I ms.ed you guise. My story? U can read the pub.(hic!)lic version my story when the doc.ume(a)nt.ary comes out (Jan-Feb '05) The inner vers(es)ion of the story I can tell here \ My own experience \ The doc.u.me(a)nt.ary producers can't ob(sub)ject to that.
1 moment 'm sitting with my cameraperson and soundperson in a noodleshop \ Next moment I'm walking in a bamb(oo!) est without any of my comfort stuff --- phone, camera, tape recorder, sunglasses, bugs.pray, suns.pray --- looooooooong long hike
est clear.ing \ a village, you'd call('lo?) it \ bustle of interest in us, the newcomers \ young people in their (19)20s and (18)30s in a wild variety of cloth.ng \ sp(eek!)ing a wild(e) variety of languages
For me: flashback to 1970 no.r.thern california count.erculture back-to-the-land movment \ "hippies," others called them \ "freaks," they called them.sel(l)ves \ techno-simplicity \ hopeful & omanticized coincidence between ultra-sophisticated, highly-educated elite and (mis)taken vi(er)sion of "primitive" culture \ real dreaming d(r.ea.l)ming that it gets so complicated that it gets sim(pull)e again
But of course different: this is 2004 Asian forest \ 2004 Asian educated young people and country young people / I tried to be objective subject, not bring my own pre.ju(d)ices into it \ simply look and see \ foo(!)ling myself into "simplicity" in my ow(e)n way \ fil(l)tering through the bamboo can.o.py \ very yummy cooking smells \ and all around the cheerful chirping squawking twittering of mobile phones
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'm sitting with my cameraperson and soundperson in a noodleshop \ Next moment I'm walking in a bamb(oo!) 
est without any of my comfort stuff --- phone, camera, tape recorder, sunglasses, bugs.pray, suns.pray --- looooooooong long hike
omanticized coincidence between ultra-sophisticated, highly-educated elite and (mis)taken vi(er)sion of "primitive" culture \ real dreaming d(r.ea.l)ming that it gets so complicated that it gets sim(pull)e again
fil(l)tering through the bamboo can.o.py \ very yummy cooking smells \ and all around the cheerful chirping squawking twittering of mobile phones