Mathew Lippincott conceived of WSCCPR in the winter of 2008. The original idea was to catalog experimental video created by our friends, known as "television correspondents", and edit it into an internet video channel. As Mathew explains in his write upof the project, our apartment burned down and it seemed that experimental video was not the most pressing issue.
WSCCPR stood for the raw feel of experimental television and with that vision we dubbed ourselves WSCCPR Foreign Correspondents and roamed Scandinavia for four weeks to find the most inspiring and wild new ideas. I hand inked two press passes, printed them off, laminated them at a terrible chain copy shop and we set forth.
We interviewed over 30 people during our four week time as foreign correspondents in Sweden and Denmark. I did portraits of everyone we interviewed and assisted in videography. We interviewed elders and youngsters of established ecovillages. We interviewed artists, film makers, retired acid freaks, eco-entrepreneurs and organic farmers. We were looking to see where the permaculture and other radical lifestyle movements were headed in Scandinavia. I very much enjoyed searching for candidates, coordinating the interviews and creating portraits of the event. Mathew truly shined at conducting the interviews in such a way as to lead all of us into a deeper debate than we expected. Neither of us, however, could stomach the act of editing all that blasted video. We still have the footage and all the audio, and it'd be incredible to see if it was edited by an inspired individual, but it won't be us.
I was surprised that these press passes did not get us in to any events for free.
