PUMM 01 Alan Rabbit Suit

"Philosopher's Union Member's Mouthpiece #00,001: Alan Rabbit Suit": Londoner Stefan Szczelkun proposed a Philosopher's Union back in the mid to late 1980s to John Berndt.  John passed the idea along to me.  Since this was roughly contemporaneous w/ the invention & short life of the PXL-2000 'toy' camcorder, I instigated a series of movies made using this camera by myself & whomever else of single c/u shots of mouths talking about their philosophies - all in the spirit of "KEEP THINKING LIVE".  The 1st 20 were all made of friends of mine in BalTimOre.  Alan Rabbit Suit's was the 1st one I made of a projected 50,000 - 72 have been made to date.  Shot in early 1988 - w/ some effects & titling post-production added shortly thereafter.  Since the PXL used audio cassettes as its video cassettes, I Iimited most of the Mouthpieces to one side of a tape - wch at PXL speed amounted to roughly 5:50 per person.  Alan Rabbit Suit was a friend I'd known for 10 years.  He was my roommate at the time.  He was a revolutionary communist & a poet & had been one of the people running a 'phone station' as part of B.U.T.N. (Baltimore Underground Telephone Network).  - August 14, 2017 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE