CRC says...

Soon, we will have a record label to go along with EARSXXI. Keeping in with my concept of "Being able to Hear Film while Seeing Music". This will also be a place where musicians of all types can collaborate with filmmakers of all types. So, stay tuned as we continue to build. It's all about THE CREATIVE PROCESS and TAPPING INTO THE EVERYBODY BOAT.

Me and My Message


My Consistent and Loyal Audience

The Oldenburg Film Festival photographer sent me a few pictures to help me remember Oldenburg 13. The dark glasses truly help hide the exhausted CRC inside.





VRFOTO
Torsten von Reeken
August-Hinrichs-Straße 2
27777 Ganderkesee

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
--Babe Ruth

CRC says...




Planet X Team discussing Creative Process on Dumbo ride.

I spent my evening at Disneyland, which is not one of my favorite things to do. I am more of a Coney Island or Queens Park "The Pike" kind of guy. However, I did do something unique. I went on the Dumbo ride with my friend and co-creator of HD American Portraits. I wanted to interview him for my next Podcast. The man has a brilliant mind and is quite the visionary. We talked about the creative process during the ride. It's all about the magic feather. And whether we need it or not. Today's technology is like Dumbo's magic feather, but we should never forget the Human Spirit can soar without it.

Allison Hensel, an actress that I met in New Mexico who also worked on one of the winning mobi-flicks at PAH-FEST, came in for a meeting with myself and Mr. Paine. Allison plays a funny character named "Myrtle" who has a thing for George Clooney. Allison came to LA to be an extra in Oceans 13 with the idea that she might be able to introduce "Myrtle" to Mr. Clooney. I didn't really know how to help her, but I was very impressed with her drive to do her thing. I suggested she use ViewTube to help build the public awareness of "Myrtle".

Lady Myrtle.mov

PARTICIPATE JOYFULLY IN THE SORROWS OF THE WORLD.

--Joseph Campbell's paraphrase on a Buddhist belief.

Oh Rose, thou art sick!
Oh Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
in the howling storm

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy.
And with his dark secret love,
does thy life destroy.

--William Blake

for the compassion, modernity and intellectual understanding of a VATICAN III. Once again, Organized Religion takes us a step backwards and the Human Spirit suffers. Separation of Church and State--it works for a reason.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have
taller buildings but shorter tempers, we buy more,
but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families,
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense, more
knowledge, but less judgment,
More experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but
less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too
recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get
too angry, stay up too late, get up too
tired, read Too little, watch TV too much, and
pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced
our Values. We talk too much, love too seldom,
and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a
life.

We've added years to life, not life to years. We
have been all the way to the moon and back, but have
trouble crossing the street to meet a
new neighbor.

We conquered outer space but not inner space.
We've done larger things, but not better things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but
accomplish less.

We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold
more Information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate
less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow
digestion, big men and small character, steep profits
and shallow relationships. These are the days of two
incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but
broken homes.

These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers,
throw away morality, one night stands, overweight bodies,
and pills that do everything from
cheer, to quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the
showroom window and Nothing in the stockroom. A
time when technology can bring this letter to you,
and a time when you can choose either to
share this insight, or to just hit
delete.

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones,
because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up
to you in awe, because that little person soon will
grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to
you, because that is the only treasure you can give with
your heart and it does not cost a
cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and
your loved ones, but most of all mean it.
A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it
comes from deep Inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for
someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak. and give
time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

--George Carlin

CRC says...

I'm back in LA, feeling a little out of sync. So I hit the Caruso.

sanctuary.mov

Nicolas Paine, creative partner at EARSXXI.
NFP.mov

Michael Cioni, boy wonder behind PlasterCITY Digital Post.
Michael Cioni Portrait

Damian Montoya, New Mexican entrepreneurial EARS representative for New Mexico.
i'm so pretty

Mr. Slipery. CRC's defensive, clown coordinator.
slip 2 portrait

Miss Moon Cho, operations manager for the EARSXXI team
Moon's.Self.Portrait.

Matthias, German intern.
matthias

The last thing I remember at the closing party at the 13th Oldenburg Film Festival was someone saying I looked like Colin Farrell. Someone said that a few months back at a bar in Washington, D.C as well. I really don't know how to respond to that, accept that I prefer hearing that I look like Laurence Fishburne's or Charles Mingus's white brother.

It was odd travelling on September 11 in a foreign country. All the tv monitors in the Frankfurt airport had reruns of the terrible attacks. I watched and said a little prayer for more compassionate global understanding and less religious fanaticism. My heart goes out to all innocent victims eveywhere.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
--Marc Chagall

CRC says...

It was a great range of portraits, from the ultra-arty to the ultra campy and everything in between. I don't like picking winners, because I feel you are all special and I am extremely grateful to all the participants from PlasterCITY Post, EARSXXI, the GRANTS team and the SFAI team. I looked at each one over and over while thinking about the person behind their portrait. Some of you, I know well, some I only know what others have told me about you. As I looked at the pieces, I felt as if I were looking through a portal into you. And I really enjoyed that. It's all about making a connection. Anyhow, enough of my digivangelist talk, I have finally made a choice. Go to the EARSXXI home web page to see who will get my director's finder lens. You will also see who the 2nd and 3rd runner ups are. Like I said, it was hard for me to choose.

Carsten, my German PAH assistant, addresses the contestants after I give them the topic. Basically he is telling them they have only 3 hours to complete their 1 minute cell phone piece. Click below to find out what their topic was.
PAH CONTEST

Some of the contestants decide to set around the table to discuss the topic and how they are going to visually address it.
MINI-PAH CONTESTANTS

CRC INTERVIEW ON GERMAN PAH

Today the so called "celebs" of the festival had to hobknob with the sponsors. I was asked if I would test drive a new Audi on the autobahn as a little publicity stunt. I was told that if I did it it would be good for my dear friend Torsten Neuman, the festival's director. Of course being a James Bond fan, I said, "Of course."

AUDI TEST DRIVE.mov

It's been said that PAH is me, will he is most definitely not. I promise you, he is his own man. And he is getting up there, the old man on the hill, so I have made it my mission to help spread his good will. He knows how I get the night before a PAH-FEST trip, especially an international one. He just called me to give me a pep talk. Thanks, PAH. I needed that.

BON VOYAGE.mp3

Labor Day differs in every essential from other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflict and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

-Samual Gempers, founder and president of the American Federation of Labor

The problem is not new for all ages before us have believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment of symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, that is, as archetypes of the unconscious...Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were. But 'the heart glows,' and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being.
-- C.J. Jung

CRC says...

I extended the deadline for our in-house self portrait contest until Tuesday. A lot of imaginative submissions have been coming in. I think it's great, people using their everyday digital technology to do a 1 minute self portrait. I got into it, so I did one. but, I'm not part of the contest. Obviously.

CRC SELF PORTRAIT.mov