Moving Forward

The thesis seems to be at a mid-turning point of sorts. The next few steps will define how the work takes shape and it is critical to make decisions quickly. I am always reminding myself to keep pushing through, even if 90 percent of the things that are produced are worthless one of those things will stick. So heres to figuring out what sticks, and what the means to the end is. Its seems to be perfect timing to stumble upon Bruce Mau's manifesto. 


1. Allow events to change you.
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.

3. Process is more important than outcome.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).
Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

5. Go deep.
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

6. Capture accidents.
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

The Sound Strike

Exclusive Song for The Sound Strike "Coyote Song" by Bright Eyes. from Producciones Cimarrón on Vimeo.





Conor Oberst for The Sound Strike from Producciones Cimarrón on Vimeo.

Oh Bright Eyes, how I adore you. Thanks to THE SOUND STRIKE and artists who have joined the Arizona Boycott: M.I.A. • LILA DOWNS • MOS DEF • MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE • RODRIGO Y GABRIELA • IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE • TABOO • NINE INCH NAILS • CHRIS ROCK • MAROON 5 • GOGOL BORDELLO • MY MORNING JACKET• BEN HARPER • CYPRESS HILL • JUANES • CONOR OBERST • LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE • RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE • CAFE TACVBA • MICHAEL MOORE • KANYE WEST • CALLE 13 • JOE SATRIANI • SERJ TANKIAN • RISE AGAINST • OZOMATLI • SABERTOOTH TIGER • MASSIVE ATTACK • ONE DAY AS A LION • STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB • RY COODER • STEVE EARLE • BILLY BRAGG • SWEET HONEY AND THE ROCK • ANTI-FLAG • THROWING MUSES • STATE RADIO • DJ SPOOKY •  SPANK ROCK • SONIC YOUTH • TENACIOUS D • THE COUP

Inmigrantes como moscas

Each year some 400,000 Central American migrants trying to reach U.S. through Mexico. Travel like flies on freight trains: There are no flights for illegals, no future ...At one point in Veracruz, there is a moment of hope "the patrons", some brave women are waiting for them at the foot of the roads to deliver food and drink as they fly by on the trains every day for the past 15 years. This film "The train of the Flies" created by Tassier Nieves Prieto and Fernando López Castillo has been awarded the prize for best short in the past Political Film Festival Round.


Click here to view the film. At about 9 minutes in you can see them standing by the trains and hanging food out for the people to grab. Its a rush to say the least. 


Each day these women prepare 200 plus rations of food, for 15 years. Truly wonderful women, with large hearts.