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 [...]
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Academic podcasts
February 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General
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, [...]
NPR: Editing for the small screen
February 1st, 2009 · No Comments · General
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 [...]
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John Ziegler, DFW, and Academic Bias
October 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · General
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 [...]
Media sites
February 7th, 2008 · No Comments · General
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 [...]
Video Games and Reality
November 15th, 2005 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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 [...]
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Fight the Tower
October 26th, 2005 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Here’s a video about media consolidation, sponsored by Hear us Now. It’s cute and informative.
via Joho the Blog
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Synergy
October 24th, 2005 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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 [...]
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Legal Torrents
August 16th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
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 [...]
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Image analysis
July 29th, 2005 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
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 site [...]
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