Sunday, November 26, 2023

Muddernity 1

 CanLit and the Hyper-Modern 1


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AI is in the process of being replaced by artificial general intelligence — known by the acronym AGI.


Many novelists have dealt with this potentiality — most famously, perhaps, Arthur C. Clark in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Stanley Kubrick adaptation of that novel was so groundbreaking as a work of cinema that it’s eclipsed the novel’s place in the cultural firmament. But it was a novel that inspired the movie.


In Canadian letters, there have been speculative fiction examples. But not nearly with the same cultural impact. Why?

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Greening Korea: After Heavy Rain


Part four 


More about unusual rainfall patterns in Kyonggi do, South Korea.


#ClimateAction 


More on climate change in Asia at YouTube: Yes, Planet, We’re Warming

youtu.be/8EiEyA7bF14

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Who? What?




Happy that/ heureux que my brief VideoPoemSong entitled Who? What? To be screened at Minute Madness in Toronto.


COVID-19 is going to have an impact on all our lives, either directly through long term illness or indirectly through massive social cost. Yet we still understand very little about the origins of the disease and are not currently trying very hard. It may be that those origins are too obscure to ever be known. At the sane time, we pay very little attention to improved mitigation measures, and how we can prevent epidemic disease spread. That IS an area where we have some control. Yet we choose not to exercise this control.



If curious , YouTube link: https://youtu.be/wyEXTUYpwuE?si=U0si82Z2NcCe3mT9

Saturday, November 4, 2023

City and Temple


 World Bardo


Temple and City


YouTube link: Ambient: Temple and City (World Bardo 98 - new cut)

https://youtu.be/7qpR0IcL3G8


Screenings and awards:


Winner, best cinematography, Global India IFF, March 20, 2019


Festival selections:


Indo Global International Film Festival

Dec 25, 2020

 

Goa Short Film Festival

Nov 2, 2019

 

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival

Dec 26, 2019

 

MoziMotion

Sep 20, 2019

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An authorial videopoem. The footage was shot over several months in/ near Seoul.


Thursday, November 2, 2023

Greening Korea: Boiling Oceans


Clip from Greening: Boiling Oceans.


Full video at YouTube: Greening Korea: Boiling Oceans

https://youtu.be/YgBivdKSzXo


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It’s unusually warm in Korea this autumn. Ocean surface temperatures have a lot to do with that.


#climatechange #carbonemissions #oceantemperature