Month: October 2009

Random Bits–48

Cool!
This could just be the result of around 4 nights with less than adequate sleep but I came up with the perfect birthday celebration project for myself (and its just the right size) 48 short film bits stitched together into 2 or 3 vids that can be about anything or nothing. Gary 101 so to speak. I’ll start filming the bits today and give myself until tomorrow evening to finish it. It will either be great fun, a colossal fail or both.
As far as turning 48 goes–This party rocks!!!! So glad I was invited. or maybe I crashed it. Naaah, it’s not like the guest list is exclusive. Oh, the occasional fight or drama happens but overall, wow, Things to see here that can’t be found anywhere else…and anybody who’s anybody can be found here. I’m going to go find some munchies. Talk to you soon.

Storytelling and The NewTribes-Musing

Before the invention printing press-communities (or tribes) would gather together in a circle and tell stories and entertain each other. The creator of the story would get instant feedback from his listeners, perhaps in stories of their own, perhaps in shouted out opinions.

With the invention of the printing press, people would read printed books and broadsheets, they could seek out the author and give their opinion, perhaps even invite him (or her) to a community gathering where he and they could address each other but the possibilities of direct feedback were limited. It was also possible now for a writer to avoid either responsibility or credit under a pen name .

With the advent of the electronic age, with radio, movies and television, several more layers of anonymity were introduced. It becomes progressively rarer for the audience of a story to even know (or care) who the author is. They may still gather in circles to see or discuss the story but now the storyteller and the audience rarely meet.

Now with the internet, social networking and shared video such as YouTube, once again we gather together in tribes, maybe not in the same physical location but we of similar natures band together, we share stories, give feedback and once again become part of each other’s stories. The main difference now is that we are spread globally but we share much of the same idea space and heart space.

What does this mean exactly? I don’t have a concrete idea. I do find it interesting tho…

Giving Thanks

Today has been Canadian Thanksgiving. A day when traditionally we give thanks to whatever deity alive or dead we may believe in for all the good things that we have in life. Believing on some levels in most deities I find myself very grateful :). This year in particular has been a fantastic one for me. It has been a year of putting things in perspective, with lots of new growth and perception. I have a wonderful family, one that sprawls out in all directions both birth and chosen, so that where some people have family trees, i have a forest that consists of some growth that I’ve planted myself. I love and am loved with a wonderful partner and children. I have friends both ones I’ve met and ones I know only virtually, and they have all been amazing. This year has been an amazing one, meeting so many great people through Spirit Refuge , Seventh Fire and YouTube,
This year I feel that I have become awoken spiritually after years of letting that part of myself lay fallow. It seems apparent now that there were things I had to experience in the mundane world before I was ready to work on that area of my life. Yet I realize now, that tho it may seem to be a matter of different paths, there exists but one path, one adventure, just different foci. I don’t believe that anyone falls away from their path, whatever we experience, there our path lies.
Last but not least, this year has been an amazing one of self-expression for me. I’ve written more than I have in years, made videos, and found that I have more talent in expressing myself visually than I ever believed that I have.
Thank You Universe, Thank you fellow beings, Thank you Mother Gaia, Thank you flesh that encloses my being.
This next year will be even more awesome 😀