HATE. LOVE. AMERICA

This nation is full of talk about love, yet when we look around we don't see it in practice nearly as often as in speech. Where is it?  We're always shown, bloodshed, the pontifications of ignorant bastards, or how corruption it is everywhere. This should force us to dig in search of the light.  

To quote a section from a book, set in a world that has litterally been turned to ash and hunger, hoping it might point us in the right direction.    

We're going to be ok, right Papa?

Yes. We are.

And nothing bad is going to happen to us?

That's right.

Because we're carryhing the fire.

Yes.  Becasue we're carrying the fire. 

-From CORMAC McARTHY'S THE ROAD-

We need to do the work that is in front of us, that is ours to do.  We will fail often and we will not always do what is right, but we must carry the fire.  

I desire to grow in this area.  To become less about myself and more about others.  

with love,

IH

Pushing Where You Are WEAK

Being in NYC, I am always around men and women that seem to be so strong. Always on their "A Game", climbing up the mountains of success.  They will tell you how they did this & that or how they are "killing" it.  

Am I alone on the dark path of figuring all of this out?  As an artist and as a man, I still find myself floundering in insecurities and confussion.  Maybe I am alone and all the people I meet are really doing the great things they say they are.  

Then...

I read about, watch, or listen to interviews with  great actors, directors, artist and realize I am not alone.  Figuring it out will be a life long quest and I thank God Almightly for the health and placement to remain on mission.  

 

I will say this:  I do believe the answer lies in being less about self and more about others.  

 

IH 

WABI - SABI

I was reading about the mind of the artist and stumbled upon a term I have heard before, but never stopped to look up.  Wabi-Sabi.  Realizing that perfecton is not the goal in my creative endeavours brought me peace.  It is a lesson I find myself cyclically learning.

I aim for more Wabi-Sabi. 

From and article by Tadao Ando from a book by Robyn Griggs Lawrence.

Daisetz T. Suzuki, who was one of Japan's foremost English-speaking authorities on Zen Buddhism and one of the first scholars to interpret Japanese culture for Westerners, described wabi-sabi as "an active aesthetical appreciation of poverty." He was referring to poverty not as we in the West interpret (and fear) it but in the more romantic sense of removing the huge weight of material concerns from our lives. "Wabi is to be satisfied with a little hut, a room of two or three tatami mats, like the log cabin of Thoreau," he wrote, "and with a dish of vegetables picked in the neighboring fields, and perhaps to be listening to the pattering of a gentle spring rainfall."
Wabi stems from the root wa, which refers to harmony, peace, tranquillity, and balance. Generally speaking, wabi had the original meaning of sad, desolate, and lonely, but poetically it has come to mean simple, unmaterialistic, humble by choice, and in tune with nature. Someone who is perfectly herself and never craves to be anything else would be described as wabi. Sixteenth-century tea master Jo-o described a wabi tea man as someone who feels no dissatisfaction even though he owns no Chinese utensils with which to conduct tea. A common phrase used in conjunction with wabi is "the joy of the little monk in his wind-torn robe." A wabi person epitomizes Zen, which is to say, he or she is content with very little; free from greed, indolence, and anger; and understands the wisdom of rocks and grasshoppers.
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WABI - SABI

Are there any imperfectoins here? 

 
Sabi things carry the burden of their years with dignity and grace: the chilly mottled surface of an oxidized silver bowl, the yielding gray of weathered wood, the elegant withering of a bereft autumn bough. An old car left in a field to rust, as it transforms from an eyesore into a part of the landscape, could be considered America's contribution to the evolution of sabi. An abandoned barn, as it collapses in on itself, holds this mystique.

IH

  

War to Art

“Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers but art Creates. ”

Why must artist create?  For me the impulse to create, when it is not acted upon, sits inside of me like a corrosive battery.  When you act on the impulse you are using the energy of the battery rather than let it poison your innards.  

In other words when someone suppresses what they were created to do...in this case it is to create they are ignoring something as nature as breathing.  

 

 

Mars Base ONE

Went on a road trip/creative trip with Wade F. Jackson.  Long drives, long talks, no sleep.  Made some headway on the types of creatives we need for the team and on story points for the next big project.   

HELM welcomes friends!

amazing workshop for Helm Set project today in our studio in Brooklyn.  Thanks to Jason, Sandra, Shane, Johnny Anthony, Niki, Isaac and Ben. 

Manor House and Helm Set meet.

Wade Jackson founder of Manor House Films meets a few of the Helm Set members for a quick shoot.  It was a short break in a busy weekend to put some faces to names.  John Anthony, Niki Asti, Ben Chacko, Madison Bell, and Isaac Haldeman. 

twins everywhere!

Founding member of Helm Set in the studio working on the sound for "A Western"

Isaac Haldeman

Isaac Haldeman