For the small number of people who have not yet seen the trailer. Wow. Wow. Wow..
“Repetition is not failure.
Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.”
(Mark Nepo)
Dissolved Girl Coming Soon.
Resurfacing onto the shores of this digital ocean soon. I cannot believe it’s been a four year PAUSE on ‘the’ facebook. I am sure whatever is happening on that parallel reality is merely a cracked distorted skinny mirror reflection of our current post recessionista-fashionista-artista-meta society. However due to concerns of lovely socially connected coworkers and friends, I must rejoin that dimension soon. I guess to prove that I am not some cyber ghost but in fact a living breathing heart pumping human.
I don’t know why I left in the first place. It wasn’t to exclude myself from the pack or draw attention. No, that’s not true. I do KNOW why. However after the first year it was like, really facebook what? I love my alone time. Nature abhors a vacuum. I love creating space. I don’t check in at coffee shops. I don’t update.
Oh and I am sure so much has happened as far as the ‘world’ is concerned, right. I mean if you can stay in touch with people without logging on, that speaks volumes about the people you care about and who you share your self with. I kid you not, I had no idea there were so many break-ups, marriages, second marriages, kids, and deaths had it not came in through the grapejuice vine. To be honest, at times I felt well, isn’t that what creating your own universe slash bubble is? I mean aren’t we all somewhat self-involved. Why do we clock in so many hours? Why do we reconnect with people we never knew. What is that? I want to create a new reality. Meet new energy. I want to spin new webs. Subtract snob and elitist from that thought. People change. People grow. Dreams evolve.
Blah blah blog. Long time ago when I was more naive and less grounded I started a search. Which somehow landed me at Jungian psychoanalyst’s office on a Saturday morning, and she asked, so is there an archetype you connect with? Is there a symbol, an image a pattern that you are unknowingly living. Through some deep breathing exercises I said, I connect with the Mermaid. Oh, that was all I needed to say, the rest is where I am now. Resurfacing. I have spent some time breathing in and contemplating all while keeping the surface stuff going and moving forward. I need to add, the Mermaid archetype is not the same as costume-y, lord of the rings, merlin, unicorny stuff. (check out Carolynn Myss, Jospeh Campbell, and Carl Jung)
I plan on sharing some pieces of my writing here in the near future. In the meantime I was feeling a bit nostalgic and wanted to chime in here.
Some things I have learned along the way:
1. Dark Nights of the Soul- they happen. Sometimes a few times in small bursts. Sometimes quakes. Sometimes like a fire that burn everything away.
2. Every person you meet on your path is there with reason. In fact the most challenging relationships are there to teach you something about yourself. So TRUE.
3. The heart is a mirror.
4. Relationships are mirrors.
5. You cannot see your own eyes. (referring to Attar’s Looking for my Own Face)
6. Life is cyclical. Everything is a part of system. (sounds like a coldplay song)
7. If you are going to give birth to something new plan to go through the labor pains. Bigger the baby, the longer the gestation period.
8. I love waves. Electromagnetic. sound. water.
9. I don’t mind staying in my own lane but I do make stop for stranded motorists.
What about you all? Archetypes? Positive creative inspiration? life lessons?
-Farida
Not so personal note: I don’t pin. I tumble.
Good Evening fellow Tumblrs,
I am no stranger to curating content. I wanted to tell you all about my other tumblrs. Although I adopted a no need to explain motto earlier this year, I will go on to explain that apart from my day-to-day pitching, writing, and raising awareness and capital, I tumble quite frequently.
Why?
Mostly for my own need to archive content for research and trend purposes and because of the shared content value. I try to upload information I come across my data base of industry blogs and websites. I also reblog content regularly.
So, if you are so kind and keen on:
Earth, the living planet, animals, nature, sustainability, nutrition, neuroscience, space, healthy eating, humanity please visit: DIGITAL OCEAN
If you are a creative, ambitious Angeleno, love coffee, into TV programming, Film, documentary film, Hollywood, please visit and follow: COFFEETVFILM
I use DIGITAL BIN as my catch-all tumblr and mini blog posts. Hopefully in a few more months my permanent website will be live and I will be ready to share parts of my project. (excited to finally reveal what is up!)
Thanks again for the follows and mentions friends and fellow tumblrs,
Farida :)
PS:
A new documentary that follows a team of video activists in Homs, Syria reveals they embellished footage to make it appear more dramatic—in this case setting fire to a tire in an alley to create a column of smoke in the background (skip to 8:05). While nobody is debating the extent of the crackdown in the country, episodes like this surely give the Assad regime something to point to when they claim the resistance is fraudulent, no doubt.
So why’d they do it?
The activist tells us by email: “I set the tire on fire because there was a violent shelling on Baba Amr district and we couldn’t reach it. We are being killed with cold blood by the occupying Assad regime. This is the idea that came to my mind to show the world about the shelling as the sky of Homs was covered with smoke.”
“They are desperate to get the word out,” the producer of the documentary later said. “But they don’t need to embellish. It’s all around.”
