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Read More: YOUTUBE IS BADLY BAKEDYouTube is baked; its video forms and conventions badly done. We’re stuck with corporate media-like “stunts, pranks, violence, gotchas, virtuosity, upsets, and transformations.” Sure, every video holds its own small…
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Read More: Learning from YouTube: The Video-BookMy video-book goes live today on the MIT Press website. I hope you will take a look, contribute a texteo, and share it with others who might be interested (handy…
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Read More: Distraction Span: call for contributionsMy dear friend and colleague Brian Goldfarb and I are co-editing a section of MediaCommons’ New Everyday on youth, media, and distraction. Our call begins: “We invite short, lively, multi-modal…
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Read More: You Say Vook, I Say Video-BookVirgina Heffernan’s recent article on the joys of the “vook—a software application that combines video and text”—brings to mind what MIT and I are calling my video-book (to be released…
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Read More: Owls at Palm Springs: Queer Film in Straight PlacesI’ll be driving to Palm Springs this afternoon to attend their festival with my son. The Film Collaborative has been doing a great job with our distribution (the film is…
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Read More: THE NOWHERES & EVERYWHERE OF ONLINE FEMINISM
I am on sabbatical during the Spring of 2011. During this period of relative freedom, I plan to promote, network, and engage with my YouTube video-book (to be released February…
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Read More: Another Launch: The Owls[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cfeTZNcA3g&fs=1&hl=en_US] My recent film The Owls (directed by Cheryl Dunye, for whom I also produced The Watermelon Woman) is being released in March by First Run Features. It’s already on…
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Read More: Ready for Launch: February 7, 2011[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FROxZ5i67k&fs=1&hl=en_US] I’m in the final stages of editing and readying my video-book, Learning from YouTube, for “publication” or perhaps, better said, official presentation by the MIT Press. Given the unique…
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Read More: Social Network Sandwich: Guess Who’s the Nasty Creme Filling?Bill Moggridge‘s Designing Media just arrived at my doorstep, hot off the (MIT) Press. The book is really beautiful and a great read, marking the zeitgeist of cultural producers’ takes…
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Read More: Bechdel’s Bechdel (1997)
I have been following Alex Vesy’s “Bechdel Test Canon” at Feminist Music Geek. The Bechdel Test seems to be going as viral as any lesbian thing ever could. I recently…