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Touring around California you could be forgiven for thinking you’re living in the future, and not just because of the Silicon Valley wizardry that surrounds us all. We also have to thank Hollywood’s movie magic, which has turned the state into a backdrop for countless science fiction films presenting futures both terrible and wondrous. It’s not just that so many are filmed here—writers and filmmakers have been exploring the future through California sets for decades.
Only once I started traveling on my own, at 18, did I understand that, as Vanessa Veselka says a man on the road is solitary. A woman on the road is alone. This is not cute wordplay, but a radically different social experience. The mild suspicion of everyone from strangers on trains, to hostel staff, to groups of fellow travelers was first surprising, then irksome, and then wearily anticipated. While Im sure that, on average, single men meet with far more suspicion than single women, it was made quite clear to me that in this context men were seen as being adventurous, while I was a cause for concern—a dangerous blank.
Check out my commercial filmmaking page for a look at a new promo I shot and edited for two very talented yoga teachers and healers, the ladies of Sarahpeutics.
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I counted eighty "o"s in that text.
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