SOLMI

I was just cruising through teh internets tonight after watching another disappointing episode of Heroes. I was thinking, “all this talk about human evolution and in two seasons of the show I have not seen anything making me say ‘bring it on, evolution’ .” Near as I can tell, as soon as you get powers as a direct result of evolution you either have some respiratory issues (like DL’s family) or you are completely gullible/self-centered (everyone on the show). My gullibility and self-centeredness are just fine at the moment thank you. I don’t need to leap another genetic hurtle there.

So, just as I was about to call fail on Darwin I came across an interesting article, which you may read here. To save you the time, the article not only says human beings are evolving but are evolving rapidly. Apparently there’s some genetic thing that proves this when you look at blah blah blah. That’s not the good stuff. The good stuff is that this article completely restores my faith in evolution. Go try your mousetrap arguments with someone else, Intelligent Designers!

You know why? I may have the retained power to digest milk on my side! That’s right, the current benefits of our Life-in-the-Fast-Lane Evolution include the astonishing ability to digest milk. Of course, that’s only if you’re Indo-European. Sorry guys, but that ChugALug milk is all mine! My genes call dibs!

So yeah, forget all of this evolution giving you the power of the the gods crap. Do you really want to swallow all of your kids for fear of dethronement? Or flood your entire creation because you can’t stand the tenants? Or take the form of a swan and force yourself on a woman? Actually, don’t answer that one…or any of them for that matter. What you need (and what you may get) is something ever the more practical. And who knows, in a few more generations, maybe humanity will evolve enough to be able to digest SOUR milk. And oh, what a day that will be.

If you guys love organic food and Star Wars as much as we do, then you’re really going to love this. John Rife, a local Orlando real estate and video guy, just posted this today and I couldn’t believe how amazing it was. I’m not really sure who’s responsible for this masterpiece, but it’s fantastic.

John mentions in his post that he hopes that we’ll start to see more of these kinds of videos as the cost of making films continues to drop. We here at SOLMI hope that we can help out in that department. I’d also like to take this opportunity to mention that we currently have a video in Apple’s Insomnia Film Festival, and that you can vote for it by following that link. And now you’ll know that by voting for us you’ll also be promoting the future of film-making; us. Does it get any better than that?

I already posted this on MakeFilmWork, but I thought I’d cross-post here too because I’m just that pumped that it’s finally done.

We were originally going to post this as an episode, I think. But that doesn’t really make sense because it’s not really our video. I made it, yes. But it belongs to BarCamp. Brian did give SOLMI a pretty good plug towards the beginning though. So it’s still got a little something SOLMI for you, if you’re into that sort of thing (and if you’re reading this, I’m guessing you are).

I spent the better part of a month making the edits and putting together the motion graphics for this thing. I’m pretty happy with the final result, and I think I pushed myself to a whole new level in Motion. I can’t wait to start working on another project like this. In fact, if you’re looking for some video work done, I am for hire.

Poppa’s gotta eat.

Anyway, I wanted to thank Gregg and Larry for making BarCamp Orlando happen this year. It was a lot of fun and I can’t wait until the next one.

Also, if you’re interested, you can see a high-quality version of the video here.