I'm Doug

1.  This sounds like an incredible, necessary program.

2.  I need to make a video like this for Big Class.

3.  Reminds me of this amazing thing Junot Diaz said once:  ”It’s no mystery, and we know this, either we know it directly or indirectly… Young people are more isolated from adults than they’ve ever been. Unless you’re an adult who is getting paid to somehow be involved with young people, chances are most adults have no contact with young people that they’re not related to. And the isolation is kind of structural and it’s very deep and it’s very visible… And what’s sort of extraordinary about this is that it’s not rocket science- young people need a tremendous amount of support and they need a tremendous amount of conversation and people to listen to them. And all you’ve got to do is just show up and care. I mean it- the severe lack that so many young people encounter means that very little seems like quite a lot. And that’s more of a side statement than anything about what I do when I meet young people- it’s just that they’re desperate for us, man… That young people are some sort of numerical abstraction has robbed the society of much of its strength.”

tuffstuf:

Benji Brucker and I directed the live action parts of this killer promo video for “Friends of the Children.”