.com/2009/12/28/xroll/
What does memory look like? What do thoughts look like? What is the magic ingredient that makes reality real?
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/01/19/xroll-installed/
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/01/26/shut-up-about-the-xroll-already/
The why’s of blogging about finishing
Doing these posts is an attempt to slow down time. When I can consistently articulate what’s happening, I feel more efficient. Not only am I taking stock of my own progress, but I am clarifying what’s most important, what has to happen next. After writing my report, the time I spend working is focused and productive. I am then working super fast, which is in effect slowing down time.
http://www.holyboners.com/2009/12/30/three_blogs/
A blog is a sort of journal that can be shared, either with the public or with a finite group. Initially I began experimenting with blogs as a tool to clarify and plan projects. I’m also down with sharing my process so that others can benefit from my mistakes and triumphs – that’s sort of open source and creative commons ethic.
I’ve always been into writing for project planning and emotional processing. Making the transition from private journals to public blogging has been interesting. I still do some private processing and confidential planning, but probably 70% of what I used to scribble in my closet is now posted to the world wide archive.
So what’s the vision for blogs? Here’s an assessment of needs and potential opportunities…
http://www.holyboners.com/2010/01/19/am-i-a-good-friend/
With the explosion of activity on the net, ‘public’ doesn’t mean seen by everyone. The idea that privacy is dead is misleading. I can publish my life via this blog and 99% of humans will never know I exist.
(Of course, this is a fab resource for the .001% who might identify me as Trouble, for spooks trying to assess my vulnerabilities. The flip side to that is exposure to my transcendent vision could spontaneously turn enemy agents. The one’s who aren’t turned will realize how formidable this blog dude is, and quake at the prospect of tipping their hand with an attack. So I’m down with transparency as a tactic… plus it makes my secrets all the more delicious! • 11-25-11)
Public really means available to my clan. Let’s face it, most of the folks who are willing to wade through this dross already know me. They are here because I invited them. My guess is that even with all my tagging and whatnot, most of my bloggees are going to have some RL connection to me.
mistakes = power