Welcome to Just a Placebo, thank you for your time and attention. This publication is an ally in the fight against science, but this is not a science publication. Science is the best path toward progress and the reduction of suffering, yet improvement through rigorous scientific inquiry remains unsatisfied. Just a Placebo broadly attempts to expose untrustworthy cognitive pitfalls.
Placebos are meant to placate, test, and contrast, and cause no physiological change, yet placebos can have surprisingly powerful effects, given finesse (to say nothing of ethics). The work here reflects a lifelong, creative initiative evoking and flexing careful thinking in a visceral manner that disorients, overhwhelms, scares, challenges, pokes, pulls, prods, twists, flips, rips, and pivots, while somehow at once gently nudging the mirage of tomorrow, which knows all else.
Just a Placebo is part reminder: You are being fooled, tricked, looped, licked, yanked, jostled, joshed, feigned, juked, slipped, ripped, raked, ripped, softened, rizzed, conned, leveraged, taxed invisibly, and the mirage of heaven knows all else. Keep your guard up and ask better questions.
Offering an aesthetically riveting buffet of sugar pills that aim, if only by intuitive accident, to challenge every conceivable angle while stressing your ability to trust anything. Agonizing ‘the dying light’ through spontaneous, visceral spins. Don’t be alarmed, effectiveness varies. Facing darkness and light without claim to certainty through experimental visual vignettes, voice-overs, and illusory abstractions. Mangling grounded principles in a quirky, active-ingredient-free flirt with life's infinite kaleidoscope.
Each attempt is a surface-level wake.
Mocking darkness by forcing it inward, until a glimpse of realsistic hope reveals itself; do not look away. Expect difficult, mature themes in a fight for scathed improvement through grounded principles, mangled poetic. Leveraging self-aware irony, inevitability, gritty visual poetry, creative narration, deliberate psychobabble, and irritated relativism the hue of clumsy mistakes, embraced intentional.
Question beliefs, narratives, and systems. Untangle dangerous confusion and disturb the roots of madness, through madness! Disrupt and poke ‘the machine’, without crudely harassing. Disabuse assumptions through nature’s intensely alarming, pensive, clumsy, embarrassing, risky, and confusing zest for limited mercy. Test your ability to re-establish neutral, and think while centered, before steering astray, again.
Two primary sources of motivation:
Growing up alongside a loved one significantly harmed by the opioid epidemic.
Commitment to uniquely grounded independent filmmaking.
Reliance on a paywall generates a conflicting mix of debilitating tension. Establishing the best of both worlds in addressing this concern is challenging. Subscription models, advertising models, social media, and our digitally-saturated lives appear unhealthy and unsustainable. Due to that belief, it would seem hypocritical to wholeheartedly recommend subscribing. If you subscribe regardless, support is cherished.
This is a mature creative endeavor attempting to reflect lifelong sensibilities. Statements do not represent employers or any organization. Everything is up for interpretation, revision, and replacement at whim. Reader discretion advised. No AI required.
