MP:me
-
Read More: i wanted every day to last forever: irwin swirnoff & Kevin J. EversonI had the rare pleasure of seeing experimental film two nights in a row this week, especially gratifying given the paltry mainstream fare I’ve been viewing lately to feed this…
-
Read More: Social Network: nah, I’ll watch “The Facebook Documentary” live, on-lineI’ve written extensively here about the mis-steps of the usually celebrated terrain of convergence: the too easy, sloppy, ill-conceived contemporary media moves between documentary, fiction, and hybrid back again. To…
-
Read More: Nowhere and Everywhere: The Place of Feminism on YouTubeI gave a talk last week at Berkeley’s Gender Consortium that points towards the (non)place, and yet somehow real focus and locus, of my future work: the nowheres and everywheres…
-
Read More: Video and Participatory Culture: On TubingI’ve published an article in a special issue on YouTube of the on-line journal, Enculturation (A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing and Culture). The editors, Geoffrey Carter and Sarah Arroyo explain…
-
Read More: Faking/Taking Woodstock
I watched Ang Lee’s 2009 “Taking Woodstock” a few night ago, but couldn’t keep the real “Woodstock” (movie) out of my mind’s eye. I’m a big fan of Lee and…
-
Read More: Casey Affleck’s “Big” Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin’s Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes?
It came as no surprise to me when Casey Affleck at long last spilled the beans: that his tawdry expose of Joaquin Phoenix’s bad-boy decent into star-boy-debauchery was, in fact,…
-
Read More: Fred on Film
I was recently interviewed by Monica Hesse at the Washington Post for her article on Fred’s big move to movie: “This is a movie. This is a movie based on…
-
Read More: LFYT 10
I am teaching two sections of my class on and about YouTube, Learning from YouTube, this Fall. You can follow us on our new group page. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAcH1a0Uh2k&fs=1&hl=en_US] The class is…
-
Read More: Users Want Tosh(ers)
I was recently interviewed by Time magazine about the phenomenon of Tosh.0. Once again, my YouTube studies lead me to pop-analysis of cultural phenomena I had otherwise studiously avoided. But…
-
Read More: Mogul is De- and Re-Mobilized
I’ve worked with, written about, and been a fan of the work of Susan Mogul for quite awhile. A early practitioner of feminist video via her radical education at the…