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Category Archives: sustainable
Dear Earth
English Dear Earth, We, the people of the USA, are finally getting our shit together. We’re actually practicing democracy by taking direct responsibility for ourselves. We’ve always been in power here but have inappropriately allowed our beliefs and behaviors to … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, self education / research, sustainable, training / practice, vision
Tagged dear earth, deutsch, german
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Awash in wildflowers…
…and basking in beauty, that’s the summer of 2011. Hello World has been beached (blossomed) for a solid year following her crippling injury 30 miles north of Chicago that ended our 2010 expedition. She’s communing with the flox and vetch … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, Hello World, open source, policy, repairs, sustainable, training / practice, video chapters, vision, vision / planning
Tagged ALM, combat mime, compost, corn, distraction, dog, garden, gertrude ekstatisch, girlfriend, Hello World, horse manure, james weston, lauren di scipio, marijke church, michigan movie makers, mykl werth, nuclear, soil, solar power, sustainable, tai chi, tcff.org, traverse city film festival, will church
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Awash in wildflowers…
…and basking in beauty, that’s the summer of 2011. Hello World has been beached (blossomed) for a solid year following her crippling injury 30 miles north of Chicago that ended our 2010 expedition. She’s communing with the flox and vetch across the street, waiting for repairs. Patrick and I are converting a storage shed into […] Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, people, production and post, projects, real life, SFX reel, sustainable, time, workflow
Tagged ALM, combat mime, compost, corn, daughter of god, distraction, dog, garden, gertrude ekstatisch, girlfriend, horse manure, james weston, lauren di scipio, marijke church, michigan movie makers, mykl werth, nuclear, plan, research, soil, solar power, tai chi, tcff.org, traverse city film festival, will church
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Climate Change and digressions
Premise Climbing high above a menacing mega-weather system, the VIP passengers aboard the Execu-jet attempt an escape to gentler climes, anticipating warm backrubs and frosty cocktails. Hubris! Even the mighty kerosene sucking turbo engines cannot forever loft such a heavy … Continue reading
Posted in nonviolent communication, policy, sustainable, training / practice, vision, vision / planning, x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Tagged activist arrogance, ae, after effects, boondoggle, california, cherry capital, climate change, container ship, convenience, environment, environmental debt, excess, genarts, global life support, hollywood, jamaica lynn weston, james weston lynn, james weston schaberg, jeff gibbs, jet, jet flight, jonathan kelly, landing gear, life support system, lightning, local growers, patrick kelly, privilege, right livelihood, roto, sapphire plugin, stabilized, stabilized footage, strobe flash
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Live Fully, Pay Attention, Power Down
Play movie for computer, phone or youtube An ALM inspired public service message about giving up jet travel, whipped up in response to a regional fund raising effort that seemed inherently contradictory. The more I learned the more I felt … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, Hello World, movies, policy, self education / research, sustainable, training / practice, video chapters, vision / planning
Tagged activist, ALM, artist, awakening the dreamer, jet travel, jets, local, may erlewine, northern michigan, regional, seth bernard
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PSA V2
I tested my PSA yesterday – me doing a talking head with ALM b-roll. It’s got potential. This morning I simplified the narration. I am Dan Kelly In 2008 I was invited to sail around the Hawaiian islands and make … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, Hello World, policy, self education / research, story, sustainable, training / practice, video chapters, vision / planning, wilderness
Tagged africa, amtrak, china, impact, jet travel, jets, low impact, ondesire, psa, san juan, travel, utah
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Public Service Announcement
I’ve been away from ondesire.movie for a couple of months, reconstructing my land based life and recovering from an NYC exit. Let’s return now to the Around Lake Michigan archives for further extraction and posting. I’m starting with a PSA … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, self education / research, simplify, story, sustainable, synchronicity / fortunate accidents, training / practice, vision, vision / planning
Tagged africa, amtrak, china, impact, jet travel, jets, low impact, ondesire, psa, san juan, travel, utah
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Musings in the morning
With ALM, I have three basic flows for telling the story – raw video, motion graphics and posts (text). Though I wasn’t as faithful with imaging everything, I was fairly thorough in my writing. I captured details that I certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, bliss, collaborators, disasters and catastrophes, injury, movies, open source, policy, self education / research, story, sustainable, training / practice, video chapters, vision / planning
Tagged approach, attitude, cam chocks, climbing, collaborator, complication, dave hart, field test, gear, geek, motion graphics, posts, protection, rack, simplicity, solution, south manitou island, success, trial, tribulation, trivia, video, wordbooker
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Day 2 – Elberta to Arcadia
Sailing from Elberta to Arcadia on Day 2 was much easier than getting from Point Betsie to Elberta on Day 1. In this episode, I discuss the plan to beach Hello World and run some errands while still within range … Continue reading
Posted in 10-06-01, 10-06-02, Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, sustainable, time, video chapters, vision, vision / planning
Tagged arcadia, elberta, movie
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Chicago!
