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So you want to travel the world, the lessons learnt 9.5 mths in!

  By The Overlander | May 6, 2012 - 12:17 am | , , , , ,
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At the start of my round the world travel video adventure I made a video talking about the 7 things I wanted to achieve on my trip. 9.5 mths in I look back on what I have achieved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VgzCP2pE44

The seven goals were:
*To see the world
*To film the world
*To get paid to film the world
*To get fit
*To find a traveling partner
*To make a difference
*To find a home

And what have I learnt from my travels, to observe and not react, that my view of the word is determined by the way I was brought up and the culture I was raised in. And most importantly, ‘Without people you are nothing!’

Music: Lerax by Re-Drum, Album: It’s Better to Burn Out Than To Fade Away
Features quotes from:
The The – Slow Emotion Replay http://youtu.be/7epsKzky3aI
Joe Strummer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTNDPPb4224

The Apocalyptic Equatorial Visions of Dr. Overlander Esq.

  By The Overlander | December 17, 2011 - 2:00 pm | , , , , , ,
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Do subliminal messages work?
What do you feel after watching this 18 sec assault on your senses?
Featuring all the imagery tricks of advertising; sex, war, death and beauty.
Dr. Overlander lets loose from his secret bunker in the tropics, sending you 1 frame messages of Christmas cheer and good will.
Music – Careful with the Axe, Eugene – Pink Floyd

Artist’s Statement:

I’m 11 days upriver now, the God-fearing missionaries don’t even hit this part of Borneo. It’s too wild, autonomous regions, they believe in the old ways, jungle superstitions, ghosts and the need for blood sacrifice.

I’m the only white man, a giant among the pigmy people of the forest. They think I am a shaman and I play up to the role, killing chickens in their ceremonies, with much hooplah and pizzazz.

But like Cortez the Killer, I know it wont last, I know soon they will tire of me and my extravagant fake show, soon they will stop bringing me their daughters and finest rice wine.

And I’m ready for this day, for I know in my video ‘The Apocalyptic Equatorial Visions of Dr. Overlander’ I have achieved my life’s work, I have reached the pinnacle.

I have finally mastered the art of manipulating the minds of innocent viewers, with the subliminal methods used by such past puppet masters of propaganda, as Leni Riefenstahl and Walt Disney.

In a mere 18 seconds I have managed to make a film that will permeate your very being. It will be locked away in your subconscious, until one of the many ‘triggers’ ignites the change. Once watched, even just once, you will never be the same.

It will start as an uneasiness, a realisation that something isn’t right in the world. Slowly, slowly, it will lead to small changes.

But in the end, like with Orwell, I have only provided the signposts, it is up to you to decide with what you do with this new found realisation.

An uncluttered world, what to do once you cut the bounds of the rat race?

  By The Overlander | October 30, 2011 - 5:17 pm | ,
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This is a lovely short film, a beautiful marriage of sound, image and emotion.

I have found my uncluttered world in the freedom of living out of a backpack.

But… what then? What drives one to do anything?

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task” (Victor Frankl)

When ego and monetary needs no longer determine one’s motivation, what does one choose to do? Is Malsow’s idea of self actualisation a reality for anyone, or just an ideal?

When the mindset of scarcity if truly destroyed, what does one choose to do with all that freedom?

Do people’s motivations truly become altruistic?

Some thinking music…..