tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58796258493054999052024-03-13T23:45:07.949-07:00CRYO-NOW REALITY FILMSJeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-48762912075395792122012-09-12T11:47:00.002-07:002012-09-12T11:51:01.164-07:00RON FRICKE'S 'SAMSARA' EXPLORES OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ETERNAL<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>NOTE FROM JEFF: </b> To me, Ron Fricke has done for cinematography what Jimi Hendrix did for guitar...revolution in the true sense of taking it to another level entirely. His earlier films <i>Chronos</i>, <i>Koyaanisqatsi</i>, and <i>Baraka</i> are testaments of 'non-verbal' and neo-'cinema verite' film-making that truly transcend the medium. None of these films have 'actors' per se (although the people appearing in the films are coached), narrators, talking of any kind, or any of the standard fare you would expect in a 'feature' film; yet, neither are they 'documentaries' as their subject matter is the entire cosmos, focusing on Earth for the time being. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fricke builds a new camera system for each film, working from the Todd 70mm system. His cameras are mounted on high-tech computerized equatorial platforms that can track celestial motions in the same way that telescopes do. His films contain some of the freakiest and longest time-lapse sequences of, for example, an entire night compressed into a minute, showing the stars moving across the sky, clouds whizzing through, then the sun rising on majestic canyons in the America southwest...the coolest time-lapse I've ever seen! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fricke's concepts all relate directly to his overall philosophy of film-making. <i>'Chronos'</i> is an ancient Greek word meaning 'time' but was also a deity as well as the planet Saturn. <i> 'Koyaanisqatsi'</i> is a Hopi word meaning 'crazy life' or 'life out of balance' and depicts human industrial civilization with its pedal to the metal; this film, the only one of the Goddfrey Reggio's 'qatsi trilogy' that's got any power, is based on three main Hopi prophecies which are actually sung in Hopi: "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster...Near the day of purification, cob-webs will be spun back and forth in the sky...a gourd of ash will be thrown from the sky which will burn the land and boil the oceans." <i>'Baraka</i>' is a Sufi word meaning 'blessing' and has Fricke's characteristic land-scape and time-lapse sequences but also people around the world doing their 'spiritual' things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>'Samsara</i>', his latest film, is a Sanskrit word meaning 'wheel of life' and has to do with 'illusion'. This film I'm sure has all the Fricke trade-mark features, but focuses more on the 'people' side of things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ron Fricke says that his basic philosophy of film-making is 'to explore humanity's relationship with the eternal.' In a world gone mad with consumerism and fabricated 'reality' shoved down our throats, these films are a testament to the spirit of true creative vision, philosophical exploration and cosmic insight into what it means to be here now as human beings...a precious gift that very few of us actually appreciate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>DON'T MISS 'SAMSARA'..<i>.coming soon to a theatre near you.</i></b></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_2_0_20_1347473264149242"><span style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The team behind </span></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Baraka</em><span style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;"> reunites for another journey around the world in </span><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samsara</em><span style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;">, exploring themes of birth, life, death and rebirth through stunning visuals and music. 'Samsara' is a Tibetan word that means "the ever turning wheel of life," and the film is an unparalleled sensory experience. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;" /><span style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;">Through powerful, breathtaking images pristinely photographed in 70mm and a dynamic music score,</span><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samsara</em><span style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;"> shows how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet. The filmmakers give us privileged access to profound scenarios. For filmgoers who cherished the revelations of </span><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Baraka</em><span style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;"> almost twenty years ago,</span><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 15.383333206176758px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samsara</em><span style="line-height: 15.383333206176758px;"> proves to be worth the wait.</span> </span></div>
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‘trailer’ for our ‘beyond film’ about who the whales and dolphins are
as fellow sentient beings, as well as the real global threats to their
health and well-being.</span></div>
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<span class="yiv551733939Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;"><i>'Aihe Tohora Paikea Wananga'</i> is
ancient Maori for “the knowledge and wisdom of whales and dolphins.” I
won’t go into too much detail here, but this ‘trailer’ is just the tiny
tip of the HUGE ice-berg that our full ‘beyond film’ will be…an
ice-berg that is destined to ‘sink the Titanics’ of humanity’s
species-specific ‘superiority complex’, as well as our delusions about
the REAL global threats to cetaceans…and ourselves, but most
importantly, to celebrate the existence of the best friends humanity
ever had, to ‘plumb the depths of awe and mystery, blend with a vast
spiritual consciousness, at once intimately familiar and immensely
incomprehensible.’</span></div>
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whales and dolphins have been guiding this whole process, ever since I
first encountered them in 1981, and first came ‘down under’ to the
aquatic hemisphere of Gaia. The connection has deepened and gone to
next levels several times over, especially when three dolphins
approached Liesbet and myself as we were swimming off Great Barrier in
2010. We were transformed by that meeting of minds, and we came away
with a huge sense of urgency, a warning, if you will, of impending
danger of a global nature. A few months later the Fukushima
catastrophe began, which is by far the largest ecological disaster of
human origin ever to occur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I think that the cetaceans are using their highly
advanced ‘internal technologies’ of group-telepathy and holographic
consciousness-transmission to beam their love and message into the
human psyche, now more than ever...</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Within
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collective psyche they may have memories and knowledge of the
history of Earth and humanity that we are unable and/or unwilling to
access. They may have knowledge of life elsewhere in the universe…of
telepathically-connected galactic communities…and a greater
appreciation of the beauty and uniqueness of life on THIS planet.
