Cam McHarg's random musings

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In this New Year, I wish you...

Freedom from identification with anything but being human. Freedom from feeling the need for social media validation and engagement. Freedom from all political parties. Freedom from all corporate-owned "news". Freedom from imitating anything you see online. Freedom to express yourself and your truth without fear. I wish for you to return to questioning authority in every form. I wish for you to question all of your beliefs. I wish for you to learn to meditate in a way that works for you and to do it every single day, and to continue diligently if you already do. I wish for you to have long and regular social media fasts, reduced engagement, and maybe even a switch to a flip phone. I wish for you time for silence and time in nature every day and/or as often as possible. I wish for you more dinner parties with friends and more long talks about life, art, books, movies, and music. I wish for you more trips to the cinema... more foreign films and independent movies that actually express something... take in the popcorn smell and immerse yourself in that world. I wish for you to allow time to turn down the lights, put headphones on, and listen to entire albums the way they were designed to be experienced. I wish for you to give yourself the gift of reading again... real paper books. I wish you more travel... alone and on foot, if possible.  I wish you extreme individuality, creativity, increased consciousness, health, peace, and laughter that makes you snort and your abs sore.

I wish you a very Happy 2026!

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(via Watch The Riveting UK Trailer For Action Thriller Zero)

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May art and truth and courage and love always prevail over censorship, control, and fear.

It couldn't come at a better time.

New from Lubomir Arsov - creator of IN SHADOW.

Absolutely stunning. Beautiful.

(Make sure to watch with headphones on and volume blasting.)

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A little throwback to my short film, DEER SEASON. During the festival run, a lot of people wanted to know if this was being developed into a feature. I'm starting to think about that now. I'd love to hear your thoughts about that. Message me.

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I have to share this at last once or twice a year, because it really needs to be.

IN-SHADOW - A Modern Odyssey - Animated Short Film

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When David Lynch appears in a dream...

David Lynch appeared in my dream last night, so as far as dreams go, I guess this was basically gold-medal-level.

Anyway, he was shooting in the top level of a tower of some sort of beautiful cathedral with one window looking out at a golden sunset.

The interior was a huge wooden staircase going down.

The magic hour light was hitting it inside, and he yelled in that David Lynch voice, "Look! It only lasts a moment!"... then it faded away.

I feel like this was a message we all needed to hea

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Ruins.

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Benedictine Monastery - Northern New Mexico.

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An evening stroll…

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I'm super honored to be asked to be the Head Remote Chair of the film jury of this insanely good festival.

It's curation consists of the best award winning short films from the top festivals around the world, and the talent in it is jaw-dropping and inspiring.

"The Jury Chairs for this year's 24fps International Short FIlm Festival have been announced.

REMOTE--CAMERON MCHARG: Cam is an actor and director and film graduate from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he was a shortlisted winner of the Cannes Young Director Award. His short films have seen success around the international film festival circuit and have garnered several best actor and best of fest awards.

He can currently be seen playing Dave Greenfield in the feature film Spaghetti Junction, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. His latest project (ZERO) was shot in Dakar, Senegal and is due to premiere early in 2024."

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The director of SPAGHETTI JUNCTION wanted to make sure the makeup people made me extra sunburned and beat up and hungover.

I’m pretty sure they just walked over to him and said, “He’s good.”

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Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

A disabled teenager in the deep south comes into contact with a cosmic traveler who needs her help.

We put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this dark little fairy tale... but mostly love... lots of love.

I was privileged to be a part of it, and what an incredible creative experience I had there with this group of beautiful souls.

I'll always be full of gratitude for this, and now it's finally here to vulnerably share and put out there to you and to the world.

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Original trailer for Spaghetti Junction - now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B8TMSM89/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

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My first fan tattoo!

Nope... but this might be the funniest and most amazing f*cking thing I've ever seen.

This hilarious tattoo of me (I still can't believe it) is covering one of my old buddy's calves from back in the neighborhood, and it's meant to totally bust my balls and make fun of me.

Un-f*cking-believable! 😀

This came from a time when an ex-girlfriend bought me these vintage Italian sunglasses from the 80's and this scarf, and I actually wore this sh*t around in public with her and posted the photo.

My buddies screenshot it and have busted my balls with it on the regular for years ever since... finally culminating with this tattoo.

This is a testament to how f*cking funny my friends are (and I worked at The Comedy Store for almost two years).

That smug expression... Jesus.

Thanks for the rose-colored glasses with the sparkly glint on them too, Mike. 😆

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Small town USA 4th of July. Madrid, New Mexico. 🇺🇸

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Money see/Monkey do.

I began hiding the like counts on my Instagram posts about a year or so ago because I think that is the source for a lot of our problems today - ranging from gross mass conformity, tribalism, depression, and adding even to the downfall of most every form of art.It turned out to be a fascinating but not so surprising social experiment because the basic quality of what I post has never changed, but because others don't see a number that they feel they need to be a part of in monkey see/monkey do fashion, they take part less and less. What used to get hundreds of likes now will now literally get sometimes only two or three. This is a pretty depressing statement against humanity, but that said, I can't encourage everyone enough to do the same and hope for all of us that this like-count thing disappears from everything sometime soon.

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Randy’s Bar-B-Q.