“Binge-worthy” or not…

 

“Binge-worthy” or not…

Some of you know by reading my blog that I am developing several projects and one is a tv show (well several are tv shows) and I wonder about it being “binge worthy”. It is a new thing with channels like Netflix or boxed sets of shows that you can now sit and watch as many as you want in a row.

At first I thought I would try to make all of mine this way since it is the new style and we should adapt our ideas to fit what is there, right? But then I began to wonder about it. Some of my favorite shows are ones I can rewatch season 1 over and over again. I think because I am a director myself that I see how I would have done it differently so by season 2 I am going from loving the show to thinking it is “still good but…”

I think highly of shows that can blend the episodes so it does not feel like stop/start as you watch them. It was a goal of mine to keep this in the back of my mind as I create my episodes. While I want to make it “unique” to reflect my culture more and one good and easy way is the style of the movies and tv shows I have planned, I also want to “do it right”.

I just recently began watching some Asian tv dramas like “Yanxi Palace”, “Dr. Qin”, and most recently “Kingdom”. Having good characters, good visuals, attention to detail, and good stories is what I like about them.

Yanxi Palace is lavish and interesting but I find it harder and harder to rewatch the series. I love most of the characters, but the emperor’s character is one I detest so much that I just cant enjoy watching the beginning again knowing how it turns out. I saw it as “strong characters” and think it is a good thing. I mean, I did rewatch the series 3 times before I could not anymore.

 

 

Dr. Qin has only the first season available to us here in the usa and I half love the show and half wish I could go and redo it “better” :p The characters are good and quirky, the sets are nice, and good story. This one felt like they changed tactics partway through it. Like instead of “monster of the week” they wanted to have a serial killer vibe going and it felt like they changed course. Which makes me question it and wonder if they just decided the planned episodes were not good enough so threw them to season 2 and went a known path instead. 

 

 from "quirky"

 

 to "polished"

 

Now we come to Kingdom! It is making me rethink my episodes and how I want to do it. It has tense moments and seems to play upon our fear and knowledge of other zombie ones like mine planned to. I find I cant quite binge it though, I paused 4 times in the first episode though partly to let my director mind process it better. It is that play upon what we expect I think they do so well! So I cant binge watch it as my mind races ahead to imagine what is coming next and that makes me love the show.

So I find myself sitting here wondering which way to go, try for a binge-worthy one or try for one that makes you see all the scene wondering what will happen...I do love the challenge though!  I still plan to do my low budget horror movie "S'Happens" soon!  Hopefully it will be such amazing shows from my mind to your tv!! 

#Attu (my Home island)

#Unangax (My People)

#film #tvshows #binge-worthy

#director (my goals)

#creativity (my spark of inspiration)

 

 

To accept or not to accept...

I am so torn about this art grant I got!  I won an art grant but am also hesitant about it!

One of the big suggestions is to write our legislators to thank them for the grant, for making it possible, etc.

Would you have asked someone in one of those holocaust death camps in #europe to thank the nazis for giving you the crumbs of what they stole from you in the first place?

Genocide of the #indigenous of this half of the world is so ingrained into westerners that they do not even think of it as a bad thing!  

They think because #Justice is not instant that it is not happening...

But it makes me torn to accept the grant or not!

The genocide of this half of the world is part of my theme for the grant, a reason I want to do this idea in the first place.  So it is not like they are unaware of it or my feelings about it.  

It also upsets me tremendously too though, that they will grant this small portion and if I behave like a good little girl I might get more... forget that!  The #indigenous are not children who need foreigners to supervise us!!

It is genocide, plain and simple!

So, no, I will never write the legislators to thank them for destroying my culture and throwing me a single crumb to save my People!  Even if it means I do not get that grant!

#Justice is real if not instant and this ongoing #genocide will end in our lifetime, that I 100% believe, no matter how hard they fight, no matter how many #indigenous they rape and murder... the evil is ending!

So, no art grant, but I will still do my stuff and be more real and meaningful doing it ourselves even!

#Attu

#Unangan

#Justice

#genocide

#indigenous

#holocaust

I am so happy that my non_profit got the gold seal of transparency.  Course, we have only officially been a "non-profit" since last September...  so next year we will rock the world!!

Systematic Re-indinization

 

Systematic Indiginization

part 1 of 1,000,000,000,000,000

We must use their own ways against them. It sounds weird to teach your peoples to not think but to respond and react, but we will use this to our advantage. Just as they made it so everywhere one of the westerners looked, genocide was a nice and normal thing to be doing, we will make it “indiginized”.

Decolonization

Even their words for it “decolonization” puts them in the middle of it, as if they are a force to be reckoned with. Like “declutter” means you have much clutter in the first place, it is already there. But in our sense, they threw the clutter to create a huge mess for us and want us to pretend this is somehow natural and normal to do.  We call that "rudeness".   But we will be systematic in our approach and change the words to our own. Instead of “decolonize” we will systematically re-indiginize this half of the world. To help start us out I will give some examples of phrases we need to weed out of our consciousness and introduce these new ones.