Perhaps they are the ‘mind of Gaia’ herself."</span></div>
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'beyond film' will be based on some of the ideas and information in
this article. Stay tuned...COMING SOON TO A PLANET YEAR YOU. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="yiv551733939Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;">JEFF PHILLIPS & LIESBET VERSTRAETEN</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="yiv551733939Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;">MOTHERSHIP EARTH</span></b></span></div>
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Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-68592617368823977962011-07-12T02:58:00.000-07:002012-08-16T03:35:14.672-07:00“GAIOTEA DREAMING”<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-_oq2i75JkjROduC0cvRarg13ItbxAGmcU7PIa_qhTOfTNjd45DlEA2WC-fC4MxaWq4I3pn3eKmrEv9s4M1qmem3IC8YcaQyyh2Cl4Um2wpmxN7p6MNOxfRmHlGtcym0kXDOFMwM0t44/s1600/DSC_7940a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630119598617955378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho-_oq2i75JkjROduC0cvRarg13ItbxAGmcU7PIa_qhTOfTNjd45DlEA2WC-fC4MxaWq4I3pn3eKmrEv9s4M1qmem3IC8YcaQyyh2Cl4Um2wpmxN7p6MNOxfRmHlGtcym0kXDOFMwM0t44/s320/DSC_7940a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 213px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />NEW SLIDE-SHOW DVD </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Over 1000 photos of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand<br /><br />LINKS TO GREAT BARRIER ISLAND PHOTOS</span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDOCTOBER2009" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDOCTOBER2009</a><br /><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDOCTOBER20092" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDOCTOBER20092</a><br /><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20091" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20091</a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20091" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><br /></a><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20092" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20092</a><br /><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20093" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20093</a><br /><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20094" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDNOVEMBER20094</a><br /><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDDECEMBER2009" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDDECEMBER2009</a><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/GREATBARRIERISLANDNEWZEALANDDECEMBER2009" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><br /></a><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/New_Zealand_GreatBarrierIsland" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/New_Zealand_GreatBarrierIsland</a><br /><br /><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/NZ_GreatBarrierIsland" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/NZ_GreatBarrierIsland</a></span><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/AnalogDreaming"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/AnalogDreaming</span></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">We just spent two lovely months on <span style="font-style: italic;">Aotea</span>, or Great Barrier Island as the “pakeha” call her, which is located approximately 90 kms east of Auckland, New Zealand. Thanks in large part to our great friends John and Peggy-anne Garlick, we have been able to spend some very high quality time there in recent years, being able to live very close to the edge of the sea, in close contact with nature, in an environment that is relatively undisrupted by development and the intrusion of commerce and industry. For a while now we’ve been wanting to make a film about Great Barrier, and we wanted to make the film there; we weren’t able to access our library of mini-dv tapes while we were there, so we came up with the idea of making a “slide-show” of our still photos, on a dvd that could be viewed as a movie.<br /><br />On our films we’ve always used original music I did with friends, but for this project we compiled a sound-track consisting of selected tracks from artists whose music we like and that fit with the spirit of what this project is all about: loving Mother Earth, appreciating her beauty and the fragility of life as we know her. The name “Gaiotea” is a synthesis of <span style="font-style: italic;">Gaia</span>, the ancient Greek name for the Earth, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Aotea</span>, the ancient Maori name for Great Barrier, meaning “white cloud.” We chose over 1000 still photos, both film and digital, for this presentation. We hope you enjoy the awesome beauty of this magical place, truly a gem in the crown of New Zealand’s real “clean and green” natural heritage. Many thanks to the various musical artists whose songs we’ve included in our sound-track; we are in the process of contacting each of these people, not only to request their permission for using their material, but mainly to share a copy of the project with them.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">SOUNDCLOUD LINK TO LISTEN TO/DOWN-LOAD SOUND-TRACK:</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #9999ff;">MUSIC WE USED IN THIS PRESENTATION</span> </span>(song title/artist/cd)<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 100%;">“Four Pillars” <span style="font-family: arial;">Tuu</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Mesh </span><br /><br />“Wilderness <span style="font-family: arial;">Lost”</span> <span style="font-family: arial;">Dan Gibson's Solitudes</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Harmony</span><br /><br />“Freedom at Sea” <span style="font-family: arial;">Dan Gibson's Solitudes</span> Harmony<br /><br />“Tree Spirit” <span style="font-family: arial;">Dean Evenson &Tom Barabas</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Wind Dancer</span><br /><br />“Day Sky, Night Sky” <span style="font-family: arial;">R. Carlos Nakai & Peter Kater</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Water</span><br /><br />“Clouds” <span style="font-family: arial;">Dean Evenson & Tom Barabas</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Wind Dancer</span><br /><br />“Laughing Waters” <span style="font-family: arial;">Deuter</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Mystery of Light</span><br /><br />“Between Worlds” <span style="font-family: arial;">Erik Wøllo & Deborah Martin</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Between Worlds</span><br /><br />“Brazilian Love” <span style="font-family: arial;">Deuter</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Ecstasy</span><br /><br />“Silent Nostalgia” <span style="font-family: arial;">Erik Wøllo</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Blue Sky, Red Guitars</span><br /><br />“Coyita” <span style="font-family: arial;">Gustavo Santaolalla</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Ronroco</span><br /><br />“Cumbres Andinas” <span style="font-family: arial;">Inkuyo </span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Window to The Andes</span><br /><br />“Desert