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Film preservation is a difficult thing. And it has gotten more difficult. But it could be made easier. Like many things, although there is not yet an app for that, there is a simple fix.
If you are reading this now, I am going to assume you know about the “digital dilemma” and recognize that we probably are going to lose a great deal of the films that have been created over the last decade.
Although I have never really been a fan of Thanksgiving as it is currently celebrated, I REALLY like the idea of it — and want to expand it (and better prepare for it). In my vision of it, it is something we all would do together. And I mean all of us, everywhere.
Thanksgiving here in the United States falls this year on Thursday, November 28th. But for what I want to do, we need the week. We need the week to reflect. Really we need the days leading up to it to reflect. I am getting started now.
I am going to reflect on what I am grateful for, on the kindness and generosity others have shown me, and how I can give back. I am going to make a week of such gratitude. It would be awesome if others could join me. That is why I am writing to you now.
That sort of thing. You in?
This year I am going to write a list (aka a blog post) each day of the week and name names:
There’s certainly many other such lists that can be helpful: what I am thankful for on this earth, what I am thankful for that has happened to me in my life, what I am thankful for that has happened to others, what I am thankful for for having recognized, and many more I am sure you can come up with.
As it’s kind of nice to keep track of these thanks, we can follow them via the #HopeAndThanks hashtag.
This digital age requires us to be specific. We need to identify things so we can find things. We can not just leave things alone and expect that they will be discovered.
I get frustrated when I find a good website or article and I am limited on how I can share it. One of the reasons I like Pinterest so much is that it is so easy to use and share. Yet many sites and articles don’t include “pinable” images that drive the viewer back to the page itself, so you can pin them, or if you can, it is not an automatic link. Heck, I know that I am guilty of such slack; I rarely include images on my posts, which makes them difficult to share. And even when I do, I forget to put in a custom URL so that it drives the Pinterest viewer back to the post.
Yet, I am grateful for this slack of mine, for it exposes a bigger problem that we all face. The same problem — I mean, opportunity — is
Autonomy, mastery, and purpose are what drive people once they get beyond financial reward. If we can stop worrying about money we work towards these other things. I never liked anyone telling me what to do. I like to feel good about the work I generate and I want people to need it. Ultimately I want to feel that
New York City’s First Neighborhood Filmmaking Challenge Premieres Inaugural Screening This Month
by Rachel Farnham
In the wake of Sandy, a lot of us have had to rely on neighbors and reach out to the strangers across the hall for the first time. We’ve experienced or read about such amazing stories of positive community collaboration in our city. On My Block Films understands the importance of community and focuses on building stronger micro-neighborhoods through collaborative filmmaking and storytelling.
“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You will go on doing things you like doing in order to go on living; that is to go on doing things that you don’t like doing — which is STUPID. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, that a long life spent in a miserable way.”
Thank you Alan Watts. Hat tip to Joseph White.
How is this for a policy?
In the event that an employee does not have sufficient time outside of working hours to vote in a state or nationwide election,
