Thursday, March 27, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Lust from Jaime Carrera on Vimeo.A film by Jaime Carrera. Music...
Lust from Jaime Carrera on Vimeo.
A film by Jaime Carrera.
Music by The Funeral And The Twilight.
Starring Benjamin Jones, Brandon Keegan & Noah Schafer.thefuneralandthetwilight.bandcamp.com/
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Van Life from Parachute Parachute on Vimeo.A paper cut-out, stop...
Van Life from Parachute Parachute on Vimeo.
A paper cut-out, stop motion animation made up of over 300 water color drawings. Loosely based on a true story about Vanagon ownership.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Pop-Up House: the affordable passive house from Multipod-Studio...
Pop-Up House: the affordable passive house from Multipod-Studio on Vimeo.
Four days and a wireless screwdriver are all you need to build the structure of a Pop-Up House. The house, compiled of insulating blocks and wooden panels, delivers affordable thermal insulation like you’d never believe.
Multipod Studio have patented a unique approach to passive construction that delivers outsanding thermal insulation at an affordable cost. No special tools required, the house is assembled using lightweight and recyclable materials for quick installation. The materials used are inexpensive so the cost remains unbeatable and the thermal envelope created means no additional heating is necessary. The first prototype of this new type of passive house, has bloomed in the pine valleys of the South of France.
The Pop-Up House is an innovative concept that aims to challenge passive house construction.Low cost, recyclable and passive, the Pop-Up House has all of the qualities of tomorrow’s homes.
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It Doesn’t Get Better from Jason Headley on Vimeo.For most...
It Doesn’t Get Better from Jason Headley on Vimeo.
For most kids in high school, the future promises better days. But for a certain group, there’s no time like the past.
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ReMoved from HESCHLE on Vimeo.You can alternatively view this...
ReMoved from HESCHLE on Vimeo.
You can alternatively view this film here: youtu.be/lOeQUwdAjE0
We made ReMoved with the desire that it would be used to serve in bringing awareness, encourage, and be useful in foster parent training, and raising up foster parents. .
If you would like to use the film for any of these reasons, the answer is yes.
If you need a downloadable version, you can download it here:
http://ift.tt/1j8NvP9Originally created for the 168 Film Festival, ReMoved follows the emotional story through the eyes of a young girl taken from her home and placed into foster care.
After winning Best Film and Audience Choice at the 168 Film Festival, as well as winning Best Film at the Enfoque Film Festival and being an official selection at the Santa Barbara Independent Film Festival, we’re extremely excited to share ReMoved online.
"It would be impossible to fully understand the life and emotions of a child going through the foster care system, but this short narrative film portrays that saga in a poetic light, with brushes of fear, anger, sadness, and a tiny bit of hope." -Santa Barbara Independent
This short film wouldn’t be possible without the help of an incredible group of people who donated their time and energy to this project.
And then of course Tony Cruz. I asked him early on if he’d be willing to tackle this with me. I wasn’t sure if I was really going to pursue it unless he said yes. He graciously agreed and was, to me, a huge source of confidence in knowing this project would turn out well. He and i discussed everything during the pre-production, and i counted on his creative mind to keep me on the right path. He even persuaded another key creative on the project, Greg Pickard, to join us. On Set Tony was my right hand man. On set, if I just wasn’t feeling it, I had the trust in him to be able to just hand the scene off to him and know he would make it work. And he stepped in plenty of times when i just needed a break, or a separate perspective. Some of the best moments in the film are of his doing. Go check him out at tonycruz.co
We were very fortunate with Abby White, the young actress. Without her we wouldn’t have a film.
Her parents were so amazing as well. I don’t think they anticipated how much involvement it would take on their end, but they stuck with it the whole way. Abby’s dad, Andy White from Good Times Guitar, even recorded Abby’s Voice Over for us in his studio.
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(notes on) biology from ornana films on Vimeo.keep up with the...
(notes on) biology from ornana films on Vimeo.
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"The Wonder Hospital" [Full film, 12min] from B. Shimbe Shim on...
"The Wonder Hospital" [Full film, 12min] from B. Shimbe Shim on Vimeo.
A surreal journey through a mysterious hospital that alters the perception of physical beauties. Plastic surgery is one of the optical-illusion devices we invented in this film. For more info. shimbe.com
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
The Naturalist from Connor Hurley on...
The Naturalist from Connor Hurley on Vimeo.
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Q&A with Short of the Week: http://ift.tt/1grTcFC"One of the most poignant and disturbing bits of dystopian sci-fi we’ve seen this year." - Fantastic Fest
“A damn fine downer…The choice our lead is faced with isn’t an easy one and I sure as hell won’t be spoiling it. If you get a chance to see it, do yourself a solid and make it happen. Beautiful film.” -Ain’t It Cool NewsWINNER! Brooklyn Film Festival Spirit Award for Short Narrative
World Premiere Seattle International Film Festival
Official Selection: Palm Springs Int’l Shortfest, Fantastic Fest, New Orleans Film Festival (Jury Award Finalist), 30 Under 30 film Festival, ASVOFF at Centre Pompidou.
Written, Produced and Directed by Connor Hurley
Produced by Siena Brown
Co-Produced by Max Tromba
Executive Producers Karen McGee, John Mckitrick, Neil & Lucy Hurley, Paulette Chapman
Director of Photography Michael Crommett
Edited by Ema Yamazaki, Connor Hurley
Original Score by Elana Ehrenberg
Wardrobe, Hair and Makeup by Ana Perditahttp://ift.tt/1iuNkx5
One of Fantastic Fest’s Top Five shorts: http://ift.tt/1kcah5K
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Odessa | A Film by Cidney Hue from Cidney Hue on Vimeo.Watch...
