Mirror Mask

Jim Henson Company - Sesame Street, Muppets, Fraggle Rock,...
Neil Gaiman Original Screenplay - Sandman, American Gods, Coraline
Dave McKean Director - Past illustrator for Sandman, Black Orchid, Hellblazer, Wolverine

A truly visionary film project, uniting the talents of Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, and The Jim Henson Company is creating an awesome buzz this summer. Titled "Mirror Mask", it is a new kind of movie, wildly imaginative, utilizing state of the art computer graphics combined with a very human story dramatized by live actors. This new piece marks the first produced original Gaiman screenplay as well as McKean's debut as a feature director. Dark Horse.com

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Dreamline - an unoffical site for the works of Dave McKean

Legacy: The Origin of Civilization (1992)

Epic Documentary (6 hours)

An incomparable experience in time travel! Historian Michael Wood takes you on a tour of four continents in search of vanished, ancient cultures and societies. Tracing the civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, China, Egypt, Central America, Greece, and Rome, Wood spotlights the legacies of Asian and Western cultures, and teaches world history from a truly world perspective.

Iraq: The Cradle of Civilization
After thousands of years as a hunter/gatherer, man built the first cities 5,000 years ago on the banks of the Euphrates in Southern Iraq. Civilization began. City life transformed the human race with the glorious cultures of Mesopotamia such as Ur, and Babylon.

India: The Empire of the Spirit
Ancient India is with us today in the living tradition of the Hindu religion, the basis of Indian culture. The traditions that are honored by millions of Hindus in the present were born in the Indus valley 5,000 years ago.

China: The Mandate of Heaven
Many breakthroughs on which the modern world is based were discovered in China long ago...iron-casting, gunpowder, even printing. When introduced to Europe, these things changed Western civilization. This episode presents the synthesis of East and West.

Egypt: The Habit of Civilization
Ancient Egypt was the first great nation on earth and endured for thousands of years. The god-like Pharaoh was the rock on which this civilization was built. Ancient traditions come together in the Moslem culture that is the Middle East today.

Central America: The Burden of Time
Isolated from the rest of the world, the Mayans and Aztecs created sophisticated civilizations that in many ways paralleled ancient Mediterranean empires. God-like kings and a priestly ruling class dominated splendid cities of temples and pyramids.

The Barbarian West
Civilization arose in Asia, but it was the West which would create the first world culture. This final episode traces the origins of western culture through Greece and Rome prevailing by borrowing from the legacies of the original five old world civilizations.

Historical Atlas of World Mythology (1988 - rare, out of print)

Historical Atlas of World Mythology: 4 Volumes
Joseph Campbell

The Historical Atlas of World Mythology is a multi-volume series of books by Joseph Campbell that traces developments in humankind's mythological symbols and stories from pre-history forward.

FRONTLINE: The Storm (Hurricane Katrina)

What will it take America
DJ Paul Edge, September 4, 2005, 2:40 pm

Notes from inside New Orleans
Jordan Flaherty, September 02, 2005

Iraq in America, At the Front of Nowhere at All, The Perfect Storm and the Feral City
Tom Englehart, September 4, 2005 at 12:49 am

Katrina and the End of Illusions - The storm passes – or has it only just begun?
Justin Raimondo, September 7, 2005

When government fails - The pathetic official response to Katrina has shocked the world. How will it change America?
From The Economist print edition, Sep 9th 2005

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