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Life Advice from Werner Herzog
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1. Always take the initiative.
2. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need.
3. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey.
4. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.
5. Learn to live with your mistakes.
6. Expand your knowledge and understanding of music and literature, old and modern.
7. That roll of unexposed celluloid you have in your hand might be the last in existence, so do something impressive with it.
8. There is never an excuse not to finish a film.
9. Carry bolt cutters everywhere.
10. Thwart institutional cowardice.
11. Ask for forgiveness, not permission.
12. Take your fate into your own hands.
13. Learn to read the inner essence of a landscape.
14. Ignite the fire within and explore unknown territory.
15. Walk straight ahead, never detour.
16. Manoeuvre and mislead, but always deliver.
17. Don't be fearful of rejection.
18. Develop your own voice.
19. Day one is the point of no return.
20. A badge of honor is to fail a film theory class.
21. Chance is the lifeblood of cinema.
22. Guerrilla tactics are best.
23. Take revenge if need be.
24. Get used to the bear behind you.
(From Paul Cronin's book Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed.)
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What we need to know
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...The Fairy Coffins of Edinburgh & Fairy Census
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An curious article on the "Fairy Coffins" found in Edinburgh in 1836 at the Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/edinburghs-mysterious-miniature-coffins-22371426/?no-ist.
And, on a similar note, a "Fairy Census", inventory of fairy sightings throughout the UK. Searches for other locations will reveal as many throughout the US, Canada, and the rest of Europe...
The Dream of Turtles, An Underwater Cave and Dolphin...
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Evening, we're watching across the lake, the western shore, between two cliffs a pasture, a rick of grass from beneath which are crawling dozens of turtles to the water. There's a stable against the left, or south cliff, in which a couple of peacocks are watching, the light is everywhere a uniform deep blue, beneath the south cliff I can see a faint light issuing from an underwater cave, and I want to swim beneath the water and explore, it's unseasonably warm here for this time of year...
Now a dolphin, swimming in the lake, playful, intelligent, rising out of the water on it's tail to chatter at us, swimming closer to play,...
...and L**** is explaining to me that the dolphin will die, it can't survive here, her mother is a marine biologist and she would know, besides, there was an earlier one and it died as well, and she explains there's a well intended young hippie girl across the lake that brings them back from the coast, but she doesn't understand they won't live...
We take the dolphin, heavy like a large dog, putting it L****'s jeep set out to release it at the coast, I hold it in my arms...we have to stop at gas stations and restaurants to feed it (canned tuna), keep it wet, eventually come to a village built upon a swath of river gravels in a deep valley, the river deep blue and raging against dark brown gravel dunes, and I'm wondering if they've been prospected, they're promising....a man in the village tells us of the last dolphin, he saw it die, it wasn't pleasant, I consider releasing it into the river here in the hopes it can swim to the ocean, but realize it won't make it, the river's too swift, raging, there will be hydroelectric plants and dams, it hasn't a chance, and I realize that it's Christmas day and I'm already 7 hours away from spending time with my son and daughter, am angry at L**** for dragging me along on this, at the dumb hippie that caught it, we can take the dolphin back to the lake and release it there until I have more time to properly rescue it, L**** is upset, she wants to rescue it now, but I'm being entirely remiss in my duties as a parent and so she reluctantly agrees to return it to the lake...
(Xmas in Edmonton, remarkably vivid dreams and comfortable sleep on air mattress. Only remembered this one...)
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