In the historic kura barn studio in provincial Japan, digging into the archive from 1996/7 documentary film “HempenRoad”, Uncle Weed shares the backstories of the project with a binder full of artifacts, reviews, plans, scripts, etc
Then plays a “producer’s cut” of a segment from Olympia, Washington featured Dennis Peron on the road promoting ground-breaking California Prop 215 at the Capitol Dome – along with diligent activists out the rain and Lt Governor candidate Bob Owen of WHEN.
Next a visit to a pioneering Internet Service Provider (OlyWa) for a peek at a (now vintage) data center with modems(!) and remarks about the importance of the (new) word wide web for disseminating information about cannabis.
Finally, riffs about how the film was produced with analog and digital tools, the importance of “showing up” and working with all parties to effectuate positive change and a personal manifesto of sorts about UW’s objectives and edicts when becoming a dedicated activist in 1990.
Questions welcome about the film - segments from Vancouver, Victoria, Portland, Eugene and more to come - as well as logistical inquiries about making creative projects.
More at
https://cannaverseclub.com + Cannaverse Club Discord (
https://discord.gg/9aRekXrkjs) for NFT, promos and more community goodness +++
https://daveostory.com for Uncle Weed’s “creative life archive” for more (and less). #AlwaysBeKind
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEmUYRNjBMg