notes for the opening

OPENING:
-Lobby, gallery (exhibits, science fair, art fair)
-Pre-show, drink water, nametags?
-Cyc rise, audience gets flooded, actors come on
-Rooftop dying (thoughts projected?), dies throughout the scene
-Faux fish
-Couple cooking fish
-Rope- dead girls, live man

Shots of erupting volcanos set to psychedelic music

Soft Construction With Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War

Crazy Article about the Moken who Survived the Tsunami

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/60minutes/main681558.shtml

Sea Gypsies Saw Signs In The Waves
How Moken People In Asia Saved Themselves From Deadly Tsunami

This article is a fascinating example of how the Moken People survived - and the history of their people, as well as the use of language...

Action or Inaction?

Imagine watching this ten years in the future, after the world has flooded and depression has taken over.

flood animations

Washington DC:


Miami:


Boston:


New York:


London:


And here's a little dramatic statement about how man-made global warming is a myth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIuNxy6i1o0

flood mythology

From the Hmong...

"Similiar to Noah's Ark,"Txoj Dab Neeg Kawg" (The Last Myth) is an animation set in the old world before the great flood . Two villagers,Yer and Ker, are chosen to be saved and create a world anew with the help of the shaman Chong SeeYee. With supernatural monsters on their tail, the trio must face death defying moments all in a race against time. This photoshop animation explores the life history of the Hmong people, and allows Hmong individuals to realize where they stand."