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Category Archives: Around Lake Michigan
Illustrated Revelations on an Art of Self
The outcome for 1/1 – 1/2 is to publish a clear and fun compendium and quick reference for the driving objectives of 2013. Let’s begin with thinking about thinking. How do introspective sessions connect and coalese, how do I bind … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, desire, health, organization, people, plan, practice, production and post, protocol, real life, research, Science Fiction Musical, story, upkeep
Tagged alternate universe, chaga, DOG, driving force, earth, fuck mother, george galloway, glimmung, goals, hack, Lena Maude Wilson, mantak chia, master ru, money, objectives, pkd, polymath, projects, swami bua, tantra, teachers, to do, wordpress
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Projects in Progress Chapter 1
Here’s my instant review of Blue Planet with David Attenborough – things want to eat and breed and not get eaten. The ocean is big and mysterious, underwater photographers experience some serious beauty. What struck me in the tub at … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, desire, people, plan, real life, research, Some Almonds are Harder to Skin than Others
Tagged birth, breed, Brooklyn, children, clutter, cory doctorow, david attenborough, father, Gurudeva, JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, kinnicutt, marriage, new york, ocean, og mandino, organize, parent, pound ridge, project
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A nice day
Seems almost wrong to be staring at screens when it’s so lovely outside, implementing roto, roto, roto. That’s what has to be done as I drive forward on DOG’s conclusion. This repetitive visual work leaves great chunks of my brain … Continue reading
Fukushima butterfies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19245818
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Liz Vision
I got an actual letter from Liz Paladino on June 25, freshly recovered from the archives.
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, people, real life, research
Tagged hobie, liz, liz paladino, nuclear, ondesire, vision
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Fukushima in the USA
Arnie Gunderson – 23 plants in the USA identical to Fukushima, 2 near Chicago, Dresden and Quad City neither are on Lake Michigan
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, budget, plan, production and post, research, story
Tagged Arnie Gunderson, fukushima, nuclear power
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Cast of characters
Up this morning early trying to time lapse celestial events, then back home for a super hot bath. Claire raved about cold showers and so as a concession to her I flopped into Crystal right after. It’s been a super … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, Making of a Saint, people
Tagged 10 pages, bio, biography, cast, cast of characters, Claire, Dirk, Doug, friends, Gurudeva, James, Kai, Lena, Ray Kurzweil, tribe
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Posts to post
I’ve been blogging in my mind for the last couple of months, here’s a sample of the topics I’d like elaborate on soonish. First, a crisis of confidence. Gosh, why blog at all? With the explosion of FB, a personal … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, hardware, people, plan, production and post, real life, research, software, story, technique, workflow
Tagged animation, ben woody, cows, doug michels, dragon frame, farm, flag of earth, h16, hello world, hobie, james allegro, james weston schaberg, Jeff Gibbs, nuclear power, patrick kelly, rosie, seti, shack
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Summer priorities
Before Lena Maude headed west, she grabbed the full set of Tony Robbins Personal Power. I have taken the course about 10 times since the early 90s and suggested she give it a whirl. Admittedly Tony is a little over … Continue reading
Cutting glass
Ben and I do DOG daily (have you met Ben Woody?) but my early evenings and weekends are dedicated to acquiring old Hobie 16s cheap – usually with soft decks and other structural issues. This is long range planning for … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, budget, production and post, real life, research, story, technique, workflow
Tagged ben woody, deck, fiberglass, hobie, hull, rotozip
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This is another test…
of auto tweeting for On Desire!
More boats?
