Sunny weather … a little too sunny. Clip below. Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/3SOI5vp_7hs via @YouTube. #climatechange #climatecrisis #drought
It’s sunny in South Korea. That’s helping the flowers bloom. But it’s dangerously dry.
Conversations in the Book Trade: Books, art, art-books, and ... authorial movies.
Friday, March 31, 2023
Sunny — maybe too sunny?
Sunny weather … a little too sunny. Clip below. Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/3SOI5vp_7hs via @YouTube. #climatechange #climatecrisis #drought
It’s sunny in South Korea. That’s helping the flowers bloom. But it’s dangerously dry.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Regenerating ecosystems 1
#ecosystem #NaturalRejuvination #globalwarming
Clip….
Sometimes human behaviour can help repair ecosystems — from damage done by previous human behaviour.
Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/hryEkdBmt5E
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Ecosystems in spring 2
#globalwarming #climatechange #ecosystem
Clip. The blooming of spring flowers in the greater Seoul area varies a lot. Why? Full video at YouTube: Flower Power: micro ecosystems in South Korea
youtu.be/8xifIn6Gm6Y
Ecosystems in spring
#globalwarming #climatechange #ecosystem
The blooming of spring flowers in the greater Seoul area varies a lot. Why? Full video at YouTube: Flower Power: micro ecosystems in South Korea
https://youtu.be/8xifIn6Gm6Y
Monday, March 27, 2023
American Gun Culture: What Are the Rules? 1
#kylerittenhousetrial #kylerittenhouse #anthonyhuber #kenoshawisconsin #kenoshashooting #alinaji #dearbornmichigan #dearbornmichiganshooting #gunlaws #gunculture #phoenixshooting #kevinsalasmadrid
Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/KILtyRpc4Ns
Three lethal/ near lethal shootings with relatively strong parallels — but very different legal outcomes. What are the rules?
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Minuscule Industry
#moviepoem #videopoetry #poetryfilm #globalwarming #climatechange
A moviepoem shot in Hadong, at the southern end of the Korean Peninsula.
YouTube link: Minuscule Industry — a moviepoem about natural cycles
https://youtu.be/fxBy7WUuyO4
From my collection of authorial movies.
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Doompoetry
Upcoming: The World As It Is … Now, an authorial doompoem. Previous work in this series: youtu.be/bkMNagLlOu0. #videopoem #poetryfilm #moviepoem
Friday, March 24, 2023
Climate change in South Korea
#globalwarming #climatechange
Clip — full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/w8e9G4TUcIk .
Climate change is real and it’s been affecting the weather patterns in South Korea for many years.
What changes do you notice in your region?
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Sky Before Dawn
Sky Before Dawn: Blue like Grover
https://youtu.be/1jo66H26SWY. #videopoetry #poetryfilm #moviepoem
A video based on my late brother Richard’s writing. More below (I’m working on a collection, ergo the list making):
Winter’s cold memories: https://youtu.be/3xUIBOnXUI0
Soul a lost doll: https://youtu.be/ivkoJywWObg
Richard’s last universe: https://youtu.be/wqroSWmtJyw
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather 4
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather - part four. YouTube:
https://youtu.be/e0F4t4A3NKU. #globalwarming
Period of warm weather followed by cold snap decimated a local frog population. Might not seem like a big deal, but it’s part of a larger global pattern. What’s happening in your region?
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
The Alternative Film Festival in Toronto
Clip from Don’t Kid Yourself (2), recently selected by the ReelPoetry FF in Austin, Texas, and the Alternative Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/tiw04VYgxB8. #poetryfilm #moviepoem #antwar
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Monday, March 20, 2023
The War on Smog 1
THE WAR ON SMOG [Text]
The bombs are smart
Even against camouflage,
And they drop their loads
With a righteous
Boom.
We are saved frequently
By these awesome systems.
They save us
From emergencies
And all the,
All the bad guys.
— Finn Harvor
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From my collection of authorial movies. These poems are primarily from a massive project entitled Plastic Millennium. It subdivides into a series of modules and thematic concerns. What is here are a few pieces from a series of nature works entitled the "Baram" series ("baram" is the transliteration from the Korean word for wind). Also are a few interlinked pieces about war and what I term “The Constant Roar of the State”. I'm drawing a linkage between these and the nature poems insofar as industrialism now – as in, really now – is impinging on what we define as the natural; in other words, we are warring on nature itself. The metaphors have disappeared. We're in the midst of something that is moving with glacial speed, but is like a bomb going off.
The Baram Series contains a substantial amount of nature scenery (a passion of mine). But it is not meant to valourize or sentimentalize the reality of 21st Century nature, which, after all, is increasingly boxed in by 21st Century development. One can see that in Canada, where I grew up; one sees it especially vividly in Asia, where I now live. The project started almost by accident: I had a piece entitled “Baram Writer” accepted by an online lit magazine (now defunct). The title was a play on words: a few years before, I'd seen a movie in Korea entitled “Baram Fighter” – that is, the transliteration of Hangeul to the Roman alphabet sounded just the same. I liked the play on words, and kept the “baram” as a sort of talisman for what followed.
