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Read More: Dear IckaprickSo the internet/web 2.0 allows you and I to meet, talk, and learn together, creating new communions and opportunities for weirdness (YouTube shares but does not OWN this). Hi and…
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Read More: It Came from Kuchar
Got a chance to see It Came from Kuchar at Outfest. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyOvLS8JnBI&hl=en&fs=1&] The documentary does little more than let the brothers, their films, and fans speak for themselves. And what…
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Read More: Millenium’s Experiments in DocumentaryTake a look at Millenium Film Journal’s special issue, No. 51, Experiments in Documentary, edited by Lucas Hildebrand. A strong introductory essay is followed by artist statements/interviews about making work…
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Read More: “Women of Vision” on snagfilms
This is a three-part series on feminist media history from the late 80s. There’s also a book!
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Read More: On Iran Vέritέ
I’m a fan of Digital Poetics. I support his (and many bloggers) committed support and relay of people-made videos coming from Iran in the face of heightening censorship and oppression.…
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Read More: Dueling BanjosI get this eerie, bored feeling that internet scholars play but don’t listen. Myself included. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8&hl=en&fs=1&] Where boosters see roses: See Howard Rheingold, Vernacular Video in Culture and Education. Snarks…
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Read More: On Watching Bad VideoI’ve spent a long day at an undisclosed location watching a load of bad video. As with all things tedious, cheap, people-made and yet somehow also pretentious, the hours enjoy…
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Read More: Hildebrand/Juhasz on Joanie 4 JackieI attended some of the “Media Studies in Southern California” conference sponsored last weekend by the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. I was most taken by my friend…
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Read More: Learning from Fred: Published at TCRIt appears this commentary was published in September. Since you have to pay to see it at Teacher’s College Record, here’s a version for free: In this commentary, I will…
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Read More: Faking The FunkyI’ve wanted to write on Be Kind Rewind for awhile (its retro-futurist dreamings of a soft-n-sweet hand-made people’s media revolution), and I did get to do so a little bit…