Yes, Trickster Pictures is acquiring more sailboats in preparation for the post petroleum America. Mostly Hobie 16s, same as Hello World. Beyond fun! Actually the point of this post is to see if we can re-establish our inter blog communication. … Continue reading
Deserving to live
You know, I haven’t yet reproduced. There’s been some opportunity and perhaps even motive, but my unique DNA remains proprietary. Cool people should breed and all that. Am I cool? Do I or any of you deserve to even survive, … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, people, plan, real life, research
Tagged presence, survival, wilds
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Awash in wildflowers…
…and basking in beauty, that’s the summer of 2011. Hello World has been beached (blossomed) for a solid year following her crippling injury 30 miles north of Chicago that ended our 2010 expedition. She’s communing with the flox and vetch … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, plan, production and post, projects, real life, research, SFX reel, time, workflow
Tagged ALM, combat mime, compost, corn, distraction, DOG, garden, gertrude ekstatisch, girlfriend, hello world, horse manure, james weston, lauren di scipio, marijke church, michigan movie makers, mykl werth, nuclear, soil, solar power, sustainable, tai chi, tcff.org, traverse city film festival, will church
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V 0.9 Trickster Pictures SFX reel
This is for my extended inner circle of creatives, both producers that might have a micro budget and/or good things to trade and artists that might have a wild idea or fancy getting hired to help. Please upgrade your browser … Continue reading
Selling Canon Vixia HF-S10 and HF-S100
Every year or two, I replace and upgrade gear to stay current with emerging technology. I used the Vixia HF-S10 exclusively for the 2009 and 2010 expeditions of Around Lake Michigan, Search for Sustainable Civilizations, shooting 100s of hours of … Continue reading
The clean shaven look
I did it. Redesign and radical simplification of http://ondesire.com has been implemented. There’s more to come but the major scaffolding is in place. Here’s the landing page. Pretty sparse eh? The idea is push some of the complexity deeper into … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, software, story, technique, workflow
Tagged blog, bounce rate, design, fred oeflein, landing page, movies, navigating, ondesire, overwhelm, structure, tamarack software, views
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I’ve cloned myself
Just over a year ago I started cloning myself. I am amazed to announce that the process is complete, pretty nearly. As long as I am alive and ever changing my clone is also a work in progress. Last night … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, hardware, people, real life, technique, time, workflow
Tagged Archive, clone, cloning, conquistador, credit card, firewire, SATA, terrabyte
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Bounce rate rebounds
Jonathan, Luke, Steve and I were looking at analytics for ondesire.com last night. After posting the Premise page on Friday, bounce rate shot back up to 40%. The point of looking at bounce rate is to see how effective the … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, people, real life, story, technique
Tagged analytics, bounce rate, dan kelly, Jonathan Kelly, landing page cross post, lucas kelly, steve kelly
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Deconstructing doom
Jonathan has been questioning the veracity of the doom assertion in the ALM / artifact premise. A premise or pitch is a shorthand introduction to a project – typically delivered in less than 15 seconds (and often in an elevator). … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, people, real life, story
Tagged ALM, alm guide, Around Lake Michigan, artifact, consumer, dan kelly, delusion, disconnection, diy, doom, elevator, Jonathan, Jonathan Kelly, pitch, premise, survivable, sustainable, toxic consumer culture
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Meeting 10-03-06 ondesire landing page
We’ve had two dream team meetings, in Brooklyn (Faisal, Erica and Dan) and yesterday in Beulah (Steve Elrick, Melonie, Jonathan, Lucas Kelly and Dan). Inviting collaboration and contribution was the focus of Saturday’s meeting. Components of the ask package for … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, plan, real life, story, technique, time, workflow
Tagged androgenous, artifacts, blog, confuse, dan kelly, definitions, erica velis, Faisal Azam, future sustainable civilization, Jonathan Kelly, lucas kelly, media, melonie, music, steve elrick
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Action for everyone
Sign a petition and help Michigan’s Attorney General Mike Cox to protect Lake Michigan by closing the locks in Chicago. http://StopAsianCarp.com
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, real life
Tagged asian carp, attorney general, carp, Lake Michigan, mike cox
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Faisal’s world
Faisal dropped off his edit of DOG. In the spring of 2009 he had offered to bring out the “David Lynch ambiance” while simultaneously loping off “atrocious performance”. He felt that DOG depicted a quirky, off kilter world that was … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, real life, story, Uncategorized
Tagged ALM, Daughter of God, david lynch, DOG, edit, Faisal Azam, feature, short, working cut
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Pancakes and scrambled tofu hash with Erica and Faisal
