Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

This needs to be addressed...
Earth changes are affecting Costa Rica in a big way.
Not only the recent activities of several volcanoes, one of which is just to the north of where we live, Turrialba.


But the last few days we have had record heat, over 30' C, and last week there were several tremors, two of which were above 5.

[RunningDeer]

Friends of Highest and Mother Earth
Balances to protect
with cool breezes
and gentle sways
to release throughout
Blessed Kingdoms

<3

[araucaria]

Some interesting Russian sci-fi from nearly a century ago:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...t-sci-fi-films

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Some interesting Russian sci-fi from nearly a century ago:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...t-sci-fi-films

I saw Solaris and The Stalker, and loved both. That was back in the seventies when I still enjoyed a slow movie.
I wonder what happened, that my attention span has dropped so badly. Can't watch movies longer than three minutes, if that. For the last ten years I have this sense of urgency, and only when amongst my plants do I enter into a sense of timelessness. Sometimes this bothers me, as I don't know anyone else who does this.

[Carmody]

Everyone has their form of meditation. I know someone who does this, another Capricorn, in this case.

[Selkie]

Posted by ulli (here)
...when I still enjoyed a slow movie. I wonder what happened, that my attention span has dropped so badly...

If I might hazard a guess, it might be the movies, themselves, which have affected you, because if you watch you will see that movies now-a-days are made up of very short shots...sometimes the shots are less than one second long...and the stories move at a frantic pace. So to rebuild your attention span, you might try watching slow, old movies. The kind with long shots and slow stories.

Just a thought.

p.s. When I was watching a movie recently, I actually counted the seconds that the shots remained on-screen. Not one of them was more than 3 seconds long.

[ulli]

Posted by Silkie (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
...when I still enjoyed a slow movie. I wonder what happened, that my attention span has dropped so badly...

If I might hazard a guess, it might be the movies, themselves, which have affected you, because if you watch you will see that movies now-a-days are made up of very short shots...sometimes the shots are less than one second long...and the stories move at a frantic pace. So to rebuild your attention span, you might try watching slow, old movies. The kind with long shots and slow stories.

Just a thought.

p.s. When I was watching a movie recently, I actually counted the seconds that the shots remained on-screen. Not one of them was more than 3 seconds long.

I worked with a screen writer for a few months in 2005 as he needed astrology knowledge for the lines of a character in his screen play. Since he knew that I had once been a knitwear designer he told me that creating a movie is no different...different stitches together make up the whole garment and a movie has about 4000 stitches. You simply write what the camera sees and hears. You gear to the target audience...so all is formula. There is ultimately only one movie.

And the jumping from scene to scene is done because the audience of today has a short attention span.

So knowing this means I can't subject myself to this kind of manipulation any longer; the way I used to when I enjoyed directors like Kubrick, who made some of the slowest movies on record...2001-A Space Odyssey.
Kubrick, Scorpio, and arch manipulator. (In the best sense)

There is just so much I want to do these days and just not enough time.
Avalon is important to me, but there are other things, in my 3D world.
By the way, where have you been Silkie? Been missing seeing that black panther avatar.
The older Villagers may remember that I also once presented myself here as a black panther...the kitten as well as the adult one.

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Everyone has their form of meditation. I know someone who does this, another Capricorn, in this case.

That's comforting to know. Thanks.

[Carmody]

Posted by Silkie (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
...when I still enjoyed a slow movie. I wonder what happened, that my attention span has dropped so badly...

If I might hazard a guess, it might be the movies, themselves, which have affected you, because if you watch you will see that movies now-a-days are made up of very short shots...sometimes the shots are less than one second long...and the stories move at a frantic pace. So to rebuild your attention span, you might try watching slow, old movies. The kind with long shots and slow stories.

Just a thought.

p.s. When I was watching a movie recently, I actually counted the seconds that the shots remained on-screen. Not one of them was more than 3 seconds long.

Some directors detest that sort of speed editing.

For example, one of the longer single unbroken shots on a 'normal' modern film:

http://www.steadishots.org/shots_detail.cfm?shotID=194

Note that all the good stuff has been removed from yootoob over the years. 90% of the stuff I'd like to go to yootoob for, is gone. I had to go to elsewhere for this shot, and it used to have multiple versions of it on yootoob. Now they (people) have to use a cell phone to put the image up, to try and sneak past the flagging software system that I suspect that yootoob uses.

ps: I am of the opinion that Firefly was cancelled as it was in the position of teaching the general population, the younger set, the idea and reality of planned organized rebellion and what they are to be rebelling against. It pushed the seeds of it into their minds.

