The Tallest Man on Earth - "A Field of Birds"

I put a letter on a kite for God to read out loud. I didn't hear anything, but I think I saw his lips move.

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"A Field of Birds" is, strangely enough, the theme song to a charity organization. Yellow Bird Project is an organization that connects great bands with a charity of their choice. How it works is a band makes an unique t-shirt design especially to sell on Yellow Bird Project's store, and the proceeds from the t-shirt sales go to a charity that the band picks. For example, Bon Iver, who are from Wisconsin, are donating all the profits from the sale of their new shirt to Interval House, a woman's shelter in Toronto. So go check out the list of bands there, maybe someone on a gift list would love something from there.

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Also: I've written about Henry Joost before, but things have changed since a year-and-a-half ago, so it's time for an update. Henry is working with Supermarché, production company in New York who are doing very special work. You should start by watching their work for GOOD magazine. A brilliant series of little documentaries on recent veterans, a story about a floating clinic, a piece on ideas for urban aquaculture, it's absolutely brilliant stuff. Next you should watch their PSAs for Kids with ADHD (Henry also works teaching "at risk" kids filmmaking at a summer camp). Then, yes, they have an ad for Nike, but it's brilliant too.

What interested me most was one of their feature documentaries called Opus Jazz. As of now they've cut a trailer for what the film could be if they got the money they need. And I was struck by how much it seems like a finished film, and how knowing that it wasn't finished made it feel like it ought to be finished, no matter what they needed. And I just got a very good lesson in new methods of fund-raising in the current filmmaking-financial world.