Erica and Faisal came over for pancakes on Friday, 10/02/19. Faisal’s version of the DOG edit, ostensibly the reason for our reunion, remained untouched. Instead we talked… about advancing our craft, social presence, Around Lake Michigan, redefining projects, new collaborations … Continue reading
Three blogs
With three blogs, when will Dan have time to make movies? This whole blog experience has been startling. I’ve scribbled my life away trying to sort out my feelings, document flashes of genius and decrypt the future… but my audience … Continue reading
Trickster Pictures Collaboratory
Meanwhile on Earth… The internet is a global conversation. A variety of strange web entities have appeared to enable this – forums, chat rooms, voice over IP, and even video conferencing – Jonathan recently posted his take on this. The … Continue reading
Dream team
The primary lesson I learned making Daughter of God or DOG is this – finishing a movie by yourself takes forever. To complete DOG and support ALM this year, I’ve assembled a team of two knob spinning freelancers and five … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, real life
Tagged After Effects, ALM, andrea maio, Around Lake Michigan, art department, atmospheric, blender, california, canada, carrots, cars, cruise ship, dan kelly, Daughter of God, DOG, dogthemovie.com, erica, experimental, experts, Faisal Azam, freelancers, fund raising, geographic, Jeff Gibbs, Jonathan Kelly, julie constantin, lorax, melonie steffes, michigan, new york, saldaje, steve elrick, venture capital
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Visit On Desire
Last year my documentary about sailing around the Hawaiian Islands morphed into a documentary about sailing around Lake Michigan. In September of 2009 I soloed 300 miles on the 16 foor catamaran Hello World, searching for sustainable civilizations. The plan … Continue reading
ALM guide – inherent
There was another way of doing things once, a way that has become marginalized and almost forgotten but perhaps not quite totally annihilated. A way that isn’t self destructive. We all know the legend… the native people of several continents … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, people, real life, story
Tagged alignment, battle of krojanty, behavior, invader, lineage, nazi, polish cavalry, tank
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Compelled
To make a quick post before night night. I’ve been implementing the blogging structure and it… might… just… work. Three blogs all criss cross posting, logging into each other with usernames that match the blogs that the posts are coming … Continue reading
Confused!
I thought I had a plan for making the mothership blog, but not quite. Now I am confused. Here’s a little map to illustrate the flow. FORUM collaboratory || feeding BLOG Mothership (holyboners.com) BLOG Daughter of God (dogthemovie.com) BLOG Around … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, plan, real life
Tagged domain, holyboners, mothership, visualize
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Standby for fireworks
Year Chinese New Year Begins Animal Sign 2007 February 18 Pig 2008 February 7 Rat 2009 January 26 Ox 2010 February 14 Tiger 2011 February 3 Rabbit 2012 January 23 Dragon 2013 February 10 Snake 2014 January 31 Horse 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, real life
Tagged 2010, celebrate, outreach, tiger, water rabbit
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So far on ALM
We’ve been writing and writing. What has all this writing accomplished? Here’s what we know so far. Objectives for the project are identified The story centers around the guide character – his motivations, experience, starting point and transformation Several character … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, plan, story
Tagged ALM, character development, cutaway, guide, objectives
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Shut up about the xroll already
Holographic scenes are trembling moments of pure gestalt. Put them in a sequence and call that a movie. Perhaps an alternate sequence reveals more. If you play it backward you hear, “I buried Paul.” I’m imagining a burst of experience … Continue reading
The team
Making movies – I’ve discussed how much work is involved and how there’s not enough me to go around. I need to amp up 1) art / production and 2) fundraising and outreach. I am in the process of contracting … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, real life, Some Almonds are Harder to Skin than Others, story, technique, Uncategorized
Tagged andrea maio, art department, Faisal Azam, Jeff Gibbs, Jonathan Kelly, julie constantin, melonie steffes, portfolio, resume, steve elrick
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Redeconstructing motivation
The last several ALM posts have been about clarifying DK’s journey, why exactly did he get on the boat? Is he really searching for sustainable civilizations or was there another reason? Why is this trip shrouded in mystery? Maybe he … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, plan, real life, story
Tagged extra terrestrials, gods, judo, kurusawa, mission, murder, mystery, obfuscate, rendevous, ritual, sanshiro sugata, satellites, secret mission, treatment
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Xroll installed
Dan Kelly is on this journey of discovery, he’s off to become miraculous, he’s searching for sustainable civilizations, he’s just an average American with an FBI record. Whatever his journey is, it’s open ended. Perhaps he has a general idea … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, plan, story
Tagged experience, graph, linear, map, mental map, spatial geography, thought, visual structure, xroll
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Am I a good friend?
