Sun 12 Nov 2006
What happens when money is given more meaning than human life or god?
Kent and I did this interview and podcast with Lynne Twist while shooting the Echo Chamber Project. She talks about how money flows like water in that it becomes poisonous if it stagnates. So I see money as a metaphor for giving and receiving.
Twist is the founder of The Soul of Money Institute and book of the same name.
The Soul of Money Institute’s work is based upon the following principles:
* Prosperity flows from sufficiency — the recognition of enough.
* Each individual makes a difference.
* What we appreciate appreciates.
* Collaboration generates prosperity.
* Our legacy is what we live - not what we leave.
* Gratefulness is the heart of generosity.
* Global citizenship is the natural outcome of an awakening consciousness.
I like this article from the NY Times because it has a hopeful messsage about philanthropy. It talks about “… a new breed of billionaires who are out to harness the marketplace as a force for doing good in the underdeveloped world.”
This is my Carp Caviar promo.
Music: LAGO TAMBUROS by DJBLUE via CCMixter.org
November 13th, 2006 at 8:07 am
That was freaky, weird, very racial.
generating very unique emotions.
archival documentary style silen footage vs. perky voice
Weird.
November 13th, 2006 at 9:56 am
yes. i agree. i was feeling weird when I made it.
I used to make experimental films that are more metaphorical and less literal. i am felt like playing with that old style.
I have been thinking about making money in a capitalism system and race issues and diversity.
….and the idea of slavery…How we can become slaves to the metaphor of money and the systems we create for ourselves.
thanks for the feedback.
November 13th, 2006 at 10:23 am
The podcast by Lynn Twist talks more about the nature of giving and receiving and how “money flows like water”.
Its seems like capitalist structures can empahsize money as a form of “god”.
The danger is when we become slaves to that “god of money” which is really just a metaphor for systems we created ourself as a form of trading services and “energy”.
Making money itself isn’t inherently flawed.
Its more about how we think about it.
I like this article from the NY Times because it has a hopeful messsage about philanthropy. It talks about ”a new brand of bilionnaires who are out to harness the marketplace as a force for doing good in the underdeveloped world.”
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/giving/index.html?th&emc=th
November 13th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
More CC promos should be like this. Love it, Jen. Hope you make more art like this and show it off. Inspires me to do the same!
December 7th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
I’m reading this book right now called “A Language Older Than Words” by Derrick Jensen. It talks about a lot of the same things and more.. if you haven’t seen it you should definitely check it out. Thanks for continually making us think!