'''SolSeed: Pick a Future''' is a six-minute music video created by [[Ben]], then abandoned because we couldn't get proper permission to use the music track, "Down to Earth" by Peter Gabriel, which played over the credits of the movie WALL-E. We also wanted to play the last verse of "After the Gold Rush" by Neil Young during the credits.
== Script ==
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>'''Visuals'''</td>
<td>'''Text'''</td>
<td>'''Voice'''</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td nowrap valign="top">
Fade in <br>
Earth from space <br>
Dissolve to ruined Earth from WALL-E <br>
Axiom-class ships fly toward and past us <br>
Dissolve to cover of Parable of the Sower <br>
Dissolve to Earth as a tree with spaceship-seeds <br>
Pull back to show roots are rays from the Sun <br>
Dissolve to galaxy pullback<br>
Flash to galaxy with scattered green flares <br>
Zoom in on a green flare <br>
Flash to sunrise from space <br>
Iris to animated SolSeed symbol and logo<br>
Dissolve to yin-yang of Earth and ruined Earth <br>
with main title <br>
<br>
Silhouette with feet tied down by vines <br>
Pan up to show silhouette reaching for stars <br>
Blur-dissolve to skyscrapers at “night” <br>
Pan to reveal darkness is smoke from a factory <br>
Pan-dissolve into wilderness, <br>
zoom in toward hikers on forest floor <br>
and fade in first three floating lines of text <br>
Dissolve to sillhouette in cubicle farm <br>
Iris to skyscrapers, pan up to a jet flying, text fades <br>
Pan down as next three floating lines of text appear <br>
Pan down to a green, walkable community<br>
<br>
<br>
Slide in yin-yang: coal plant vs. solar & wind<br>
Radial wipe to yin-yang: smoggy city vs. electric cars<br>
then glacier after vs. before melting, <br>
then river with vs. without pollution, <br>
then brown fields vs. green ones with lots of trees,<br>
then pesticide sprayer vs. organic farm w/ birds, <br>
then slums vs. eco-village,<br>
then shopping mall vs. people talking at Seed 2009<br>
<br>
Overlay timeline moving backward, <br>
clock-wipe to medieval farm with workers,<br>
blur-dissolve to workers in cubicles,<br>
pan to people shopping in a grocery store<br>
Zoom on a TV: ad with “All New!” in big letters,<br>
change channel to Obama ad, then to a news report<br>
Dissolve to books: Live More, Spend Less, <br>
on a library website, cursor clicks Cancel<br>
Pull back to silhouette with lots of papers on desk<br>
Zoom back in to SolSeed website, scrolling down<br>
<br>
Zoom on Brandon holding Seed 2009 sign at lodge <br>
<br>
Slide in yin-yang: meeting vs. people writing on floor<br>
Blur-dissolve to yin-yang: agenda page vs. agenda wall<br>
Dissolve to Seed 2009 breakfast, zoom on snowy view<br>
Willamette River with RCC participants on bridge<br>
Iris to SolSeed Society logo with Earth-tree, pull back<br>
to show other URLs, links extend out to them, pull back<br>
to Internet overlaid on Earth from space,<br>
Internet fades out<br>
<br>
Overlay timeline moving backward, zoom into ocean<br>
Prehistoric fish swimming around the base of a tree<br>
Pan up the trunk, see ancient lizards on shoreline,<br>
mammals on one branch, winged dinosaurs on another,<br>
silhouette at end of first branch<br>
looking at a bird taking flight from the other<br>
Flash through toxic waste, clearcuts, smokestacks<br>
Pullback from Earth with timeline moving forward<br>
Earth grows red, then fades to WALL-E's trashed Earth<br>
Spaceships fly away, then everything stops<br>
and runs backward as timeline returns to the present<br>
Crossfade to low-orbit photo,<br>
then people hiking with a grand mountain vista,<br>
then people sitting by a beautiful river,<br>
hold to emphasize the relaxedness of the scene<br>
Bird singing in a tree<br>
People planting trees<br>
Person blowing seeds from a dandelion<br>
Follow one of these as it gradually settles to the ground<br>
Crossfade to Brandon, Shelley, and baby Sequoia<br>
<br>
White-flash dissolve to:<br>
PowerPoint slide on a screen<br>
Concepts starting in one stack flip over<br>
to form an inverted stack<br>
White-flash dissolve to:<br>
Fancy car idling and spewing exhaust,<br>
yin-yang wipe to bike with "One Less Car" flag<br>
Huge lawn w/ sprinklers running & distant mountains,<br>
yin-yang wipe to water project in Africa<br>
SUV at a fast food place,<br>
yin-yang wipe to urban food gardens in East Portland<br>
Aerial view of suburbia, <br>
yin-yang wipe to SolSeed eco-village being built<br>
Pan up to show Portland skyline above ecovillage,<br>
oval iris to world with network spreading from Portland<br>
to other eco-villages and intentional societies<br>
<br>
Zoom into Damanhur and Temple of Humankind<br>
Flash to future city built inside and around huge trees,<br>
wipe to a spaceport, where<br>
a seed-shaped spaceship is lifting off using antigravity<br>
Yin-yang to "Conquest of Space" poster in sepia tone,<br>
yin-yang to "Mother Earth Wants YOU" hologram<br>
with image of Gaia with Earth as her pregnant belly<br>
Dissolve to little ship docking with asteroid above Earth<br>
Asteroid is a giant "life-ship" that goes to Mars,<br>
then releases more seed-shaped vessels that descend<br>
Cut to a seed landing on the surface, burrowing down<br>
Cross-section view, tunnels spreading out like roots<br>
Greenhouse, then lichen on rocks, then life takes over<br>
Pull back past Sol to life-ship arriving at another star,<br>
docking at alien space station above inhabited gas giant<br>
where we get permission to terraform its dead moon<br>
