Another episode of Daughter of Godcast Crowd Creation? More scrumptious exploration of the human adventure through cinematic collaboration? YES!

Every 7 or so days we beam concentrated energy, super charged experience into the cooperative gestalt. Feeling the Crowd’s yearning, we strive to provide, to satiate, week after week. The hunger persists because the crowd doesn’t yet know how they are hungry much less where to go for satisfaction. Most have yet to notice the burning question written in flame a mile high. Oh, but they are so on the cusp, the very brink. When they do, we’ll be ready.

Welcome to Episode 085, Angel or What, a new scene from Daughter of God. The games in Episodes 083 and 084 were a tacit acknowledgement of the exquisite curiosity and perceptive powers of our most elite collaborators.  Only those willing to delve deeply into the full expression of the cosmic *I* can grok the significance of the games. For the rest of you rabble, we’re back to actors and sets with 085 Angel or What. First, let’s get feedback from our gamers.

Jil via Vimeo was very decisive in her four box selections, however as I pointed out to her, even a strong and agile woman such as herself can only carry three. So disallowing her 4th pick, I’m excited to see her grabbing two of the more esoteric boxes, Love Potion and Spiritual Resonator. Throw in a Nomadic Shelter and Jil’s post-apocalyptic incarnation is that of a wandering yogi or gypsy witch, pretty much what she’s got going on now pre-apocalypse, except minus the Toyota Prius. Her future human culture emphasizes mystery and emotional rapport, and transition. Perhaps migrating to follow the wild harvest, flowing with the changing seasons and keeping a healthy distance between her tribe and any singulars of uplifted cyber swine.

Joe via FB is hanging onto the edge of the inner circle with his fingernails, he didn’t actually play the Humanity game but did make a couple of suggestions for boxes. A box that contains boxes for organizing your post apocalyptic priorities, I suppose. Super meta. Joe’s future human presence seems to be about having crisp categories, of making life a less fluid and fuzzy experience. Kind of like his art room… he has little boxes for everything. Joe also loved the graphic for Gentle Immobilizer. Good things happen when you stay up all night.

Joe’s box of boxes made me think of when the wish granting genie comes out of the lamp, for your third wish you ask for 3 more wish granting genies. So whatever box you want, the meta box would make that box.

Seamus via dog.movie took the mission of establishing a benevolent human presence to heart, and did an extensive analysis of every box, culling the one’s that didn’t groove with his future vision. I highly recommend reading his unabridged commentary at dog.movie, both insightful and inventive. My favorite excerpts are…

“The plastic decompiler might be very useful if there is still a lot of plastic around. Then again, by that point, it might be good to just let evolution take its course. When trees first evolved lignin (another organic polymer), it wasn’t biodegradable either, and it accumulated into the coal deposits we’re burning through today. Eventually, bacteria evolved which could digest lignin, and a new balance was reached.”

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[snip] “one might claim that a nomadic society might be more benevolent to life on Earth, but I’m of the belief that humanity’s ecological niche does, in fact, lie within our