Day 30 Down at the beach with Jeni and Nancy to open my wind window. Steve came jogging by and they introduced us. He’s working at the steel mill and said that before US Steel bought it and nixed everyone’s … Continue reading
Jean Klock Park
Day 25 and 26 Jean Klock park. Spent yesterday and this morning with Carol deconstructing the very sleezy maneuvers required to tear down exquisite wild dunes and privatize a community commons. Will a poorly designed golf course and an upscale … Continue reading
Posted in 10-06-25, Around Lake Michigan, bliss, collaborators, health / survival, latest news, nonviolent communication, open source, self education / research, sustainable, training / practice, vision / planning, visualization (magic), wilderness
Tagged benton harbor, carol drake, dunes, golf course, jean klock park, st joe
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Two halves
Day 22 Waking at Schumann’s 7:00 am, gotta move on over to Fred Eagle Royce’s and then get to town for an interview with RJ Peterson, marina magnate, community booster, friend to the late Dennison and self proclaimed conservationist. RJ … Continue reading
-5 days – fly true
Despite precautions, when I crawl into bed I feel the prickle of tiny glass fibers on my naked skin. I mingle with Hello World, we become one flesh. Hello World is more than my production platform, transport and home. The … Continue reading
-4 days – child’s questions
A cup of ginger tea before donning the yellow hazmat suit and starting the day’s fiberglass fun. The Brunton inverter is whirring away somewhat creakily as it charges this iPhone. Most of the gear has already been checked for solid … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, health / survival, Hello World, policy, repairs, self education / research, sustainable, training / practice, vision / planning
Tagged brunton, carbon footprint, fiberglass, Hello World, jor-el, kal-el, krypton, loreen niewenhuis, mining, moses, petro chemistry
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6 days – family
Woke up with a big happy after an 11 hour crash. About 8:30 pm last night I started nodding and had to lay down. Could have been the wine and lasagna… or just the turnings of mystery. I clarified my … Continue reading
15 days – Making of a Saint
Getting close now. Order of operations seems to be holding together, it’s spooky that I’m mostly on schedule. Everything can go right between now and launch… it’s possible. I am noticing more, recognizing the unfolding of a larger story. A … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, bliss, collaborators, disasters and catastrophes, health / survival, Hello World, movies, open source, self education / research, simplify, story, sustainable, synchronicity / fortunate accidents, training / practice, vision / planning, visualization (magic), wilderness
Tagged apocalypse, dog, jesus, order of operations, shiva, sustainable
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16 days – Roman Nose
Kari was over last night for dinner and we talked about guns, earthships and vision quests. She used a big cutting board as a model of Hello World, sliding it back and forth on the counter top as if it … Continue reading
17 days – pronouns
You might notice an unusual use of pronouns in this project. “We” usually replaces “I” when discussing the trip. That’s because Hello World has it’s own identity and presence, it’s not just Dan Kelly sailing Around Lake Michigan, it’s Dan … Continue reading
Posted in collaborators, Hello World, self education / research, sustainable, training / practice, vision, vision / planning
Tagged boat, cybernetic, he, our, pronoun, sail, she, symbiotic, together, us, we
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Checklist clothes
revised 10-05-31 √ x2 socks wool [Icebreaker] √ x2 underwear poly/merino √ x2 underwear cotton (1) √ merino top [Icebreaker Bodyfit 260 XL] √ x2 merino bottom [Icebreaker Bodyfit 260 L] (1) √ black cargo pants √ pile pullover √ … Continue reading
20 days and swim for 101 Facebook Fans!
