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Each section is it's own poster, all three combine to make this mega piece of crazy good graphic redesign for the Back to the Future Trilogy. 

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Justin Tyler: Believe You

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Wow. I couldn't agree more.

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Leisure - W.H. Davies

This poem spoke to me. Always moving so fast and worrying about everything. It's okay to slow it down once and a while and actually enjoy this life we've been given. 

WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?—

No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

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The Light: A Diary Entry From the Future.

It was darker than usual today, the children aren’t used to the power outages like other people are. They don’t happen often but when they do it’s a shock to the young ones. There is no more light anymore, no more real light that is. Only artificial light…replicated light. For the children it’s all they know, so when the generators cut out it scares them. For us, it’s just like flipping a living room light switch on and off…what it used to be like anyway. Times have changed, the world is a different place now. We look at photos of the earth and how beautiful it used to be and we can’t imagine why anyone would have destroyed such a beautiful gift, but everyone says not to think about the past anymore, we have to move forward. It’s hard though, moving forward. When we don’t know where we’re going, or why, or how, or for what reasons. People always tell us that things are more complicated then they seem, which always bewildered me, I don’t understand how complicated it is to take care of our home. To me the choice seems simple, but somehow it seems the world as a whole manages to choose money over water, business over nature and self over others. When I was a little boy I was told it was my generations job to change the world, maybe they told us that because they knew things were beyond repair, that the system was so far into the ground that no one could change it. When I was young I was told that we wanted to save our planet, protect it from harm, so that our children could have a life better than our own. It seems we’ve failed. I wonder how long it will take us to realize that the choices are not complicated, that we make the rules…and we can change them. If you’re reading this in the future, I hope you can take from it what is needed…a very simple, very unavoidable message.

-Victor Maltor, 2320

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Falling In Love With Material

Why did people ever start "falling in love" ? Was it because they connected on a level deeper than the physical? Maybe it was because they thought they had to be in love to have kids? Or maybe it was because they were "soul mates." Because they found "their other half." Because they have too. Because society requires them too. Money. Status. Greed. Possessions. These are all things that might influence love. Who really knows what love is anyway? It's one of those undefinable words. Meaning can only temporally be placed on it before changing. It's hard to say what love used to be. I'd like to idealize it and think of it as being more pure, but maybe that's just the plague of an over active imagination. 

As far as my own generation goes. I think we've fallen into the trap of materialistic prostitution. What I mean is that I think people "fall in love" now not because of the other person, but because of their job, their status, their money or their possessions. As cynical as it sounds...it's probably pretty true. Which is why the divorce rate has been steadily rising (according to a study reported by CBC, 4 in 10 first marriages end in divorce). 

Granted, it's a pretty crazy idea that someone actually fall in love with a person for who they really are. Insane right?

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Once Upon a Time: Intelligent TV

Once Upon a Time is the revival of a mode of storytelling on television that was pioneered 7 years ago with the introduction of a revolutionary tv series: Lost. What’s fantastic about the way these two shows tell their story is that they assume much more of the audience than other shows do. People like things they can dig their teeth into, things they can think about. It’s my personal opinion that people crave the unknown, and struggling to discover those secrets is a passion many refrain from admitting. This kind of show allows those people to explore that passion one time a week, and to really think about something that excites them:the possibility of magic, the possibility of the unknown. Once Upon a Time follows a very similar, almost identical model of storytelling that Lost introduced to us. Starting you in one place and landing you in another, connecting worlds and questioning which is real and putting the linear story line to rest are just some of the things that this show does with success each week. Adam Horowitz (a writer from Lost) is the creator/head writer on the series and it seems he is doing a very good job at creating a new show that assumes intelligence in its audience. How far it can go is questionable at this point, but who knows, these creators continue to cross borders and shift what is expected of television. The series shows promise, and anyone who watches it is primed to see what happens next.