Pull back to galaxy already dotted with green flares, <br>
with starship icons spreading out to "plant" new ones<br>
Fade out to green-white
</td>
<td nowrap valign="top">
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
"Earthseed, book 1" on cover<br>
replaced with SolSeed logo<br>
<br>
<br>
Living Worlds Productions presents...<br>
<br>
An animated collage by Ben Sibelman<br>
<br>
<br>
SolSeed: Pick a Future<br>
<br>
<br>
Part One: To Be Worthy of the Stars<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Life is Precious<br>
Change is Eternal<br>
Chaos is Inevitable<br>
<br>
Empathy is Transcendent<br>
Wisdom is Effective<br>
Self-Love is Motive<br>
<br>
Human Needs 1: Air<br>
<br>
2: Water<br>
<br>
3: Food<br>
<br>
4: Shelter<br>
5: Family and Community<br>
<br>
Part Two: Joining the Community<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
FEAR, Spending Needed to Save Economy<br>
<br>
<br>
DEADLINES (on page tacked to wall)<br>
SolSeed: A Community of Life<br>
Do you want to join? Either way,<br>
you're invited to our next gathering!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Water.org, LocalHarvest.org, EcoVillage.org, <br>
Plantetary.org<br>
<br>
<br>
Part Three: Back to Our Roots<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Big red "?" next to Earth<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Part Four: Redefining Our Priorities<br>
Econ. Growth, Innovation, Gov't, Consumers/<br>
Human Resources, Natural Resources<br>
Life, People/Communities, Governance,<br>
Technology, Economy<br>
Air<br>
<br>
Water<br>
<br>
Food<br>
<br>
Shelter<br>
Family and Community<br>
<br>
Church of the Upward Spiral, Spiriata<br>
Spirituality<br>
Riverbank Neighbors, Eco-Village at Ithaca,<br>
Damanhur<br>
Harmony with Nature<br>
<br>
Purpose, SILVER SEED (on side of ship)<br>
<br>
subtitle: "to help bring life to new worlds!"<br>
<br>
Part Five: Spreading the Seed<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Settlement Rights (with alien text on document)
</td>
<td nowrap valign="top">
Music starts. My narration:<br>
“There are two ways we could emigrate from Earth. <br>
A few of us could flee as refugees, <br>
from a home that we <br>
accidentally set on fire.<br>
Or, many of us could go out across the stars <br>
as gardeners, serving our Mother Earth <br>
by planting and growing new living worlds. <br>
But first, <br>
we would need to come back down to Earth, <br>
put out the fires, <br>
and reconnect with the living world <br>
that gave us birth.” <br>
<br>
Lyrics start: <br>
Did you think that your feet had been bound <br>
By what gravity brings to the ground? <br>
Did you feel you were tricked<br>
By the future you picked? <br>
Well, come on down.<br>
<br>
<br>
All these rules don't apply<br>
When you're high in the sky<br>
So come on down,<br>
Come on down.<br>
<br>
<br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
There's no better place to go <br>
We've got snow up on the mountains<br>
We've got rivers down below. <br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
We hear the birds sing in the trees <br>
And the land will be looked after <br>
We send our seeds on the breeze. <br>
<br>
<br>
Did you think you'd escaped from routine <br>
By changing the script <br>
and the scene? <br>
Despite all you've made of it, <br>
you're always afraid <br>
of a change. <br>
<br>
You got a lot on your chest <br>
Well, you can come as my guest <br>
So come on down, <br>
come on down.<br>
<br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
There's no better place to go <br>
We've got snow up on the mountains<br>
We've got rivers down below. <br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
We hear the birds sing in the trees <br>
And the land will be looked after <br>
We send our seeds on the breeze. <br>
<br>
Like the fish in the ocean,<br>
We felt at home in the sea.<br>
We learned to live off the good land,<br>
We learned to climb up a tree.<br>
Then we got up on two legs,<br>
But we wanted to fly.<br>
When we messed up our homeland,<br>
We set sail for the sky.<br>
<br>
<br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
There's no better place to go <br>
We've got snow up on the mountains<br>
We've got rivers down below. <br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
We hear the birds sing in the trees <br>
And the land will be looked after <br>
We send our seeds on the breeze. <br>
We're coming down - coming down to Earth<br>
Like babies at birth - coming down to Earth<br>
<br>
Redefine your priorities<br>
These are extraordinary qualities<br>
(Down...Down to Earth)<br>
<br>
<br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
There's no better place to go <br>
We've got snow up on the mountains <br>
We've got rivers down below. <br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
We hear the birds sing in the trees <br>
And the land will be looked after <br>
We send our seeds on the breeze. <br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
There's no better place to go <br>
We've got snow up on the mountains <br>
We've got rivers down below. <br>
We're coming down to the ground <br>
We hear the birds sing in the trees <br>
And the land will be looked after <br>
We send our seeds on the breeze. <br>
Redefine your priorities<br>
These are extraordinary qualities<br>
To find on Earth.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Coming down<br>
Coming down<br>
Coming down<br>
Coming down<br>
Coming down<br>
Coming down<br>
Coming down<br>
Coming down!<br>
</td>
</tr>
</table>