Post date: Dec 19, 2008 11:48:36 PM
QUESTION & ANSWER
RE: UNMASKING THE ILLUSION
Factory West Studio
Where Art Is Fun
D. A McCall & Heidie McCall
2712 Esther St.
Vancouver, WA 98660
Contact: Heidie McCall
Phone: 360-693-7085
e-mail Heidie@ FactoryWestStudio.com
Q & A
Q: What possessed you to try and solve global warming?
A: After watching Al Gore’s film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ we where both fairly depressed. We asked ourselves, ‘What’s the point of writing or creating art on a dying world?’ After a few days of this melancholy I decides to come up with solutions to every crappy thing I could think of. Doug was between books and agreed to collaborate.
Q: Why a ‘Movie Book for the Mind?’
A: A few years back I recorded a CD titled Unmasking the Illusion. With the working premise for the book ‘a world without crude oil’, wrapping a movie script around the CD and setting the premise for the movie with a funny book seemed like a fun challenge.
Q: How does it work?
A: The movie part of the book challenges the reader to insert and visualize their own characters and direct the movie in their mind. By including a soundtrack my thinking is this will be a very personal way for readers to enjoy our art.
Q: I found the E-COURT chapter a bit unsettling because there are a lot of nuts out there. Do you think the whole world should be invited to vote on the guilt or innocence of a criminal?
A: In my opinion if environmental crimes are judged by all of us because environmental crimes affect all of us, everyone on earth should have a say in whether or not this person should be allowed to roam among us. E-COURT would be great.
Q: Do you honestly think the decadent lifestyle you portray for the future is for everyone?
A: Yes. The only difference is that it will be legal.
Q: The theory of Human Energy is quite amazing in that you both seem to have approached it from all angles, do you think the masses will go for it?
A: You better believe it. When people realize the tremendous value of their energy and are well paid for it immediately, oh yeah.