Category Archives: movies

Freddy’s Bar, Donald O’Finn, and Underground Video Art

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Reverend

One of the many, many things I miss about Brooklyn is Freddy’s Bar. This storied speak easy represents the best combination of dive bar and underground cultural mecca. Unfortunately, Freddy’s very existence is currently being threatened by Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic … Continue reading →

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Slavoj Zizek on The Children of Men

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Reverend

Here’s a five minute commentary on Children of Men by Slavoj Zizek that is packaged with the DVD. I watched this movie for a second time tonight and I was even more enthralled and impressed than the first go around … Continue reading →

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Do the Right Thing… Ernie

Posted on May 5, 2007 by Reverend

Searching for the opening credits for Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (the “Fight the Power” sequence with Rosie Perez), I stumbled upon a different kind of gem in the vein of some interesting videos Bryan Alexander has been posting … Continue reading →

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Green with envy

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Reverend

Mikhail, a good friend of mine, just sent me this screenshot via IM, letting me know he is watching Escape from New York. Oh, if I didn’t have two kids under three… By the way, Harry Dean Stanton is my … Continue reading →

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Education: The Video

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Reverend

Update: If I wasn’t so self-absorbed, I would have realized much sooner that Andy Rush, our resident multi-media god, has already built UMWTube, something quite similar to a YouTube inspired Drupal site but framed out using Ning. So there is … Continue reading →

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Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Reverend

Riffing on the NMC Web Convergence Conference themes and cross-currents -check out this forty second interview with Francis Ford Coppola from Hearts of Darkness. In this clip he might be seen as “predicting” the creative power of social sites like … Continue reading →

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Who says there is no good content on Youtube?

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Reverend

Please be warned that this video requires a sense of humor![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc[/youtube] 

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Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout – a quick review

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Reverend

This week has been a long one, the semester starts Monday and I have much to say about my recent experiments with Drupal, MediaWiki, bbpress, Open Journal Systems, and WordPress. But until I muster up the time and energy to … Continue reading →

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JumpCut or The Mask of Satan

Posted on November 6, 2006 by Reverend

I have been playing around with a new Web 2.0 technology called jumpcut, and do not be misled by my post title, I actually really like it! The application allows you to upload videos, audio, and images (there is even … Continue reading →

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CONELRAD: an Online Mecca for Cold War Culture

Posted on October 26, 2006 by Reverend

I have been so industrious as of late 🙂 that I have almost forgotten to slow down a bit and have a little fun, this is a “b” blog after all. Well, some folks might define fun as sniffing glue … Continue reading →

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