JOHNSONVILLE
Animated in Adobe Animate, “JOHNSONVILLE” is a 3 minute and 55-second-long horse ride through one man’s unraveling of maybe the biggest conspiracy in meat since the Embalmed Beef Scandal of 1898 (look it up). An unknown hero risks his life to bring us the true facts of Johnsonville “Sausages” and their alleged business dealings with the United States military, the Excelsior Corporation, and General Atomics. Researched, compiled, and animated over the course of a 120+ hours during the months of May and June of 2019, this expose now features black and white “coloring,” clean lines, 41 unique, hand drawn poses, and 2,593 frames at a rate of 12 frames per second. And it’s all true :-)
JOHNSONVILLE premiered at the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, WA on June 9th.
© Nimh Mesmer 2019
Jekyll & Hyde Spring 2017 - WESTERN STATES
SOME DATES STILL BEING CONFIRMED:
5/19 – Lubbock – Alamo Drafthouse - (Nosferatu)
5/20 – Santa Fe – CCA - (Nosferatu)
5/21 – Santa Fe – CCA - Jekyll n Hyde
5/22 – Albuquerque – Guild Cinema - Jekyll n Hyde
5/24 – Ft. Collins – Lyric Cinema - Jekyll n Hyde
5/26 – Denver – Alamo Drafthouse - Jekyll n Hyde
5/27 – Laramie, WY – Gryphon Theater - Nosferatu
5/30 – Salt Lake – Tower Theater - Jekyll n Hyde
5/31 – Boise, ID - Nosferatu
6/1 – Spokane, WA – Washington Cracker Co. – Volume Inlander Music Fest pre-show - Nosferatu
6/3 – Richland, WA – Adventures Underground - Nosferatu
6/4 – Bellingham, WA – Pickford Film Center – Nosferatu
6/5 – Vancouver, BC – Rio Theatre (tent.) - Nosferatu
6/8 – Seattle – Seattle International Film Festival @ Triple Door Jekyll n Hyde
6/11 – Portland, OR – Clinton Street Theater - Jekyll n Hyde
6/12 – Florence, OR – City Lights Cinema - Jekyll n Hyde
6/13 – Eugene, OR – Bijou - Jekyll n Hyde
6/15 – Chico, CA – Pageant Theater - Jekyll n Hyde
6/19 – San Francisco, CA – Mission Alamo Drafthouse - Jekyll n Hyde
6/20 – Oakland, CA – New Parkway – Jekyll n Hyde & Nosferatu
6/23 – Phoenix, AZ – Film Bar - Jekyll n Hyde
6/25 – El Paso – Alamo Drafthouse - Nosferatu
Western Reads Presents: Bill McKibben - May 17th, 2014
Western Reads Presents: Bill McKibben
Saturday, May 17th, 2014
350: The Most Important Number in the World
In the summer of 2007, Arctic ice began to melt far more rapidly than scientists had expected. Before the season was out, they'd begun to conclude that the earth was already moving past tipping points -- that indicators, from the thawing of glaciers to the spread of droughts, showed global warming was a present crisis, not a future threat. Our leading climatologists even gave us a number for the red line: 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere. That's a tough number, since we're already past it.
Bill McKibben describes not only the science of the situation, but also the inspiring global movement that he's led to help change the world's understanding of its peril, and spur the reforms necessary to get the planet back to safety. The first big global grassroots effort to involve people from every nation, McKibben's 350.org has crossed the boundaries of language and faith, and even the great gulf between rich and poor. It's become a vibrant, powerful movement for real change, and the basis for an utterly fascinating and necessary talk.
Bill McKibben is one of America's best-known environmentalists. He has written books that, over the last quarter century, have shaped public perception--and public action--on climate change, alternative energy, and the need for more localized economies. McKibben is the founder of 350.org, the first large global grassroots climate change initiative.
McKibben's seminal books include The End of Nature, widely seen as the first book on climate change for a general audience, and Deep Economy, a bold challenge to move beyond growth as the paramount economic ideal and to pursue prosperity in a more local direction -- an idea that is the cornerstone of much sustainability discourse today. A former New Yorker staff writer and Guggenheim Fellow, he writes for various magazines, including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, National Geographic and The New York Review of Books.
This program is make possible by the generous support of Western Reads, the Institute for Energy Studies, Huxley College of the Environment, and North Cascades Institute.