It’s not every day you get to hack your dinner with an anarchist, computer whiz, chef- unless you are one like Marc Powell. We had the pleasure of attending a Unicorn Precinct 13 Supper Club and hanging out for a bit before the cooking frenzy. Marc shares his views on cooking/eating as social networking, anarchy, everyday revolution and why good food is essential for political motivation.
A thread we’ve been noticing with a lot of the folks we’ve been interviewing has been community building through simple green actions. Cooking, composting, creating energy- all this knowledge needs to be shared and built with a support network of people. It just depends on the strategies that allow you to make time to get there.
As Marc says here:
A lot of people came out here in the dotcom days…they spent all their life, 80 hours a week, working on computers and when they got laid off, they had no support networks…but if they had spent 40 hours a week, they could have spent that extra time making a social network…maybe we all just cook together. You have to have those survival strategies and you can’t do that when you’re working…12 hours a day.
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Wow, what an amazing, eloquent, inspiring, funny guy. With a haircut to die for.
I want to shave off half my own hair, then get a transcript of everything he said and cut it up and paste it all over my head.
Actually, maybe you should look into getting transcripts done. (Like you’ve got time to do *that*, too.) It would help with searching, and also would be good just as a resource. Maybe you could use some crazy speech-to-text software.
Anyway, whatever, these two of Marc Powell are really great videos. Nicely done, guys.
agreed. it’s so good to hear from someone who lives what they think. Marc is a guy you should eat with.
This guy is like the total lo-fi philosopher/guru of San Francisco. This is just an entire cool quote video, like …
“… when I’m in the Kitchen it’s like vegan mushroom soup with a can of truffles I stole from school – chives the stock and it’s fucking delicious, and it’s made with love and it’s dumpster dived – it’s fucking good and free …”
… or, just
“Your life is your revolution …”
Great character and great video!
Awesome guy. I like how he works within the system (ie. not breaking it) but still maintains his own existence.