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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: video
Gimme the Bat
I’m in a ds106 state of mind these days. In particular, I’ve been meaning to dig into all the amazing work John Johnston has been doing with command line tools over the last several years. I always looked on in … Continue reading
Cults Go Outside
https://vimeo.com/26493844 I’ve been playing music with my kids on Thursday and Fridays afternoons when they enjoy half-days at school (you have to love Italy!). Today I decided to revisit the indie band Cults, which I first discovered back in the Summer … Continue reading
LIRR from Jamaica to Penn Station
I grew up in Baldwin, Long Island which is a 30-minute train ride to Manhattan. I’ve ridden the LIRR to and from NYC’s Penn Stations innumerable times. And still to this day I remain mesmerized by the trip more than 40 … Continue reading
Devouring Videos
Last week was a blur, on top of catching up on my work from the Digital Media Learning conference the week before, I came back to interviews for a fine arts professor hire, trying to write an article (which I suck at), … Continue reading
Some Raro Poliziottesco
Since my trip to Italy I’ve been thinking a lot about the Poliziottesco genre of Italian b-movies. I’ve also been watching my fair share. Raro Video, a publishing house located in Minneapolis, has been brilliant enough to re-release a lot of … Continue reading
David Simon on America as a Horror Show
If I dig myself out anytime soon I have a pretty fun web project centered around David Simon’s brilliant television series The Wire that I want to run sometime this year. In the meantime, here’s a 26-minute video featuring David … Continue reading
National Register Rap
Four Historic Preservation students at UMW created a rap video in which they outline how the National Register for Historic Places actually works. What’s more, they openly—albeit very politely—express a few frustrations with some of the beureacratic disconnects that seem … Continue reading
Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee
On Twitter yesterday Luke Walter linked to this video of Muhammad Ali fighting Cleveland Williams at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas on November 14, 1966. It’s a remarkable, high quality display of just how accurate his declaration that he can … Continue reading
From this Distant Vantage Point
UMW Fine Art professor Carole Garmon shared some of her student’s work from the Approaches to Video Art course with me yesterday. I was particularly taken with Joshua Luebke’s “You are here.” This project takes a reading by Carl Sagan from … Continue reading
ds106zone: Experimenting with Video
Thanks to Michael Branson Smith below are three ideas for experimenting with video. They’re all pretty straight forward, and they give you a specific focus and set of limitations to work through—which can be helpful. If you are looking to … Continue reading