By Neale Van Fleet on July 12th, 2023
My longest and most elaborate abstract video so far, at well over 5 minutes. This one is an experiment with colour. Strobe warning.
Patti
By Neale Van Fleet on July 11th, 2023
Found this paste up of Patti Smith in the entryway to an accountant’s office in Montréal’s Mile End.
Advice from Patti:
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
The Future is on Thin Ice
By Neale Van Fleet on July 11th, 2023
Friend of Elsewhat Rosemary Mosco wrote and illustrated a beautiful but very concerning story about Ottawa’s Rideau Canal skating rink which didn’t freeze enough for skating this past winter. This is unprecedented.
As well as the environmental message, this comic captures the feeling of growing up in Ottawa and skating on the canal and eating Beaver Tails, referred to as “pastry” in the comic, which I have to imagine was done to avoid having to clarify that a ‘Beaver Tail’ is a flat donut-like pancake-like treat and not a hunk of leathery rodent appendage.
I lived near the canal for years, and had friends who would skate or cross country ski to school on the canal. This story hits hard.
To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower?
By Neale Van Fleet on July 10th, 2023
A wonderful, big-picture article in The New Yorker on the climate crisis by Bill McKibben about possible paths to salvaging the climate crisis through limiting certain aspects of growth.
A study cited by the degrowth advocate Steve Genco calculated that to stabilize the planet’s temperature, we need to decrease the share of passenger-car transport in our cities by eighty-one per cent, “limit per-person air travel to one trip per year,” reduce living space per person by twenty-five per cent, decrease meat consumption in rich nations by sixty per cent, and so on.
This is a huge task, but possible. I have done each of these items and none have felt like a sacrifice. The good news is that several of these, such as reducing car use and meat consumption, also have additional health benefits.
Also, unexpected to me:
An E.V. is a good way to cut carbon emissions, but so, it turns out, is a four-day workweek.
Osprey
By Neale Van Fleet on July 9th, 2023
Mama osprey taken through cheap binoculars.
Timid, Intimidating by BADBADNOTGOOD
By Neale Van Fleet on July 9th, 2023
Directed by Winston Hacking
Secretarybird
By Neale Van Fleet on July 8th, 2023
I was going to post this without a proper title, but my 10 year old son instantly recognized this as a Secretarybird.
PJ Harvey's I Inside the Old I Dying
By Neale Van Fleet on July 8th, 2023
Beautiful music video for PJ Harvey’s new album I Inside the Old Year Dying, directed by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña. Excellent work by Klaus as well.
Spherical LED Arena
By Neale Van Fleet on July 8th, 2023
I’m not sure if I love or hate this spherical arena covered with LED screens in Las Vegas. I would sure love to play some of my abstract videos on it.