The On Desire tribe reached it’s objective yesterday of 100+ fans for the Facebook page and the Around Lake Michigan movie project. “This milestone demonstrates that we’ve got a solid core of kick ass collaborators,” said Dan Kelly, ALM’s guide. … Continue reading
21 days – Artifacts
Here’s a rough sketch of an introduction to artifacts, one of the components that’ll help explain and set-up the Search for Sustainable Civilizations. I’m running late on the mini-movie / extended trailer, let’s see what happens this weekend. Without further … Continue reading
24 days northern spring
Beauty is a feeling and this morning I have it. It’s the combination of rapport, getting fit and making progress. In the past two days I’ve reconnected with Brook Hash, Susan Gilbert and tonight Kari Tomashik will be stopping in … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, open source, poetry / lyrics, self education / research, sustainable, training / practice, video chapters, vision / planning, wilderness
Tagged awaken, brook hash, global life supporr, kari tomashik, leaf, nephew, renew, run, spring, susan gilbert
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26 days
Lovely chill morning. Yesterday I surprised a fox as I came out of the house. Sienna and umber, pretty big too. He wasn’t in a huge hurry, eventually trotting off past the nitrogen accumulator (outhouse). Last Friday I passed a … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, Hello World, movies, sustainable, training / practice, video chapters
Tagged advanced, beavee island, calling card, capitalistic, chill, dick burris, fox, global life support, industrialhello world, kits, life support, mason, mini movie, mir, modern, nasa, peru, stones, sustainable
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27 days
This is calling card weekend, three days to create a short movie that explains the project. I’ve already got a 40 minute rough cut of the September trip (presented at the Evening of Exploration in November). My plan is to … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged analogy, boat, body, cycle, earth, island, life support, machine, mechanism, planet, space station, spaceship, starship
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On artifacts and the incomprehensible
In a scalding tub, burning away the muscle ache from yesterday’s kooky backward run. I skip showers for several days running just so I can dip neck deep in steamy agua caliente. Today I bought a minivan from my fam … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, art, bliss, movies, open source, self education / research, sustainable, synchronicity / fortunate accidents, vision
Tagged Around Lake Michigan, artifact, artifacts, artist, community supported agriculture, csa, future, jetcar, sail boat, sailboat, soylent green
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Inherent artifact
44 days until the scheduled launch. In 3 weeks I’ll look back wistfully and think, “I remember back when there was plenty of time.” The logistics of sailing and camping for three months are significant. There’s the boat itself which … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, repairs, self education / research, simplify, sustainable, vision / planning, wilderness
Tagged boat, camping, island, logistics, plan, planet, planning, sailing, spaceship
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Second* day of spring
8:30 am on Crystal Lake and it’s quite brisk and still. Strangely though, it feels different than the deep silence of a couple days back. This morning i don’t hear so many creatures speaking and their timing isn’t concerted, they … Continue reading
What’s worth listening to…
I am a fan of WBAI FM in NYC. Fortunately, I don’t have to be in Brooklyn to enjoy the broadcast. Not only is WBAI streaming on the web, but archives are available for 90 days. WBAI is totally listener … Continue reading
Posted in collaborators, health / survival, nonviolent communication, open source, self education / research, sustainable
Tagged 2600.com, Armand DiMele, counterspin, Democracy Now, Doug Henwood, Emmanuel Goldstein, HOPE, Hugh Hamilton, Jeannie Hopper, Jim Freund, Max Schmid, Michio Kaku, Peter Bochan, Robert Knight, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Wakeup Call, wbai
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ATD facilitators
On December 13, 2008 I attended an Awakening the Dreamer symposium at Boricua College with Melanie Ida Chopko, aka Melonie Amazing. On Valentines Day weekend 2010, I trained with 34 others to be a symposium facilitator. The symposium is a … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, open source, self education / research, sustainable, synchronicity / fortunate accidents, training / practice, vision, vision / planning, visualization (magic), wilderness
Tagged awakening the dreamer, facilitator training, gaia, memes, mother earth, script, symposium
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Homegrown Organic Eatery
A feature film in 5 days? A engaging, edifying, feature film in 5 days? How much sencha green tea will it take? Finally, the video the network has been clamoring for! The dynamic duo of digestion, Chris and Tanya Winkelman … Continue reading
Posted in 09-09-13, Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, food, Hello World, latest news, self education / research, sustainable, video chapters, vision / planning
Tagged christopher winkelman, doctor, food, hamburger, homegrown, organic, pharmacy, pizza, prescription drug, tanya winkelman, traverse city
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The cost of sailing
Just before launching last month, I took some pictures of the waste generated from Hello World’s renovation. Getting her ready required power, raw material and room in the landfill. Around Lake Michigan is a search for sustainable civilizations that utilized … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, latest news, self education / research, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged big bear, budget, calculation, consumer, electricity, footprint, landfill, power, solar, solar panels, sustain, sustainable, toxic, toxic consumer culture, waste, wind turbine
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Debriefing continues
Talked with two of my bio brothers yesterday about the trip. Mike and I both have an affinity for the national parks and we discussed how I might craft a proposal based on ALM to increase access to parks without … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, collaborators, Hello World, latest news, sustainable, training / practice, wilderness
Tagged camping, composting toilet, ecsh road, forums, hobie, hulls, leak, mike kelly, national lakeshore, pressurize, review, sleeping bear dunes, steve kelly, sustainable camping, vacuum
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Afterward
Phase 1 of Around Lake Michigan is complete. The overview – 300 miles of sailing in about 30 days, 50+ hours of video recorded including travel and interviews, plenty of low/no impact camping, many new friends, 20,000 hits on the … Continue reading
Moon trail
I recorded an iPhone audio snippet of my moolit sail to Otter Creek. The slight wind continued for what seemed hours. In the dark, I passed chatty smokers anchored by what I guessed to be Platte River. Later and far … Continue reading
Larry for launch
Here’s an excerpt with Larry Kinney discussing Harmony Home Construction, recorded on Elberta Beach, a few hours before I launched. Having Larry’s energy around was a huge gift, but to pull off an interview with him too? Bonus!
