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Charlatan Nation

Charlatan Nation

I sit here, listening the Baptist outdoor church sing and sermonize in earnest a block away. Their voices thunder through the buildings and the hope is tangible. The sermons push hard for a better tomorrow, god willing, and a lighter heart in these hard times.
I am not religious. To the contrary, I hold dear the [...]

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HAPPY NEW DECADE!!!

2010 is FINALLY here!  I am so grateful and happy to have survived  2009, and to be celebrating with my friends.
Life is good. Its finally turned around.  2010 is going to be a great year!
Peace,
Melissa

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Blog Action Day 2009

Today is Blog Action Day 2009 for Climate Change.  With so much to do and so much to change, I’d like to make my post about sustainability, the Lifeline and positive action. I’ve been a part of the Lifeline project since May 2009 and its been lifeline changing, in many ways.  I’ve always been an [...]

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Updates!

Updates!

Just finished a bunch of backed up work:
- Stephanie Courtney EPK
- Chocolatina iSi Webisode (oohYum.tv)
- bio reel for Emily of the Lifeline
- more shoots & edits on All The Ladies Say
- fun shoot with Chris in the cemetary
This summer has been hectic, with moving, paring my life down, prepping for the trip, editing and shooting.  [...]

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From 0 to 90 – A Barack Obama Joint

From 0 to 90 is the working title of an interactive documentary, produced by Melissa Ulto. With interviews in person and online, Ms. Ulto seeks to cover the first 90 days of Barack Obama’s presidency, both nationally and internationally.
From bail outs to Iraq, Obama has a hard road ahead as president. Will the problems he’s [...]

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XMAS 2008

XMAS 2008

So another year is over and what have you done?  The wild, magic, lovely and insane year I’ve had in the city I love more than any man has put me through the crucible again, and I’m come through diamond bright and petal soft.
I’ve built and lost a studio.  I’ve interviewed some of the most [...]

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Day Without A Gay!

Day Without A Gay!

http://www.daywithoutagay.org/
If you can’t call in, don’t shop!!!
Peace and much love,
Melissa

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Where’s My Money, Pimp?

Where's My Money, Pimp?

Biz dudes are so shifty. They really love taking creatives – seems they don’t respect talent because they believe its intangible. But without talent, there’d be no design, entertainment, architecture, etc… Its cheap until they bid on it at Sotheby’s, doing rich boy art trading cards, with no appreciation beyond what they’ve [...]

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The Struggle

The Struggle

I’m burning, pushing back, hoping for the best but expecting the usual.  Oh, my heart is heavy.  I seem a bit lost now, sucker punched, or perhaps now just waking from a knock to the head, groggy and dull.  Sapped.  Back two steps.  Tripped and falling.
Its been rough, wild, complicated and miscommunicated.  Trust is so [...]

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Eh? :)

Eh?  :)

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
Terrence and Phillip are not amused…hee hee…eh…
Peace,
Melissa

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“The Fall” in love…

I saw “The Fall” tonight, and fell in love with filmmaking all over again. The magic of storytelling and moving pictures is fully alive in this movie. I watched in awe and joy, the same way I watched movies as a child. I was in wonderment, thrilled, laughing, crying, charmed and wowed. [...]

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So Busy…But Here!

So Busy...But Here!

Astral Love
I’ve been so busy lately – starting up the studio, finishing up construction, taking on new clients – I haven’t had a weekend off in months, and I actually have a wrinkle now – in between eyes, from squinting, yelling and frowning at my contractor!  I need a vacation, but not yet…so much to [...]

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Busy and Belize

Busy and Belize

On the Ocean…
I am crazy busy. In a once in a lifetime kind of way. So its spectacular, hard as hell, exhausting, complex, full of excitement, worry and love for what I am doing. And for the people who’ve made this happen and keep making it happen. I am blessed…

Conch Fisherman
I’m building [...]

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New Poems

New Poems

Point your bow to the clouds and keep on til the morning star…
I’ve been hard at work on some amazing new projects, but in the meantime, to feed my soul, I scribbled these down:
We All Have A Little Envy In Us
she, confused
angry
unhinged
watches what she wants
walk away
her throat clenches
eyes water
teeth grit
shame and disappointment redden
her wet cheeks
she [...]

