Mike Farrell on Purpose and Humanity - Day 29

I wasn't feeling very human so I had to stop and get my barrings. I never wanted to be one of those folks on an invisible treadmill but I was running and forgot where I was going.

I regret that I had to miss a few days of vlogging but hey, like I said, someone had to lower the curve. But I have some good stuff for the last two days. Mike Farrell is an actor. He is also an Activist and not just cuz someone paid him a $25,000 fee to pretend that he is concerned person about an issue.

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Usually I try to stay away from industry people because the few that I have met were total assholes. Generally people who wanted to be connected to the industry for the fame and money part and not because they had any talent or something to add to the culture.

Mr. Farrell seems different. As I listened to him talk it seemed that he has personally experienced coming out the darkness into various forms of light. Can't be totally sure cuz he is an actor. He has a book out called "Just Call Me Mike".

But I'd like to think we could could collectively whip up a barbecue and have a jawbone session over non-fortified lemonade.

This is a video excerpt from a talk that Mike Farrell gave at the Glendale Public Library on November 28, 2007. In this short clip he talks about our being connected by purpose.

For more information about Actor - Activist Mike Farrell visit www.mikefarrell.org

P.S. I feel like a dope. I can't get into NaVlogPoMo. I can't get the image to come up. I can't find a skirt for Friday night at The Winnies.

Purpose, ha! I'd settle for linear thought at the moment.

My Questions for 10Questions - Day 12

We take a slight pause for the cause on account I did promise to ask this question to the presidential candidates running for President. For more info check out http://www.10questions.com

For those of the candidates that understand social networking and communication we'll get the old answers in a new way. For those that don't get it they will choose not to participate.

In the interest of full disclosure, this is one of the questions that the BlogHer Voter Manifesto wants a response to and I am happy to convey the question and participate in this process.

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My concerns are that we as Americans continue to think in limited bands of time. We do not think or plan generationally. Our infrastructure is falling apart and we'll run to patch things up but that not a good way to sustain our cities or a country.

I don't believe that a four or eight year occupant can do a lot of good if we as a people choose not to participate in the process. That is the reason we are in the mess that we see today.

Tech Stuff: I don't know why but I am having problems with gettting my QT and Windows Media Videos. It seems I have to wait a few hours before posting them. I think those gosh darn vloggers have given a server or two a nervous breakdown. I'll post the alternative formats when I get the chance.

My Desk and Dusty Trails - Day 11

On the Ning list of NaVloPoMo one of the suggestions for posting videos when you run out of things to post is what is in your junk drawer. I go one step better, my junk top of desk. Normally it isn't as bad as I recorded it. It can be worse.

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As a special added bones at around the 04:31 mark is the opening title video for one heck of a bad sitcom, Dusty's Trails. I got this at the beloved 99 Cents Only store but I overpaid by 50 cents.

This is proof positive that not everything from the sixties is groovy.

Life in Text and Video 2 - Day 9

This is the second experiment in text and video.

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This is day 9 of NaVloPoMo and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed at 22 more days to go. I'm so tired after this day I can't even blather on like I usually do.

Life in Text and Video Poem - Day 8

I've been feeling guilty. I do have a boatload of video that I haven't edited or uploaded but there are people creating original content daily.

If I am going to try to do something new then this would be the time. There is a particular type of poetry where the words are used as a sculpture. There is another type where words and images meld into a third meaning.



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So this is my attempt to try to get to that third meaning. What do you do when you want to create but you have to earn a living, provide for the essentials and not have you soul sucked away by the mundane?

You don't have to be an artist or creative person to face this and the answers are everywhere but your answer is some place else. That is the starting point.

Cantor Esther Leon - Day 7

Sometimes you can't get it right. I wanted this to be perfect because it was a perfect moment in real life.



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When I got home there were things wrong, sun flares, my zigzags and hand tremors that views as shimmies. I tried to fix it but at some point I gave up and time moved on.

It seems ok now, not as bad as I thought. And maybe it is time to add this voice to counter some of the cruelty running around as political commentary. I mention no names, insert your own breathing pejorative windbag here. This is my contribution to day 7 of NaVloPoMo.

Pasadena Bloggers Picnic - Day 6

It was a lovely afternoon. I didn't know any of these people. I knew one or two of their blogs but I felt like an interloper. I shop, work and go to school in Pasadena but I don't live there. Out of my current budget.

I bought some wet naps, Blood Orange Soda ( I really do like drinking that stuff) and something else I don't remember. I tended to stay near the tables because there was some good food on it and I didn't know what else to do. I don't have the automatic smoozing gene, I gotta kinda peculate up to it.

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Fortunately a very nice gentleman name Robin brought some excellent ribs of all permutation. I could her my doctor tsk, tsking me about wrapping my lips around those bones but me and Charlie understood that nature is not something to be defied. Unfortunately I couldn't slip Charlie any of the bounty cuz his human said he couldn't have any.

So this is simple video. No ribs, intense political debates or ants in the pants. A group of people who know, kinda know and don't know each other pose for a photo. Just like we did in grade school. But a little bit better than that.

A Soldier's Skin At PCC Gallery - Day 5

We all have feelings about the war but most of us have got it through our thick heads that the troops need to be supported. I would like to see each and everyone of them home but that is a discussion for another time.



Some those folks who are home have a living memorial to those that have paid the ultimate price. Mary Beth Heffernan, an artist and instructor at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, (Los Angeles) went to tattoo parlors near Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. She photographed honor tattoos on the body of the survivors and memory holders.

Visitors were permitted to take home copies of the exhibit in the form of posters. This is a video representation of that event. This was on of the events of the Arts and Ideas Festival 2007

Elizabeth's Poem - Day 4

I use to have more time. Time to hook up with other folks creating work that happens in the moment. I long to get back to those times but that requires more income than what I'm generating at the moment.

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This was recorded in 2006 as I followed the Poets on the Gold Line. Elizabeth is reading a poem about her mother. But time and real life conspire against a shared moment.