Video Remix Project
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What will this project give away to the world?
The video remix project will create video stories and give them away freely to the world without corporate sponsorship or advertising. Explicit permission from their respective owners will be obtained for all materials used in the remixes, or they were obtained through creative commons licensing.
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How do we change the story of the world?
There is only one way that we change our story.
Our stories have an opportunity to change whenever we have an authentic experience that экскурсии по московским переулкам our old story or world view can’t explain. When these experiences happen, our story must change in order that we may comprehend the new experience, which broadens our understanding of the world and ourselves. While real life experiences are always the most effective agents of change, most people today are trapped by their story of rent, bills, and family obligations that leaves them very little time to engage in new experiences.
There is another way to create this kind of experience. Video remixes copy, transform, and combine existing video and audio to create a new experience, one that can change our understanding of the world.
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How can video remixes change our understanding of the world?
Video remixes have the ability to speak to us not just through our intellect but also through our emotions as well. Visual images can stimulate our mirror neurons turning on our inherent empathetic nature. They help us to feel our natural connection to the world around us. Most of humanity has separated themselves from their connection to the natural world and thus are busy destroying it in the name of economic growth. We, as a species, need to reconnect and fall back in love with the environment which sustains us so that we may help sustain it.
Having been seen over 4 million times, this video has changed people’s understanding of what it takes to make nature thrive, that you can’t remove one species without damaging all the others.
Here are just a few ways this video has changed people’s stories of nature, in their own words: “I have always loved wolves but had no idea that they were so vital to the ecosystem in this particular way. Thank you so much for this video.”
“This video has led to discussions with my children of how removing just one creature in our urban backyard environment may alter our ecosystem. They instantly understood how everything is connected.”
“This video is a one of the most inspirational things I have ever seen. It shows how balance is important in life. It’s why humans have to preserve Mother Nature.”
“I cried when I learned how wolves change the course of rivers. THIS is my planet. This is my world. The beauty was too great for me to maintain the ‘manly’ control of my emotions.”
“This video is truly amazing. It shows there is a purpose for every form of wildlife. And how that wildlife affects even mighty rivers on Our Mother Earth.”
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Where can you see some additional examples of video remixes produced by Sustainable Human?
Here is a larger sample size of the video remixes made to date. For a complete list of all 40+ videos, check our Youtube Channel.
A Moral Question
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Society must be able to ask and answer moral questions if it is to survive.
"If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive." ~ Oren Lyons
Is it moral to house animals in inhumane living conditions, inject them with growth hormones, and genetically modify them so that they are unable to walk yet grow more meat? Is it moral to emit pollution that will certainly lead to seal level rise endangering future generations? Is it moral to destroy natural habitats causing many entire species to become extinct? These are all moral questions that Western (and nearly all modern) cultures refuse to ask, let alone answer. Instead, most are too busy getting, acquiring, consuming, and "making a living" to concern themselves in real earnest with these global issues.
If we do not collectively concern ourselves with our moral behavior, what will become of us? Like cancer, our economy must grow until it has consumed its host. If it doesn't, millions face incredible personal hardship. Oren Lyons asks if there is a concept of a yellow flag that indicates we are consuming too much of the planet's resources. He asks CEOs when do you stop being a CEO and become a grandfather. At the end of our lives, each of us will need to reckon with ourselves, did we give more than we took from the world?
We must begin to incorporate moral questions into our governing process or, as Oren Lyon says, you won't have a process that is going to survive.
YouTube Credits:
Sacred Economics by Ian MacKenzie (www.youtube.com/watch...)
Film Credits:
The 11th Hour (2007) (Documentary)
Gasland (2010) (Documentary)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
The Godfather (1972)
Speed Racer (2008)
The New World (2005)
Music Credits:
Force Maker by Brian Eno (www.youtube.com/watch...)
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us at sustainableman.org/contact/
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Is it moral to house animals in inhumane living conditions, inject them with growth hormones, and genetically modify them so that they are unable to walk yet grow more meat? Is it moral to emit pollution that will certainly lead to seal level rise endangering future generations? Is it moral to destroy natural habitats causing many entire species to become extinct? These are all moral questions that Western (and nearly all modern) cultures refuse to ask, let alone answer. Instead, most are too busy getting, acquiring, consuming, and "making a living" to concern themselves in real earnest with these global issues.
If we do not collectively concern ourselves with our moral behavior, what will become of us? Like cancer, our economy must grow until it has consumed its host. If it doesn't, millions face incredible personal hardship. Oren Lyons asks if there is a concept of a yellow flag that indicates we are consuming too much of the planet's resources. He asks CEOs when do you stop being a CEO and become a grandfather. At the end of our lives, each of us will need to reckon with ourselves, did we give more than we took from the world?
