“I never want to say the word ‘I Should have’. If I do it and I fail, I tried. If I do it and I succeed, better for me. And I told my children the same thing. Never go through life saying you should have. If you want to do something, you do it.”

“Values change everytime the universe changes and that’s everytime we redefine a big enough bit of it, and that’s all the time.”

James Burke gives hope on the future of humanity if technology (e.g. the internet) can democratize education and help people understand and accept that everyone on the planet sees the world in their own way. Taken from his show “Connections”.

Right.Left.Write. from eat a bug on Vimeo.

Yesterday we checked out Jason Ho’s “Puncture Wound” and Quan Hoang’s “Still Life” in a private screening with the directors. While those pieces aren’t (currently) available online, here’s an early film of JHo’s that gives a good insight into how his brain has learned to film.

Perhaps you’ve already seen this documentary. If not, check it out — it’s already on Netflix OnDemand. Babies is overflowing with gorgeous cinematography from 4 corners of the world. What I liked best is that it really captures what makes us alike as humans while at the same time pointing out just how different we are.

It’s also one of the only documentaries that I’ve ever seen which makes its point completely and effectively without the use of any dialog or VO narration.

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