Yin and Yang
Even a sailboat has an environmental cost. Rebuilding Hello World was intended as a low impact project, not a sustainable project as I defined it a few days ago. Not only was electricity and petroleum poured into the tools, lights … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, policy, repairs, self education / research, sustainable, vision
Tagged big bear, fiberglass, fiberglass repair, garbage, low impact, solar, sustainable, vacuum cleaner, voc, waste, wind
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Search for Sustainable Civilizations
Queue voice over by Rod Serling or Leonard Nimoy… not Twilight Zone or Star Trek, but the 70’s Cousteau docs of Serling’s and the 80s ‘In Search Of’ series hosted by Nimoy. Sustainable Civilizations has a mythic ring. They are … Continue reading
Rainy preparations
This morning I pop riveted the stern/port trampoline casting that Chuck welded yesterday. I’ve got more riveting to do after I apply some adhesive to the mast base, but it’s wet out there – raining. I’ll go into town to … Continue reading
Integrity exhibit A
Breaches in the Hobie hulls are sealed, structural damage is remediated. At 10:00 pm UTC – 4, August 12, I completed the injections of the decks. Only cosmetic and finishing work remains. I know y’all have been starving for pictures, … Continue reading
Posted in Around Lake Michigan, Hello World, maker, policy, repairs, sustainable
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Mid Pacific Garbage Vortex
~~Mid Ocean Garbage Vortex~~ Last January while attending Seattle’s annual boat show I came across the ‘Junk Raft’, a catamaran sailing vessel built out of trash and found objects by Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal. Over the course of … Continue reading
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Budgets
A $400 Hobie Cat, eh? That’s what I bought it for in May, with a trailer! A week later, (after a full inventory), it turned out there were no blocks for the main and jib. The seller, Alan Vigland, had … Continue reading
Rifting establishes protocols
Kai is in the house! We’ve been doing a lot of undocumented talking phonewise. Kai isn’t totally comfortable with posting full names of collaborating individuals, he want’s to protect their privacy. He’s also reluctant to release the On Desire blog … Continue reading
Riposte – sustainability isn’t an abstraction
I was just commenting on Telemetry 090630 and I realized my comment was worthy of it’s own post. Kai and I are a few steps past this now, but you can’t practice fundamentals too much. > It seems, for ideological … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project preparation, nonviolent communication, self education / research, sustainable, training / practice, vision / planning
Tagged al gore, carbon, carbon footprint, cruise ships, fundamentals, hawaii, jeff, jeff gibbs, jets, kai schwarz, no jetting, small, telemetry, tourist
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Radical redesign
As reported a few weeks back, Kai’s got problems with Desire. It’s been sitting for so long unattended that there’s no way he can get it ready in time to return to Seattle ahead of big weather in September. After … Continue reading
Expansion and sustainability
Kai has been keeping a log of his exploits since arriving in Hawaii and setting up Desire, but since he hasn’t had reliable internet enabled computation, contributing to the On Desire blog has been problematic. Mostly we talk on the … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project preparation, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged apple inc., container ship, green, hawaii, panasonic, sdr sdw20, sustainable
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Sweet moon
Another week in full tilt at the water temple. The Hobie renovation support team arrives in about 3 hours. For the moment, sweet silence and the moon. Been doing a little strategic shoving of local allies, helping to deploy web … Continue reading
Posted in bliss, Desire project preparation, gear, Hello World, repairs, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged affinity, apple, apple inc., collaborators, gertrude ekstatisch, gratitude, hobie, holes, kai schwarz, macbook, mike murphy, miraculous, morrie warshawski, mykl werth, northern michigan, on desire, tape, variety, Vixia, water temple
