I’ve been feeling massively apathetic about politics, basically since 2004, but more profoundly in the last year or so. The situation has seemed simultaneously so comical and dire that I haven’t had the stomach for it. I look at some of these front runner presidential candidates from the two parties and I can’t imagine how they’ve gotten any kind of enthusiastic support from anyone.

RU Sirius has lit what I think might be a beacon of light in the gloomy wilderness of national politics. He published two documents this week entitled The QuestionAuthority Proposal and The Open Source Party Proposal. They have me sort of excited, because for the first time in a long time I’m thinking about politics as practical and tangible, rather than the televised dog-and-pony vision of politics that we get from Washington, DC.

Posted: November 28th, 2007 under Politics.
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My grandfather, Richard Edes Harrison, made this by hand. I have a couple of pieces like this. I thought I’d share the awesome.

Posted: November 13th, 2007 under Miscellaneous.
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My former boss and current pal Anthony Artis just released an awesome book that anyone interested in making their video projects good ought to have on their shelf. He started the project a few years ago and has finally gotten it professionally published in a beautiful full-color book!

The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide is great for documentarians, but it also has generally great practical advice for anyone who wants to do video and doesn’t have the benefit of a fat budget and a huge, expertly trained crew, whether the project is fiction or non.

He supplements the book with a DVD that has even more, easily absorbed knowledge for how to de-suck your productions, and to round it off he has a blog and a podcast. Keep your eyes on the podcast. Anthony had someone on set shooting behind the scenes on my recent music video shoot, so I might show up on there!

Posted: November 2nd, 2007 under Film and Video.
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