Wind” <span style="font-family: arial;">Alice Gomez with Madalyn Blanchett & Marilyn Rife </span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">While The Eagle Sleeps</span><br /><br />“Raven Dance” <span style="font-family: arial;">Scott August</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Lost Canyons</span><br /><br />“River On” <span style="font-family: arial;">Dean Evenson & Soundlings Ensemble</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Eagle River</span><br /><br />“Grandfather's Song” <span style="font-family: arial;">Bamboo Cedar Oak</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Song of Our Grandfathers</span><br /><br />“East Wind Awaken” <span style="font-family: arial;">David & Steve Gordon</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Shaman's Vision Journey</span><br /><br />“Last Wild River” <span style="font-family: arial;">R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman</span><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Feather, Stone & Light</span><br /><br />“Afternoon at Uluru” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman,</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Feather, Stone & Light</span><br /><br />“Sunpath” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Dancing into Silence</span><br /><br />“A Breath of Peace” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Dancing into Silence</span><br /><br />“Memory's Children” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton & Will Clipman,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /> <span style="color: #33ccff; font-style: italic;">Dancing into Silence</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #33ccff;">“Rain” </span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-family: arial;">Burning Sky</span><span style="color: #33ccff;"> </span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-style: italic;">Creation</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #33ccff;">“Calling the Sun” </span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-family: arial;">Scott August</span><span style="color: #33ccff;"> </span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-style: italic;">Lost Canyons</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #33ccff;">“White” </span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-family: arial;">Deuter</span><span style="color: #33ccff;"> </span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-style: italic;">Earth Blue</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #33ccff;">“Drifting Petals” </span><span style="color: #33ccff; font-family: arial;">Ralph Towner</span><span style="color: #33ccff;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #33ccff;">Solstice</span></span><span style="color: #3333ff;"><span style="color: #66cccc;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">NOTE:</span> </span><span style="color: #66cccc;"> As time and conditions permit, we will re-release this slide-show with all-original music; for now, each of these musical artists has some very nice music to check out. Also, we can supply </span><span style="color: #66cccc;">high-resolution prints</span><span style="color: #66cccc;"> of any of these Great Barrier Island photos, on paper or canvas...just contact us on email.</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #ff99ff; font-size: 100%;">JEFF PHILLIPS & LIESBET VERSTRAETEN<br />HOBART TASMANIA<br />JULY 2011</span></span></span></span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-27933559794430110832011-01-17T17:47:00.000-08:002011-01-17T18:12:12.869-08:00"TE WAIWAIA DREAMING" ON OUR SITE NOW!<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >LINK TO WATCH "TE WAIWAIA DREAMING"</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_video/tewaiwaia-dreaming.html"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295315290_0">http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_video/tewaiwaia-dreaming.html</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Greetings! It's been about six months since we finished our third film. We've given away and posted hundreds of dvd's so far, and after a lot of good work by our friend Douglas Webster and the guys at Photon.net, "Te Waiwaia" is now up for viewing from our </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.blogger.com/www.dolphinmatrix.com/Jeff">www.dolphinmatrix.com/Jeff </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">site; if you go to the main page, the link is right below the title.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Douglas went to extra effort to make it look and sound really good, much better than it would on youtube. As well, it's all in one piece. The audio is full .AIFF, which sounds fantastic.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I'll offer a note of explanation on the surprise "tourist attack" sequence in the middle of the film. We thought it was pretty clear what was happening and why we put this in there, but some people don't get it. To get to that water-fall at Lily Ponds in Nitmiluk, we had walked about 15 kms in extremely hot weather. It was fairly gruelling. We'd just had about an hour of silence and solitude alone there, and we were putting our clothes back on after a nice swim, when all of a sudden the crows started making a sound as if they were very annoyed. Then out of nowhere dozens...but it seemed like hundreds...of tourists came marching in on us, just like a herd of cows that had been let out. The truly weird thing was that it literally seemed as if we were invisible to them. They almost stepped on us! This one fat lady came and stood right with her ass in my face as if I weren't even there. I stood up and pointed my video camera at her. In the film you can hear her slowed-down moan "You right?" We were astonished not to mention disturbed by all this. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We saw that they had come off of two tourist tour boats that had landed a hundred meters or so behind us. They'd struggled to walk 100 meters and we'd walked 15 kilometers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">These people all had gray auras and seemed quite zombie-like and spiritually alseep or even dead. They also seemed extremely bovine as they just followed the tour leader to their "pasture", grazed a bit on a view or two, then returned to their stock vessel.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We left immediately upon their invasion, to get back into the dream-time vibration from which we'd been rudely disrupted.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The helicopter footage was shot literally from sitting in front of our tent at the caravan park in Litchfield National Park. They were that close to us. Two choppers landed, let out a family or so of "Americans", and they drove off in 4wd vehicles. About two hours later, they all returned, took off, and disappeared over the horizon.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This sequence in the film is our commentary on "industrial tourism" and the extremely negative effect it's having on the possibility of having a positive wilderness experience in many areas throughout Australia and New Zealand.