December 8th, 2009: Nohoch Productions, in associated with Roberto Vezzone Films announces production for a film based on the book ‘Saltwater Buddha - a A Surfers Quest to find Zen on the Sea’, by acclaimed author Jaimal Yogis. Original soundtrack score by Jim Klar and additional music by Nine Pound Shadow. A portion of the films’ proceeds will be donated to charitable organizations.
Jim Klar is the founder of All Clear Productions and has been recording music since 1989. The music is original and fits well with where Saltwater Buddha is heading in terms of conveying the story via visual and audible mediums.
Nothing fancy but the track rocks and the photography is right-on.
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Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 7:18 pm by Jim Klar Posted in music, videos
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Varsh is a very original and talented producer, musician, editor, and songwriter. View his projects at Sonic Cinema
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Made a dedicated page for some original songs from Jim Klar. Click Here
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 12:36 pm by Jim Klar Posted in music, random
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These photos were mainly taken on a Fuji S2-Pro DSLR during Jim Klar’s trip to India in 2006. Some were taken on a smaller Canon Digital Elph. Photos on All Clear Productions are not subject to copyright, so can be used freely with acknowledgment.
If you have any questions regarding location, feel free to email me jim@allclearproductions.com.
Enjoy the photos, there are some nice ones here.
Pictures from Kerela
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 6:57 am by Jim Klar Posted in photography, travels
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Review Written April 15th, 2009 by Jim Klar
Terra firma. Soil. Streets. This is where most of us spend our lives, save for the occasional dip in a pool, river, or ocean. Surf? On a board? Ha. The lucky few who are geographically blessed and fearless enough to take on the moniker ‘Surfer’, are a small but esteemed lot. There is a mystique surrounding the word itself, hearkening a free-spirited lifestyle, casual perspective, and of course, a little attitude. How can you not have some attitude rolling through Brooklyn on the subway mid-winter with a surfboard in tow? Or enter the challenging coves of Pohoiki, Hawaii as an inexperienced Ha-ole? In Jaimal Yogis’ book, Saltwater Buddha, this mystique is amply propelled and diminished within its chapters. ‘Attitude’ and ‘Zen’ don’t exactly seem to share a common ground. Most images of Buddha are sedate, peaceful, and jovial glimpses of a well-rounded (in more ways than one) soul. Attitude? Hard to have attitude in a bathrobe. Therein lies the paradox so present within Eastern philosophies.
‘Zen Attitude’ is an unlikely pairing but fits the bill. Hard to catch a wave being complacent, it’ll pass you right by. Saltwater Buddha explores the classic paradigms and modern approaches to the assimilation of ancient teachings. It finds Yogis approaching life from both a humble seeker and inadvertent teacher’s perspective, full of curiosity, gall, courage, rebellion, mystification, reverence, respect, naivety, and fervor. The pages of Saltwater Buddha reflect the thoughts of a master. A master of his own vision, own path, and personal sovereignty. Jaimal adeptly communicates that the target of enlightenment is always moving, the brass ring, once grabbed, appears yet again on the next go-round. The search for a moment, a wave, a friend, a reason…and god-forbid, even a job. The pages echo the the pursuit of other mere mortals - the Land-lubber Buddha, the Business Man Buddha, the Blue Collar Buddha, the Trust-fund Buddha. They surf metaphorical waves but share the same perils. The winds we all face and the hidden dangers that hide beneath the surface of daily life require adept navigation. Duck-dives, balance,foresight, patience. Jaimal Yogis weaves together an entertaining and insightful series of his own thoughts and experiences, and relates them back to the master teachers and his monastic and scholarly lessons. All together, it is an accessible and clear illumination of an often esoteric and intimidating philosophy. You can’t read this book without walking away with a new perspective or the inclination to consider the impact of Yogis’s experiences on your own life.
What it comes down to in part, and what Jaimal skillfully points out through his salty, romantic, honest, coming-of-age stories, is that although the quest of Buddhism is oriented towards finding enlightenment, the truth is that Zen practice evolves between where you are now and where you think you want (or need) to be. In a one hour surfing session, there can be 50 minutes of waiting for a swell and 10 minutes of actual surfing. Our lives are dominated by the ‘in-between’. We’ll all find ecstatic moments of fulfillment, be it on the inside edge of a right break that curls into a ferocious saltwater tube, a quiet moment of mediation, looking into the eyes of baby, or just feeling present and content. Yogis truly nails it with his insight that ‘in between’, where discontent dwells, is the oh-so-important concept of paddling…the space between those moments when it really matters how you cope with the world. Where life happens and we make decisions. Experience it through the eye’s of the teller and drift with him through the unique journey of a true Saltwater Buddha.
…”Without the Bay Area technology, ingenuity, righteous indignation, and cash, Barack Obama would not be president.”
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The video quality on CNN is often weak, but I still enjoyed this interview - truly a gifted photographer and nice to get a bit of her perspective. The book will most likely shed some interesting light on the inspiration of a photographer, and the elusive aspects of ‘capturing the moment’.
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Posted 1 year, 8 months ago at 6:15 pm by Jim Klar Posted in photography
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Thanks to everyone who donated $10 for the Benefit for Barack CD - every little bit helped. Because of your donations, All Clear Productions was able to make ongoing donations to the Obama campaign in that last week of the campaign, when the final push was critical.
It does go to prove that a little bit from everyone can really make a difference.
You can still purchase the CD here and we will donate conscientiously.
Sincere gratitude to all.
I’m always looking for ways to sift through the megabytes and gigabytes of musical mayhem out here, and this is a combo that so far is hard to beat. For starters, I’ve been a long-time believer that subscription-based access to music (and other forms of information) is going to be very successful, as opposed to the pay-per-play type model, mainly because people want things that are relatively simple and full-featured. If ownership of music is important, than dollar dowloads and CD’s are the way to go, but if you are like me and just want to have access to everything more or less on demand, this a great combo.
Nothing fancy, it is just like radio minus the commercials and you are the program director. What Pandora dubs as the Music Genome Project is a relatively intricate method of combining tags, comments, number of plays, and other descriptive metadata to serve up songs in a genre or cross-genres that you ‘guide’ by mixing various artists on a self-created ’station’. Pretty rad. It’s a chemistry experiment using artists and music styles, and what results is a stream of new music you have probably never heard but will likely like.
Part II is quite a pleasant surprise. Rhapsody by Real. I didn’t think Real Player would make it, to be honest, but this is a killer platform to get turned on to. I know, I know, I’m definitely late to the party, but there’s still plenty of room in the club and it’s a full-bar of musical cocktails just waiting for you to press play.
It’s free for 60 days but then either $9.99/mo or $14.99 depending on some premium features (that I haven’t explored yet). So, for the cost of a round of drinks or 1.5 movies, you can listen to any song, by virtually anyone, anytime. Either on your computer, your phone, or a Sansa MP3 player, that is not very expensive and allows you to transfer songs in your library.
The main difference between this and iTunes is you don’t own the music…but you are still paying for it and feeding the music machine, so it’s a guiltless pleasure that motivates you to discover new artists and genres in a really simple way.
n this always-plugged-in-and-online world, the fact is that you can have access to a huge amount of music for a nominal cost, then buy CD’s of what you get turned-on to.
Music Alone Shall Live -
Jim
