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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SCIENCE & MEDICINE Filmmaker: Fatherhood Was Notin the Script @ Continued from B-1 Casto found her subject in Meier,who added his own artistic point ofview. “| was struck by his talent and visual creativity,” Casto said. The film began as the young couple’s project, under the title “October.” In October 1997 Meier arid his girlfriend, Jennifer, first Smithsonian: The Future’s Not WhatIt Used to Be Continued from B-l Historical Society. “You learn lot about the past by looking at how people thought the future was go- ingto be. People have always used the future to comment on the present.” broke yes before getting together One year later. in October1998 their daughter, Dakota-Wolf, was born, and then they married in October 1999. With the footage he shot, he applied for a $1,000 grantat the Utah Arts Council. The money was used oe convert his Super 8 film to Beta anger towards her husband's artistic outlets and her own lack of free time because of herlife as full-time mother. oa didn’t go very far,” Meier “Its harder since it’s been done,” she said. Her husband spenthis free time locked in the editing room.“It was easier when we were actually doing it.” Shealso felt that her story was stolen from her. “T was little pissed that it was ‘Nathan’s Story,” she said. Through his work with the Utah Arts Council, he was connected with KUED and started working with Casto. A film crew camped out in the Meier home,following the couple around. Atone point in the documentary, Jennifer Meier admits her fought by robots, a donut-shaped space colony of 10,000 people and swarms of commuters piloting personal spacecrafts through the skies. Novelties on display include plastic toy ray guns, Flash Gordon comic books and a miniature Robbie the Robot from “Lost in Space.” Also exhibited are novels by suchfuturists as Jules Verne, who imagined undersea exploration in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and H.G. Wells, who played with time travel in The Time Machine.In his popular 1888 novel, Looking Backward, Edward Bellamyforecast a The exhibition explores past utopian Bostonsociety in the year ideas about future homes, future 2000. (As research for the book, Bellamyvisited Utah to study LDS Church-run communities.) communities and future transpor- tation. Americans imagined wars “It's really weird when they were in your home bringing things to the surface,” Jennifer Meiersaid. After was completed, aesaid she saw her husband even In the end, she saw the impor- tance of having a story about the “After seeing this exhibit, one shouldn'tfeel silly about trying to predict the future.It’s all part of being human,” says project director Anne Hatch of the Utah Humanities Council, the show’s instate sponsor. “Humans are unique in our ability to project. It's part of human nature to try to makesenseofthe unknown.” The exhibition chronicles manyfuturistic visions that never cameto pass,including the Fulton Airphibian vehicle that converted from a car to an airplane and a farm run by remote-controlled machines. that harvested crops and raised cattle. It also showcases such successful inventions as Buckminster Fuller-designed geodesic domes and Thursday, March 29,2001 male perspective, but wished it could have been aTS of someone Casto’s crew ae felt uncomfortable at times. “Seeing them go sareeee a malecrew to get an insight of how She wanted it only through his eyes and whathe wentthrough. “You can’t remove this guy from his world,” Casto said. “He has a relationship,. child, job, there’s no way to pull that apart; it's whohe is. The film “helped the couple evaluate their life and deal with a lot of their own issues of an unplanned pregnancy. Both wanted togoto college and pursue careers in art. She was an actress and dancerin high school, and he was the painter and it is to be a young father. cinematographer. they're going through,” said. “seeing them not en ae money.” They had to avoid becoming a part of the story themselves. “We were constantly wanting to buy them food,” Casto said. Casto took advantage of her “T will never be a teen-age fa- “Every plan you have really goes to the toilet for aboutfive years,” Jennifer Meiersaid. Nathan Meier said he would stay up until all hours ofthe night, ther,” Casto said. “I will never bea father.” Casto went into the project looking to just tell Meier’s story. remote-operated robotic vehicles that explore the ocean floor. According to Horrigan, most futurists failed to forecast the mostsignificant technological developmentof the late 20th Century: the rise of the personal computer. IBM Chairman Thomas Watson in 1943 said, “There is a world market for maybe five computers.” A primitive early computer, developed by the U.S. Army during World War II to calculate missle trajectories, weighed30 tons; no one imagined that within 50 years its power would be eclipsed many times over by something as tiny as a laptop. In thelatter half of the 20th Century, visions of the future were dominated by renderings of outer space. A 1950 film, “Destination Moon,” imagined a lunar rocket whose passengers, upon landing on the moon, made grand statements remarkably similar to those made famousby astronaut Neil Armstrong 19 years later. Movies, TV shows and comic books,fueled by the success of the U.S. space program, depicted invasions of Earth by Martians or otheraliens. “We're the inheritors of these images,” Horrigan says. “You wonder, looking backwards, if people took [such predictions] seriously. We can look back now with this smug superiority, like we knowbetter. But my guess is that people always viewed these sleep until 3 p.m. and never hold a full time job. Both of them had alcohol problems. At onepoint, he was arrested in a drunken suicide attempt. “There is so much pressure on youto do theright thing, and you don’t really know whatthatis,” he said: Hesaidit helped him see what his parents, friends and in-laws actually thought about the situation. His mother refused tobe interviewed oneon one. Hesaid his motherfelt it was family business, not a public spectacle. ‘He finds the idea of others watching the film a surreal experience.“It’s gonna be little weird cause it’s mylife out there.” predictions with a dose of healthy skepticism.” “Yesterday's Tomorrows” is based on a 1984 exhibit at the Smithsonian's Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The Utah touring exhibit kicked off Saturday at the Brigham City Museum-Gallery with an event headlined by U.S. Sen. Robert Bennett, who spoke aboutcuttingedge technology being developed by Utah-based companies. The theme from “2001: A Space Odyssey” played while a remote- controlled robot tried — andfailed — to cut a ribbon opening the exhibit, drawing laughs from those in attendance. The exhibit runs in Brigham City through April 28. Ranchers Take Steps to Keep Virus Out SAVE HERE. @ Continued from B-1 clothing and equipment, and keep weeks before adding them to the existing herd. 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