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We will continue to make documentary films about our travels and about real-world issues, but this film is more in the direction that we'd like to go in terms of being purely artistic and conceptual.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Thanks again to Peter Cholmondeley for giving us a place to work, to Ian McAllister for musical wizardry, to David Daly for electronic wizardry, and to Mother Earth and the Great Spirit for a beautiful...and fragile...planet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Jeff Phillips</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Christchurch NZ</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-51326803624764649332010-09-09T22:57:00.000-07:002011-01-17T17:46:47.262-08:00TE WAIWAIA DREAMING<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4fCbs622vaDIA98kkbMMrO671yg-6TNMQF5zf_wnVhIES3CA9YVljoAWL0ILWVw67RDKVl2cn5DjVjgz_DthuH0GylfjygEEj5j-sqoEi4nWodOYzY5RWKYqYM0zljtJxzmRmyOQxWkO/s1600/DSC_9744a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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There's no talking, and the soundtrack is a blend of three original tracks I've composed and recorded. The title means "the realms of the beautiful waters" and is taken from Barry Brailsford's book <span style="font-style: italic;">Song of the Whale</span>; we included a few sentences of text from his book to open and close the film. It's only 21 minutes long, so we're making an attempt to get thsi one up on-line so we can share it with everyone without having to post dvd's all over the world. But we'll still do this with our more special friends, of course! I'm trying to upload it to <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.dailymotion.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.dailymotion.com</span></a> at this time, but I won't have the url for viewing for a while until I've been authorized as a "motion-maker"! Will keep you posted as things progress. We're very excited about this film, as it's more what we're really all about as experimental film-makers, although we will continue our annual <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo</span> series and will continue to make films about special places like Great Barrier Island New Zealand. Our <span style="font-style: italic;">beyond-film</span> about who the whales and dolphins are, as fellow sentient beings, is coming into view over the horizon, too...<br /></span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-75093379319932718962010-05-09T01:07:00.001-07:002012-03-06T22:21:53.045-08:00THE CHRONICLES OF BALARNIA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5sWuAJ76UC4xq0rfCCqYbgSrOIX-7p6_kX7JjQzHfYSuhqWZyG8zan154qU6UbfSFUsfH4wC_kSXcxIl3FNlwm9mAAo2zGGL5YPEXmZujWovvq57yF05VqcxOT6ZvB9KFqBUa6xWZ8-PO/s1600/rachel_carson650.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5sWuAJ76UC4xq0rfCCqYbgSrOIX-7p6_kX7JjQzHfYSuhqWZyG8zan154qU6UbfSFUsfH4wC_kSXcxIl3FNlwm9mAAo2zGGL5YPEXmZujWovvq57yF05VqcxOT6ZvB9KFqBUa6xWZ8-PO/s320/rachel_carson650.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469183160607966530" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD4AM4g6oG9QKAkFei9xs1nw2vrNReW79_abAZ9z9AJ4QQgUKNksA36Z626pyiHqZuclyCxoRGqNCMpodiHyDo2tCg4S_vt_tV_dbBgtvEHM9WjurhN_cSsms_J425oze8rATWov4NfrSc/s1600/ARNI+ROCK+HEAD.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiewJOLFpw8celLQU7LKOLBRNnINFz8ZLglL1hc_4Hr_rA8Vzc627RD5lNcDCoDNgHaQDAdSwYs87lP9czXOP8JxoxFQZAhN16wF-C1IsyJfKJ8gKSu9mBUFoz33LGrAmuwF89EEpN0-mL/s320/DSC_0796a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469181253146171266" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">THE CHRONICLES OF BALARNIA</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">Another Reality Film by Jeff Phillips & Liesbet Verstraeten</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Every human being...they must have a dream, you know? Arni Erickson, 2007</span><br /><br />We’ve finally finished our second film, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Chronicles of Balarnia</span>, after working on it for the past nine months. Based on the six weeks we spent on Flinders Island, Tasmania, in the (austral) summer of 2009, visiting our friend Arni “Balarni” Erickson at his “hut village” by the sea, this film is at the next level technically from <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo 2008</span>, but continues in a similar vein of being a true ‘reality film’ shot by us as we went: no actors, staged events, camera crews, repeating a ‘take.’ None of that. Films of this nature are only possible when your cameras are almost part of your body.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Like <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo 2008</span>, the soundtrack is all-original music by Jeff Phillips and friends, as well as didge/flute contributions from Dave Johnson; in addition, Tasmanian muso/friend Graham “Holly” Hollingsworth contributed a new track he recorded called “Sweet Train Shuffle.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Also like <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo 2008</span>, the pace is fairly slow and even, with no brain-entraining rapid-editing “technical events”; but we have included several spacey “dream-time sequences” consisting of “naturo-delic” overlays.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">A big difference between <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo 2008</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Balarnia</span> is that whereas <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo ’08 </span>covered an entire year, <span style="font-style: italic;">Balarnia</span> covers only six weeks; this enables a much more comprehensive and in-depth presentation of what it was like to be there, to share what we did and where we went, how we spent our time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Balarnia</span> opens with some excerpts from <span style="font-style: italic;">The Edge of the Sea</span> by Rachel Carson, to whom this film is dedicated; it was during our time there that we really discovered the legacy of Rachel Carson, as Arni had a paperback copy of the first edition of <span style="font-style: italic;">Silent Spring</span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The film itself is an essentially chronological portrayal of our day-to-day life at Balarnia, where we measured the passage of time not only by the sun, moon and stars, but also by the growth rates of several young chickens who had just been hatched when we arrived.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Arni’s “hut village” has been carefully constructed over the past 20 or so years using nothing new, only driftwood and materials from salvage yards, old houses or barns, junk-yards, or that people gave him. Water is from rainfall. He has no reticulated electricity, only a tiny 12-volt solar panel that runs a small refrigerator. To the casual observer, his buildings may seem ram-shackle and insubstantial; but in reality, the construction is simultaneously solid and artistic. The almost total absence of right-angles, as well as the presence of vegetables growing indoors, would have impressed Hundertwasser!