Ryan Is Hungry » documentary http://ryanishungry.com Hacking Everyday Life. Exchanging Notes on Survival. Compost, Vermicompost, Biofuels, SVO, Green, Solar, Electric Vehicle, DIY, Gardening Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:01:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 PostSecret Picnic http://ryanishungry.com/2009/04/19/postsecret-picnic/ http://ryanishungry.com/2009/04/19/postsecret-picnic/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:01:48 +0000 ryanne http://ryanishungry.com/?p=433 PostSecret Picnic
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Last summer we had the opportunity to document the PostSecret Community Picnic. PostSecret is an online art project started by Frank Warren. Hundreds of thousands of people have mailed him postcards with secrets emblazed upon them. Every Sunday he posts a handful on his blog. These powerful messages have connected with so many people, a community has formed around the project. The PostSecret Picnic was their first face to face meeting, and we had the pleasure of participating. Enjoy!

Check out Frank’s beautiful books on Amazon:
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary LivesMy Secret: A PostSecret BookThe Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret BookA Lifetime of Secrets: A PostSecret Book
The new book, PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God, is coming out in the fall.

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We recently attended and made videos for Transparency Camp hosted by The Sunlight Foundation and iStrategy Labs in DC. They invited the policy wonks and tech geeks to hang out, hack, brainstorm and collaborate. It was a great step towards getting online government transparency to be a reality. See the individual interviews, all of which are available in the open source Ogg Theora video format, on TransparencyCamp.org.

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We recently returned from a 15 day trip to Beijing for this summer’s Olympic Games and what some would call China’s “coming out as a global super power” party. Though we were not able to attend any of the official events, we had a very positive experience with Beijing citizens- their hospitality and generosity welcomed us at every corner. Every enthusiastic family we’d meet would exclaim in English “Welcome to Beijing!”.

Our mission was to document actions by Students for a Free Tibet protesting China’s almost 60 year occupation of Tibet. Using a small HD camera and a laptop, we were able to grab high quality video and photos, upload to a secure ftp server and get the media out to the world.

As independent media makers with no established credentials, it was a frightening task to attend an action, document it properly and not get arrested for just being there. We had no hand in the physical actions themselves, we were there only to document- much like The Associated Press photographers and British ITV reporter John Ray who, incidentally, got pushed around, questioned and media confiscated. These incidents made it clear that the cooperation of independent folks, videobloggers, photographers, etc with corporate media outlets was essential. Anyone with a camera, voice recorder or a pen was equally threatening in the eyes of the Chinese government.

In a country so locked down on free speech, we had to often speak in hushed tones and not even mention the word ‘Tibet’ in public for fear of arrest. The Tibetan flag is completely illegal and cannot be shown in all of China. Several of our fellow media makers, in town for the same reasons, were not so lucky and got arrested and detained for 7 days after being followed by plainclothes police for several days. We are happy that they have all returned home safe.

Reflecting on our trip to Beijing we have a more clear understanding that this is not just about the Free Tibet movement, this is about basic human rights in Tibet, China and the rest of the world. Tibetans can’t speak out about what is happening in their country. Chinese can’t speak out about what is happening in their country. If they do, they face harsh, life threatening consequences. Some might argue that this is the only thing these two cultures have in common, but we believe it will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and the tiny spark that ignites decades of dissent from all corners of China. The protests by Students for a Free Tibet demonstrated to the world that China, with it’s oppressive treatment of their people and the people of Tibet, cannot rise to the level of global super power without facing the consequences of their actions.

For more info on China’s occupation of Tibet and how you can get involved, check out Students for a Free Tibet. Check out this wrap up article on the CCTV Banner Hang in The Washington Post and an Op-Ed about China’s use of the Olympics to lie about human rights. Also we got interviewed by Xeni on Boing Boing TV.

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Can I get a ‘hell yeah!’? I was reading this article in the New York Times today about the resurgence of young farmers when I saw a link to The Greenhorns film. Talking to our friend Chris from Wanna Farm he asked

there sure is a lot going on in our country involving small farms. i just can’t tell if we’re just standing in the middle of the choir or if change is really happening.

I’m hoping that change is really happening. Connection to our most basic necessities- food, water, shelter, community- have been close to lost in a few short generations. For me, I just want those things back. I’m hearing about and meeting more and more people who feel the same and are taking action to find those things again.

Go nominate a young farmer to be part of The Greenhorns documentary here.

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Ryanne‘s sister, Ashley Hodson, is another green vlogger. She created The Sustainable Route as a post graduation project to explore the sustainable movement in The United States. We got the chance to talk to her about the challenges of producing a videoblog on the road with a small, independent, two person team. With donations from individuals, Community Capitalism made this project possible. The Sustainable Route is one of our earliest Have Money Will Vlog success stories. To see what the green movement looks like across the country, check out The Sustainable Route.

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