These pieces exist as poems and videos, with each element of the project linked but also discrete. I have been working on the project for many years, and am not trying to be trendy or “newsy”, but instead capture something of the larger age we live in. War and the environment are now connected: by the very act of “fighting an enemy”, we – via the exhaustive machinery of war – create another, more amorphous, but also threatening enemy.
In these poems, "baram" -- or other elementary aspects of nature ("geu-neul" [shadow] and "hai" [sun]) -- do not function so much as symbols of nature, but direct "branches" of it. In other words, nature touches us directly, and gives us tangible experience. Yet at the same time this is happening, nature also can bring us closer to other forms of more emotional experience that are linked to our connections with the others who are meaningful in our lives. Yet articulating this rather simple connection is hard, and that is because being conscious of the experience is hard. Therefore, these poems will, I hope, be read on several levels: as appreciations of the natural, as experiential-philosophical meditations, and as love poems.
These poems are in turn are from a much larger project that in its totality comprises over 800,000 words, 1,500 drawings, 1,000 plus original photos, 100 original songs, and 1400 authorial movies (movies based on a belletristic text in which every element is made – authored – by one artistic sensibility). It is a first. (There are longer textual works out there, obviously, but none as long and also with as much variety of artistic forms.) As I remarked above, I've been working on this material for many years now, and it has a broad thematic range.
About myself: I'm an artist, writer, filmmaker, and occasional musician, and live with my wife in South Korea. I've published art and writing in The Partisan [upcoming], Pacifism21, Former People, The Puritan, Eclectica, Canadian Notes and Queries, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Korea Times, Dogmatika, Dark Sky, the Quarterly Conversation, rabble, the HUFS International Journal of Foreign Studies, The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Now Weekly, The Canadian Forum, This Magazine and several other publications. I've had group and solo shows of of my artwork, have written and staged two fringe plays, and invented a new genre of experimental movie (the “authorial movie”, in which the basis of the narrative is a belletristic text, such as a poem, short story or movie, and one person – one author – produces all elements of the video, such as text, art and music (for more examples of these, see the links below)). I have had group and solo shows of my visual art.My videopoetry has been screened in the US, UK, Greece, Ireland, Hong Kong, South Korea, Kazakhstan, and India. Finally, I blog at Conversations in the Book Trade, where I have conducted interviews with people including Adam Bellow, Ian Brown, Philip Marchand, Bev Daurio, Brian Palmu, derek beaulieu, Ed Champion, and Richard Nash. Link: http://conversationsinthebooktrade.blogspot.com/
https://youtu.be/ZmCk1a6uDyk
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Weird weather, continued
HOW MUCH OF THE FROG POPULATION IS LEFT?
우리 개구리 얼마나 마리 아직 있어?
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Top video, tonight. Bottom video, a week ago.
More:
One: https://youtu.be/UPrH6pu2bsI
Two: https://youtu.be/cIHfmNwoQWA
Three: https://youtu.be/NzkSvSxISbs
Saturday, March 18, 2023
ChatGPT and creative writing
#canlit #ChatGPT #chatgpt4 . ChatGPT is causing consternation among writers. What kind of effects strategies can we develop to prevent literary culture from being “disrupted”? The answer lies partly in better criticism.
Clip above.
Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/UZuW9xPAgV4
Friday, March 17, 2023
Climate change in South Korea
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather — 3. Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/NzkSvSxISbs via @YouTube. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #globalwarming #ExtremeWeather
Periods of unseasonably warm weather followed by cold snaps decimated a local frog population. How’s that important?
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather 3
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather — 3. Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/NzkSvSxISbs via @YouTube. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #globalwarming #ExtremeWeather
Periods of unseasonably warm weather followed by cold snaps decimated a local frog population. How’s that important?
Thursday, March 16, 2023
War Markets
War Markets
(Originally published in Mudlark)
Where were you born?
In what city
was the future written
on the hard,
cakey walls
of destiny’s
blind alleys?
Well, don’t worry —
International markets,
dizzylingly high
on their abstract
mountains
of profit
and gas —
have been teetering lately;
their great volumes —
stacked high as peaks —
are due for a crash.
Experts
all bitcoined (till last spring)
take to media,
and reassure, reassure —
while stocking secret fridges
in faraway
cottage-bunkers
with veggies, dried meat
and fruit ...
food, in the near future,
will be the new loot.
Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/SWqLFVSWb5I
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Drone Technician
Clip from Drone Technician: with text. Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/ygmANaVDC5U via @YouTube. #DroneAttacks #RoboticWarfare
Temperature fluctuations
#ClimateAction #climatechange #KoreanClimate #ExtremeWeather.
A sudden cold snap killed a local frog population — which had bred en masse because of unseasonably warm weather. Normal spring patterns, or the sign of deeper climatological change?
More here: https://youtu.be/UPrH6pu2bsI
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Thievanomics
#videopoetry #moviepoem #poetryfilm.
Clip from Thievanomics 2: The Perfectioneers, about the algorithms and coolly calculating humans who now manage the lives of us, the common people….
