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It sounds to be a post-nuclear-arms farce possibly on par with - or at least in a similar vein to Dr. Strangelove. Benson has signed letters of intent to appear on Sierra Zulu. SIERRA ZULU: A ragtag UN peacekeeping force operates a small camp guarding the no-man’s-land between Austria and the tiny agrarian microstate "Soviet Unterzoegersdorf" (Soviet Lower Hesitant Village?), the last existing bastion of the defunct Soviet Union. When an explosion occurs deep inside Soviet territory, the team is dragged into a bizarre conspiracy of industrial espionage, media madness and political intrigue. The knowledge economy? It’s about to get blown sky high. The 16 minute prequel is at this link. Background: monochrom has occupied itself with the construction, analysis and reflection of alternative worlds and modes of writing history for several years. monochrom projects treat this topic partly as a contention of concepts from popular culture, science and philosophy (see parallel world systems, alternative language systems), partly as a direct link to the science fiction and fantasy fan culture.
The movie “Sierra Zulu” aims to use stylistic elements of the dark comedy or the farce to deal with the fundamental questions of national supremacy, international conflict solving strategies, national and international legislation, the power of the media and the diplomatic incapacity of international organizations. The movie wants to explore the perspectives of people who live more or less on the fringes of what we would call “history” or “the world”. This fringe area – surrounded by Austrian sovereign territory – is where we find the microstate Soviet Unterzoegersdorf, the almost forgotten ‘last autonomous republic of the Soviet Union’ which has fallen victim to its geo-political, historical, cultural, and economical insignificance. This village is the last state to represent the ideas which have been eradicated from the face of the earth with Soviet-Communism.
“Sierra Zulu” is about implanting false memories into the political and cultural memory of Europe, and about simulating the effects of this partial and local rewriting of history – namely the initiation of an entire network of events, caused by this transposition. Or to put it differently: how would real life react to Soviet Unterzoegersdorf?
The project not only wants to (at least symbolically) oppose the final victory of capitalism since 1989 with a certain form of nonconformity (perhaps similar to that Gallic village in which Asterix and Obelix live, but without any magic potion that cancels out the superiority of the Roman opponents). As the French comic series Asterix represents the triumphant, unreflecting anti-Americanism of the 1960s and 1970s (or at least was a good symbol from the perspective of the anti-Americanists), Soviet Unterzoegersdorf is rather a place where the “Archaeologie der Hoffnungen” (Archeology of hopes) can take place, “die mit den unerloesten Opfern der Herrschaft begraben wurden, um sie wach zu halten, sichtbar zu machen, hoerbar zu machen” (“that was buried with the victims of oppression, devoid of deliverance, in order to keep it awake, make it visible, make it audible”) as meant by Walter Benjamin.
Communism is not an opinion, it is a promise! ...
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FIRST QUAKE: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nm051012b#technicalSECOND QUAKE: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nm051012c#technicalThe first was 2.8 miles northwest. The second was 2.4 miles northwest. Both of them sounded like something exploding on the northeast end of the house and I was in the Kitchen on that end of the house. The first one was more like a very intense sonic boom and I wondered if it might have had anything to do with the coal mine 5 miles north. But the way it mapped out and the depth (6 - 7 miles) the quakes were both focused down in the Precambrian The second was worse. I was in the kitchen in that NW end of the house. It hit so hard with the sound of an explosion that I half thought that end of the house had blown up. It felt like that hard compression at the bottom off a roller coaster run. I'll have to check for cracks in the foundation and brick-work tomorrow. Just had the chimney made taller too. So far one old piece of my mother's china is all that fell and broke. I hope this is the end. The quakes that occurred in 2008 started April 18th and the last one of seven ended on July 18th that year. You can see that spread on GoogleEarth by turning Earthquakes on (under Gallery) and going to Mt Carmel, IL, the quakes were about 12 km WNW of town. Quakes aren't unknown here. We're in the Wabash Valley Fault Zone (WVFZ) which is generally a number of normal faults that trend just a slight bit east of north in line with the Wabash River. The trend fits up with the Reelfoot Rift which is the main structual feature that set off several possible Mag.8 earthquakes along the Mississippi in the winter of 1811-1812. The Reelfoot Rift was first a Precambrian feature as are the faults of the WVFZ. But the Reelfoot is thought to have doglegged and followed the trend of the Rough Creek Graben in Kentucky. But there are other features in the Precambrian of the area that have come to light in the last few decades. Like the Vincennes Basin north of Vincennes which holds some 1000 meters of late Precambrian sediments (and could hold some interesting early fossils if you could get down there). And the English Basin of south central Indiana which may hold some 3000 meters of earlier Precambrian sediments and is thought to have undergone some thrust faulting within those sediments. But it is still the deeper faults cutting the crystalline basement which have been active first due to rifting and second due to external pressures exerted intra-cratonically like the Appalachian mountain building processes in the east after the Pennsylvanian Period. More recent possibly large earthquakes have occurred in the last seven thousand years in the Wabash Valley. Crevasse sand blows along the Wabash and in gravel pits have been discovered and their top zones carbon dated. Geologists have found evidence of eight or more prehistoric earthquakes over the last 25,000 years that were much larger than any observed historically in the entire region of the rifts/fault zones. But if the rest/aftershocks are anything like the trend in 2008 they'll be Mag 1 quakes not worth mentioning. Though one never knows this could be the fault that caused the big one in the lower Wabash Valley a few thousand years ago. I wonder if it knocked down the point-bar banks on my river bend.... hope not! ...
