Ten years ago, Hollywood filmmaker Betsy Chasse co-created a movie on science and mysticism (subjects she knew nothing about), and was forevermore plucked from the oblivion of Valley Girl “shoe consciousness.” The movie, “What the Bleep Do We Know!?,” changed her life and the life of millions as it went on to make spiritual cinema history.
Extract – O – Rama
A creativity machine by Brian McWhorter has been on display at Opus Gallery in downtown Eugene as part of the “Design of Sound” Exhibition. Bluedot has been filming the process of creating this sculpture, and looks forward to completing a short film on it Winter of 2011.
Mollitude
Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Barth performs “Mollitude” from the Beta Collide album ‘Psst!Psst!‘
Filmed and produced by Bluedot Productions at the Oregon Coast Heceta Head light and innkeepers house, Spring 2011.
A special thanks to the Oregon Arts Commision
University of Oregon School of Music & Dance
State of Oregon Parks Department
Maroon Belles & the CARE Channel
For the last three years, Bluedot has been filming some of the most beautiful places on the West Coast. A dream project – Bluedot has been shooting and editing 1080p nature cinematography for Healing Healthcare Systems, who operate this great idea… the C.A.R.E. Channel.
The CARE Channel provides beautiful imagery with soft jazz across America’s hospital system, where users can tune into the beauty that nature has to offer, instead of just their regular choice of television programming.
A touch of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
It was an exciting 10 days in Los Angeles, filming the Gaden Shartse Monastery Tour, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama at both the Long Beach Convention Center, and University of California at Irvine.
All the approvals, all the state department reviews, all the driving were worth this one moment of His Holiness coming on stage at UCI while the Gaden Monks provided an introduction purification ceremony. Look for more in the upcoming feature documentary “For All Sentient Beings”
Tibetan Buddhism in Long Beach
A few selected photos of the Gaden Shartse Monks at the Long Beach Convention Center this last week.
An important initiation had been planned with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, but alas – he had fell ill in Tokyo and missed the weekends events planned for him.
Bluedot was there to film the “Journey to the Roof of The World” performance of the Gaden Monks in a world class location.
Luckily, the Gaden Monks were making an amazing sand mandala, as well as a teaching by Khen Rinpoche (The Abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastery), and a talk by Robert Thurman and Thupten Jinpa.
An excellent opportunity for a few snaps!
She’s Like Magic
A steampunk inspired music video featuring Terry Philips and Tamara Cummings. Shot in Eastern Oregon at the Sumpter Valley Railroad on Canon 7d’s by Bluedot Productions. Music by La Boheme Reverie.
Mysteries of the Macabre
Avant garde opera anyone?
Bluedot just recently spent a day in the rehearsal hall with Beta Collide (award winning music professors from the University of Oregon) filming a music video for their song “Mysteries of the Macabre” for their new album “Psst! Psst!”
The whole shoot was as amazingly creative as is the composition itself, Mysteries of the Macabre, a work based on three arias from Ligeti’s absurd opera Le Grand Macabre.
Brian McWhorter: trumpet
David Riley: piano
Phillip Patti: percussion
Molly Barth: scream
direction & cinematography by Bluedot
produced by Brian McWhorter & Molly Barth
engineered by Lance Miller
mastered by Taylor Deupree