This is beautiful to share these sketches, witnesses of vestiges that really should be remembered. I find it very unique this emotions that I have while observing the drawings: the simple representations you made of the buildings carry very subtly the connections you could have had with them, more than camera pictures could have done.
The project you are talking about sounds truely awesome. I am currently travelling around SE Asia to create a documentary and I understand the challenge of building an actual relationship with the locals to give more essence to the whole film.
I hope you will be back on your travels with more art to share soon. It is surely appreciated.
Thank you @astralaglae. I've had the same idea as yours - traveling around SE Asia. I'd like to do nonprofit short videos for different groups to help tell their stories for them. I did do a couple simple videos for a shelter I'd volunteered at in Saigon. The challenge is to find the right groups to collaborate with. Some are big and well funded, so they don't need me. And some are too small to have a website or the means to use social media like videos. Gotta find the ones with some traction but could really benefit from my skills - short videos, web images etc. Things they don't have any budget for. Following you and looking forward to reading your posts.
That is a very nice idea. It has got similarities with the whole idea behind our documentary, even if we approach it from a slightly different angle: we are running a project called astralship.org in North Wales and we are willing to go around and film a bunch of projects sharing the same kind of visions and missions... I guess our aim is a bit like trying to "map out" these organisations that are popping up around the world to show that we are not an isolated case and that other people are trying hard out there.
But yeah, it is a blessing to have some people coming to help out with social media and video making. My background is in films but since I have been working on the project I find it extremely hard to find time to create anything, that is why I am so happy to be on this trip! :)
Thanks for following me, more posts will be coming soon.
If you are not familiar with the book Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken, you may find it interesting. It's about nonprofits as the largest social movement in history.
Thanks for the advice and sorry for late reply, have been out of internet for the past week. It has been nice. :)