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All hands on deck
July 5 is the deadline for my Hawaiian ride. We’re down to the wire. 11th hour. Time to ship or get off the ops. Now or never. Magic! In last weeks episode… Riding the Transpac would have been an exciting … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project preparation, health / survival, sustainable, vision / planning, visualization (magic)
Tagged bunker fuel, consumer, container, container ship, entre, entrepreneurs, footprint, hawaii, horror, kai, kai schwarz, on desire, pollution, sustainable, toxic consumer culture, transpac
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Telemetry 090630
I don’t think Dan’s coming to Hawaii. It seems, for ideological reasons as he won’t fly in a jet due to it’s carbon footprint. I can respect his convictions though I don’t fully adopt them as my own. He’s been … Continue reading
Posted in collaborators, Desire project preparation, disasters and catastrophes, document / journal, health / survival, kai, story, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged armadillo, blue water, carbon, collective culture, dan kelly, desire, footprint, hawaii, hobie cat, humanity, inter-island, kona, nervous system, portland, radar, radar reflector, radio, san francisco, seattle, solar panel, sustainability, transpac, wind generator
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Jorn Winkler, DK Group
Container Ship – How to reduce effect on Climate and Pollution View more presentations from Glenn klith Andersen.
Meanwhile
The first wave of Transpac 2009 starts without me tomorrow. Jets are only $100 from LA to Honolulu – not an option. So how am I getting to Hawaii? I spoke to the San Francisco office of Greenpeace and passed … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project preparation, movies, sculpt, sustainable, synchronicity / fortunate accidents, training / practice, visualization (magic)
Tagged alan vigland, container ship, cruiser, don seth, gertrude ekstatisch, greenpeace, hobie cat, merchant marine academy, mike murphy, no jetting, northwest michigan folklife, on desire, patrick kelly, shop and save, transpac 2009
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Apple® in the house
Fantastic news – Apple Inc. is willing to support On Desire with an additional Macbook! Kai, Dan and the extended On Desire tribe enthusiastically welcome our latest collaborator. What with Final Cut Pro Studio, an iPhone and a gaggle of … Continue reading
Calling all collaborators
Yesterday was momentous. Thanks to advice from Christin Shacat I researched the Division 1 and 2 Transpac skippers. I also blasted Apple execs with an inspiring email, strategized with Kai for an hour and implemented Twitter. What’s it all about? … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project preparation, gear, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged alexander and baldwin, apple, california, canon, christin Shacat, collaborators, container ship, entrepreneurs, five fingers, footprint, hawaii, holes, horizon lines, jeff gibbs, lectrosonics, matson, oahu, on desire, racing sailboats, science, solar power, steadicam, steve jobs, sustainable, tiffen, transpac, transpac 2009, twitter, vibram, Vixia, wind, yachts
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Terrorist Training TM
I’m sending out screeners for ‘Almonds’ to film festivals this morning. You can watch the trailer here… http://almondsmovie.com The press package is also available as a pdf – the project’s back story. After reviewing the press package and checking in … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project preparation, gear, self education / research, simplify, sustainable, training / practice
Tagged addict, causality, corporate hegemony, environmental injury, fedex, global transportation, melanie chopko, mike kelly, park slope food coop, political repression, raw materials, sarah kelly, some almonds movie, sprawl, sprouting, terrorist training, toxic consumer culture
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On jets
I’ve been active on the online sailing communities looking for a ride from *anywhere* on the west coast of the North American continent to Hawaii. I’m preparing my pitch to the container ship companies for Monday. I also decided to … Continue reading
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Still here?
