Although he said he still believes in the power of the Web as a distribution tool for "Leave Luck to Heaven," he laments the get-discovered-quick mentality of many digital newcomers and the spoof-obsessed sites courting them.
That's why he is honing his skills shooting commercials (which have been admired within the industry) and a music video (for the Japanese pop phenomenon Judy and Mary) while completing his latest short, "Leave Luck to Heaven".
On "Leave Luck to Heaven" (Spectral/Ghostly International), his debut album under his own name (rather than aliases like False and Jabberjaw), he restricts his sonic vocabulary to coolly synthetic keyboard and percussion sounds and his own deadpan voice.
Made up of the three kanji characters nin, ten, and do, the name has been said to mean "Leave luck to heaven," or "Work hard, but in the end it is in heaven's hands," as the journalist David Sheff rendered it, in his 1993 portrait of the company, "Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children".
Will Luck leave school early to take his talents to the N.F.L.? After the Cardinal's impressive victory, it was all over but the agonizing.
But the Colts' defense stuffed quarterback Brady Quinn when he tried a sneak on fourth-and-inches with 10 minutes left, giving Luck a chance to win it.
The public health of five million children shouldn't be left to luck or chance…" Oliver believes that the dismantling by default of the child nutrition white paper is the single most dangerous thing the coalition has done.
"The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance," he told the Observer.
But while this shows that one's actions can be free of luck of an important kind, it still leaves unaddressed luck of a third kind, namely the kind at issue in the moral luck debate: the dependence of agents' choices on factors beyond their control.
The health of millions should not be left to luck.
