This should be sub-titled - 'And The World As It is.'
So, we've got a very firm commitment of one hundred thousand dollars to go towards what eventually will be a small tract of 'farming land,' to serve multiple purposes from a kind of therapy aid for Autistic kids where they can see how it happens, and maybe participate in - as they can - growing fruit and vegetables, and also be a place where they can train and practice on drone flying themselves (we can always send them over to the front-lines in Iran when we get sick of them...).
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| Won't be here! This is an unbuyable Margaret River Vine-Making place. |
But behind the scenes so to speak, we have some University researchers who are working on the standard gene isolating projects to do with this ubiquitous 'lab-test' vegetable Arabidopsis Thaliana so that maybe at some point, these plants can grow in absolutely nutrient-very poor ground.
And that does not mean the plant itself is nutrient-poor once it is able to be established to grow in such places. It means the plant grows well by somehow extracting maximum nutrients with maximal efficiency. Theoretically this is because it contains the requisite genes.
I don't think that line of research is going to end up achieving what they all think it will, but hey, who cares, right. Maybe I can tweak them in a better direction along the way, maybe to do with extracting nutrients from living fog...
...And then even behind behind all of that, is what I am really aiming the thing at -.
So anyway at last it appears that we can move steadily ahead with the filming side of things; although maybe not the filming, just the 'further forward' production elements.
Meanwhile of course, the world is swiftly going to Hell in a Hand-Basket.
We are, in the matter of the Project, not at the 'Delivered' financing stage yet, so there is no reason to head for the shops for the expensive Champagne.
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| Everything starts off nice and quiet and charming... |
And mostly the reason for that is - I am slow, and all of what comes next has to do with how well I can write things up.
But meanwhile, this is all against the existential backdrop of a world, a civilization, all of it -, in a total mess.
But you really have to think: Black Plague - 14th Century Europe... And Boccaccio.
It is ever thus.
Humans are here on this planet - as opposed to several other planets that can support this kind of life - in order to confront uncertainty and test how each of them as individuals, deals with any given instance of it.
It has taken me nearly forty years to hunt down a certain movie - and when movie buffs think of the European Plagues and classic narrative fiction movies about it, they generally think of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron, which was released in 1971.
But I think of Klaus Kinski's Vampire in Venice, which came a lot later than that - in 1988.
But then, it's actually not the case that the best scenes of the movie were made then - they were made just after Pasolini's film, and they were made to show how much better a true, or truer, rendering of the flavor of the Era itself, was able to be made by people who really knew and really had the artistic means of expressing it.
The original director of cinematography on the movie - Maurizio Lucidi was an assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini previously, and I personally think the main Producer and Director Augusto Caminito, just used him to get the essence of Pasolini's treatment of Venice and Tuscany in the 14 Century. And then moved on with someone who would simply take orders precisely from Caminito himself and deliver the final product as he wished it.
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| ...And rapidly descends into Medieval erotica-art chaos! As things do of course, with Pier Paolo Pasolini. |
People remember Pasolini's The Decameron (by Giovanni Boccaccio, of course) because they are stupid and follow lurid anything with their standard mainstream middle-class 'minds;' if that's what you want to call it.
No one remembers Kinski's Vampire in Vampire and I believe even at the time, critics howled at how bad it was...
LOL
Listen, when I film 'The Alien in Venice' or in anywhere, it will be a jaw-dropping, an OMG moment FR.
After subverting sufficient of the official 'budget' that was for other, more 'genuine' things -, certain private function areas will be arranged, and the Melbourne Spice Market nonsense, spawned by Ruby R., and her friend (because don't think they were not BOTH in on the whole entire 'reveal' for marketing and publicity's sake) will pale in comparison - we will do stuff that will put the two of them to shame. Er, actually, would be the reverse - they would come out whiter than creme brulee at least.
[You have to place yourself in that small private and exclusive invitation-only dance room, and wait till the music gets there. Which is doesn't do till 1:30 in and after. Needs to be very loud! ...Otherwise you won't get the sensation of the fog-machine. The fog, machine. Now where in this article was the word 'fog' before... Hmn... lol]:




