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I came up with the term “semi-permaculture” to describe the mode of living there; Arni said that his buildings weren’t meant still to be standing a hundred years from now. His place is in harmony with nature, and is not the flagrant violation of ecology, economy and beauty that most modern dwellings aspire to be. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Living far from artificial electromagnetic fields may prove to be one of the most essential requirements for sane and healthful living that we can strive for. It’s not easy to do, especially with the almost total ubiquity of mobile phone signals and, just as bad, wireless (“wi-fi”) connections for internet, cordless phones, or other devices.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">At Balarnia, however, none of these were present. And there were no other people within several kilometres. We were therefore able to maintain a state of complete union with nature, with the sounds and rhythms of wind, rain, birds, and especially, the ocean. She is truly the “ultimate solution.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Day and night throughout our weeks there, the sound of the ocean in all its variation of tone and intensity was an absolute constant; only for brief moments, for example, during storms or high wind, or just after a storm, when she was totally still and glassy, was the acoustic connection broken. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">When we left, and spent our first night away from the sea in over six weeks, it was hard to go to sleep because something dear to us was missing, something comforting and friendly, the voice of someone you love. I had a similar experience after sleeping on my friend Peter’s sail boat “Chavon” for a couple months in 2004; after sleeping right at the water line, gently moving all night, for the entire time, the first night I tried to sleep on a solid surface was strange and difficult because it was so motionless. There’s something truly magic about water in all her forms.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I won’t tell you too much about the film, but there’s a lot of very colourful imagery of the surrounding landscapes, including Bottleneck Beach with amazing sandstone formations on the hill above; lots of footage of our evolving paintings and other art projects there; and a fair amount of Arni himself, including some footage I shot during my first visit in 2006, but not too much, because, really, we didn’t really see him all that much. We all like it like that! We also show Arni practicing his old job from the Swedish merchant navy; we won’t tell you what it is, but it has something in common with our hand-painted rocks!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We also document the construction of our first medicine wheel, which, like my rock-painting, was very much of a native American inspiration.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The closing credit sequence is in some ways the most artistic part of the film, in that it consists of an extended “naturo-delic” over-lay in the acoustic as well as visual dimensions.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">At the very end, I make my first appearance as “film-maker/information activist” and share my views on the legacy of Rachel Carson and of our attitude towards and philosophy of being here now on beautiful Spaceship Earth: <span style="font-style: italic;"> “Live simply so that others may simply live.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">One further technical refinement will be made when Ian McAllister of Christchurch masters the soundtrack for us; this should be done in the very near future. At this point we’ll be ready to start sending out copies of Balarnia to everyone we know. Right now, we’ve given away well over 600 copies of <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo 2008</span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Upcoming projects include <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo 2009</span>, Naturo-delic (beauty and pattern in art and nature), <span style="font-style: italic;">Tutunui-Wananga</span> (the consciousness of whales), and a film about our months on Great Barrier Island New Zealand last year, tentatively entitled <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryotea: Barrier to Beauty.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Chronicles of Balarnia</span> (NTSC, 4:3, 1 hr. 54 min. playing time)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Another Reality Film by Jeff Phillips & Liesbet Verstraeten</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">A <span style="font-style: italic;">Cryo-Now</span> Production</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">RATED N*</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">COMING SOON TO A DVD PLAYER NEAR YOU! BURN IT!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">* Natural</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">Jeff Phillips</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">Batchelor NT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">Australia</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">5 May 2010</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-58724169745153475362009-11-06T14:41:00.000-08:002009-11-06T14:42:38.275-08:00FEEDBACK FROM GLENN FLETCHER<span style="font-family: verdana;">"JUST TO SAY GOT THE BEAUTIFUL NOTE AND STUNNING AND HUMBLING MOVIE BRO, IT CAPTURED REAL LIVING AND THE </span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: verdana;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257547188_0">WONDERFUL WORLD</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> THE ELITE ARE DESTROYING AT GREAT EFFORT."<br /><br />NOTE FROM JEFF: Glenn plays drums/percussion on the track "Volcano" from our film and has some new music coming out soon, too!<br /></span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-85349789646483823232009-11-02T13:51:00.000-08:002009-11-02T13:53:08.729-08:00FEEDBACK FROM WAYNE IN THE U.K.<p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Hey <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257198534_0">Jeff! Wayne</span> here!</span></p> <p style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:100%;">THANKYOU and Liesbet for the DVD. I only just got it! I don't get back to my parents house so often at all to pick up my mail and so was absolutely DELIGHTED to receive your gift. THANKYOU! It's a great view and I actually chuckled a bit too - "No food for Jeff!" Tee Hee! Those are some pretty natty tricks you can do and I especially enjoyed the 'oily' nature of water. It certainly looks like you guys had a fantastic trip - I'm just glad that I managed to make your acquaintance during that time!</span></p>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-20755583815787903462009-09-12T03:46:00.002-07:002009-09-12T03:47:49.467-07:00FEEDBACK FROM JULIA & MARTIN JEFFERSON (qld australia)<span style="font-family: verdana;">Hi Jeff and Liesbet Julia here,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Martin is working away in the background. We saw your film that you sent us and Thomas has a copy of it and I know he has watched it. I loved the scenery and was especially facinated with the man who made the guitars, as I have a love of wood and trees. You seem to come across the most facinating people which must be rewarding in a world so full of war and violence. As a family we have a motto to do a good deed everyday. 