The Spirit Behind CG Animation

Original air date: Monday, August 18, 2014

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Episode Description:

If you’ve ever played a video game, or watched cartoons or anime, chances are you’ve heard our special guest, Erin Fitzgerald! If you haven’t, but were ever curious about why everyone else has, Pop Conscious can help you. We’ll examine what has allowed the video game industry to surpass the success of film and television for years now. Join us as we explore computer-generated animation!

Show Notes:

We met a handful of her different characters… talked about the connection between spirit, breath and voice…found life lessons and spiritual metaphors in both the creation process and the message of cartoons, anime and video games!

We learned Erin’s technique of getting into character to create the voice, heart and soul of the artist’s vision, and how we can use that same technique in our spiritual practice to “put on” our best, most ideal selves.

We learned to be fountains of spirit, and spread our glistening drops of light wherever we go — we just need to do our best to be clear channels of that love.

We laughed a lot too.  Not surprising really!

Listen NOW from our archives at Unity Online Radio! or download from iTunes!  FUN!

Environmental Pop Culture for Earth Day

Original air date: Monday, April 21, 2014

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Unity of the Oaks tree

 

Tour with your Pop Conscious friends Malayna and Stacy, with Pop Culture as your eco-friendly vehicle through the sustainable past and the future possible. We’ll talk about cartoons (yay!) like Bambi, Pocahontas, Fern Gully and Wall-E. We’ll discuss Sci-Fi films like Avatar and activists like Erin Brockovich and Al Gore. We’ll also see what Unity cofounder Charles Fillmore said about conservation, all in time to celebrate Earth Day!

(And it was also Malayna’s dad’s birthday! But he’s not quite as old as the earth…)

 SHOW NOTES:

Disney has a history of nature documentaries –  BEARS is coming out on Earth Day!  Live action, but with personifications that people can relate with.

Plus, Bambi, Pocahontas, Wall-E!  (See lyrics to “Colors of the Wind” below….)

Charles Fillmore – on Conservation:

• Revealing Word : Law of Conservation–Building up a large reserve consciousness of substance, life, strength, and power, instead of laying up material treasures. This is done through prayer.
  In Prosperity on Laying Up Treasures – Any form of waste is a violation of the divine law of conservation.  Everywhere in  nature there is evidence of stored up energy substance, ready for use when needed.

No hoarding!  Join in the cycle!

Deepak Chopra said energy and prosperity is like water — you need it to run and circulate and have an inlet and outlet. Much like Charles Fillmore said about Spirit.

Check out the Environmental Media Association!  Awards and green seal for responsible production.

MOVIES with an ECO-MESSAGE:

Check out this article: 10 Films to Inspire Your Inner Environmentalist

• Celeb Documentary – 11th Hour with Leonardo Di Caprio, Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth
• Message Movie – Promised Land with Matt Damon, Erin Brockovich (she lives in Ventura County, like we do!)
• Post Apocolyptic -Wall-E, The Day After Tomorrow
• Horror Movies – Godzilla, Swamp Thing
  
• Environmental Fiction – Avatar! (Featuring James Cameron‘s love for deep-sea bioluminescence!)

I Heart Huckabees – A movie about the environment and quantum physics, and stuff.

HOME – Aerial shots of the amazing Earth.

Animation:  Princess Mononoke, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Songs for Earth Day:

• It’s the End of the World As We Know It – by R.E.M.
• The Greatest Love of All – by Whitney Houston (featured on the episode of Who’s the Boss that Malayna was on!)
• We Are the World and Hands Across America

Book Series:

Fashion:

Garments Without Guilt! Ecouterre! Tree Hugger.com!  Planet Green!