Progress Report

January 13 - 19

3 hrs - Second of weekly meetings I attended. About 20 of us spent the evening hashing out the mission statement for the group and what we were about.

3 hrs - Met later in the week with Cy and Stacey to further discuss the project - including the festival, the magazine, the website, and organization. Created a Wikispace for the group:

http://durangoartfestival.wikispaces.com/

4 hrs - Developing and writing proposal for the project.


January 20 - 26

3hrs - Weekly meeting; discussed development of the website and other objectives and roles that need to be filled on the production side and the festival side.

3 hrs - Researching open source management systems and Joomla. Watched introductory and tutorial videos; explored Joomla site and how to get started; researched other projects that have been done with Joomla.

3 hrs - Met with Cy and Mikkae to discuss Dreamtime and elements that we would like to include in our festival and website. Set up a Myspace page and Gmail account. Tried to get a Facebook group going.

1 hr - Readings

3 hrs - Further development and personalization of proposal with focus on web development.

Acorn Milk Anyone?

Acorn Milk from Brian Barnes on Vimeo.

So gonna give you a couple videos we produced for the website in case you're interested in trying some local wild food recipes. This one shows you how easy it is to make acorn milk. And it's really good.

Growing Roots

This is the documentary we produced on Turtle Lake Refuge for our final project. Had alot of fun with this project and learned alot. Hope this film can inspire a person or two to check it out and try some local raw food lunch!

A Taste of What is to Come?

I think there's a good chance Bush and Cheney are going to get hit with more than a shoe after they leave office. Of course they'll probably have private security out the wazzoo for the rest of their lives too.

Hopefully we can really take this country in a new direction and start to reverse some of the intense animosity we have provoked around the world.

The Power of YouTube

So if you search for Argentina Dirty War you can find hundreds of pertinent videos. Protests are still going on as this home video shows. The children of the disappeared who were kidnapped by their parent's murderers are in their 20s today. Birth certificates were forged, and many do not know that their family is a fraud. But the grandmothers have not given up. 85 of the "missing generation" have been found, and at least 500 cases are known about and being actively searched for today.

People still going missing - Argentinians skeptical

So this guy went missing after his testimony helped bring down old war criminals. It seems many feel the governments talk of no more impunity is just rhetoric and believe the old systems and structures and corruption is still in place.

No more impunity?

Even after the junta was overthrown, the general and other military leaders were protected by the new "democratic" government, which obviously infuriated the people of Argentina. Just recently, they have said they will no longer provide impunity to these criminals, as it is not in the interest of developing a democracy. The first 3 or 4 minutes of this interview talk about the change.