Yesterday Rachel and I went to see Avatar in 3D on an Imax screen. We came out 3 hours later and £21 pounds poorer and I can honestly say I have not been that excited by a movie experience since I saw Blade Runner and very long time ago.
I was in the film - virtually - this is what have been waiting for, for a long time since I first started to become obsessed by Sci-fi Fiction 30 odd years ago...to live in the future...to be taken away into another world for my imagination to become a reality.
Also this week I was appointed the Volunteer co-ordinator for a local community project who have embarked on a long term ambitious environmental regeneration program to transform their community into a beautiful place to live. It is a socially - economically deprived area that is taking steps to change it's expectations.
I love the Eddie Vedder soundtrack to the film Into The Wild, the main character decides to opt out and and escape to the wilderness, naive and unprepared, it is a brilliant film and a tragic story. What it took him isolation to realise was that he needed people, he needed to be 'in it'.
May I humbly encourage us all to hesitate before we just observe and comment, criticise and tut, as we engage with a problematic 2D reality but instead transform it into a 3D existence by stepping into it and actually look for the change from within. Be in it! If we are any kind of avatar, let it be one that we created for ourselves and not one that was formed for us from the constant manipulation of the cheap and nasty vitriol of the X factor mentality. Be the giant that you wished you were - a giant is simply someone that stands tall amongst his/her peer group - someone who stands up for those unable to stand up for themselves. That is a giant, and you can be blue or any damn colour you want! It is a big hard sun, it is a big hard world and we need to be big people and in 3D. Glasses are provided at the entrance...
A few links to inspire the all weather avatar in us all...
avatar [ˈævəˌtɑː]
n
1. (Non-Christian Religions / Hinduism) Hinduism the manifestation of a deity, notably Vishnu, in human, superhuman, or animal form
2. a visible manifestation or embodiment of an abstract concept; archetype
3. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) a movable image that represents a person in a virtual reality environment or in cyberspace
[from Sanskrit avatāra a going down, from avatarati he descends, from ava down + tarati he passes over]
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