Sally Potter’s Rage is as compelling for its mode of release as for the content. It was released exclusively to mobile phones last week over seven days, and then online and on DVD, as well as in select screenings in the UK. The premise of the movie is that a young man named Michelangelo is . . . → Read More: Rage
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I put out a request on twitter recently for academic podcasts, preferably film/media theory. After doing some quick research, I found a few things that might be of interest to humanities scholars in general. I haven’t actually listened to any of these, so if you do, reviews would be appreciated. As far as film goes, . . . → Read More: Academic podcasts NPR ran a story the other day on trends in music videos in the era of multitasking and portable devices. Basically, directors are shooting flashier, faster videos to capture attention, and using center-framing for easy viewing on small devices. Music videos have always been known for their quick editing and flashy style, which has leaked . . . → Read More: NPR: Editing for the small screen I had my class read “Host” by DFW, which led to some interesting discussion about form and content, as well as the nature of conservative talk radio and coprorate radio as well. Neither my students nor I knew anything about John Ziegler, the subject of the article, until reading the essay, and some questions came . . . → Read More: John Ziegler, DFW, and Academic Bias I have been mulling over a project for awhile now that would basically serve to put together film, media, digital technology theory sites, blogs and resources all in one place. Not only a list of resources, which would be part of it, but also perhaps a running feed of blogs, news and whatever else. I . . . → Read More: Media sites An interesting discussion yesterday on NPR’s Talk of the Nation about video games combined with some insightful comments by students on Cronenberg’s eXistenZ have me thinking about video games, reality and the relationship between them. A common complaint I hear about games is that they “replace reality,” or that they become the only reality for . . . → Read More: Video Games and Reality Here’s a video about media consolidation, sponsored by Hear us Now. It’s cute and informative. via Joho the Blog Finally back to research, blog reading, catching up on various things, I just read this NYTimes article about the King Kong video game. Seems that the makers of the Halo movie (Halo movie?!?) wanted to use the set of King Kong, and Peter Jackson signed on as executive producer, as he finishes up s\the technical . . . → Read More: Synergy In my quest to liberate myself from commercial TV and music, I have been downloading much stuff from Legal Torrents, which indexes all kinds of interesting open source (CC, GPL…) music, video projects, and games. Of particulart interest to electronic music lovers is the Kikapu netlabel archives (Torrent | Site), both volumes. Lots of beep-and-click . . . → Read More: Legal Torrents I have been looking for something like this for a long time: a blog that does analysis of visual media, specifically news media in this case. I have been thinking about starting something like this, but I don’t have the time. This looks really well done, thorough, compelling… A warning to my conservative readers: the . . . → Read More: Image analysis |
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