I’ve never had as much fun delivering a presentation as I did last night while co-presenting “The Revolution Will be Syndicated” with Tom Woodward in Second Life for NMC’s Rock the Academy conference. It was nothing short of a blast, and our guiding logic while preparing this “talk” was to make it fun and use [...]
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This is classic, and it’s so bad it’s almost good, which is what scares me about it. But the misinformation campaign being run here about openness is dangerous, and the portrayal of Bb NG as “a hip stud” who gets all the hot girls because he is so Web 2.0 just tells you how much [...]
Thanks to endless fount of genius that is Carole Garmon, here’s a video of a 13 year drummer named Hannah, and she rocks out pretty hard. You can see all here videos on YouTube here, but I choose Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills” because it rules.
EdTech Survivalist: Episode 2
Published by October 3rd, 2008 in edtech survivalist and edupunk. 6 Comments“Embedded!”
In this episode the EdTech Survivalist tries to help a war buddy unembed himself from the web. But first he has to help him navigate a long, abusive history of being at the mercy of centralized IT, a reality that might just push Johnny Embed over the embedding edge.
Credits:
Tom Woodward, my confirmed partner in [...]
I have to apologize for this post ahead of time, but after talking with the great Carole Garmon about Kienholz (see my previous post for context), she recommended I watch Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley’s Heidi (1992). The video from YouTube below is an edited version that, as the uploader notes(the original is 51 minutes [...]
Kienholz on Exhibit
Published by September 19th, 2008 in Internet Archive, Uncategorized and art. 0 CommentsOnce again the Internet Archive delivers the goods. Check out this amazing documentary by June Steel about Edward Kienholz’s retrospective exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1966. I first discovered Kienholz thirty years later in LA at this 1996 retrospective of Kienholz’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in [...]
Because the future is now…
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Camer work by the great Serena Epstein.
Hippies Wail for Dead Trees
When I call you a hippie, this is exactly the kind behavior I am referring to
Via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
YouTube experimenting with copyright?
Published by September 13th, 2008 in Uncategorized and YouTube. 2 CommentsAfter uploading the final speech from First Blood to YouTube, I was immediately delivered a copyright notice from Google and Lionsgate. Here is what it looks like:
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To quote:
Lionsgate has claimed some or all audio and visual content in your video First Blood (1982). This claim [...]
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Published by September 3rd, 2008 in TV, art, television and video. 4 CommentsProduced in 1973 [by Richard Serra and Carlota Ray Schoolman], “Television Delivers People” is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through “entertainments,” for the benefit of those in power-the corporations that maintain and profit from the status [...]
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