Weightless Parabolas

I was reading about a friend of a friend, Xeni, who’s managed to become something of an internet celebrity. She’s an editor of BoingBoing, a collectively updated stream of cool and interesting things on the net. Anyway, Xeni’s big story lately was getting ready to fly in one of those parabolic flight patterns that result in periods of weightlessness. A guy I went to a birthday party in Brazil with a few years ago is CEO of Zero Gravity, a company that’s essentially a very expensive roller coaster ride. Anyway, I’ve been following Xeni’s preparations for her trip to weightlessness and am struck by the similarity to my recent work. (see The Flash Movie for “Unamerican”)

Last Friday, I launched a flash music video for “Unamerican”. As of right now, it’s getting about 25 views an hour, and I’m gonna cross a thousand in the next hour or so. I’m completely blown away and feel such peace from having released something that I believe speaks to a LOT of people. We shall see.

Since then, Life has had a particularly surreal quality about it. I get two or three emails a day from people who say they’ve been moved to tears by the song and the film. It’s incredibly gratifying. I worked pretty much non-stop to get that thing out, and now that it’s out there, it feels kinda like being weightless.

I’ve got more to say about the song, and the possibility it represents, and I’ll be posting that on the Unamerican site in the next day or so…