Photographically, this Christmas has been very female and very maternal.
Happy Holidays!
Photographed in Pui O, Lantau, Hong Kong.

The Methuselah Generation is a new documentary by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg. It is a very impressive subject to capture: The science of living forever. The moment you say “forever” naysayers jump out of the woodwork. So, let’s just pretend the forever part is a long way away, but living much longer in a much healthier state is relatively close, like 2045 (the date Ray Kurzweil anticipates for the Singularity). The documentary will talk about implications of this change and the change itself in terms of science, family, faith etcetera.

One of the Filmmakers, David Alvarado, I have know very well from our time at the University of North Texas in the film program. He recently flew into Hong Kong from New York to film Aubrey de Grey, who was a keynote speaker at TEDx Hong Kong as well as Hong Kong’s first Humanity+ conference. For the filming, I did location scouting and helped ensure the shoot and other logistics went smoothly. Impressively, about $40,000usd has been raised for the film. Well, that’s impressive for fundraising for regular sorts of things but for an independent documentary film it’s just over half way there. They’re also doing a campaign on Kickstarter, where they’re already over 100 donations and $18,000usd. Check out their campaign here and donate. The last project I blogged about, Hildegunn Gjedrem’s new album, was fully funded on kickstarter!

The Methuselah Generation; The Science of Living Forever from David Anthony Alvarado on Vimeo.

Production stills and a portrait of David Alvarado:

From the film Another Earth, here is the beautiful story of the Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – the first human in space. It’s embellished greatly, but still amazing. See video below, and the cosmonaut’s portrait. Read more about Yuri Gagarin here.

I recently received a card and cool designs from Donathon of Diskgrunt and he told me I was the inspiration for his limited run of “Awesome Sauce” T-shirts and posters. I’m honored!
Check him out here and at his new facebook fanpage here.