Odessa | A Film by Cidney Hue from Cidney Hue on Vimeo.
Watch Online & Download for Free @ odessathefilm.com
With English Closed Captioning & Spanish SubtitlesA Film by Cidney Hue
Starring Cat Walleck & Ken FullerBEST Narrative Short - Chain NYC Film Festival 2013
BEST Director of a Short - Chain NYC Film Festival 2013
BEST Sci-Fi Short - Atlantic City Cinefest/Downbeach Film Festival 2013Official Selection:
- Atlantic City Cinefest/Downbeach Film Festival 2013
- Chain NYC Film Festival 2013
- First Run Film Festival 2013
- Fresh Film Fest 2013 | Prague, CZ
- Hoboken Film Festival 2013
- Long Island Film Expo 2013
- New Filmmakers Online 2014
- New Jersey Film Festival 2014
- Noyes Museum of Art 2013
- Ópera Primera en Corto | Granada, ES
- Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival 2013
- Philip K Dick Film Festival 2013
- SAG Foundation Short Film Showcase 2014
- Queens World Film Festival 2014
- VOB Film Festival 2013
- Willifest 2014(C)opyright by Cidney Hue. All rights reserved.
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
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A cuddly lumberjack to share the sofa with.
A cuddly lumberjack to share the sofa with.
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
The Constitution is an atheistic document.
This recent quote by former House Majority Leader Tom Delay shocked me. “I think we got off the track when we allowed our government to become a secular government,” DeLay told host Matthew Hagee, the executive pastor of the Texas Cornerstone Church. “[W]e stopped realizing that God created this nation, that he wrote the Constitution, that it’s based on biblical principles.” That would have been dangerous talk in the days during which our country was founded. As Thomas Jefferson put it bluntly,“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”[1]
Mr. Delay, the United States Constitution was written by men. Fifty five men to be precise and thirty nine of them would eventually sign it, representing 12 of the 13 states, as Rhode Island did not send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. John Adams wrote, “Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence (sic) of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.” [2] Among the religious interests represented were Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Quakers and Catholics, as well as a Deist or two. These men, all well-educated and of strikingly diverse backgrounds, each had concerns for the potential of a single, state endorsed religion above all others as well as protecting each individual’s natural right to religious expression. They were not far removed in time from the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition and were keenly aware of recent excesses of fanatical devotion. “Some very worthy persons, who have not had great advantages for information, have objected against that clause in the constitution which provides, that no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. They have been afraid that this clause is unfavorable to religion. But my countrymen, the sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution, and to secure to you the important right of religious liberty. We are almost the only people in the world, who have a full enjoyment of this important right of human nature. In our country every man has a right to worship God in that way which is most agreeable to his conscience. If he be a good and peaceable person he is liable to no penalties or incapacities on account of his religious sentiments; or in other words, he is not subject to persecution. But in other parts of the world, it has been, and still is, far different. Systems of religious error have been adopted, in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates, to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish, and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error, but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.” [3]. Alexander Hamilton’s grandfather was, in fact, a French Huguenot who fled France to avoid persecution by King Louis XIV, for simply being Protestant.
Intellectual advancements, such as the scientific method transformed the mystical arts of alchemy into modern chemistry and physics, turned eccentric wizard into respected scientist and ushered in a new age of inquiry and debate. They were witness to an awakening in the world that freed many from the slavery of blind faith and they understood the power of reason, observation and above all else, education. This wisdom allowed these intelligent, worldly men to devise a system of government that relied on the natural grace and integrity of humankind itself as a foundation for a civil society. “The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.” [4]
One of the most esteemed and honored figures of the time was Thomas Jefferson who professed his strongly held beliefs in a simple and concise manner. “I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”[5] He was a man who studied philosophy, history, geology, botany, and was curious about everything. Although author and signatory of many historically famous documents, he listed the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom one of his proudest accomplishments, second of three that he wished to be listed on his headstone.
So what happened? Apathy? Ignorance? Lack of interest? Why are we facing more and more religious tests, exceptions, exemptions and allowances, including continued tax-exempt status for churches, when these impulses for theocracy were foreseen and warned against strongly by our very own founders? Said the Connecticut Delegate, Oliver Wolcott, of what has come to be known as the Establishment Clause,“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”[6]
Well said, sir. And oppression is what would ensue if current forces are allowed to continue their shadowy usurpation of power. From the Dominion movement in Evangelical Christianity to Christian militia groups in the Pacific Northwest and around the country, reaction to society’s progress by those unhappy with that progress is increasingly militant and fearful. As these populations continue to lose influence and long held privileges, Americans will have to be extra vigilant that religion never succeeds in taking over the reins of governance. Sorry Mr. Delay, you were wrong about almost everything else in your political career and you are most definitely wrong on this.
[2] John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” (1787-88)
[3] Oliver Ellsworth, Philip B Kurland and Ralph Lerner (eds.), The Founder’s Constitution, University of Chicago Press, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 638
[4] John Adams, “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America” 1787-1788
[6] Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 9 January 1788
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Guest starring: Chaco! (at AEONS Haus)
Guest starring: Chaco! (at AEONS Haus)
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It’s the hurdy-gurdy man! (at Blue Moon Café)
It’s the hurdy-gurdy man! (at Blue Moon Café)
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