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This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song "Walking in the Air," by Howard Blake, the video takes viewers around the world, through auroras, and over dazzling lightning displays. The sequences are as follows: :01 -- Stars over southern United States :08 -- US west coast to Canada :21 -- Central Europe to the Middle East :36 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean :54 -- Storms over Africa 1:08 -- Central United States 1:20 -- Midwest United States 1:33 -- United Kingdom to Baltic Sea 1:46 -- Moonset 1:55 -- Northern United States to Eastern Canada 2:12 -- Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean 2:32 -- Comet Lovejoy 2:53 -- Aurora Borealis over Hudson Bay 3:06 -- United Kingdom to Central Europe Song lyrics: We're walking in the air We're floating in the moonlit sky The people far below are sleeping as we fly I'm holding very tight I'm riding in the midnight blue I'm finding I can fly so high above with you Far across the world The villages go by like dreams The rivers and the hills The forests and the streams Children gaze open mouth Taken by surprise Nobody down below believes their eyes We're surffing in the air We're swimming in the frozen sky We're drifting over icy Mountain floating by Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep We're walking in the air We're floating in the midnight sky And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly
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So I was curious... whatever for? But she gives no reason. But then she tweets another picture of what was in her welcome basket - a bottle of vodka. But just behind that is what looks to be a script. It says on it OLD DAYS. So I Googled "old days" along with Evansville and this is what I found! EVANSVILLE — Don't get him wrong — Michael Rosenbaum is grateful for his seven years playing the villain Lex Luthor on WB's "Smallville," and for his scores of other acting roles in television, movies and plays over the past 15 years. "But being an actor is really kind of like being a pawn," Rosenbaum said.
... At 39, Rosenbaum is doing all that, back where it all began, with "Old Days," a feature film he wrote, will act in and direct in Newburgh and Evansville over the coming month. After several weeks of preparation, the movie's 22-day shoot is set to begin Sunday, Rosenbaum said.
... He will play the lead role in this story about an actor who returns from Los Angeles to his small, Midwestern town for a 15-year high school reunion. There, after spending time with old friends and an old high school flame, played by television and film actress Morena Baccarin, "he slowly starts to fall in love with this town he ran away from so many years before," Rosenbaum said.
Rosenbaum wrote several scripts producers liked, all the way through development, only to wind up unproduced. "You sell the script, you make a little money, and your idea gets stuck on a shelf somewhere and collects dust," he said. "This is no fun." He decided to make "Old Days" after another feature project collapsed because some backers dropped out at the last minute.
"That's when I finally said, "I'm doing it myself. I'm not going to rely on a studio or a network to make my dreams come true."
"Old Days," is a rewrite of "Paradise, Ind.," an earlier script inspired by his own memories of growing up in Southwestern Indiana, he said. Producer Kim Waltrip took on the project and found outside financing, but Rosenbaum's own Rose & Bomb Productions, a company his younger brother, Eric, works with him in, is part of the team.
By shooting the movie in Southwestern Indiana, shooting high-quality digital tape that later can be transferred to film, Rosenbaum expects to spend less than $1 million for a feature film that a studio production would spend $25 million to $35 million to make in Los Angeles, he said. Baccarin and the other Los Angeles actors he has hired for the movie are working for minimum scale, and he will use lots of local actors and extras.
Newburgh's Castle High School and Knob Hill restaurant have invited him to film there, as has Evansville's Washington Square Mall and several friends, who have volunteered their homes and even a pet pig for the filming.
The city of Evansville has fast-tracked licenses and discounted some fees, and the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office is working with the company to secure roads and locations. And Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke has agreed to help find a helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft for aerial shots of Evansville and Newburgh along the Ohio River.
With help like that, "the production values are going to be enormous, for the budget," he said. Rosenbaum doesn't know when the movie will be finished. It typically takes a year between filming and release, he noted, "and this is my first feature film." He expects to have to shoot retakes and use some "editing magic" to get the movie where he wants it. He knows what will happen when "Old Days" is complete, however. "We're coming back, and we're going to premiere here," he said. Want to be an extra?
___________________________________________So was it that lie in Buffy that got Caulfield the part? TRAVERS: Miss, excuse me, you uh, you work here?ANYA: Yes I do. Ever since I moved here from southeastern Indiana, where I was raised by both a mother *and* a father.GILES: Anya, just go. You don't have to talk to him.(Then in Xander's aparment, mid interview) ANYA: Anya Christina Emanuella Jenkins, twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July, and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. Who's our little patriot? they'd say, when I was younger, and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.______________________ It'd be kinda neat for there to be a homage to Buffy in OLD DAYS - say Caulfield's character named any one of Christina Emmanuella Jenkins or born on the 4th of July - have someone call her their little patriot. . . .
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