Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Much the inspiration I get is from the trips I've taken, and the interesting people and settings I am exposed to. I am lucky to have had a great career flying, and another teaching ESL English. These two jobs have allowed me to work and live a various countries. I am very interested in other cultures and languages, and always have been. That interest goes into what I write and into the documentaries I shoot.
Here's a map of most of the places I have flown into, or have lived. I didn't list everything, for reasons of my own, but here is the list. One way to explore these places is to look at people's photos on Goggle Earth.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
INDUSTRIAL FARMING AND REAL NUTRITION IN A POWER STRUGGLE
It has been raining off and on today, and sometimes hard. Before the rains hit, I did some garden work for a friend of mine. I had planted that garden months ago, so that she and I can eat our own homegrown produce. I'm leery of industrial farming, and the toxic sprays, and genetically modified seed, that are used. More on that issue later.
One can daydream book and movie characters, scenes and even the visuals while doing things such gardening, jogging and surfing. It's a form of passive writing. Actually, you are writing, for real, when you do something other than manning a keyboard - while still dreaming up the story. So if you are a writer, give yourself credit for those hours spent doing an activity and daydreaming.
The produce I grow, which does not come from an industrial corporate run farm, gives me much thought on Prince Stephan and his environment.
Prince Stephan grew up on a vast estate, with it's forests and farmland. He faces a land grab by a centralized global regime, one that only allows for collective and industrial farming.
The reason for this is because the world regime seeks to control it's people. One good way, is through the control of food. If you manage to take away the true nutrition of food, you can weaken a people. Weak and passive people are less apt to rebel and are easier to control.
And so Prince Stephan faces this controlling regime, for he owns land that produces food, and it had not yet fallen under industrial farming. There are no genetically altered crops, or toxic sprays on his estate. His crops produce real nutrition, that which can strengthen a population.
So crops and land are big elements is my story, The Diablo Diaries.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Prince Stephan shoots for the stars. He's a lost man, that is why. A state of being lost will give a human being ambition. In order to feel my Prince Stephan, my daydream, hear the song by VNV Nation, The Furthest Star.
Prince Stephan is a man so unsuited for the role he had been given, simply from the assignment of his birth. He's broken, traumatized, used and knows he's pawn in the bigger picture.
No wonder he wants to shoot out in a vehicle for the Furthest stars. No damned wonder ...
Isn't American history full off lost personalties seeking the wilderness of newness?
I think so.
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