Sunday, November 09, 2003  
'The Rise and fall of it all': A new Book/Film/Hybrid Radio Play by John O'Brien & Salgood Sam

:: Posted by max @ 11/09/2003 04:00:00 AM
Chicago, today - The bright lights - The beautiful panoramic lakefront - The great city, the beautiful city...

But the glittering lights don't cast their glow everywhere or on everybody - some live in the shadows, and some have to learn to step from the light, into the dark.

When I got back to work, they gave me the cube with a view. They gave me the window. I asked for the window when they called me back to work but they'd said forget it? Forced off the payrolls into a life as a "contractor" -- Elliot is a middle-aged now and cast-off again -- At first he looks for a job, but the big companies seem to be doing more and more with fewer and fewer people and now they were merging all their resources, and so with little surprise he hears the final bad news from the woman at the unemployment office: "Your time has run out.". What does it mean when your when your time runs out? How far into the deep street can Elliot slide?



In the vast scheme of things, Elmo, a vagabond trumpet player, is playing directly along side Elliot's boulevard to uncertainty. No visible means of support. No record of identity. No social security card or drivers license: all tactical advantages in his game of survival. Not homeless- just house-less, he "commutes" to the suburbs where it is easy to slip away to the woods, directly from the bus and train stops, to sleep on private properties & on the beaches in the northern suburbs. Descended from a band of migrant, American tri-racial dropouts. Indians, blacks and whites that banded together and wandered a migratory path through the Midwestern wilderness for 150 years. They wanted nothing of the 'American Dream' choosing instead to live in the wild. Escaping from rather than making history.

Elmo was a successful entrepreneur. Only the currency of his existence wasn't really money. It was time, air and sunshine and earth.



He tries to to open Elliot's eyes to what is really there, and in turn has his own eyes opened.



Follow the development of Salgood Sam and John O'Brien's upcoming project 'The Rise and fall of it all' online at this site.

There are regular updates of rough art, photos from the research being done, historical reference for the story, audio sketches from the Web Film/Hybrid Radio Play that is being produced in tandem with the Graphic Novel, Much more.



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