Documenting the Sunset Strip.
Anybody see this yet? It’s on my list.**
PARK CITY: An ambitious documentary featured at this weeks Sundance Film Festival is taking a dual-track approach to delve into the fascinating life of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistans assassinated former prime minister.
Jessica Hernandez and Johnny OHaras Bhutto, in competition at the major independent film showcase in the mountains of Utah, examines the many contours of Bhuttos life, a woman as loved as she was controversial.
But it also goes a step further, managing in just under two hours to place her tragic story in the broader context of Pakistans history and its troubled relations with rival neighbour India after independence.
That was the most difficult thing making sure that we are giving you an enormous amount of information, co-director Hernandez told AFP. And to make it entertaining was the only way to do that.
Ultra-slick editing, dynamic music and graphics, animation the directors pulled out all the stops to captivate their audience.
Producer Duane Baughman was quick to acknowledge that his goal was to make it as commercial, as active, as exciting, as moving as commercial movies.
It may be 115 minutes on the silver screen, but that was the very minimum to get the story, he added.
We dont feel like there is anything extraneous in there that we could have cut without losing something. Of course, every filmmaker feels that, but when you are talking about a country and a person, its pretty tough.
And yet the highly polished, produced aspect of Bhutto manages not to take away from its documentary strength.
The entire Bhutto family, friends and biographers sketch the portrait of a female figure who twice clinched victory as prime minister the first woman to occupy such a high post in any Muslim country and was on a third run for power when she was killed in a gun and suicide attack two years ago.
You mention the name of Bhutto, in Pakistan especially, and you will have no shortage of people who hate her and of people who love her, said Baughman.
For Hernandez, Bhutto was polarizing in many ways. The reasons speak so much about her, because there was a lot of things to say, on both hands.
Not satisfied with outlining her compelling successes, including restoring democracy to Pakistan, the documentary also tackles the many accusations of corruption that marred her name and that of her husband, current President Asif Ali Zardari.
Eerily enough, it is Bhuttos voice itself that narrates the film, culled from recordings for her autobiography.
Its one of our proudest achievements, said Baughman, noting that the tapes were recorded about 20 years ago.
They were in a basement, unheard before by any public audience.
Through Bhutto, the documentary also traces the fate of her family, dubbed Pakistans Kennedys.
It is a family dominated by her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former president and prime minister hanged by a military regime.
Assassinations, violent deaths or unexplained ones, internal conflict, glory and exile this roller-coaster ride forges the Bhutto legend.
You cannot have a conversation about those families without also asking what would have been. What would have been in a JFK (John F. Kennedy) second term, what would have been in a BB (Benazir Bhutto) third term? Baughman said.
But the film is also proof that Bhuttos two terms were already enough to fill history books.
Her legacy will be debated for the generations to come, Baughman added. —AFP
BBC NEWS | Americas | Film-maker killed in El Salvador
Film-maker killed in El Salvador
A French-Spanish film-maker who made a documentary about gang life in El Salvador has been shot dead there, officials say.
Christian Poveda, who was in his 50s, was found dead in a car north of the capital, San Salvador, police said.
His 2008 film La Vida Loca (The Crazy Life) followed the violent lives of members of the Mara 18 street gang.
Salvadorean President Mauricio Funes said he was shocked by Poveda’s death and ordered a full police inquiry.
Poveda first came to El Salvador as a photographer in the 1980s to cover its civil war.
He returned in the 1990s to focus on the Central American country’s street gangs.
According to local media reports quoted by Spanish news agency Efe, Poveda witnessed seven murders - three of them subjects of his film - in the course of making La Vida Loca.
The film has been shown at festivals in the US, Mexico, Spain and Cuba, as well as in El Salvador.
The Mara 18 and rival Mara Salvatrucha street gangs make up criminal networks stretching through Central America and into many US states.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8235174.stm
On Wednesday, the same gruesome sequence of events will unfold. And so it will continue for six months, until the dolphin hunting season concludes. Around Japan, about 20,000 of the gentle, intelligent mammals are killed every year, more than 2,000 of them in Taiji, which – according to a new film, The Cove – is the site of the world’s largest dolphin slaughter. The documentary, to be released in Britain in October, shines an unforgiving light on Taiji, “a small town with a big secret”, according to its American director, Louie Psihoyos. He hopes it will help halt the annual bloodbath. Dolphins, he says, “are the only wild animal known to come to the rescue of humans … and I thought it is about time somebody tried to rescue them.” (via Captured on film: dolphin bloodbath Japan tries to hide - Asia, World - The Independent)
The U.S. premiere of director Franny Armstrong’s eco docudrama, The Age of Stupid, will be bolstered by a unique worldwide, in-theater event on Sept. 21, including live satellite coverage of field scientists across the globe, spanning from New York, to the Himalayas and all the way to a remote, Indonesian rain forest. (via Radiohead and Kofi Annan Join Forces for U.S. Debut of The Age Of Stupid :: Film & TV News :: Articles :: Paste
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