Gilsangsa/ 길상사

 

Canlit and the Hyper Modern 2

 CanLit and the Hyper-Modern 2

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Canadian letters has always been good at highlighting environmental issues; it’s not a controversial issue, and artists, by their nature, tend to be sensitive to ecological concerns. 

However, concern is often contradicted by behaviour, especially when one’s career is at stake. 

The reality is that conventional book production has a significant carbon footprint, and so does book promotion. 

Yet authors need to make a living. How to square this circle?

CanLit and the Hyper-Modern 1

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?

Masking: The Korean Experience

 

Seocho-gu, Seoul

 

Yongin

 

서천에서/ In Seocheon, Seoul

 

Whispers in The Warehouse of Bombs

 

In Yongin/ 용인에서

 

Greening Korea: After Heavy Rain

Part three 

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

PicGall 17

 

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

Peacedemic or Wargasm?

 

Israel/ Gaza 2

 

Israel/ Gaza 1

 

Ukraine/ Russia 2

 

Ukraine/ Russia 1

 

The Human Volcano

What burns hottest?

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/G-gX1kUr-Xo?si=bvH8teMO-2A2nkDx

Yongin, two days ago

 

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.

밤에 서초구/ Seocho-gu at night

 

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

From the After Work series