We must begin to incorporate moral questions into our governing process or, as Oren Lyon says, you won't have a process that is going to survive.
YouTube Credits:
Sacred Economics by Ian MacKenzie (www.youtube.com/watch" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch...)
Film Credits:
The 11th Hour (2007) (Documentary)
Gasland (2010) (Documentary)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
The Godfather (1972)
Speed Racer (2008)
The New World (2005)
Music Credits:
Force Maker by Brian Eno (www.youtube.com/watch" target="_blank">www.youtube.com/watch...)
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us at sustainableman.org/contact/" target="_blank">sustainableman.org/contact/"> A Moral Question - Fixing Money
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There are other ways of doing things. In this video, Guruju Sri Vast argues that it's our concept of family that is destroying the world. "By only seeing those inside your house as your family, naturally, you must take from those outside of your house to take care of those inside of your house." This view puts all families in competition with one another. Sri Vast points towards a new concept of family.
What does family mean to you? For Sri Vast, it is anywhere where he feels love and accepted for who he is. Using this definition of family - love and acceptance - could we not all be one big human family?
"No one needs to be alone."
Film Credits:
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Pay It Forward (2000) (Drama)
Baraka (1992) (Documentary)
The Sopranos (HBO)
Weeds (Showtime)
The Cosby Show (NBC)
Full House (ABC)
Music Credits:
Enya "Only Time" (Instrumental) (www.youtube.com/watch)
Inkuyo "Wipala" (www.youtube.com/watch)
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us athttp://sustainableman.org/contact/"> Redefining Family -
Are we competitive, selfish, individualistic creatures by nature? What is human nature, anyway?
Dr. Gabor Maté reminds us that the only way to talk about human nature concretely is to remember that we have certain human needs-- the need for companionship, close contact, love, to be accepted for who we are. If those needs are met, we develop into compassionate, cooperative, empathetic beings. Dr. Mate argues that the reason why the world is in the shape it is today is because those needs have gone unmet for so many people.
B-Roll Credits:
Interview from Zeitgeist: Moving Forward by Peter Joseph
"Gladiator" by Paramount Pictures
Animation by First Peoples Worldwide > see ENOUGHNESS, here: bit.ly/1f26SRZ
Artwork at the end is called "New Pioneers" by Mark Henson
Music Credits:
"Virtues Inherited, Vices Passed On" by Chris Zabriskie (bit.ly/1b9SWK0)
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us athttp://sustainableman.org/contact/"> The Myth of Human Nature -
"Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?" - Alan Watts
Film Credits:
"Journey through space and time" from "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
"3D Medical Animation Congestive Heart Failure Animation" (www.youtube.com/watch)
Original Audio Edit by Tragedy and Hope:
"What did you forget?" by Alan Watts (www.youtube.com/watch)
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us athttp://sustainableman.org/contact/"> What Did You Forget? -
www.ted.com/talks/tim_jackson_s_economic_reality_check.html)
Samsara (www.youtube.com/watch)
One Day On Earth (www.youtube.com/watch)
I Am (iamthedoc.com/)
Happy (www.thehappymovie.com/)
Chasing Ice (www.chasingice.com/)
Burning Man 2013 – Beyond the Fire (www.youtube.com/watch)
Permaculture – Join the Revolution (www.youtube.com/watch)
New York Farm City (vimeo.com/22239020)
Intentional Community (www.youtube.com/watch)
Music Credits:
John Murphy - Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor) (www.youtube.com/watch)
All other music/clips downloaded from VideoBlocks.com
FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law.
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us athttp://sustainableman.org/contact/"> Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human -
Song is "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears."> We Societies - This Is Lateral Power
How can you participate in creating video remixes through Sustainable Human?
Everyone can participate in the video remix creation and promotion process. Here is how it works:
Video Remix Producers work together in the Video Remix Forums to discuss ideas for potential remixes. Once the idea has been well-developed, it is submitted through this form and will be included in our bank of video remix ideas.
Film Editors will be invited to browse this video remix bank for remixes that resonate with them. If they see one they want to create, they will contact Chris and let him know. Together with the producers, film editors will begin a process of gathering approved b-roll and music to create a final remix. Video remix producers are welcome to offer their feedback to any of the remixes currently under production.
Once the video remix is finished, it will be translated by our team of Translation Specialists. Marketing materials will be created to help promote the video and Video Remix Promoters will help to establish content distribution partnerships with various social and web channels (i.e. Shareable, Upworthy, Thunderclap, HuffingtonPost, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, etc.) to promote the video as widely as possible.
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