It never was “colonization”, it was always the war crime of genocide. The riches of half a world made them loose their minds. They had discovered Africa and thought they struck it rich. Not only the resources but the Peoples to use. Then it was the far east with the spices and silks that made them bonkers and “want more”. So when they saw our lands and how well we had taken care of them it drove them insane and the curse of greed came upon them.

They knew it was wrong.

They knew it was wrong to genocide a Peoples, but had discovered already that leaving the other cultures alive meant you could not profit as much as they wanted to. When we are talking the vast wealth of half a world, they decided there was no need to share. So, their laws forbade genocide and the fix was to name it something else entirely. They tried to teach us to use these words. Convincing their own kind that we did not really mind the genocide.

“See how they call it colonization instead of genocide” was their flawed logic. It was enough to give those who were on the verge of sanity the push they needed to go insane.

It is why we must use the correct words: genocide and war crimes.

Walk in Two Worlds

This is a popular phrase and a prime example of how they try to word things to their advantage. Just listen to the phrase: walk in two worlds. It sounds somehow both mystical and magical. It is a sham, though, like all of their ways. It is meant to give an elevated meaning to the genocide they do. As if somehow they are in as Just and Good a "world" as we are.

Yet is it patently false. There is no good in genocide. It plays upon the #indigenous sense of everything having some worth. That you must respect another Peoples cultures even if you do not agree with them. But this does not apply to illegal activities, of which, war crimes against humanity are the worst.

They want to teach us to walk in both worlds, somehow making those few of us who do it “twice” as good as the rest. It is the divide and conquer game they love so much. Where they puff one ego up and up until it is so far from common sense that it gets lightheaded and dizzy. That is where they try to keep them, off balance. They forget that we have an innate sense of balance, it is the center of our world view. It is why one rarely “walks in two worlds” for long.

Racial Diversity

This is one where they are so insidious and sneaky, but basically dishonest too. It takes another indigenous world view concept and twists it into something unrecognizable. Hospitality and acceptance of other races is a normal part of our world views. As with all cultures, we center on our own otherwise we fade away to nothing. The genocide forced their “culture” on to us and made us accept all these foreign races as if belonging with us.

We have such a huge variety of cultures already that we need no foreign introduction to have racial diversity! What they really mean is they want us to be “polite” and step aside and let them shine a moment as a good host should. Except we are not hosting them, we are genocidal captives, and they are not welcome guests but an invading force meant to destroy us; not honor our "home and Peoples". There is obviously a huge difference that for some reason they expect us to just ignore.

They tried to set the stage so carefully these last few decades. They knew we grew tired of #european genocide so came up with the plan to hide behind other races they already brainwashed into thinking they (the europeans) were superior in all ways. It is hard to argue that treating others badly is somehow ok, so we are forced into silence. Our voices saying we demand justice drowned out by others.

It is why everywhere you look they highlight Africans. Africans suffering this indignity, Africans suffering that injustice, how wrong they are treated. But they agreed to be treated that way temporarily to gain a major stake of the riches of this half of the world.

We must take these brainwashed Peoples and remind them who they truly are. They have their own cultures that are rich and beautiful and their own Peoples who need them desperately to come fight for them.  Indians were also a major part of this too, due to british brainwashing they pretended not to notice the genocide and see only opportunity. We must remind them they also have a rich and diverse land with Peoples who need them there fighting for them as well.

We must systematically re-indignize our understanding of them.  They tried to make it either/or as in accept the genocide or you "hate" these other races.  I do not need to explain how ridiculous this is, just reading it you can instinctively understand this.

Conclusion

It is very easy to fall into this trap they set. Most westerners have without even realizing it. It is how sneaky and tricky it was. But now that we have shown how it was done, it is like a child fascinated by a magic trick until they learn how it was done, it is that easy to dispel.

You may have noticed I put part ___ of ___ in the title. It is a play on how the indigenous say what needs to be said then stop and go do something else. There are no other parts, this was just meant to get you thinking in the correct ways...

#philanthropy

 I finally got my letter of determination from the irs!!

Woot!  So, any #philanthropists who are looking for a good cause, here I am!  I have both a profit (M TOMA Inc.) and non-profit (TCOOO / FWP ), we are a small family run enterprise that has the main goal of restoring Attu, Alaska to it's people.

Contact me if you want to know more about us.  Hopefully soon I will be putting us on the map.

#AttuAlaska

#genocide 

#Tribal

#indigenous 

#womanOwned

#NonProfit

#5013c

#Unanagax

Stop being so comfortable with genocide!!

 People seriously need to wake up and realize what is happening around the world!   This half of the world is experiencing an ongoing genocide!

Half the world!

Just picture that, how immense, how vast, how many Peoples!!

I admit the propaganda is very good, but it is just lies!!  

Children are being seriously harmed, and you let it happen!  It is time to en the ongoing genocide! 

WELCOME!

her videos are back up for a short time, woot!  Thank you Shauna, going to binge them this weekend!

