Bridges

While ethically neutral, rhetoric, science, politics, etc. are often greatly useful in the promotion and enactment of personal/in-group agendas. What are "important events and important ideas" to you? What is truly ours? What does it mean to "put into the river?" How does a creation come to have "its own utility and its own use?" What is living "in the past" vis a vis time, "the river," now, staying power, and ideas?

Music: "Bridges" by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco
Video footage: Borrowed from my local library...various sources :-)
Produced/Edited by: TheGreenSweater

Made: April 20th, 2006

Comments appreciated!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• past
• future
• rhetoric
• social
• science
• Politics
• Science
• psychology
• ideas
• Utah
• Phillips
• Ani
• DiFranco
• TheGreenSweater

[HempLogic]

Thank you for your beautiful and inspiring work, GreenSweater. I have been a big fan of Utah Phillips and AniDiFranco's collaboration for years but your visual images take their work to another level. Very well done. Have you thought about doing another one of their songs?

[TheGreenSweater]

@HempLogic Thank you! I haven't made a video of any sort since this one. I'm going to try to get back in the swing of video editing...I'll do another one at some point. Do you have any suggestions for which song to use?

[nomadak723]

You pose amazing questions in this song.

[TheGreenSweater]

@nomadak723 :-)

[xrockangelx]

Oh my god, this song is fucking awesome. I just heard it driving home at nigh midnight with streets full of dried leaves whirling around all over the place. A really freaking windy night. So perfect. I love it.

And I just wrote something earlier today about time being a river. Quelle coincidence!

[FiteMashine]

Good video, good song too, I'd never heard it before. Utah Phillips was great. The footage you use emphasizes the urgency of his words.

[unprose]

Stuning piece of work!

[cloudblood420]

FANTASTIC! I would love if you would do "Why Come" It's my favorite on Fellow Workers and I can't seem to find it on youtube.

[revbookburn]

Great song and video. Ani and Utah fantastic.

[HempLogic]

@TheGreenSweater Boy is my face red! Now all my comments are showing up below. Sheesh. Someday I'll figure out how to work this internets thingie.

[HempLogic]

@TheGreenSweater YouTube won't let me post!

[poshknacker]

been a long term fan, its rare i comment, I keep on dropping rocks on my foot and tweeting about it. RIP Utah

[HempLogic]

@TheGreenSweater YouTube is hating me and won't let me reply.

[HempLogic]

@TheGreenSweater Hi GreenSweater: How about "The Bum On the Rod." That song could be an excellent candidate since it is melancholy and contemplative, at least to my ear.

[HempLogic]

@TheGreenSweater Hi GreenSweater... youtube has not been letting me post a reply, I have been trying for a week, something is not working...