Is it all the opposite of what it claims?
Links, Ponders & Wonders 10.29.24 Edition
Today’s LP&W Contents
The role of the artist?
Have you booked your FREE tickets yet?
I am done with them. You?
Today’s interesting seminar
Don’t do what they tell you to do.
Hollywood better wake up fast!
Less sex! Really?
Film obsessives rejoice!
One wonders why another one wanders
Is a book really a book anymore?
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It’s not that we are great at what we do….
I texted this earlier in the week in response to what a friend wrote about trying to make art and beautiful movies…
We are part of the whole. Individually, we are just humans and we fuck up. But we can and should reach for the stars. The willingness to fail is the path to reaching high — and sometimes grabbing it. All of us should learn to express ourselves fully. Few accomplish this, but even those that just get sort of close, inspire so many more to try. The more we try, the more often we get there. Creating and appreciating all the creation is what defines us and we must let drive us. I want us to be capable of the extraordinary and I have seen how occasionally we can be. I will keep betting it all to bring those moments into being as I believe it is all cumulative. We are all working together to get closer to the true masterwork. It will come. We are capable. And sometimes we get lucky.
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If you haven’t seen INVISIBLE NATION yet, and you are in LA next week…
We’ve got a free screening for you. On November 7th. At 730P. The Jeff Bridges Theater at UCLA is huge! We can fit all your friends. Your enemies too. And the tickets are free. We will be there.
Of course, if you are an AMPAS Doc Branch member you can see it on their portal, but we’d be happier if you’d see it on the big screen. We are the underdog. We are the little engine that could. We have been doing it for a year now, taking our show on the road.
Get your tickets here: https://gathr.com/events/e19881fe/invisible-nation-screening-q-a-with-director-vanessa-hope-ucla
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And yeah, when they are cowards and kowtow, I & 200,000 other people cancel.
I wrote this little poem and then cancelled my subscriptions to the WaPo and LA Times. We trust them with our media and truth and then they blatantly show they won’t go that route? I will look elsewhere for my understandings on what is happening now. I am giving that money I once gave to them to The Guardian, who otherwise gives it away for free, but have a little left over for a new Substack or two. #JustSaying!
Like The Papers, the Global Streaming Platforms, have an inherent obligation to deliver something. The Papers, it is truth, opinion, and the pursuit of the whole story, and then some. For the GSPs, it is the full range of perspectives on an equal playing field. More on that later.
Bezos tried to fix it, but if it was a policy as he said, it should of been done as early as possible. I suspect he suspected that no one would care. Thankfully people do care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
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Check this out today!
As soon as I encountered Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, I wanted to make a movie on eco-activists. That was probably forty years ago, and the book claimed “Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture”, but has yet to get made. Quite a few cousins and nieces and nephews have though. And by the impressive folks on this panel:
Tuesday, 4P PT: https://www.wgfoundation.org/events/all/2024/10/29/eco-activism-in-film-amp-tv
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Proof you should not follow the status quo?
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