'Remember not to be sad that it's over but happy that you did it'. ( a favourite saying)</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-79224715352049012652009-09-12T03:46:00.001-07:002009-09-12T03:46:49.657-07:00FEEDBACK FROM JEAN-LUC BOZZOLLI (hawaii)<span style="font-family: verdana;">Hello Jeff</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thank you for your DVD I finally watched it and I like it very much.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is maybe because we had similar journey, I hitchhiked these places ( NZ & OZ ) in the late 70s unfortunately I did it by myself not with a gorgeous lady... but it was good, actually very mystical for me.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So you did too as you put some of your art, that was great.... we see Nature... how splendid ! and we see/feel also the energy of the spaces within and out all around in Geometry and Colors</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">It was a great journey... and you shown it at it my levels</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">MAHALO Nui Loa</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Jean-Luc</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-51168072312208035802009-09-12T03:44:00.000-07:002009-09-12T03:46:00.761-07:00FEEDBACK FROM RICHARD K. MOORE (ireland)<span style="font-family: verdana;">Hi Jeff,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Finally found time to watch the DVD. Enjoyed it very much. Liked the combination of hitch-hike scenes, camping, scenery, host houses, art work, etc. Nice mix, like being on the trip with you. Music tracks are very nice. I especially like the piano pieces over the Tasmanian and Scottish segments. The Australian scenery just prior to the Eden sequence was very much like the coast of south-west Ireland.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">all the best,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">richard</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-78823568870063054732009-08-17T18:47:00.000-07:002009-08-17T20:58:46.991-07:00FEEDBACK FROM DOUGLAS "DOLPHINUS"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtz0hcwr-2beYtTcwC7FPvmCVf_D-5JI6h6coQL74QMbnY8C9GPDPk9ZWMfzQDtSI8oMo-3T3xUqvHLQpkCsKn4UN6oWcdjBmhRVOcFFcI9SGyBGb-SeK74DpyoYvKbv6uw2HG8dTWuJD/s1600-h/douglaswebster_thumb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 119px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtz0hcwr-2beYtTcwC7FPvmCVf_D-5JI6h6coQL74QMbnY8C9GPDPk9ZWMfzQDtSI8oMo-3T3xUqvHLQpkCsKn4UN6oWcdjBmhRVOcFFcI9SGyBGb-SeK74DpyoYvKbv6uw2HG8dTWuJD/s320/douglaswebster_thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371148314192166258" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >NOTE FROM JEFF: Douglas is a fantastic cosmic spirit, former international art dealer, and great lover of cetaceans. His astronomical magnanimity is facilitating a lot of communications technology for us now! Cheers bro! Jeff</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" href="http://dolphinmatrix.com/home.html">http://dolphinmatrix.com/home.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hey Jeff,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I got your package in the mail and just finished watching your DVD. What a great docu-postcard from your incredible journey. What a great treasure of experiences and adventures. </span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-family:verdana;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560176_0" >Camera work</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> was excellent and the editing superb with the soundtrack really bringing it all together. This may well become an underground hit for its tribute to the </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560176_1" style="font-family:verdana;">free spirit</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> lifestyle and a chronicles of a Reconnaissance Man's quest for quiddity. Great job - both of you! Hey, and thanks for the credit line. That was a cool gesture, brah.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I see that the webpages for RegainYourBrain are in tack and I'll see what I can do to float them up within the Dolphinville domain and let you know. Some of the links look to be dead however. I'll look into it and see what I can do.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Be Well and thanks again for the </span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;font-family:verdana;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560176_2" >travel documentary</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Reminds me a bit of Bruce Chadwins books.<br /><br /></span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Songlines-Bruce-Chatwin/dp/0140094296"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560176_3">http://www.amazon.com/Songlines-Bruce-Chatwin/dp/0140094296</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Keep up the good work bruddah.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Be Well and Swim Free,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Love & Aloha,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Douglas</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hey Jeff,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Nice email. Thanks for sharing some of your thoughts. I do value our friendship and admire the kind of 'warrior's path' you have set upon. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I'd say you are getting a huge return on your investment of time and energy to experience nature's wonder as it overlays with your inner belief system. You're living the </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">ultimate road trip</i><span style="font-family:verdana;">, dude! And yes, I do agree that we should leave little or no footprints upon the landscape and I strive to do so in my personal life. Unfortunately a majority of people are like babies crapping the diaper, oblivious to what they're doing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> It amuses me enormously that our life paths are in rich contextural resonant harmony with one another, my friend. Each echos similar aspects of what I have sensed with my first-hand encounters with the </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Cosmic Whale</i><span style="font-family:verdana;"> phenomenon itself and in meeting other in the chorus such as Lilly, Joan Ocean, Jean-Luc Bozzoli, </span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;font-family:verdana;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560239_0" >Jim Nollman</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, Ric O'Barry and a host of others in the international community like Scott Taylor, Kim Kindersley and Peter Shenstone to name a few. They all know beyond words what that experience is conveying to humanity. It is a kinship that has likewise drawn us together.