Category : Video
I’m currently in pre-production for the video for my song, “Dream,” which you can listen to in the player below, and I’m inviting those who can film a 5 – 15 second HD video to submit theirs for possible inclusion.
All you have to do is download and sign the Waiver and Release form, and then follow the instrux in this short video where I demonstrate in the basic sense the video’s concept. Much of the video is a series of relay-style handoffs of “the Dream,” which is invisible to the audience as it is intended to be in the eye of the beholder.
Your video clip doesn’t need to be complicated or fancy – it can be as simple as you on your own, receiving and handing off the Dream, or you and a friend or friends, passing it along, from one end of the frame to the other. No height, weight or age restrictions (note to those under 18 – you will need to have your parent or guardian read and sign your waiver). No preference according to race, gender, etc.
Have everyone on your video (cast and crew, if any) sign their own individual waivers, and send them, along with your vid, to llorayne@gmail.com by September 15, 2019 to be considered.
I can’t stress this enough – no branding of any sort should be visible in your vid. This includes products, product logos, names of companies on T-shirts, etc. As well, no violence, nudity or hate.
Clips that adhere to the instrux and formatting will be considered, and, if chosen, placed into an Adobe Premiere Pro video session for production. If your clip is among those chosen, you’ll be notified via email.
So, what is your dream? And, would you like to be in the vid for mine?
Have fun!
Alison
I try to overcome my disability
I’m looking for a magic potion … life is unfair, life is unfair!
My goal is to over come my anxiety
I need to escape confusion, to avoid the wrong perception
Please listen to my song, my new creation, I try to make connection
I feel bitter and unhappy, my life is a calamity…
I just resent the disappointment, but I’m not unlike you, I’m not unlike you
If only I could throw away my disability
Now I must start from scratch, I must forget my past and think about my future
Dreams always come true at last
– Joelle Dieux,”Life is Unfair”
Imagine two women, huddled in the back of the number 24 bus from Comte d’Urgell to Parc Güell, one of the Gaudi treasures in the Barcelona metro area, huddled and in intense conversation, finding common ground in breathless Spanish over our personal healthcare exiles.
That describes me and Joelle after we met at a Spanish language school in 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. It turned out we’d both been ostracized by our families due to our health issues, all of which were beyond our control…or even our asking.
Joelle and I partook of several of the school’s extracurricular events and trips and have kept in touch ever since via email and occasional post. As time moved forward, we discovered we both shared a love of songwriting and all things creative…and in keeping things generally positive, but always real.
Joelle’s rap song, “Life Is Unfair,” her first song in English, tells it exactly how it is. Not how some corporatocrat selling books on positive affirmations to the proles would tell it, but from the gut of her own experiences of living the half-life and havoc of illness and disability. Her rhymes are great, and as I well know, the only real therapy is in keeping it real, and this song does just that.
[This is a post dedicated to my Friends doing great creative work. Life would be nothing without them! Enjoy, Alison]
It was years ago when I first read about Mount Teide, a YUUUUGE volcano on the island of Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands. An eruption of Mount Teide, the article read, would very likely produce a tsunami that could take out the USA’s eastern seaboard — and thus Washington, DC — and our flaccid, do-nothing Congress along with it.
From that moment on, I was a fan. A rabid fan of this volcano, not only because of its diabolical beauty, but because of its potential to do what the American people have not bothered to do: Bring real — and lasting — political change to America. Along with some geographic adjustments, of course.
Fittingly, in early October of 2016, an article appeared in The Sun, which delivers the following statements and other goodies for thought regarding Mount Teide:
“On Sunday 92 microquakes in Adeje and Vilaflor (towns in Tenerife) were reported — with one measuring as high as 1.5 on the Richter scale.
“Experts sent to the area have recorded an “abnormal” amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — an indicator that the volcano could blow imminently.”
Involcan said in a statement:
“We are registering an important seismic rally on the island of Tenerife.
“In principle, these earthquakes are very low magnitude, consistent with those that occur in active volcanoes.
“The number of earthquakes is provisional pending the analysis of the signals more closely, but we can qualify this activity as a seismic swarm whose pattern is an alignment with prevailing direction northeast to southwest.
“Mount Teide hasn’t erupted since 1909 but its fragile formation means that it is highly unstable.”
…and finally on to what I call the doozy:
“As an active, but dormant volcano, Mount Teide could erupt again and the lack of stability around the island has prompted some seismologists to suggest an eruption could cause a megatsunami that could hit the eastern United States.”
So there you have them, my reasons for becoming a fan of this stunning mountain. I’ve done my civic duty: I’ve voted by absentee ballot on behalf of my adopted state of Nevada from my perch here in my home state of Pennsylvania, and made my points in this anti-Trump video…but if Orange Hitler does manage to steal the White House, Tenerife — and its resident Mount Teide — will be where I hold vigil, until real change comes to America.
Care to join me? If so, please get in touch.
In parting, I leave you with the following Mount Teide haiku:
Erupt, Mt. Teide,
Bring us political change!
How I am a fan.
Erupt the vote!!!
Yours,
Alison