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Category Archives: Manifestos

Liberation Cinema

by admin on November 3, 2013, no comments

Rossellini’s Ten Commandments Roberto Rossellini’s Ten Commandments on film-making he gave to his students at the Centro Sperimentale, 1. The camera is a pen, a plain ordinary Bic, easy to use. It’s enough to know what you want to say – if you have something to say. 2. The camera is a paper tiger. Don’t […]

Powers vs. Beings

by admin on August 4, 2013, no comments

Our modern science acknowledges a Supreme Power, an Invisible Principle, but denies a Supreme Being, or Personal God. Logically the difference between the two might be questioned; for in this case, the Power and the Being are identical. Human reason can hardly imagine to itself an Intelligent Supreme Power without associating it with the idea […]

This Picture Reveals Your True Nature

by Amanda on June 30, 2013, no comments

“What you say about Jesus says more about you than it does about Jesus.” — Richard Smoley The other day I was introduced to this couple and we were bonding about the affect of music on courtship. As they were explaining how they met, I asked them their astrological signs. I could sense an inner […]

Magic Manifesto 1

by Amanda on June 5, 2013, no comments

Magic is everywhere. Magic sparkles from cleaning products in television advertisements. Sarah Silverman argues that “Jesus is Magic.” Esoteric shops in every city offer magic stones, crystals, wands and herbs promising to help achieve a variety of desired effects. Even Donald Rumsfeld uses magic (as our comrades at The Center for Tactical Magic can attest), […]