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Curiously, I somehow feel a particular resonance with my relationship to you on the one hand and that of another friend of mine, </span><a face="verdana" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.blogger.com/Timothy%20Wyllie,"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560239_1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Timothy Wyllie</span>,</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"> on the other. Tim is eight years my senior and I gather you are around eight or nine years my junior. So, I'm sensing myself as a kind of fulcrum point connection between what the three of us may each be experiencing on the physical plane in terms of time waves. Three "chords" making a song, so to speak. That song is what connects us to a wellspring of multiversality that is commonly felt, I sense. There is some synergy in the notion, I believe. Part of that kinship or soul grouping, perhaps. For what it's worth.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I do sense a pull and pulse around the idea that we are collectively moving towards a point in time as a kind of event horizon that has been presaged and charged to make up a major component of informational spin energy that affects the consensus reality matrix. That as we pass over/through this nexus point, there is a polarity shift such as when a train passes a way station and conscious perspective shifts from one of anticipation to hindsight like a </span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;font-family:verdana;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560239_2" >Doppler effect</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. 12.21.12 or 211212 is as good a way station to use as any other reason to account for the stepping up of the frequency modulation and acceleration of the game clock, so to speak. We are all participants and observers on this field it seems to me. Waves are surging and perturbing consciousness all over the place.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hey, have a look at the blogspot of Neil Kramer: </span><a face="verdana" style="font-weight: bold;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.blogger.com/The%20Cleaver"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250560239_3">The Cleaver</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;">. He's big on the Gnostic texts, but I think you'll find a good deal of parallel strands of energy in his writing and speaking as well. It's good to know that such positive messages are going out as strongly as the negative ones even if less noted by mainstream sources. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We are blessed, my brother, to be awaking in such a time of humankind where major strides in consciousness can be attained within a single life cycle. It is, as I once commented, like a rare spring bloom on a galactic scale that has drawn a great deal attention to itself. It's no mistake that 7 billion incarnate souls have shown up for the occasion. Eh?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Be Well,</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">~D</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-88441644583677248862009-08-17T18:20:00.000-07:002009-08-17T18:24:30.241-07:00THE BRINK/JEFF PHILLIPS MUSIC BLOG: sound-tracks<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thebrink-jeffphillips.blogspot.com/2009/08/cryo-2008-soundtrack-music.html"><span style="font-family: verdana;">http://thebrink-jeffphillips.blogspot.com/2009/08/cryo-2008-soundtrack-music.html</span></a><br /><br />This is a link to my new music blog. Here you can download all of the tracks used in our film Cryo 2008 as mp3's. New tracks are going up, so that eventually all my music will be available. I'll also be putting up material about musical projects, both my own and from friends. cheers jeffJeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-54771264276525214212009-08-13T19:51:00.000-07:002009-08-17T20:52:58.231-07:00MORE FEEDBACK FROM FRIENDS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4W_dXpi-AVUniSgRszO9KavB5fRNNC8Yy2fdguNV8SvlqfckCc6OtYnWkV_lDCZtttzbynlT5NfVsLJnnZRatpV273GH7uD3GKMV3BCnmQLBVC9u9c3vgFrfW19SyMB5SLy_3jJM9Nxjc/s1600-h/peter+entell.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4W_dXpi-AVUniSgRszO9KavB5fRNNC8Yy2fdguNV8SvlqfckCc6OtYnWkV_lDCZtttzbynlT5NfVsLJnnZRatpV273GH7uD3GKMV3BCnmQLBVC9u9c3vgFrfW19SyMB5SLy_3jJM9Nxjc/s320/peter+entell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371146818762490354" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Hello Jeff,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I have been travelling so I didn't get back to you sooner. The package you sent to me has been received and right away I looked at the film you made of you and Liesbet in some of the most </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250217849_0" style="font-family:verdana;">beautiful landscapes</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> on earth. Extraordinary! I watched it again with my girlfriend right afterwards as she kept hearing me exclaim from my office while watching it the first time. You were very modest in what you wrote to me about the film. I go to </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250217849_1" style="font-family:verdana;">film festivals</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and watch </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">hundreds of </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250217849_2" style="font-family:verdana;">documentary films</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. Actually the main difference is that other films don't names the places and so appear more "artistic", that is, for them the names aren't as important as the images, but that's about all.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The paintings you and Liesbet do are simply fabulous. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So much to say about the articles you send me. I often forward them to people I know. So you know that the network keeps growing ! The messages for example on the so-call swine flu are very disturbing and I've been talking about this with people here (</span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;font-family:verdana;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250217849_4" >World Health Organization</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> is in </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250217849_5" style="font-family:verdana;">Geneva</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> of course.) The last messages about the intelligence of other animals and how humans should study them as a learining experience for the day when we may be in a position to try to communicate with alien </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1250217849_6" style="font-family:verdana;">intelligent creatures</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">. So true, that we have intelligent animals right here on earth and we should start there. Much food for thought, especially for me. My wheels are turning, a film for me, maybe one day to explore this .... or perhaps it's been done already.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So keep up to the messages, the good energy. You are good people. You're making my life richer and I thank you for that.