When you love a lot of people, how do you keep the connections fresh? This is a quandary for me as I’m blessed with a large extended family. Blogs help me make big chunks of my life public. With the … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, real life, story
Tagged blog, clan, english, extended family, internet, public, quandry, reality check, simulations, tribe, world wide web, www
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ALM guide, everyman
introduction for character Dan Kelly (everyman) Unless you’re totally evil or from another planet, you are probably concerned about the future of this one, our earth. It’s old news to talk about how much trouble we are in, so I … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, plan, real life, story
Tagged air, art, collective future, compact fluorescent, consumption, duck and over, earth, edward bernays, evil, food, foundation, recycle, science, sierra club, smoke, sustainable civilization, torches of freedom, toxic consumer culture, water
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ALM guide, becoming miraculous
introduction for character Dan Kelly (becoming miraculous) During intense experience I often get a clue about my full potential, what I am capable of. If I get into a situation that calls for a little something extra then lo, something … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, people, plan, real life, story
Tagged ambulance, coccyx, darkness, divine intervention, extraordinary energy, fluke, george lucas, global life support, healer, healing, knee, light saber, luck, magic, massage therapist, miracle, name, paralysis, power, proximity radar, science, spinal cord, star wars, surgery, undocumented features, vision
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ALM guide, the time traveler
introduction for character Dan Kelly (time traveler) Yes, another movie about how much trouble we are in. It’s also about how we got out of the trouble. If you remember the future as I do, you’ll know that we almost … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, plan, real life, story
Tagged after future, future, mistakes, moment, pre present, present, sailboat, sprout, time travel, time traveler
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Designing the ALM guide
Who is this character Dan Kelly, ALM guide? Why is the audience intrigued by his journey? Based on my discussion with Andrea, I can’t assume the audience will understand my assumptions and motivations regarding ALM. The 900 lb gorilla in … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, people, real life, story
Tagged ALM, andrea maio, character development, dan kelly, fictional, gorilla, terrorist training films
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Coherent plan – objectives (ALM)
2.1 Objectives common to both projects… 2.2 Objectives of DOG 2.3 Objectives of ALM 2.3.1 convey the main character (premise / starting point) to establish rapport. He becomes a compelling guide / proxy for the audience (get inside his head) … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, plan, real life, story
Tagged ALM, becoming miraculous, carbon load, colony, consumer culture, darwin, decide to thrive, demonstrate, empire, future artifacts, global life support, ignorance, illustrate, industrial revolution, life support, magic making, pragmatic magic, suicidal status quo, sustainable, sustainable civilizations, terrorist training film, toxic consumer culture, toxic training, western
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Coherent plan – objectives (DOG)
2.0 Objectives 2.1 Objectives common to both projects… 2.2 Objectives of DOG 2.2.1 a daring and decisive edit why – I don’t need to emulate the same movie that’s already been made over and over. I give myself permission to … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, hardware, people, software, story, technique, time, workflow
Tagged 2010, apocalypse, art installation, backstory, conspiracy, edit, endgame, fundraising, galactic network, iching, objectives, oracle, oscar, previsualization, proof of concept, quality, remake, seti, success, tarot, theme park
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Coherent plan – objectives (common)
2.1 Objectives common to both projects… 2.1.1 completion in 2010 OR new funding and remake 2.1.1.2 if new funding and remake, some version of the original becomes a fund raising vehicle, proof of concept, extensive previsualization etc. 2.1.1.1 if completion, … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, plan
Tagged awards, completion, festivals, funding, objectives, proof of concept, recognition, remake, reviews
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A coherent plan emerges – mission
Good Earth, have you been reading the recent posts from http://ondesire.com and http://holyboners.com? I have – and they are beginning to spin out of control. Some sort of fugue state is being entered into here, so many eggs are cracking … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, real life, story
Tagged african, ALM, artifacts, character development, collective destiny, Daughter of God, DOG, fugue, future sustainable civilization, global consciousness, holyboners, iching, james camaron avatar, mission, omelet, ondesire, oracle, reinvention, steward, wilds
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Xroll
What does memory look like? What do thoughts look like? What is the magic ingredient that makes reality real? I dunno. Let’s make some language. We’ve already got B roll, an antiquated term for supplementary footage used to cover audio … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Daughter of God, people, real life, software, story, technique
Tagged After Effects, b roll, director, experimental, expressions, javascript, lingo, open source, rotoscope, rotoscoping, turbo, xroll
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Getting the lads to blog
This is mostly directed to Jonathan with a heads up for Patrick, the other 2 directors on the motion graphics reel. This is all issues we’ve discussed before, eg documenting lessons and process. The car renderings must be 3968×2288, not … Continue reading →