If curious, full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/pqMS29M9rzA
Monday, March 13, 2023
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather 3
Frogs in background now dead; a cold snap did them in. Typical seasonal change or extreme weather event? More at Weird Weather, Wonky Weather: Abrupt Seasonal Change in South Korea youtu.be/UPrH6pu2bsI via @YouTube. #climatechange #moviepoem #globalwarming #weatherpattern
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather 2
#climatechange #moviepoem #globalwarming #weatherpattern
If curious, full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/UPrH6pu2bsI
Sudden changes in temperature are nothing new during transitional seasons like the spring and fall. But in recent years, these changes in South Korea have become more abrupt and extreme, leading to noticeable changes in the breeding of frogs and blooming of spring flowers. What is happening in your part of the world?
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#changementclimatique #moviepoem #réchauffementglobal #weatherpattern
Les changements soudains de température ne sont pas nouveaux pendant les saisons de transition comme le printemps et l’automne. Mais ces dernières années, ces changements en Corée du Sud sont devenus plus brusques et extrêmes, entraînant des changements notables dans l’élevage des grenouilles et la floraison des fleurs printanières. Que se passe-t-il dans votre partie du monde ?
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Weird Weather, Wonky Weather
#climatechange #moviepoem #globalwarming #weatherpattern
Sudden changes in temperature are nothing new during transitional seasons like the spring and fall. But in recent years, these changes in South Korea have become more abrupt and extreme, leading to noticeable changes in the breeding of frogs and blooming of spring flowers. What is happening in your part of the world?
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Can AI write good quality fiction?
Clip from an upcoming experimental project with AI creativity. Have you tried these programs yourself? What’s your take on them? What kind of work did they produce? #AIart #ChatGPT #publishing #machinelearning #Algorithms
Stephen Markley’s The Deluge
From the Guardian:
Around the midpoint of The Deluge, a character laments how quickly “you wake up and you’re in a bad movie from the future”. It’s an offhand but accurate description of the economic, ecological and technological turmoil in Stephen Markley’s bleak vision of the coming decades. In his alternative 2030s, surveillance capitalism has ended privacy and AI has eroded human agency; financial markets collapse and the political sphere becomes yet more rabid. Above it all looms our inescapable, spiralling climate catastrophe.
Beginning in 2013 and rolling inexorably forward into a darkening century, The Deluge depicts an apocalypse in slow motion. There is no schism separating before and after, no single epochal event that marks a terminus for civilisation. It’s a story of incremental chaos, political lethargy and scientific minutiae, and it is utterly mesmerising. There have been many more flamboyant end-of-the-world scenarios in fiction, but few as frighteningly plausible.
Markley spent a decade on the book, which is constructed as a collage of texts: first- and third-person narratives intermingled with magazine articles, scientific papers, White House briefings and podcast transcripts. His ability to inject these ostensibly dry sources with pathos, verisimilitude and agility of voice sets the novel apart from other apocalyptic melodramas. Point-of-view characters span the sociopolitical spectrum and the wealth ladder. A marketing exec turned hedge fund manager, an ecoterrorist, a neurodiverse data analyst, an alienated addict: each offers a peephole into events, but together they form a comprehensive tapestry of a civilisation coming undone. Markley begins with the character of climate scientist Tony Pietrus in a chapter titled “The Phase Transitions of Methane Hydrates”. It feels like an open challenge to the reader, forewarning that this book will neither hold your hand nor care about your feelings.
Friday, March 10, 2023
Thursday, March 09, 2023
On censorship in North America
Clip from a video on how the complex realities of censorship in North America are more complicated than you might think. Full video at YouTube: youtu.be/9rTi6BkLeUQ via @YouTube. #canadianculture #mexico #censorship
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Monday, March 06, 2023
From the Missile Launch as Painting project series
Clip from one of the moviepoems in the Missile Launch as Painting series. Full video at YouTube: https://youtu.be/bkMNagLlOu0
Global Fevering, part one
Spring on the Korean Peninsula usually is a dangerously arid time of year.
Sunday, March 05, 2023
Saturday, March 04, 2023
Speaking With Mountains
Happy that/ heureux que three shorts selected by the Taiwan ISFF. The most recent, Speaking With Mountains, was recorded on a hiking trail near Suki’s family’s farm on a peak named Hyeongjae Bong. I’ve climb that trail several times, frequently with a camera in tow. But this was the first time the footage came together. The second, Don’t Kid Yourself, was also recently screened at the ReelPoetry Festival in Texas. The third is a short eco-doc (also a smartphone project) about global warming. It’s from a few years ago, so it’s totally out of date now.
Speaking:
Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/804542929
Password: baramone
Don’t Kid Yourself: https://youtu.be/tiw04VYgxB8
Yes, Planet: https://youtu.be/8EiEyA7bF14
Friday, March 03, 2023
Thursday, March 02, 2023
Wednesday, March 01, 2023
Korean Marketplaces
Korean market culture has shrunk drastically in Seoul as corporatization shoulders aside small merchants. But it’s still central to small town life. Greening Korea deals with this, as does Your World.
YouTube links:
Greening Korea: https://youtu.be/ex6K64LYVkc
Your World: https://youtu.be/kaI1ZtdRVPA
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