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Enjoy This Peaceful Clip!

Why we are all here…
Peace & Much Love,
Melissa

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The Killing of Georgie

The TOTP performance circa 1977
A discussion of the song, decades later
I remember my sister and I begging my brother to play “The Killing of Georgie” over and over.  Little girls with big hearts, we would sing this at the top of our lungs and cry over the last lines – “Oh Georgie’s dead – don’t [...]

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Happy Valentines Day 2008!

Happy Valentines Day 2008!

Happy V Day!  Every day can be a loving, lovely love filled day if we choose it.
In little or large amounts, love is precious.  Savor what comes your way today and every day!
Peace and much love,
Melissa

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Scientology Gets A Message…

THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely [...]

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The Ever Expanding Nature of Love

The Ever Expanding Nature of Love

We are each of us angels with one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other.
- Liciano de Crescenzo
Love of all levels comes naturally to very young children – they laugh, smile, fully express awe and wonder at the world around them. Kids will eagerly embrace any person who comes close enough, touching [...]

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My Art…

My Art...

Oh so very very true…
Love is elemental, necessary, important even, but art, oh my god.  Art is like that crazy boyfriend – hot, then cold, volatile, withholding, abundant, bitchy even.  As much as he drove you nuts, you craved, needed, lusted for him.
Art mirrors sexuality – first we start tentatively, gingerly attempting what we long [...]

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Blazing

Blazing

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
- Harold R. McAlindon
My life has been a study in blazing. Sometimes I scorch as I blaze. Sometimes I barely glow, dimmed and alone and wondering where the darkness is leading. The way before [...]

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Gratitude & Perspective

Gratitude & Perspective

Gratitude 12 2 2007 – M. Ulto
Grateful…
I am grateful
Grated, crushed, reborn
Full of light, love, purpose
Struggle has polished me
Not diamond hard but
Soft like old jeans
Sweet smelling and lovely
Deep as down
Lightly substantial
Loosely connected
To all things, I’m understood
I am peaceful
Though storms tore me
Lies rend me still
Hate has been bile
Expelled by the Universe’s hand
Thumping my back
Each whack a lesson
Each [...]

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I am The Playstation

I am The Playstation

So I took a test on Facebook today. Yah, I know…online tests are bunk. But I found it pretty interesting, and um, well…rather accurate…hahaha…read on, intrepid visitor…
The Playstation
Random Gentle Sex Master (RGSM)
Easy to turn on. Hard to beat. You are The Playstation.
You’re a nice girl, and you have lots of sex. It’s therefore [...]

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Touching and Moving

Touching and Moving

Anthony, Wendell and some buddies hugging it out
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
-Albert Camus 
This weekend, the Church of Smile descended on Union Square and gave free hugs and candy.  The Church is [...]

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The Art of Living

The Art of Living

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm… an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
-Saul Bellow
I had an interesting weekend.  Lots of art, lots of struggle, lots of seeking that silence to create, despite [...]

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Reconfiguration Of Modern Life – Plan2Evolve.tv

Reconfiguration Of Modern Life - Plan2Evolve.tv

We are reconfiguring our view of modern life, and that means re-framing how we look at ourselves and our impact on our environment – both the physical and metaphysical. Part of that re-framing is looking at the underlying conflicts in our lifestyles and how we are triggered on them, to the point of mass [...]

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Time for A Woman’s Studio – Warner Brothers Boycott

Time for A Woman's Studio - Warner Brothers Boycott

Warner Brothers Boycott
According to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily, Warner Brothers president Jeff Robinov is no longer interested in seeing any scripts with a female in the lead. Nikki’s sources are several insider producers, who relayed to her “the official policy as expressly articulated by Robinov is that a male has to be the lead [...]

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Sister Clip

I edited this piece when my niece was born two years today!  Happy birthday, Jackie!
Love,
Auntie M

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Miixxy Digital Art

Click to view the whole image
More digital design – actually, this was on my hard drive for a few months and I just happened across it.  Its rather good.
Peace,
Melissa

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Alan Vega

I shot this a few years ago at the Ramones Beat on Cancer Benefit. Just listen to the scream!
Rock and Roll,
Melissa

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