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Courage,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Peter [note: Peter is documentary film-maker in Switzerland]</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-46671947284637626062009-08-12T22:51:00.001-07:002009-08-17T20:56:47.996-07:00SPIRIT OF BARAKA WEB-SITE/newsletter<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOx4uVmcJiOL7gqXypsDc1xjNEtQBf6KqEyKM9lBu7H3td36modXgNGGoetS8T0lcq82BPW66zGerTiY9ERX3pCNqq2kGoNkplQm5FWBcCVovZjQazkmWd7kCgha9KHgmOwK6DPaOITBt9/s1600-h/ron.fricke.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOx4uVmcJiOL7gqXypsDc1xjNEtQBf6KqEyKM9lBu7H3td36modXgNGGoetS8T0lcq82BPW66zGerTiY9ERX3pCNqq2kGoNkplQm5FWBcCVovZjQazkmWd7kCgha9KHgmOwK6DPaOITBt9/s320/ron.fricke.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371147809597509730" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Hey this is a very cool web-site documenting the work of our favourite cinetagropher Ron Fricke, as well as other film-makers and projects.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.blogger.com/www.spiritofbaraka.com">www.spiritofbaraka.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Their newsletter is good to be on, it doesn't come very often though.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">cheers jeff</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-6742970927283877402009-07-15T00:34:00.000-07:002009-07-15T00:39:40.733-07:00CRYO-2008 UPDATEHi...After several wonderful weeks on Flinders Island we returned to Tasmania and were able to put the finishing touches on Cryo-2008. We've embarked on an effort to send copies to everyone we know for free! If you'd like one and don't have one yet, just email me and tell me your ground mailing address. We've burned/given away well over 200 copes so far! We have begun work on our second film, called "The Chronicles of Balarnia" which is about our time at Arni's on Flinders Island. This one will be at the next level of film-making; I'm working on some experimental music/sound-scapes for this one, too, in addition to music I've already done. We are very excited about the film-making thing and many exciting projects are on-line. We are seeking support for our projects...I'm sure the universe will help us out like she always does. But if YOU"D like to help us...just get in touch. Cheers and bye for now...jeff phillipsJeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-6086324465003451652009-01-13T18:04:00.000-08:002009-08-17T20:55:12.855-07:00PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA QUOTE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyg4zlIGq9vIuaayYyD71DHbprMHdHhTCmk-PLyaaQC_d-FT6h1pJY8MfSdr27Wa7RD47qebEi6FpB2kBG01r6w-QLAFEu306wD4XxvJxDKWQ84kZsL1ezQGo_AWB8IF7zWhOKGofr4xA/s1600-h/yogananda21.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyg4zlIGq9vIuaayYyD71DHbprMHdHhTCmk-PLyaaQC_d-FT6h1pJY8MfSdr27Wa7RD47qebEi6FpB2kBG01r6w-QLAFEu306wD4XxvJxDKWQ84kZsL1ezQGo_AWB8IF7zWhOKGofr4xA/s320/yogananda21.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371147397998241298" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">"The motion picture art can convey </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">any miracle... </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">Assembling the light images </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">as he pleases, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">the photographer achieves optical </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">wonders which a true master produces </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">with actual light rays.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">..The life-like images of the motion picture </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">illustrate many truth's concerning </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">creation.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">are not but figures in a cosmic</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> motion picture... </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Cosmic Director has written</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> His own plays, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">and assembled the tremendous </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">casts for the pageant of the century's. </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">From the dark bootr of eternity,</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> He pours His creative beam</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> through the films of successive ages,</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> and the pictures are thrown on the screen of space.</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Just as the motion picture images</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> appear to be real but our only</span><span style="font-family:verdana;">combinations of light and shade,</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> so is the universal variety a delusive seeming.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">With inconceivable ingenuity God is </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">staging an entertainment for His human children, </span><span style="font-family:verdana;">making them actors as well as audience</span><span style="font-family:verdana;"> in His planetary theatre."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA, </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >Autobiography of a Yogi </span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879625849305499905.post-35822293177199292922009-01-13T17:44:00.000-08:002009-01-13T18:00:45.422-08:00GREETINGS FROM HERE NOW!<span style="font-family: verdana;">This is a new blog to accompany our film-making projects. "Cryo 2008" is almost done. We will keep you up to date on what is happening with this and other film-related endeavours...cheers Jeff and Liesbet<br /><br />"This film is not a comprehensive retro-journalistic narrative of the last calendar year, but a chronological sequence of images, in the spirit of cinema verite, reflecting highlights and movements. It is also serving as a practice run for our<br />film-making/sound-track skills as we gear up for more complex projects.<br /><br />Please forgive the camera shake and rough zooms; We don`t hitch-hike with<br />a steady-cam! Plus, out on the road in the real-time world photography has to be<br />quick and spontaneous. We are our own camera-persons and technicians as we travel.<br /><br />We choose to hitch-hike for many reasons. Hitching is an act of co-operation and trust, as well as being ecologically sound; We meet only the nicest people, and they are already goingour way! And if we can get by without a car, that's one less on the road.<br /><br />We love Mother Earth, her awsome beauty and splendid diversity; this mode of travel creates for us a unique blend of natural wonder and human civilization.<br />These two "realities" are not always in harmony, yet we sense a paradoxical and<br />improbable balance.<br /><br />Join us now as we flow back through 2008, from New Zealand to Australia<br />to Europe and back to Australia ...to experience the realities we were able to create...but only with a little help from our friends...and a LOT of help from<br />Mother Earth and the Great Spirit!"<br /><br /></span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0