Overshoot TV video wiki, Open Source documentary

I try to blog about interesting web sites as I find them.

Here I just found a new sister TV web site: Conscious . TV. It is a very simple web site publishing video interviews of writers in the area of Healing, Consciousness and Psychology.

In the video below, they interview Richard Lang from Headless . org. The topic is: "Seeing who you really are." I am a fan of the Headless Way and I am a subscriber to Richard's newsletter, for which I am grateful. Check his web site.

I have just created a new project within Overshoot TV which combines several of my interests.

The Astral project aims to create short inspiring animation videos using the 3D animation software Blender.

Important links:

• Astral project wiki
• Astral project issue queue: the list of what needs to be done for the project.

Here is a first short animation test:

[Video inside... Click to see full post].
Bill McKibben editor of American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau and author of The End of Nature has been trying to convey the urgency of climate change to the world. But, sadly, words failed him like they failed countless others like him. He writes:

How do you say: the world you know today, the world you were born into, the world that has remained essentially the same for all of human civilization, that has birthed every play and poem and novel and essay, every painting and photograph, every invention and economy, every spiritual system (and every turn of phrase) is about to be . . . something so different? Somehow “global warming” barely hints at it. The same goes for any of the other locutions, including “climate chaos.” And if we do come up with adequate words in one culture, they won’t necessarily translate into all the other languages whose speakers must collaborate to somehow solve this problem.

Basically, at a time when only soundbites manage to find their way through to the collective consciousness of the masses, they were trying to solve an apparently unsolvable communication problem.

But then, when, to the great dismay of scientists, the Northwest Passage opened amid the great Arctic melt in 2007, James Hanson ("our greatest climatologist") came up with a magic number:

As explained in the wiki, this site is innovative in the way that it uses the same way method to create videos as the Free Libre Open Source software movement uses for software creation.

Hahaha!! :) This gal has found the way to make us, dudes, listen to a speech on a boring topic such as Peak Oil:

Maybe we can use similar techniques, here at Overshoot TV?
What if *I* do the dancing? (hint: I am a 40kg overweight dude!)

I absolutely wanted to upload my very first video production on Earth Day (i.e. today).

It is the very first video I have ever made, so don't expect too much. But I am still quite happy on how it turned out. It is very short, and it runs like a 1 minute ad announcing the creation of Overshoot TV.

The chosen pictures are symbolic on different levels. Also, I very much like the highly appropriate symbolism in the title of the music: "Restoring Power".

See the full credits for this video (with links to original content).

The following video by Dan Chay from Learning Communities is one of the reasons why I created this web site. In the upcoming Overshoot documentary, I would like to explore a bit further some of the topics raised in this video.

I was looking for pictures to illustrate the political and economic powers and couldn't find anything really suitable.

I found "Money!" by Tracy O http://flickr.com/photos/tracy_olson/61056391/
and "Money, its a crime" by DryIcons http://flickr.com/photos/dryicons/2288161813/
but I was not entirely satisfied (I might still use them, though).

As I am often browsing flickr and the net to find suitable material to include in our productions (suitable = license + content), I run across some very nice pictures that I think we could use sooner or later.
I am blogging here about what I find: my blog can serve as a kind of public bookmarks.

Fábio Pinheiro (http://flickr.com/photos/fabio_dsp/ ) has a very beautiful collection of pictures from South America (Brazil?), many with fishing boats, the sea side...

Here are some from him that caught my eye, and that we could use:

"Money as debt" is a convincing, powerful video explaining how dangerously ridiculous our monetary system is.

The message in it is very much aligned with the general message of O TV. At least some of the information in it should find its way to the Overshoot Documentary, and also in the wiki.