i am making a movie

	I am making a movie. Nim, a game in which players pick of object from piles, the piles usually consist of fifteen objects, a player can take one, two, or three objects during their turn. The last player to pick up an object is the loser. I am making a movie with nim, not a movie in which characters pick up objects, or necessarily physically gather anything. Nim will be a foundation for the compiling and breaking down what scenes I shoot, and eventually how they are assembled. “Things are not correlated in nature. In nature, things are as they are. Period. Correlation is a concept which we use to describe connections which we perceive. The physical world is not a structure built out of independently existing unanalyzable entities, but rather a web of relationships between elements whose meanings arise wholly from their relationships to the whole.” Stapp; pg 71 in the Dancing WuLi Masters “A Nim-Reality” Skarlinski; act 1 in this is not a play nor is this real Powers of 10, made by Charles and Ray Eames made for IBM was an impressive display of technology, but also a highly comprehendible display of scale. We start at a picnic scene and move outward 25meters to the 10th power, and we see our galaxy, quickly we speed back to the picnic scene and to –18 to the tenth into our picnicker’s body we see the cell structure that makes up all earthly animal life. The makeup of earthly life is incredibly similar in visual structure to the universe we inhabit.
	Existentialism Postmodernism >< Alain Robbe-Grillet Jean-Luc Godard “I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps less; I am not sure how many birds I saw. Was the number of birds definite of indefinite? The problem involves the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because no one can have counted. In this case I saw fewer than ten birds (let us say) and more than one, but did not see nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two birds. I saw a number between ten and one, which was not nine, eight, seven, six, five etc. That integer- not-nine, not- eight, not-seven, not-six, not-five, etc.- is inconceivable, Ergo, God exists.” -Jorge Luis Borges Argumentum Ornithologicum from The Maker 1960 “Because winds and water currents flow over the land, the formation of sand is unavoidable. As long as the winds blew, the rivers flowed, and the seas stirred sand would be born grain by grain from the earth, and like a living being it would creep everywhere. The sands never rested. Gently but surely they invaded and destroyed the surface of the earth. This image of the flowing sand made an indescribably exciting impact on the man. The barrenness of sand, as it is usually pictured, was not caused by simple dryness, but apparently was due to the ceaseless movement that made it inhospitable to all living things. What a difference compared with the dreary way human beings clung together year in year out.” Kobo Abe; pg 14-15 in The Woman in the Dunes Sand is an example of a class of materials called granular matter. Sand is a naturally occurring, finely divided rock, comprising particles or granules ranging in size from 0.0625 to 2 millimeters. An individual particle in this range size is termed a sand grain. The next smaller size class in geology
	is silt: particles below 0.0625 mm down to 0.004 mm in size. The next larger size class above sand is gravel, with particles ranging up to 64 mm (see grain size for standards in use). Wikipedia.com search results for Sand Sand as a quantity, or sands, are formless; thought of as a whole one object not comprised of millions of sands. Looking for a symbol for formlessness? Nickelodeon Gak’s container is a pop influenced, recognizable and accepted shape for shapeless substance. Human social gatherings, thought of as a whole one gathering not comprised of millions of peoples. Rock concerts, the beach, parades, riots, etc. A scene of my movie. Located at 410 Chase Street is a multistory building that belongs to University of Baltimore commonly known as UofB. The facade of the building is completely refinished with cinder brickwork. Remnants of the original building still remain, but where the windows used to be are the cinder blocks. The cinder blocks are placed so that the square openings are facing the street; from inside the building you can see out through these square holes, from street-level the wall looks like ugly cinder block. I assume that the cinder blocks, a utilitarian building material, was used as a protective covering for the windows, not to enhance the buildings appearance. But to protect the building from what? The work on the front of the building reminds me of similar building techniques I have found dated to the seventies. Baltimore City saw riots break out in 1968, the same time that collage students were rioting in France. The riots in Baltimore were in reaction to the Martin Luther King Jr. murder; Baltimore was not alone in the US for
	rioting 124 other cities in the US also saw protests and riots. In Baltimore the rioting was so great the army was released unto the city to calm the riots. Is it possible that the cinder block facade was put up to prevent future rioters from breaking the windows? So what do I plan to do? Have my own one man riot, and beautify that building. Peanut butter and birdseed. Some sprigs of wheat, maybe some flowers. Pigeons are the poverty-stricken cousins of the dove. A nice cubbyhole for birds to live.