James Cameron’s story telling… mesmerizing us yesterday
with his own life story.
“I grew up on a steady diet of sci fi, reading on the hour-long bus ride each way to school. I did not have any video games growing up. I was not saturated in media landscapes. When I read books, I had to create the images in my head.” (ironic recursion)
“At 15, I decided I wanted to be a scuba diver. I lived in Canada, 600 miles from the ocean. So I went to Buffalo across the border to get certified, in a YMCA swimming pool, in the middle of the winter. I had never seen the ocean, and first saw it two years later when we moved to California.”
“And now I have spent 3000 hours underwater, with 500 of that in subs.”
"Secretly I wanted to dive to the wreck of the Titanic, and that’s why I made the movie. I talked them into funding an expedition. They did not know it, but that’s the truth. And then I found myself 2.5 miles underwater in a Russian sub, and it was like my sci fi dreams.""
“Avatar was 4.5 year period. We became family. The ocean organisms came to land for Pandora.”
“For an international audience, you have to connect visually and emotionally and not conceptually or in a culturally located way.”
“Curiosity — it's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination can manifest a reality.”
“Respect of the team is greater than all the laurels of the world.”
“Don't put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you.”
“In Apollo, they are famous for saying failure is not an option. But failure has to be an option. In art and exploration, it's a leap of faith. In whatever you're doing, failure is an option. But fear is not.”
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rajjda 41 months ago | reply
love this photo!
vennettaj ( a bit away ) 41 months ago | reply
hhmm..i know nobody asks for my opinion...lol..but that's not helping it :D
sbove: i think it's mostly the opportunity to experience different..dreamworldlike reality...i once went to a guided imagery session and the experience was quite similar..and kinda out of this world.. weird
about the movie--it was mostly the story writing style..dialogues..etc.. i couldn't buy..and had a turn off at the very beginning..but realize tons people liked it so..
sbove 41 months ago | reply
vennettaj: "no one ever lost money underestimating the American people." - famous movie executive (Sam Goldwyn I think) ;-)
vennettaj ( a bit away ) 41 months ago | reply
lol..great thought...what can i say-- jealous!..obviously missing the fun...and i'm not even smart enough :D
ArtsySF © ~ Marjie 41 months ago | reply
Fantastic. Faved and added to one of my Galleries!
Love his quote:
“Curiosity — it's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination can manifest a reality.”
ArtsySF © ~ Marjie 41 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ARTISTIC ORIGINALS ©, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
jurvetson 40 months ago | reply
His TED Video just came out, fyi.
marcellucray 39 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called worldlightning, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
jurvetson 36 months ago | reply
cool, just noticed that this photos leads on Cameron's wikipedia page
el97 33 months ago | reply
Thanks for this post.He is really a briliant man
solerena 32 months ago | reply
he is one of the most amazing people on this planet... cool portrait and quotes... most of his words are golden... wow!
vennettaj ( a bit away ) 24 months ago | reply
the below goes close to how i see the movie..perhaps something's wrong with me though..i totally accept that possibility
laughingsquid.com/redlettermedia-reviews-avatar/
lol
jurvetson 15 months ago | reply
He just made it!!
...the first person to see the deepest place on Earth (because the prior visitors, in 1960, could not see anything).
His vertical torpedo, and Nat Geo report:
solerena 15 months ago | reply
"My heart will go on"
jurvetson 15 months ago | reply
He's back up, and located!!!! It looks like he was at the bottom for about 3 hours from the tweet timestamps.
For the real time updates, see Paul Allen's tweets:
DeepSeaChallenge Surfacing
Octopus helo found #Deepseachallenge first, Zodiac at sub, Mermaid Sapphire on way to pick up with crane.
10m
#deepseachallenge has surfaced, now for recovery...
17m
#deepseachallenge sub now at 700M rising.
23m
#deepseachallenge sub coming up past 1300m.
