Video for Lydia Fair

Another little project I picked up along the way is a small video contribution to what I believe will be a very cool and probably intense and moving arts festival, coming up on April 25 at the Vineyard Church in Cambridge. It's called Lydia Fair, and it's bringing together artists of all stripes (painters, theater people, singers, one fiction writer that I know of—me, and heaven knows who all). The theme is Rescue, and it's a benefit fundraiser for two organizations called Love146 and Rebuild Africa. I'm really looking forward to it; there's tremendous artistic talent in the Vineyard community.

As for my part...I'm working on a video adaptation of the prologue to Sunborn. I've shortened and reworked the audio so that it sounds much better than the mp3 currently up on my website, and am using a sequence of great cosmic imagery from a variety of NASA observatories including Hubble, Chandra, SOHO, and others. A fellow named Adam, who does a lot of video work for the church, is helping me shape it into a "visualization" that we hope will evoke the story of Deeaab, as he wanders the galaxy encountering sentient suns, and wondering how he might rescue them from whatever is killing them. It'll only be about three minutes long, but I've gone from thinking "Hopeless!" a week ago to thinking, "This is going to be cool."

Afterward, my goal is to put it up online so you can all see it. In the meantime, if you live anywhere near Cambridge, Mass., you might want to check out Lydia Fair.

"We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."
—Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock"