🌲🎥New Short Film🍿🌲

One Minute in the Sierra Nevadas

In today’s Sunday Bagel, to celebrate the Oscars I have a new short film for you that will screen lower down.

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Today I am thinking about my week ahead. I always want to tinker with the idea of time and how we treat it.

It might be worth asking ourselves: When do I feel time-rich, and when do I feel time-poor?

When do I feel like the time I am spending is not in fact my time, but someone else’s?

How about thinking for a moment about what moments are precious to you?

What are the things that no one can take away from you?

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The moment you arrive to a place that was really hard to get to. I can’t stress enough how grueling that mototaxi up the mountain was.

But that moment where you are free to go for a walk by yourself down the mountain a bit the next day. You can walk down the trail that you came up by the mototaxi. And you just look out on the mountain range.

And in that moment you see what is at stake, what all the activists have been shouting about since I was a child.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

The Smoggies.

And it’s just like wow.

🌲🎥 One Minute in the Sierra Nevadas 🎥🌲

Here is today’s film screening by yours truly in celebration of the movie industry’s biggest night on television.

To get a clean shot of footage like this is not easy to do if you travel with a group of people. They will want to walk to some sort of destination or vista like a waterfall, and you will need every minute you can to put your tripod down and let the camera just sit there.

I will also add that getting a camera to read the light in mountainous areas is a challenge because the power of the sun comes in and out rapidly creating an undesirable look that is likely a form of shadow creation (like the awful Kamala Harris photo editing trick that mean people did).

The guitar was recorded this morning after I picked up the steel string acoustic which was already dropped quite nicely and then touched the strings up a bit with the tuning peg to get it into this nice pocket that’s kind of like a melatonin or chamomile tea effect.

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So for me to answer some of the questions higher up in today’s email, I would say I just want to do things as right as I can.

I want to end the day knowing that I did all I could do to be a good human.

Not necessarily a good man, a good musician, or a good technologist. Just a good human.

I do a bit for this cause, I do a bit for that cause, I make enough money so that I’m not a burden to others and the system.

I open the door for the nice law abiding Canadian who comes into the store after me, and I help the elderly women navigate the sidewalks in the winter when you have to watch the contours of the road in my neighbourhood carefully since I live at the top of a hill, THE big hill of Toronto and the streets and sidewalks do go up and down quite rapidly here.

I don’t need to take more than I give, but we can easily forget that we could choose to be radically generous with our talents and our ideas every day.

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What’s at stake for you this week?

What will make the time feel free, and what will make it feel borrowed?