I laze. It’s spring at the artist house, lovely. One might conjecture a very slow tourist season hereabouts, what with the end of capitalism and all. Sigh! What a time to be thousands of miles away. A cat eating mackerel … Continue reading
Loose ends
From: DAN Subject: Re: Kona next week Date: June 8, 2009 9:38:11 AM EDT To: KAI Hey Cap’n, Still in Michigan waiting for a few final components of the kit to arrive. In the meantime, I … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project preparation, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged boat, desire, hawaii, kai, travel
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Train
May 28, 2009… Train as in practice, not what hobos ride. How do we prepare ourselves for anything. Just because I am drinking a beer right now doesn’t mean that I couldn’t whoop a battalion of fascists with one arm … Continue reading
Posted in art, Desire project genesis, health / survival, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged blogging, production, tai chi, training, visualization (magic), yoga
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Instruments of mass creation
I’ve been listening to Zietgeist addendum today while rotoscoping Almonds and had a flash on self education. My brother Steve and I have been talking about how students emerge from college with significant debt. His kids (my nephews) are not … Continue reading
Vision version 0.1
For the last week, I’ve been fighting a rather nasty flu with an expired bottle of Ayurvedic immune booster. Rumors of a deadly Mexican flu outbreak in nearby Queens means I might not make it through the night. So this … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project genesis, sustainable, vision / planning, visualization (magic)
Tagged ayurvedic, banyan botanicals, cetacean, cool people breed, ecosystem, flu, heiau, immune support, island, natural disasters, plague, planet, spaceship, swine flu, visualization (magic), war
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Trek
The ability to sleep anywhere is handy – in a grassy glade, a construction site after hours or in the coat room of a fancy hotel. Yes, I have. I imagine a return to Mauna Loa, some backwoods exploring and … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project genesis, health / survival, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged hammock tent, kauii, mauna loa, shakti, shelter, sleeping bag
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Travel
• Sublet the Brooklyn crib for the summer • Travel to Michigan for pre-production, perhaps shakedown cruise on North Manitou with the new production kit • Train ticket from Michigan to Cali • Find a boat (or balloon) from Cali … Continue reading
Posted in sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged 8 seas, brooklyn, california, jeff gibbs, kalamazoo, kona, michigan, no jetting, north manitou, sublet, turtle island
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Go west
There’s the getting there and the coming back. In the spirit of small footprint, I want to go west with low impact so no flying. Getting to California by train is reasonable, but leaping from CA to HI is another … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project genesis, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged amtrak, big world small footprint, BWSF, california, hawaii, no jetting
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Progress
There’s so much to do I want to post a regular progress report as a tool to amp up momentum. There’s a point of no return that needs to be reached ASAP which includes selling the car and subletting the … Continue reading
Posted in simplify, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged brooklyn, gear, Honda Odyssey, liquidate, sublet
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Dan’s plan
April 1st, count down. I am green to go, but it’s all visualization and hutzpah presently. I’ve got to sell a good deal of gear to enable this, so on my ride back from Michigan last night I made some … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project genesis, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged camping, dan kelly, email, gear, Honda Odyssey, kai schwarz, liquidate, michigan, production gear, scuba, sublet, treking, visualization (magic)
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Big World Small Footprint Continuum
Big World Small Footprint Continuum ~The Desire Project~ RAW Wednesday, April 1, 2009 10:04 AM (not foolish at all) From: “kai” To: “j gallone” Hello John, Here’s the scoop on what Dan and I are building. We’re calling it (working … Continue reading
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Tagged big world small footprint, BWSF, dan kelly, desire, john gallone, kai schwarz
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Re: alternates (to flying)
From: DAN Subject: Re: alternates Date: February 27, 2009 12:56:48 PM EST To: KAI Thanks, I’ll look into it all. I’ve started to build a plan. I found these so far. http://www.cruisersforum.com Attitudes and Latitudes Forum … Continue reading
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Tagged cruiser, dan kelly, kai schwarz
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Re: alternates (to flying)
From: KAI Subject: Re: alternates Date: February 27, 2009 7:15:42 AM EST To: DAN Hello Dan, It was great talking with you yesterday! As for getting to Hawaii I’ll try to find some more crew list … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project genesis, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged crew, dan kelly, honolulu, horizon, kai schwarz, long beach, matson, no jetting, passenger, seattle, shipping lines
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The Desire Project – Big World small footprint
From: KAI Subject: The Desire Project – Big World small footprint Date: January 6, 2009 12:28:32 AM EST To: DAN Hello Dan, Sorry it took a few days to get back to you an answer your … Continue reading
Posted in Desire project genesis, sustainable, vision / planning
Tagged AC power, beans, big world small footprint, BWSF, desire, distiller, fishing, fresh water, fruits, grizzly bear, grizzly man, hawaii, helicopter, honolulu, john gallone, kona, pasta, rice, sailing, sailing the farm, san diego, scuba gear, solar panels, some almonds movie, sprouting, survival, underwater, vegetables, VW microbus, waterproof, werner herzog, wind generator
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