Food for the weak

 

At The Work Of The People we've taken to describing ourselves as desert dwellers who provide food for desert dwellers. I sometimes wish I had a more settled life serving the establishment in established ways for established compensation. But just sometimes.

Thoughts of a warm and fuzzy status quo dissolve away when I sit down to a rich desert feast, the kind of feast you can only get in the desert, the kind of feast only desert dwellers can create. I remember why I'm here, I remember who I'm serving, I remember how blessedly good desert food, like the little film above, is.

If you've got 5 minutes, take a break and pop into the tent, Jean Vanier has a desert feast waiting. Sit still with his words for a time and front will be back, back will be front. Up will be down and down will be up. Suddenly the desert will make sense again.

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Science + Film making = Enthralled

 

Compressed 02 // A short film made by Kim Pimmel using "exotic ferrofluid liquid" and ordinary soap bubbles. It's all analog, macro lenses and stop motion. Surely part of the mesmerizing effect is the editing and the score, but what else is going on here? Is it capillaries= life blood, therefore we read it as organic and alive? Is it the know presence of ferro fluids? The eerie tension of man and machine—it looks alive but it's metal. Or does it somehow capture elemental forms and flows that resonate down to our fleshy and embodied DNA that binds us to the wonder of creation?

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