I just think this is important to see because most of the time, they try to keep it away from us.

If you can't read it go here.

Note that this is almost 9 years old but still is the top hit if you want to check out this kind of information. What do you suppose they're doing behind all those closed doors?

There has been a silence on all things criticizing the big media corporations, those who control information and our access to it. I know it's off topic, but it needs some attention.

Here's an interesting article from 1997. 1997!

Ok, and a more recent article that will blow your mind. Did you know all of this stuff?

For those of you yet to be introduced to the phenomenon:

EARTH

What began on Discovery as Planet Earth has become a feature film event. I haven't yet seen the film, but the series was mind-blowing and it looks like their going to use some of the same footage.

If you haven't heard anything about it yet, I beg you, please go see it. I wish it wasn't being produced by Disney, but I think it's important nonetheless.

We take for granted the rest of the beings on this planet, especially now that we've isolated ourselves inside the world of the web.

Go outside, play in the sun, pet a dog and check out this film.

You know there's nothing good on TV anyway!

Some of the work people are doing at this school is amazing.

I've had the benefit of being in the editing labs at UNC for the past couple of weeks, investing myself in cutting our 16 mm film which I was Co-DP (Director of Photography). Being up there, I've been exposed to a large body of student films that range from "what the hell" to "holy shit" on the cool-o-meter.

This time in our lives in when we really get to do creative things because they are coming from within us, not because someone is telling us to do them. I'm really looking forward to what the future holds for our generation.

Hopefully (HOPE being the key word of our times), we can change the system. I've heard a good bit of talk about a revolution happening soon and I can't wait to be a part of it.

Things are no doubt crumbling to the ground around us. If there's someone responsible, it can only be the system. We can say human error has brought us to this point (greed, specifically), but the system perpetuates that human error and makes it desirable and easily accessible.

I'm not just talking about film now, but about everything. If, as a unified generation, we can refuse to compromise, things will have to change.

Oh, let me get off my soapbox, sorry.

What kind of films do you like?

Is it pretentious of me to call them films?

Can films actually change the world or am I blind?

Am I crazy for trying to enter a world that epitomizes nearly everything I think is wrong with the world?

Key question: Am I crazy?

These are the sorts of questions that bother me when I'm lying in bed trying to sleep. If there's anyone out there who knows the answer, I figure the internet is the best place to reach them.

My friend Taylor recently did a film project on Deus ex Machina and how we might've created it/him/her within the web.

So, here's my call. Let's see if it works.

David Lynch has this idea that ideas are like fish.

You can check out the video to see what he means, but if it doesn't quite make things clear for you, let me see what I can do.

Lynch has directed some of my favorite films, so I developed an interest in him a while back.

He is deeply into Transcendental Meditation and claims to be able to open his mind to his imagination at any time through the process. The mind, he claims, is like an ocean full of thought where things swim by without your control. The ideas are there, you just have to reach out and grab them.

Some people might just write him off as a loony, but I myself have a deep passion invested in investigating that "ocean".

If you watch Lynch's films, you get a look inside his mind. Anyone who can do what he does must be on to something.

For those experimental film fans - check out Inland Empire, it'll blow you away.

I've got great respect for Tarantino. He does what I dream of doing - writing and directing his own films.

Not many people get to do that, but because of his determination and talent, he opened the door for himself. Others like that are The Coen Brothers and... well the rest are slipping my mind. But that just tells you how few and far between these people are.

Those that find success succeed not only commercially but artistically as well, a feat that inspires me daily.

So anyway, to the point, here's an interview with Tarantino about writing. He's a pretty interesting cat.

For those too busy to check out the whole thing, here's a snippet to bait you into it:

How did Kill Bill originate?

It's coming from, in it's basic form, all of these different revenge genre movies that I was jumping off from. The Bride could easily be this cowboy character from this spaghetti western. She could easily by Angela Mao character Deep Thrust or Broken Oath. There's two characters that Japanese actress Meiko Kaji played. One was a character named Scorpion. She did about four movies with that, and she did a great revenge samurai movie called Lady Snowblood. She could be that character. You could keep going down the whole list, but she falls in that whole long line of hell bent for revenge characters.

How much did you revisit these movies when you were writing?

Well, they had a tremendous amount of influence because I own all of those movies. Not these beautiful, Technicolor restoration prints, but like, my seventh generation bootlegs from New York's 42nd Chamber of Shao Lin in Time Square. That's where I had them all, and when I was writing this movie, I had the fortunate fun of being able to watch at least one Shaw Brothers movie a day, if not three, and the reason I was doing it is that I wanted to immerse myself so much in that style of filmmaking so that the things that they did would be second nature to me. It would be my style of filmmaking as far as this movie was concerned. I wouldn't have to think about it. I wouldn't have to be self conscious about it. I would've just known exactly how they woulddone it and I would decide do I want to do that too? Get that comfortable with the zoom because no one does zooms anymore, not like that. I wanted to get that comfortable with it and it worked so well that, to me, during that entire year, the movies that were coming out of Hollywood were like these weird artistic, fringe movies. I was like someone who lived in Hong Kong in the ‘70's. When you thought of movies, you thought of Kung Fu movies. The Shaw Brothers, the Shaw Scope Logo and then, the Feature Presentation thing which I grew up watching, I always hear that tune before a movie starts. That just lets you know right away where I'm coming from and just sit back and have a good time and know from whence this came.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE!!!

I love films that explore the imagination. I just stumbled across this today and am excited beyond belief.

Tell me you grew up with this book too.