The IAO aims to instigate greater engagement with the art and science of perfumery. We will do this through a public education program, by building an archive of contemporary perfume releases, by creating an accessible laboratory for scent innovation, and by inciting cross-genre collaboration between perfumers and other creative practitioners.

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Old Arabic machines:

Photos from a square dance in 1940′s Oklahoma:

France in the year 2000:

‘Marcos’ Impromptu Surgery’ (Marcos Lutyens, Feb. 2012, TRT 7 min)
‘Felicity’s Act of Charity’ (Felicity Wilson-Brown, Jan. 2012, TRT 4 min)
‘Micah’s Type’ (Micah Hahn, Dec. 2011, TRT 8.5 min)

You can watch all of them here on the Vimeo channel.

Amazing, polyphonic stuff. They say that if the pygmies find a new item (a pipe, a bottle, a shoe), they will find a way to turn it into an instrument. Also, their word for music is the same of their word for dance, and they do not differentiate between the two.

Hunting Song (Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies)

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Here we are. Another year at Slamdance with the crème de la crème of indie filmmakers. We, here, are all winners! We are the 1% of American filmmakers! We are deserving of distribution offers, industry acclaim and invitations to the most exclusive parties!

Yeah right.

Party invitations will happen- even the most hardened grump is forced to socialize, and here in Park City you can’t shake a stick without hitting someone brilliant and connected. But, industry acclaim and a distribution offer…? Not a guarantee. Enter everyone’s favorite fear: Failure.

With such an intimate understanding of your film’s complex birth, and flush off the high of having been included in the first place, it becomes a strange sort of deflation when nothing much happens at the festival, itself. You start to feel powerless, unable to advance. You hear about the amazing parties where so-and-so met so-and-so, and the buzz around the hot new films at Sundance. And you start to feel, frankly, like shit.

When you get laid up with the inevitable mid-week Park City flu, and are shivering in your static electricity-heavy condo unable to sleep, knowing that somewhere on the mountain there is an awesome party going on that you weren’t invited to, I would invite you to consider these words: This is normal. This is part of the process, for independent filmmakers. You are working in a system that is designed to keep you out, and a lot of that is out of your control. Instead of aspiring to be the person throwing the party that no one can come to, I would invite you to turn your sense of outsider-ness, of failure, into a sort of commitment.  Commit to doing it differently. Commit to failing at the system, ’cause the system is failing you.

Most importantly – put away that half-assed daydream about abandoning the film world altogether, get your ass in gear and go f*ck sh*t up. Make it happen, in your own way, acquisitions execs be damned. Turn failure into a new model. And make that model a success.

Season 1 (2010/2011)

‘Leonardo’s Game of Chess’ (Dec. 2011, TRT 7 min)
‘Norwood Gets Back to His Me’ (Nov. 2011, TRT 9.5 min)
‘Anthony & Johnny’ (Oct. 2011, TRT 5.5 min)
‘Sarah’s First Day of High School’ (Jul. 2011, TRT 6.5 min)
‘Austin Changes his Name‘ (Jun. 2011, TRT 8.5 min)
‘Michael’s Roach Problem‘ (Apr. 2011, TRT 6.5 min)
‘Heather Gets Hit’ (Mar. 2011, TRT 5.5 min)
‘Harry Tells a Lie’ (Feb. 2011, TRT 4 min)
‘Felicity Is Ejected From Egypt‘ (Feb. 2011, TRT 5 min)
‘Davide’s Wet Dream’ (Nov. 2010, TRT 2 min)
‘Ralph & the Cat’ (Oct. 2010, TRT 2.75 min)
‘Patricia’s Nickel’ (Oct. 2010, TRT 2.5 min)