It was steered into the ditch and Joss Whedon was re-tasked into the support and display of 'superheroes/saviors/gods', which is a far more malleable victim's position to push into the public. Better for an oligarchy who might be the real secret force behind the decision making machines in question.

[Selkie]

Posted by ulli (here)
...And the jumping from scene to scene is done because the audience of today has a short attention span...

Yes, and what I am saying is that people's attention spans have shortened because they started making movies with shorter scenes and faster stories. They started to make movies with shorter scenes and faster stories, and peoples' brains adjusted. If you look at it the other way around, you have the cart before the horse.

[Selkie]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by Silkie (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
...when I still enjoyed a slow movie. I wonder what happened, that my attention span has dropped so badly...

If I might hazard a guess, it might be the movies, themselves, which have affected you, because if you watch you will see that movies now-a-days are made up of very short shots...sometimes the shots are less than one second long...and the stories move at a frantic pace. So to rebuild your attention span, you might try watching slow, old movies. The kind with long shots and slow stories.

Just a thought.

p.s. When I was watching a movie recently, I actually counted the seconds that the shots remained on-screen. Not one of them was more than 3 seconds long.

Some directors detest that sort of speed editing.

For example, one of the longer single unbroken shots on a 'normal' modern film:

http://www.steadishots.org/shots_detail.cfm?shotID=194

Note that all the good stuff has been removed from yootoob over the years. 90% of the stuff I'd like to go to yootoob for, is gone. I had to go to elsewhere for this shot, and it used to have multiple versions of it on yootoob. Now they (people) have to use a cell phone to put the image up, to try and sneak past the flagging software system that I suspect that yootoob uses.

An example of the long scenes I am talking about is Once Upon a Time in the West.

p.s. I sort of think the trend toward very short scenes with very fast-paced stories got its start with MTV and music videos.

[Carmody]

Some of the most celebrated directors of modern times cut their teeth on music videos. Fast cut, kinetic, colorful, digital.

[Selkie]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Some of the most celebrated directors of modern times cut their teeth on music videos. Fast cut, kinetic, colorful, digital.

I did not say that speed editing is bad, only that it might be affecting people's attention span without them even being aware of it, and that it seems to me that it got its start with those fast cut, kinetic music videos (which I love, btw). If that is what people really like and want, that is fine. But if what they like and want is being manipulated...which seems to be the case, or we would not call them "sheeple"...then maybe folks ought to start consciously evaluating how these fast cut movies are affecting them in terms of attention span. Do we really want these fast cut, fast paced movies? Why are there so few slow-paced, long shot movies out there anymore? Is it because people really want fast cut, frenetic movies, or is it simply what they have been conditioned to...conditioned to produce as well as conditioned to want and like?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hv_zJrO_ptk

[ulli]

There are always numerous factors at work to bring a culture about, in my view.
If one looks at the art world...how did it move from impressionism to expressionism and then become more and more abstract? The coming together of art dealers, art critics, status seekers, avant guardists, social climbers, investors, and finally mass media, where it got diluted further into the fashion design world, furniture, architecture.
One can then even relate these movements to planetary influences. Endless. If one can define sheeple as people of low self esteem and their possessions give them a feeling of status, and their associations with either elitist influences or their opposite revolutionary ones...both sides might be offered to maintain the dynamic at work, but within a limited spectrum.
But even the cleverest elitist schemes don't always work out, and in the movie industry there are endless shipwrecks of broken dreams because the public rejected what they offered. Even some Spielberg movies bombed, despite mass media hyping. Nothing is certain with that many factors.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by ulli (here)
Can't watch movies longer than three minutes, if that. For the last ten years I have this sense of urgency, and only when amongst my plants do I enter into a sense of timelessness. Sometimes this bothers me, as I don't know anyone else who does this.

The last time I went to a movie theater was to see the Matrix series. The convenience of iTunes fits my lifestyle and attention span. Sometimes it takes me three to four hours to watch a two hour movie because I have to stop it even if it’s a good one. Or I'll fast forward through parts like the car and fight scenes. (Shhh. Twenty minutes into the movie I've been known to fast forward to the end because I don't want to invest lots of time into a drawn out movie.)

And then there are those times where it takes two days to watch one movie. It's because I'm on to other things or I'm in the middle of listening to other YouTube vids that I've downloaded so I can fast forward through them. The only time I sit and watch a movie from start to finish is when I need to dial down the life-think. In which case, I'll watch two or two and half movies.

