Some people might have been wondering where I’ve been lately… maybe abducted by aliens or something?
In a way I have been, as the last week was taken over by this project and the ideas that it plays with…
Above: Jon, onehumanbeing working on Area 5150 – Photo by Tania
About The Video
This is a sound collage visualscape taking you on a journey into the world of space alien true believers, Area 51, UFO conspiracy theories and shadow governments…
Most of the video material used in this project was taken from found videos and are about real events or real people…
I appropriated them, altered them, sampled some audio clips, and created a new story for your auditory and visual pleasure…
Section 5150 is a section of the California Welfare and Institutions Code (specifically, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act or “LPS”) which allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed to have a mental disorder that makes them a danger to him or her self, and/or others and/or gravely disabled. A qualified officer, which includes any California peace officer, as well as any specifically designated county clinician, can request the confinement after signing a written declaration. When used as a term, 5150 (pronounced “fifty-one-fifty”) can informally refer to the person being confined or to the declaration itself.
Credits
Original music and sound collage by Jon, onehumanbeing
Visualscape
Directed by Jon, onehumanbeing
Video Sources
All of the pieces I used for this sound collage visualscape have been re-edited, altered, color and time shifted and manipulated in a number of ways to achieve my final results… but here are the originals if you would like to delve into the “real” stories.
Area 51 : The Frantic Caller – This is the man who sounds paranoid and like he’s about to have a nervous breakdown. He is a caller into the Art Bell radio show… see the original video for more info…
Atomic Bomb Test on human subjects – I went looking for footage of atomic bombs exploding and military people and found this piece… just what I needed for images of the military and their bombs…
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Here’s a short video clip of Jerry Garcia along with The Grateful Dead from a 1967 CBS News Documentary about the growing and “alarming” hippie movement…
I love the ecstatic humanity expressed in this video, and it contains many of my hopes for 2010…
Do You Realize – that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize – we’re floating in space
Do You Realize – that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize – that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes – let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It’s hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun don’-go down
It’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
Do You Realize – that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize…
Lyrics from “Do You Realize” by The Flaming Lips
Don’t wait for tomorrow to appreciate and support those you love today. Let them know you realize… and remember – You have the most beautiful face!
The Once In A Blue Moon New Year’s Eve Party – 2009 into 2010
We spent the last hours of 2009 with some good friends at our The Once In A Blue Moon New Year’s Eve Party.
We talked, ate and drank, counted down til Midnight, had the iTunes playing a New Year’s Eve party playlist, cheered with Champagne, ate sauerkraut for good luck and everyone went home safely with a commemorative button in the early morning hours…
Here’s a small selection of photos… A few friends that arrived just before midnight or later didn’t make it into our photos from the night (we set the camera down somewhere and forgot about it…)
We finally fell asleep around 3:30-4:00 in the morning and didn’t wake until noon.
Our dogs, Moseley and Suki, had a great time too and have spent the whole day today sleeping… just the thing to do on New Year’s Day.
Thank you to all that attended our party, we were honored that you choose to spend New Year’s Eve with us!
2009 – Hope, Change and Let Them Eat Cake
I read a bunch of good articles today that did a fine job of reflecting on the sorry state of affairs that we call the first decade of the new millennium… here’s a few of them:
A few weeks ago, Newsweek produced a video, which condensed the major news events of the past decade into one seven-minute mashup video. This interested me! So, I merrily sat down at my desk, queued it up, and prepared to watch it unfold. At the time, I thought: “Oh, this will be fun.”
It was not fun. Not at all. You know what? This past decade was pretty terrible!
…What we had in the 2000s was far, far worse than a “Big Zero.” The last ten years have been so miserable for the United States that a “Big Zero” would be an immeasurable improvement compared to what we got. If we could freeze time and move the country back to January 1999 it would be like hitting the jackpot! With all its squandered wealth, wasted lives, despoiled environment, growing inequality, and a Supreme Court stacked to favor corporate power, a “Big Zero” is a distant, unattainable goal.
Revenge fantasies are durable, reliable entertainments because they allow us to experience actions that aren’t allowed in real life, and that most of us wouldn’t truly want to experience even if given the chance. That would be fine if we were just talking about pop culture. But during the 2000s, the revenge fantasy escaped the realm of fiction. It came to dominate our politics and — for a while — overturned centuries of established U.S. policy and tradition toward prisoners.
…Which brings me to Decembuary 0. This should take the place of the traditional January 1st, and act as a sort of transitional day between the years. This way, you can feel awful and disgusting and piss away your day watching TV in the same pants you’ve been wearing for the past 36 hours without feeling like the new year is getting off to an discouraging start.
Here’s a video (see below) I made back in 2006 for a client of mine – I was a freelance graphic artist at the time, having left the Gazette Newspapers in January of 2006 after 6 years in the art department.
I met this client – Erik Bueno, a local real estate agent – when I was working at The Gazette, and after we became friends he offered us (Tania and I) a chance to go up to Carmel and stay at his cottage, the Quail’s Nest. (We got to go up again this last October for our anniversary… you might remember my post from then…)
We made a video of our trip and sent Erik a copy… and when I moved on to freelance work, he hired me (us) to go back up to The Nest and shoot another video… and paid me too…
Well, you too can go stay at the Quail’s Nest… Erik has launched a site to take reservations and this is the video I made for him is on it… you can find that here.
The MMJ Project
Documenting the end of the war on marijuana and the experience of being a MMJ patient in Long Beach, California
The Turning – A Serial
A serial from Jon, onehumanbeing – exploring the natural supernatural…
UFOverdriver
UFOverdriver – a ship built for audio and visual pleasure cruises as well as various journeys into the deep sub-conscious of American culture – in stereo sound…
Edith's Commentaries
Bible Commentaries on Matthew and Mark by Edith Shelton – amazing reading…
Friends of Jon
The Path Less Pedaled
Our friends Laura and Russ, founders and long-time members of our Happy Hour group – now, on the road…
Fang's Forum
someone who knows more about Johnny Cash than you do…
