Drowning Image

To link to a pre-existing image: right click the images and select 'copy image address' and then paste that into the URL text field that appears in the pop-up window for inserting picture hyperlinks... the image option is represented as a little landscape icon right above where you type the blog entry, next to the spell check icon.

Great image, Daniella!

Things I'm Obsessed With After Our Last Videotaping...

Language - Can't stop thinking about it. And how we want to use multiple languages in the piece - and play around with how they are used and misused and misunderstood. But not only that - what about the world of EXTINCT LANGUAGE? What causes a language to be washed away? Just like the internet and the dot com madness has added so many new words to our vocabulary - what words will wash away in this flood that we are creating? Ah - and Wikipedia lists recently extinguished languages (or they call them "modern" languages).

Rhythm of Global Warming to match the rhythm of our piece?
Is that possible? To take an image like - http://www.actewagl.com.au/education/_lib/images/Sustainability/Sustainability06%20-%20Global%20mean%20surface%20temp.jpg (sorry - can't figure out how to post images directly onto this note) - and have the rhythm of the overall piece happen in relation to this graph?

Some Drowning Images -
http://riannanworld.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/drowning.JPG
http://www.portlandmercury.com/binary/ca4b6c71/ex-11014.jpeg

Ah - and a Shirt Strangulation Image -
http://www.sphinx-sanitarium.com/straightjacket.jpg

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.