24m
#Deepseachallenge sub coming up rapidly, Octopus helo orbiting above filming...supposedly shoots to surface like a breaching whale.
1h
#deepseachallenge sub started return to the surface after a successfull dive welcome back to sea level soon!
#DeepseaChallenge Pressure at bottom is 16,285 Pounds per square inch at that depth. Design pressure was 16,500 ...Yikes/Amazing!
4h National Geographic @NatGeo
Congrats! MT @JimCameron Just arrived at ocean's deepest pt. Hitting bottom never felt so good. Can't wait to share what I'm seeing w/ you
Retweeted by Paul Allen
4h
#deepseachallenge hit bottom at 0752 local time "All systems ok"
4h
Now on the bottom 35755 ft!! Plan is for #Deepseachallenge to spend 4-6 hours on the seabed- take samples....Huge Congrats what a relief!!!
4h
#Deepseachallenge sub now deeper than everest at 32160 speed 2.0 knots not long to seabead now
5h
#deepseachallenge for the curious, using underwater audio coms UT2000/3000 at 8K freq to hear/talk to Jim five miles of water...30K ft now
5h
#deepseachallenge 28560 ft now all ok
5h
Less than 40 minutes to the bottom by estimate 26700 ft now. 2.5 knots speed going down.
5h
@DaveStewart On Octopus just south of his descent point. Daybreak here.
In reply to DaveStewart
5h
James Cameron now the deepest solo diver in history, 3rd deepest ocean diver ever...25550 ft.
5h
Depth now 23860 ft as Jim calls it out as he goes down...about to break his own record of 24K off New Britain.
5h
For some background on #Deepseachallenge check out:.http://scr.bi/GPXxSz
5h
Sub now at 21k ft, 2.9 knots
6h
Jim on #Deepseachallenge sub has now passed the depth of the Titanic on the way down....getting pretty clear coms from all that way below.
6h
#deepseachallenge sub now passing 18230 speed 3.1 knots life support normal
6h
I'm on the surface #deepchallenge sub is for only one person. Sub passes 16300 ft half way there. See Deepseachallenge.com almost sunrise.
6h
#deepchallenge just passed 10K feet down in the ocean, speed descending 3.8 Knots.
6h
Jim describes the sub as "Kawasaki racing green" and a "cross between a hot rod and a torpedo, image from Octopus: pic.twitter.com/a3QODNcV
6h
#deepchallenge just passed 4000ft on its way down.
7h
#deepchallenge sub dive begun!! Going way way down! (just <11K meters) Hope to hear him on underwater coms....sub is painted lime green...
7h
#deepchallenge sub in the water dive commencing in 10 minutes! Good luck to James Cameron!
24 Mar
Just wished James Cameron good luck on his dive to the bottom of Challenger Deep, he visited Octopus will update if weather ok for sub dive.
23 Mar
Arrived Guam. Hope to see James Cameron’s #DeepChallenge make 2nd dive ever to bottom of the Pacific’s Mariana Trench. Not done since ’60.
solerena 15 months ago | reply
!!!!!!!!
jurvetson 15 months ago | reply
Just in from Paul Allen on the helicopter Octopus:
jurvetson 15 months ago | reply
P.S. I will be working with someone from Cameron's crew to photograph the Shuttle Endeavour's last power up this week, and I'm looking forward to meeting Cameron for the first time in June.
PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE 14 months ago | reply
So cool that Paul Allen shared the experience =)
Thanks for re sharing Steve, awesome adventure. Was listening to Peter Diamandis (21st Century Job: Asteroid Miner ) today about the similitude between Space Asteroid Mining and Deep Sea Oil Mining very interesting. Can' t wait for the announcement =)
XKCD did a cool one on it last week... ask James Cameron in June what was behind the secret door ; )
solerena 14 months ago | reply
What a truly amazing team there! Where will they have headquarters?? Would love to work with them - sounds crazy:) crazy enough? What about space x?