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from the website:

What is Pangea Day?
Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future.

In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that - to help people see themselves in others - through the power of film.
On May 10, 2008 — Pangea Day — sites in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro will be linked live to produce a program of powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music.
The program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.

Of course, movies alone can't change the world. But the people who watch them can. So following May 10, 2008, Pangea Day organizers will facilitate community-building activities around the world by connecting inspired viewers with numerous organizations which are already doing groundbreaking work.

Many of the films and performances seen on Pangea Day will be made available on the Web and via mobile phone, alongside open forums for discussion and ideas for how to take social action.

A Pangea Day documentary will be created to catalyze future activities, and dozens of talented filmmakers will make strides in their careers.

History
In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the TED Prize, an annual award granted at the TED Conference. She was granted $100,000, and more important, a wish to change the world. Her wish was to create a day in which the world came together through film. Pangea Day grew out of that wish. Watch Jehane Noujaim’s 2006 acceptance speech now.

http://www.pangeaday.org/index.php
:)!!!

ps: does anyone know if it will be hosted and broadcast somewhere also in SecondLife??

as the sun disappears I am back and forth between studio and kitchen table...listening to Cibo Matto, working on art ...lemon vodka moods...thoughts..
am applying to residencies...wanting to go deeper into certain explorations in my art...longing for the longer chunks of focus and intensity... we shall see...throwing it out there into the universe..



Last night we watched 'The Lives of Others'...which I was impressed by...
have been working at the shop, reading.
drawing and embroidering microorganisms
flickr, myspace, emails
oatmeal raisin cookies

Just watched and loved this movie:




"Meet the Harunos, a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family nonetheless. They live in a small town in the mountains just out of Tokyo where life is good and quiet - but that doesn't mean they don't have their own little problems.

As 8-year old Sachiko (Maya Banno) tries to get rid of a giant version of herself who seems to pop up everywhere, her older brother Hajime (Takahiro Sato), privately wrestles with his love-struck heart. Meanwhile, their mother Yoshiko (Satomi Tezuka) is working hard, coming out of retirement as an animator, as her husband and professional hypnotist Nobuo (Tomokazu Miura) watches on with slight apprehension. Yoshiko's brother, Ayano (Tadanobu Asano) is just visiting his hometown and staying with the family, but also has ashidden agenda; he needs to come to terms with a romance that ended years ago. Even Nobuo's brother and successful manga artist Todoroki has his problems. It's his birthday soon and he wants to give himself something special. And lastly there's Grandpa, the most bizarre and perhaps the most perceptive of all, who continues to search for a better way to live life to the full.

Written, directed and edited by Katsuhito ISHII, The Taste of Tea is a unique and gentle family portrait tackling the universal themes of time, people and their lives."

I fell in love with so many scenes, especially all those with the little girl. Want more screenshots.

Please rent and watch 'The Girl in the Cafe'.
Then Let me know what you think.
Thank you.:)

Rented Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know.
Excellent. Totally subtle, odd and poignant.

me today: Utterly distracted

tectonic plates shifting and I'm still not sure where to place my feet.
a strongggg pulling, is it me alone doing this...and should I stop?

Finally saw Born into Brothels screened at our local art museum, so happy to see the theatre filled (often for good films there are so few attendees.
It was as brilliant and moving as I hoped...PLEASE go see this movie if it's playing near you or rent it here from Netflix.
May it continue to spread seeds of awareness and compassion and empathy far and wide.

"Born into Brothels, by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, is the winner of the 77th annual Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, Born into Brothels is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Zana Briski, a New York-based photographer, gives each of the children a camera and teaches them to look at the world with new eyes."
See the website Kids-With-Cameras.org

eyeclectic, this film must be SO inspiring and reinforcing for you! Did you see it??

Afterwards unfortunately I became very depressed...because we hung out with a few other people after the film and I wanted so much to talk about the film and express how strongly I believe in this type of work and what a big part of my life microphilanthropy is and the 10% concept...and I just... couldn't. All stuck in my throat and heart.Didn't know how to talk about it. And the conversations all felt so Off, awkward and off-topic and i felt this growing sadness that the movie seemed to have already faded from their minds...or never sunk in in the first place...or just that we could not really dialogue about it. And again that feeling of such distance....of having such superficial interactions with the people/friends around me and layers and layers untouched.
I guess this is another reason I am so addicted to LJ...the feeling of being a bit more under the skin of everyone...and having an open arena to comfortably speak from that place in me as well...