There’s a sense of urgency to figure things out, like to have enough information in case the lights go out and to be of assistance to others. Now I fast forward through the price of gold and skip most of the false flags because I know there’s another around the corner should I become board with life that’s moving at warp speed.

I woke up this morning with the question, why'd I purchase two more books one of which is "The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric"? "Read them," I remind. I want to be sure that I'm balancing 'it' all out. Hope it's interesting enough to break the attention span barrier.

Like you, nature grounds me. And when I go off to sleep I listen to nature sounds. When I can’t sleep rather than books, I use that time to listen to more nature and I practice feeling whole body energetics right down to cellular levels where all subtly vibrates. That’s where the miracle is.

I tap into the whole-body frequency (not separate chakras) where I’m unlocking everything I need to know, to regenerate and in time, to assist others. It’s done throughout the day and night. I may only have the attention span for 30 seconds. But it reinforces it enough to continue. Now, I notice that before I think to do it, it’s happening. Chicken or the egg? Doesn’t matter. It’s switched/switching on. Like it’ll be for us all.

<3

[Carmody]

Posted by Silkie (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
Some of the most celebrated directors of modern times cut their teeth on music videos. Fast cut, kinetic, colorful, digital.

I did not say that speed editing is bad, only that it might be affecting people's attention span without them even being aware of it, and that it seems to me that it got its start with those fast cut, kinetic music videos (which I love, btw). If that is what people really like and want, that is fine. But if what they like and want is being manipulated...which seems to be the case, or we would not call them "sheeple"...then maybe folks ought to start consciously evaluating how these fast cut movies are affecting them in terms of attention span. Do we really want these fast cut, fast paced movies? Why are there so few slow-paced, long shot movies out there anymore? Is it because people really want fast cut, frenetic movies, or is it simply what they have been conditioned to...conditioned to produce as well as conditioned to want and like?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hv_zJrO_ptk

Mine was just a comment in reflection of a condition, nothing more; a note of the moment in currency flow of society in the given time. I'm ambivalent to it. The cranial shifting/moving aspects are most certainly there and noted.

The world is too big, the box is too small. No amount of fretted fitting will make it work. One has to move to a condition of distancing, so that outside of the frenzied rush...perspective can be reunited with reason.

Age 20, a year is 1/20th of a life
Age 30, a year is 1/30th of a life
Age 60, a year is 1/60th of a life

So yes, attempts at frenzied ineffectual fitting of insane pace/rate of flow... is the norm for the young..... and the thing to ignore and walk away from in later years. Of course, this depends upon the idea of a group of humans having a defined lifespan, in a societal and cultural context as we generally hold it to be, today.

I realized this mindset earlier on and tried to start early, to find what the different thinking and being would bring to me. To developmentally race ahead, so to speak. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

[Guest]

Scorpio Full Moon this weekend

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f6SDNZPSmCc

Published on Apr 28, 2015
Tho life is an interplay of light and dark,
From sunny days to Noah's ark,
I will use my mind, my strength and my will,
To manifest my soul, It's truth to fulfill


Love

Nora

[Selkie]

Posted by Carmody (here)
...So yes, attempts at frenzied ineffectual fitting of insane pace/rate of flow... is the norm for the young..... and the thing to ignore and walk away from in later years...

Those movies and music videos are not just fast cut and fast paced; they are fragmented and broken up, and a broken up, fragmented reality is a feature of trauma. It is pretty clear that the PTB are subjecting us all to trauma-based mental conditioning pretty much all the time. I wonder if these fast cut, fragmented movies and videos are from that, at least in part?

[Carmody]

IMO, one reflects the other.

If I was presumptuous and self centered, I'd say that the seeds I work at planting are eventually found in culture and society everywhere. A slow bleed in. It's all about product placement.

Just another meerkat on extended guard duty.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As for this shift in attention, time flow and psychological capacities and attention span, etc..if looked at from the correct angle.... it can be seen that our lifespans are artificially shortened, as the full correct and actual lifespan for this avatar...would take advantage of the method and path of psychological development. Everything would dovetail perfectly, yet.... IT DOES NOT.

Which is indicative of a mutant of a sort. A genetic shift. In this case, a severe shortening of the lifespan of the biological carrier, so that it never truly reaches maturity in form and function.

yet the situation plays out in a sort of reverse, a perversion.

Like I said elsewhere: Broiler chicken. Abomination.

[Selkie]

Posted by ulli (here)
...By the way, where have you been Silkie?...

I just get sick of the internet, sometimes, and then I'm, like, if I look at this any more I'm going to blow lunch.