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2 minutes to midnight an extravaganza
Now’s the time to shift the story
2 minutes to midnight – an extravaganza looks at the world through the eyes of a book. Season one takes its cue from People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy, a cautionary tale about accelerating computing power, democracy, and capitalism. It’s a year’s worth of discovery & play.
- Highlights
- Extravaganza
- Podcast
- What Matters
Creativity
Welcome to the main stage where creatives from around the world share works inspired by People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
Activism
What visions can unify organizations and strengthen movements that prioritize people and planet over profits?
Livelihood
How would professions and the work we do transform in a world where people and planet come before profits?
Health
Awareness, emotion, compassion… What’s essential for us to develop personally to benefit the future that is now?
- Creativity
- Activism
- Livelihood
- Health
Welcome to the main stage where creatives from around the world share works inspired by People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.
Revolucion
Painting
Representacion de valores desde la bioquimica devastacion hacia el resurgimiento
Representation of values from biochemical devastation to resurgence
Call of the Wild
Film
A determined revolutionary tries to get his brainwashed friend into caring about the abuse of workers.
SOY CONCIENCIA AMBIENTAL (I AM ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS)
Other
100 BOLSAS GRABADAS CON LA TECNICA DE XILOGRAFIA Y ESCRITAS CON FRASES SOBRE EL MAL USO DE LAS BOLSAS DE NYLON Y EL MEDIO AMBIENTE- SE INVITA A LOS VISITANTES DE LA MUESTRA A LLEVARSE UNA BOLSA PRA RECUERDO Y CONCIENTIZACION- ARTE EFIMERO LA OBRA DESAPARECE SOLO QUEDA EL REGISTRO FOTOGRAFICO SE EXHIBE EN UN PORTA ROLLOS O TENDAL
100 BAGS ENGRAVED WITH THE XYLOGRAPH TECHNIQUE AND WRITTEN WITH PHRASES ABOUT THE MISUSE OF NYLON BAGS AND THE ENVIRONMENT- VISITORS TO THE EXHIBITION ARE INVITED TO TAKE A BAG TO BRING A BAG TO REMEMBER AND RAISE THE OBJECT OF EFFECTIVE ART. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD IS DISPLAYED ON A ROLL HOLDER OR TENDAL
Listen To Bob
Painting
The work talks about how Wall Street is an entity above people that tends to destroy jobs in order to create profits. "The bull got excited everything looked red color like blood like explosions nothing stands on the way no mothers no fathers no plans hunger games and finance who's going to die who's going to live those words were written those words were sung those words were listened long time ago the young blood said maybe, just maybe tiny sparks in the dark could keep millions alive"
Menos es más. (Less is more.)
Graphic
Referencia a la imagen de new york y sus obreros almorzando sobre el vacío. Lo que sostiene la biga es un mosquetón y una cuerda, parte de muchos trabajos tradicionales y artesanos.
Vemos una señorita de espaldas como símbolo de protesta ante la evolución sufrida, sujeta un cartel con un mensaje muy directo el cual resume bastante bien lo que 2m2m intenta comunicar. Lleva una corona la cual la sitúa más arriba de altos cargos y poderes, representa el poder de la clase obrera, se encuentra "bien vestida", ser trabajador no significa ser menos si no más.
Reference to the image of New York and its workers having lunch on the void. What holds the biga is a beam and a rope, part of many traditional and artisan jobs.
We see a young lady with her back turned as a symbol of protest against the evolution she has undergone, holding a poster with a very direct message which sums up quite well what 2m2m tries to communicate (+Value, +Vote, -Machines, +Work). She wears a crown placing her in a high positions and representing the power of the working class. She is "well dressed", being a worker does not mean being less but more.
Proposal for a National and International Anthem
Creative Technology
It consists of a system of hidden electromagnets inside a six-meter high aluminum flagpole inserted in a concrete base. The electromagnets attract and repel the halyards that carry inside a metallic filament. The sound is produced exclusively from the tapping of these strings on the flagpole without any electronic amplification. The rhythm and intensity of this tapping reacts to the commands sent from a computer to the electromagnets. This score is a random program with boundary marks inspired by recordings of real flagpoles in public spaces whose halyards are shaken against the flagpole as a result of the combination wind+wood.
Pandemial Babies
Photography
Fotografia digital, blanco y negro, toma directa.
Digital photography, black and white, direct shot.
What visions can unify organizations and strengthen movements that prioritize people and planet over profits?
How would professions and the work we do transform in a world where people and planet come before profits?
Awareness, emotion, compassion… What’s essential for us to develop personally to benefit the future that is now?
2 minutes to midnight – a podcast extravaganza is about:
Power, money, work, and how it began.Politicians, law, technology, and what’s ahead.
Activism, democracy, health, and the future that is now.
18 episodes, 20 hosts, special guests, possibilities.
People get ready.
Coming Soon.
Make a video (mp4 or mov/1080w x 1920h) and share your vision on one or more of these vital issues and be featured on Catalysta social media:
- What is the responsibility of a citizen of a democracy?
- How would the world change if people and planet came before profits?
- What does accelerating computing power in the hands of the .1% mean for our future?
- Climate change, social justice, animal rights… How can the need for democracy and a democratic economy unify and strengthen all types of activist movements?
- Awareness, emotion, compassion… What’s essential for us to develop personally to benefit the future that is now?
- How would the work we do and our professions transform in a world where people and planet come before profits?
You're invited to collaborate with 2m2m.
Find out what People Get Ready is all about.
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Adventure through 2m2m with 18 artists and an activist as they connect, consider, engage, process and present.
Connect (Part 1)
Connect (Part 2)
Connect (Part 3)
Consider (Part 1)
Consider (Part 2)
Consider (Part 3)
Engage (Part 1)
Engage (Part 2)
Engage (Part 3)
Engage (Part 4)
Engage (Part 5)
Engage (Part 6)
Comics Process
Sculpture Process
Theater Process
Dance Process
Film Process
Activism Process
Graphic Design Process
Improv Process
Instrumental Process
Creative Tech Process
Stand Up Process
Song Process
Performance Art Process
Photography Process
Fiction Process
Painting Process
Poetry Process
Nonfiction Process
Animation Process
An Animator Presents
A Journalist Presents
A Poet Presents
A Writer Presents
A Photographer Presents
A Performance Artist Presents
Musicians Present
A Comedian Presents
A Creative Tech Presents
A Composer Presents
Improvisors Present
A Graphic Designer Presents
An Activist Presents
A Filmmaker Presents
A Sculptor Presents
A Theater Impresario Presents
A Cartoonist Presents
A Dancer Presents
Challenge the imagination crisis.
We're entering a maelstrom of change technologically, socially, and politically. Left vs. right is a distraction from what's unfolding invisibly and in full view. It's a story that connects democracy, capitalism, technology and how we see and feel the world. It's the future that's now.