Finally watched Hotel Rwanda in the theatre last night. Last week we rented The Killing Fields about the Cambodian Holocaust. Sense a pattern? Yup. I'm Trying to get something...Something in me to understand WTF is going on in the Sudan right now. And why why why this keeps moving from place to place...what IS it in humanity that keeps going so terribly terribly Wrong. This Detachment from the Other....not just apathy (which is pretty bad in itself)...but the kind of completely severing detachment that would allow one to commit such Heinous Unimaginable violence to innocent people. I JUST DON'T GET IT!! The FOOLISH FOOLISH arbitrary divisions. Hutus vs. Tsusis, Aryans vs. Jews, Israelis vs. Palestinians, Bloods vs. Crypts, North vs. South, my freekin clubhouse against yours. GROW UP HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STOP WASTING ALL YOUR DAMN ENERGY/TIME DESTROYING EACHOTHER!!!!!!!!!!
*bangs head against wall*
*repeatedly*
On a hopeful note...just seeing that a group of folks on omidyar.net got together their upset and collaborated through a thread to create a website StopGenocideNow.org and other projects to raise awareness soothes my heart a wee bit. It's so important for us to keep thinking of ways to show how the individual can DO something positive...to design more intuitive/easy systems and ways. Keep pointing. You know, like:
Click Here if you give a shit.
Or Here
much love,
D
OH! and watch the movie(s) if you haven't!duh;)

Been workin hard. Late nights in the studio...painting, hammering, glittering, etc.
Today, drove some artworks out to the gallery in EH, glad to be forced to take the drive. GORGEOUS fall colors, the trees and fields.....Red, yellow, orange explosions, everything in hypercolor.
Back home, I prepped and did another resin pour on 6 pieces. Nerve-wracking stuff. Dealing with floating glitter, dust, bubbles..trying to get as much out as possible before it cures...heat gun...etc.

Exhausted in the eve, decide to pick up a movie from the library to watch during pizza-time. Needed to be passively inspired. hard to choose a movie in that mood, because I'm so worried it will feel like a waste of time.
But we chose a french film called Thomas est amoureux/Thomas in Love and loved it. Hoo. Pretty perfectly appropriate for my mindstate. These are the questions I'm asking myself...trying to see ahead...what sort of psychological transformations are taking place now in this Internet age...how our relationships change, how it affects different personalities...levels of intimacy etc!

Here's a pretty good review exerpt:
Thomas est amoureux

"A severe agoraphobe (afraid of open spaces) spends his whole life shut up in his apartment, experiencing only what he can via his computer screen. Since this takes place in the near future, he can actually see and do quite a bit. (The only problem, same as nowadays, is getting a repair technician to actually make a housecall... but since Thomas *never* leaves his home anyway, this doesn't prove to be too much of a difficulty.) His therapist thinks Thomas could benefit by more human contact so he enrolls Thomas in a dating agency and a medical prostitution service. Thomas is intrigued by a woman he meets in each place... but will either of them be able to get him to leave his apartment and have a real relationship... or will they be stuck in those embarrassing, clunky cybersex suits forever? This very interesting movie takes place entirely from the point of view of Thomas. The audience can only see what Thomas sees on his computer screen. We can hear his voice but we never see his face. The movie is carried by the performances of the people he encounters in his daily routine... everyone is completely believable. In another ten years' time this film will probably seem like a documentary."

B and I just watched 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' last night
and I am blown away. All these inquiries into the nature of memory maps and
spaces I've been swirling around in.....and then this movie explodes my
head, touching on them all in a brilliant ways. I think it was AMAZING.

Silly Really odd thing too that had us unnerved and laughing so hard we
CRIED: In quite a few scenes, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet are wearing 'our'
winter outfits- this denim coat I wear all winter with straggly fake fur
trim and the red pants, and he in the exact olive parka Brent wears....and
in one scene they're being silly running down a beach in Montauk (yep right out
here!)....and it's the oddest oddest thing because of course from the
back....it's like we're watching us in some memory on a big screen.......oh and sure, I know it's just a coincedence (or conspiracy hehe)...but it was just so...surreal.
This movie is the new 'Waking Life'.
agree or disagree?

OK. you all must run, not walk, to rent and watch the movie 'Max'. I've just finished watching it and I am still knocked over.
It is the story of an art dealer's efforts to persuade a young Adolf Hitler to channel his 'energies' into his art instead of politics.
It. Was. just.Amazing.
SO.Well. DONE.
GA. GO!! Rent it already! What are you waiting for?????scoot!