Photo from Heather Clemons Photography
“Secret Cinema is a growing community of all who love cinema, experience and the unknown. Secret audience. Secret locations. Secret worlds. The time is now to change how we watch films. Whisper only amongst yourselves. Tell no-one.”
One of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a while. Secret Cinema brings back some of the allure the theater lost for us. And their website is one of the few times I’ve been okay with Flash.
“Space is something you make in your life, amidst the busyness, so that you can fill it. Emptiness is a spiritual void that cannot be filled, no matter how much you create.
If you find yourself empty, your life is probably lacking space. Space to dream. To think and reflect. To believe. You will have to face some demons and slay a few dragons before you can create. But once you do, you’ll be all the more grateful for it.” – Jeff Goins
I’ve always struggled with the idea of space. Jeff puts it in a great light here.
“I think this whole topic can be summed up as just being a good human. Listen, share, provide value to others, be open, admit mistakes and know that by building great character, you’re also building great credibility.” – Mike Rohde
Couldn’t agree more.
A politician finally promised a base on the moon in return for electing them president.
For a moment, let’s put aside all the political pandering points and just look at the idea. The dream consists of going back to the moon for the first time since 1972 (Apollo 17). It’s an audacious dream, probably a bit impractical, but one I think that’s desperately needed again.
We’ve forgotten how to dream big. As a kid, I dreamt of being an astronaut one day. From galaxy wallpaper to shuttle Legos, space travel became a minor obsession that filled my thoughts.
And then we grow up. I lost that spark of imagination for a while. The creative side of me focused on coloring inside the lines rather than drawing the image myself. Give a kid a box of crayons and they immediately begin creating something. Give the same box to an adult and they just look at you funny.
That’s why so many people laughed when they heard the idea for a moon base. To me, those people are the ones who can’t dream anymore. I’m sure President Kennedy’s critics tried to kill the dream of an Apollo program. But he pushed through and convinced the American people it was the right challenge – the right dream for us.
Starting from practically nothing, President Kennedy and NASA took us to the moon. Not only should we go back, we should use it as a jumping off point for the rest of the universe. We need an audacious dream like this just to prove we can still dream.
And yeah, John Stewart’s name of Moonlandia is actually pretty cool.
“We as artists chose this path because it’s hard. We pour our passions, our ideals, our dreams into the things we create. But sometimes that’s not enough. Passions lose steam and dreams get lost when the work gets too hard. When that happens, we can get very frustrated – and that can either destroy you….or become the greatest asset you’ve ever had as an artist. The men and women of the Apollo space program undoubtedly became frustrated at times. But they chose to use that to push them forward.” – via Save the Artist
I wrote those words a few weeks ago and it’s amazing how many times I keep coming back to them. Frustration sucks but it’s a good thing in the long run.
