Just emerged from meditation. I have decided upon a place and a way of life. I explored in my mind and on the astral planes where I may best go and live. I asked Life to show me and I chose also. Now I wonder if it is best to reveal the place.
Akua: Keep it sacred David. You need not speak of it or draw any more attention to it.
"Somewhere in the South-Pacific"
This movie is an adventure documentary about real people living in the wild, off the grid, tending to the local ecology, sitting in council, drumming, dancing, cooking, meditation, yoga, martial arts, and many other activities.
Gardening and shelter building are key, so is harvesting food from the sea. Then there is the mystical, magickal element that facilitates ever-deepening connection to self, source and symbiosis between people, nature, spirit and each other.
Beauty and wildnesss are the primary elements of the movie along with inspired jam sessions as music underscores. Wisdom from various people at opportune times is woven in to complement the scenery and geologic phenomena: mountains, ocean, waterfall, rivers, beach, valleys, sky and earth.
Process is key.
Shoot • Edit • Broadcast • Mystery are the four main elements of the process.
Shooting involves capturing planned and spontaneous footage of both people and nature particularly those things which are integral to simple, sustainable living: garden, shelter, food from the sea, water, bathing, waste management, arts and crafts, meditation and most or all of the activities listed above. Inverviews are integral and so are spontaneous moments of insight and revelation. Photography and video each play key roles, so do images from the Net.
Editing involves blending together music, footage, story and other elements are kept to a minimum through good planning and extremely skilled photography and video camera operation along with intentional sequence building and in-camera editing. Specific processes are followed to maximize use of captured material such as using the best shots first and editing together shorts for immediate broadcast. Editing is a process of refinement. We put together something right now, today and then tomorrow we can improve upon it.
Broadcast, marketing and sharing are all synonymous here. Specific broadcasts include uploaded to YouTube and to one or more blogs such as GirdwoodCharterSchool.com or The Alaska Film School blog. Other important broadcasts include creating and sharing presentations directly with people, especially those involved with the production. This may be done on the camera's viewfinder, on the computer screen, via television, DVD or projected onto a big-screen such as a movie-theater.
Mystery is really where its at for me. There is a mystery and a magick to life, a serendipity, a feeling of connection and love, awe, and wonder. This is what the shooting, editing and broadcasting are for. The best way for me to describe the mystery is to give you access to the video we made about it. Somehow this will be re-done and woven into the Lost in Paradise motion picture.
Now what?
Akua: What do you want to do next?
David: I want a well-funded, talented team of people of like mind and heart to work on this with me daily, weekly until a pilot film is done. Then I want to share this pilot film in such a way as to promote, support and sponsor and ongoing series of films that inspire, fund and coordinate wilderness living with the best of technology.
Akua: Who do you want to work with you?
David: Coral and her family. My daughter Sarah, son Aidan, Davenee, Lauralee, Jenny, Joe Jungers, Scott Wright, Hailey, Rob, Derek and Lorna, Brandon and Courtney, my mother, Kassrina and Aaron, and any and all others for whom it serves the highest good and no others. I want this team to be tight and production. I want them to get along well and be symbiotic.
Akua: All this will be so with the exception of a few people will choose of their own free will to do something else.
David: My deepest gratitude Akua.
Akua: You are welcome.
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