Alternative Movie History: Not Ganas but….

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Reverend

If you are weak, here is the scene on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aD-hfcFt2w

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Alternative Movie History: Corporate Raiders of the Lost Ark

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Reverend

Alternative film histories as our contemporary realities?

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Alternative Movie History: HAL

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Reverend

Inspired by CogDog, as usual šŸ˜‰

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Alternative Movie History: Some Brothers on the Wall

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Reverend

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Alternative Movie History: General Ripper

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Reverend

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Alternative Movie History: Alien

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Reverend

What if John Hurt wasn’t hungry in Alien after he woke up?

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I won’t be back!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Reverend

Make not mistake about it, Todd Conaway is a force of nature when it comes to open courses. He made the Summer of Oblivion in so many ways, not to mention how awesome he was during the Spring version. And when I saw his latest post it led me to Michael Branson Smith’s post here which then led me to the genesis of the idea here. And then I realized it was already submitted as an assignment on ds106 by MBS on the ds106 site. How could I help myself?

This would have certainly made The Terminator a different movie, no?

ds106 is off an running for the Fall semester, let’s blow the doors off people!

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Minimalist Philosophy Posters

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Reverend

This is a layup for ds106. The minimalist post that moves beyond film and TV and takes on the world of philosophy. Kudos to British designer Gex, these are awesome.

Minimalist Philosophy Posters

I owe someone a kudos here for the tip, but I can’t remember who so I tweeted out the query in hopes that I can update this post with proper credit shortly. Credit for this link goes to Alan Liddell that came across it via this Technoccult post. Now I need to add this as an assignment to ds106 šŸ™‚

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My new mantra

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Reverend

I’m done with open, this is my new relationship to the world šŸ™‚ Thanks to Misha for spreading the YouTube love, I just can’t get enough of this scene from Goodfellas. That said, you may want to “just say no” to this video if bad language is of issue…beware.

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James Baldwin on Education

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Reverend

Kudos to YouTube user youwhohear for editing parts of this longer discussion with the great James Baldwin Ā at UC Berkeley in 1974 into a few salient remarks about the crisis of education in the U.S. in Ā 1974. What’s remarkable to me is how little the crisis has changed in almost 40 years. And how clearly Baldwin seems to see the issues surrounding education in relationship to corporate greed, racist institutions, and the attempts to try hanging all of a society’s problems on the backs of schools.Ā  He briefly mentions a movement in the NYC schools from about 1970-1973 in which the approach was seemingly liberated and more positive, but I’m not sure specifically what he is referring to. Does anyone out there?

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