Pantry Shelves done!!

I am so happy, they are done!  We decided to hold off on putting any stain or anything on in case we decide to redo them sometime soon.  But I am happy!

It was a little wasted area between the kitchen and the laundry room.  We just threw stuff there and it usually looked like a stack of appliances  ;P

You can see it is the small end of a hallway and we plan to turn it into a back door next summer so did not want something permanent here.

The floor is just the cheap wood look stuff the old owners put in quickly when they heard we prefer no carpets.  We plan to redo it all in a few years so are not worried about it...

This is it almost done!  The shelves were test fitted and we measured the lowest one right and our water bottles can slide under!

It is pretty and 2'3" deep, a nice size when you can use all of it!

Just another view to show we left the middle one tall because we plan our appliances stored here and some how weird tops!

The wood oil and Ryobi tools, the sandpaper and my shelves spaced apart and screwed tight!

Woot, I love it!

I am planning out the long shelf in the one bedroom now.  I got cedar planks but only 2" wide... I guess I thought it was 2' instead of 2"!    So, that is my next project and I am wondering if I will be able to make the 3 levels of shelving for the room  I had planned or if I might switch it up somehow...  I have a ton of this shelf wood here left so can do the very bottom of this and the higher ones at eye level of the pretty cedar...  That might work...

Anyway, if you feel like you can and believe in yourself you can do it!  Trust yourself and know you are stronger then you think!!  Seriously, If I can learn to do it, so can you!

hugs, Sea

#Attu

#Unangan

#HandMadeWithLove

#DIY

#RyobiTools

#AnnaWhite

Almost there! Pantry shelves DIY

I have been having a good time doing these shelves and glad my measurements are holding up and it is rock solid with no wiggle!

I still need to screw each shelf into place and sand it... but woot, rockin' these shelves!

I have debating whether or not to seal it now or wait until we redo it since I plan to make it prettier somehow as well as functional!

So, the shelves are in place and it looks pretty good so far, I wonder if I should get some mineral oil and do beeswax DIY or just go buy some wood oil...  Some sanding to do and they are not perfectly cut but that is due more to doing it on the floor and one day I will have a work space dedicated to it!

I took some more pictures and will show them when it is completed, hopefully tomorrow!

It is great to have come this far where I truly overcame my fears.  The sound of the saw used to scare me so bad and the sound of the screw sometimes too!  But I realized I was probably more afraid of not finishing it at all then doing it wrong and decided I am in control here! 

So, got the pantry shelves almost done and for the most part love it!  I think I can do this!  I will do the shelves in the rooms and see about the greenhouse and garage!  :p

Believe in yourself!

#Attu

#Unangan

#HandMadeWithLove

#WoodWorking

#RyobiTools

Pantry Shelf Day 2 or is it 3?

Lost track already of which day I am on... but I am enjoying the progress so far!

We first got the lumber weeks ago and the tools awhile ago too and it was me being afraid of trying something new I guess... 

But watching Anna White really inspires me to just do it all that I think about!  So, I finally decided to go for it.  I had measured the area for the pantry shelves when I first got the lumber and again before I began cutting, but then the wasp thing happened...

Hehehe, so I took that rest of day off and began the next day fresh.  I managed to get a bunch cut but then realized I was doing the wrong measurement!

Oh man, so my plans called for the shelf to be 4 planks deep and I had measured that so each of them would need to be 4' long and instead I made them the other measurement  (the width not length)...  but decided those will become the brace for my shelves and cut new ones yesterday and today!

Woot, felt good not feeling defeated by it.  Before, I would have taken a week off to mend my ego but now I keep a positive mindset all the time!  Makes a huge difference because I can lift myself back up before I get all the way to the ground now!

It is so important to learn yourself and know the kinds of things that effect you so you can learn how to fix it. 

But back to my amazing pantry shelves!  It is weird learning to use new tools that you think you already know just by watching others do it, whether your family or youtube but when you try it yourself it can be tricky. 

My shelve measurements I used the carpenters square to draw the lines to make sure I was mostly level when the first screw went in.  The first 5 screws went in pretty ok, but then the 6th one just did not want to go into it at all.  I will try to figure out why but think it is just I need to pre-drill my holes.  Simple and effective solution that I probably should have started with!

I did take a pic of the empty space but will save it for the big "reveal" post...  though it wont be nearly as pretty as I plan it to be for a permanent one, this one is designed to be stand alone and while strong not glued so I can take it apart and redo it better when I learn more.

Just a quick update, progress is slow but steady!  I think it will be done by tomorrow and how exciting my shelve spacers were done by accident when I did the wrong measurements  :p  So, none wasted!

Hugs and take care and do wish me luck!!  And leaving you with a shot my Home:  Attu, Alaska

#Attu

#HandMadeWithLove

#DIY

#Unangan

Stand Up / Stand N Rock #NoDAPL (Official Video) ~Remember this??!!

What is interesting to me is how was it allowed to get this far?