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Eye Spy, Playing with Perception at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) (bookmarked 31 Aug 2010 at 2:48pm) Eye Spy features engaging works that explore the act of perception. Through manipulation of light, form, color and line, leading contemporary artists show viewers how perception is based as much on what we think we should see as on what we actually see. Abstract sculptures create surprisingly recognizable shadows, for example; holographic images fool us into thinking we're seeing 3-D. On view in PEM's interactive Art & Nature Center, Eye Spy encourages visitors to examine how perception and illusion influence the way we interpret the world.
Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy, a POV documentary (bookmarked 31 Aug 2010 at 8:38am) From Donna Sadowsky?s departure from her home, through 10 days in China arranging the adoption of 8-year-old Fang Sui Yong and on through the girl?s first year and a half in the United States, Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy is an intimate account of transnational and transracial adoption. Little Sui Yong?s adoption takes place against a background of more and more Americans adopting overseas, especially in China. Since the Chinese opened their doors to foreign adoptions in 1992, some 70,000 Chinese children have been brought to the United States, making China the top choice for international adoptions by Americans. The huge number of adoptions underscores the importance of investigating the varied motivations of the Chinese and of the adoptive parents, the attitudes of society toward multiracial families and the special challenges transracial adoptees face
SECONDHAND (PEPE), a documentary film (bookmarked 31 Aug 2010 at 8:34am) Secondhand (Pepe) is a 24min tri-lingual documentary about the role of used clothing in diaspora cultures. Filmmakers Shell & Bertozzi weave two narratives into a visual and sonic journey. The historical memoir of a Jewish immigrant rag picker intertwines with the present-day story of ?pepe? ? secondhand clothing that flows from the United States to Haiti. Secondhand (Pepe) animates the materiality of recycled clothes: their secret afterlives and the unspoken connections among people in an era of globalization.
Fulcrum Media Services - Kenn Rabin - Script Screenplay & Treatment Consulting, Film Research, Rights ... (bookmarked 29 Aug 2010 at 6:03pm) Playwright, screenwriter, audiovisual researcher and archivist KENN RABIN provides a wide range of services for documentary, fiction film, proposal, manuscript, or educational projects. From writing and funding stage, through pre-production and production, Kenn brings more than 25 years' experience to his clients. And as a film and photography instructor, he brings real-world experience into the classroom, and his passion for his work to his students.
ARCHIVAL STORYTELLING: The Book (bookmarked 29 Aug 2010 at 6:00pm) For all filmmakers -- narrative as well as documentary. An essential, pragmatic guide to the use of images and music that belong to someone else. Where do producers go for affordable stills and footage? How do filmmakers evaluate the historical value of archival materials? What do producers need to know when documenting a world filled with rights-protected images and sounds? How do filmmakers protect their own creative efforts from infringement? Filled with advice and insight from filmmakers, archivists, film researchers, music supervisors, intellectual property experts, insurance executives and others, Archival Storytelling defines key terms?copyright, fair use, public domain, orphan works and more?and challenges filmmakers to become not only archival users but also archival and copyright activists, ensuring their ongoing ability as creators to draw on the cultural materials that surround them.
Steve Jobs, Circa 1997, Reintroducing Apple - NYTimes.com (bookmarked 29 Aug 2010 at 3:49pm) The reality distortion field is (and was) alive and well. "what we have is something ... it honors those people who have changed things ... [and those who are dead are ones] that would have used a mac ... it touches the soul of this company " it was a brilliant ad campaign, and had NOTHING to do with Apple... but EVERYTHING to do with the BRAND image they wanted to revive. Perfect. It's clear that Steve Jobs is one of the most incredible value creation machines ever to work among Fortune 500 executives.
Boston Cyberarts, Inc. (bookmarked 29 Aug 2010 at 1:27pm) Boston Cyberarts is New England's premier resource for artists, arts organizations, educators, and corporations who are working at the forefront of art and technology.
Artisan's Asylum (bookmarked 29 Aug 2010 at 12:17pm) Artisan's Asylum is a community fabrication and socializing space near Union Square, Somerville MA, that is dedicated to making creativity a way of life. It does this by maintaining a community workshop, training its members in the use of all of its professional-grade equipment, and hosting events promoting the learning and practicing of craft and creativity.
INTERVIEW PROJECT (bookmarked 29 Aug 2010 at 12:05pm) David Lynch?s Interview Project sent the director?s son Austin and co-director Jason S on a 20,000 mile road trip around the country collecting interviews of the people he met along the way. The project recently wrapped after a total of 121 interviews. You might find traditional interview-driven documentaries boring or banal, but The Interview Project is proof positive that the interview can be a wonderful form when handled creatively. The Interview Project presents a contemporary cultural perspective on real Americans that defy any of the sociopolitical categories that mainstream media would likes to categorize us as. In the post-net-neutrality world, will it be as easy to see these alternative views as it is today? If you care about alternative media, alternative voices, an open, democratic media landscape, you must do everything in your power to encourage your elected representatives to support true net neutrality. Visit http://www.freepress.net/ to learn more.
20 Tips for Strategizing Festivals & Distribution Today - indieWIRE (bookmarked 21 Aug 2010 at 7:51am) 20 Tips for Strategizing Festivals & Distribution Today
The Google/Verizon framework :: The Future of the Internet ? And How to Stop It (bookmarked 20 Aug 2010 at 9:51am) [...] what does that commitment look like? The proposal is aimed for Congress to adopt in part to clarify the FCC?s ability to regulate here, and it can be divided into two types of suggestions: one about the ground rules (limited by the vague language sampled above) to be observed by ISPs, and one that?s meta, i.e. about who should make and enforce whatever rules there are to be [...]
UPDATED: Which ?Video DSLR? to buy? | Philip Bloom (bookmarked 20 Aug 2010 at 9:40am) Philip Bloom writes: There is a lot of confusion amongst potential buyers as to which camera to buy. Not just from the Canon line, that is the Rebel T2i/ 55D, 7D, 5DmkII and 1DmkIV but also the GH1 and the Nikon D300S , D3s, D90 and D5000. It?s almost impossible for me to recommend which model camera to buy because they all have their plusses and minuses and many of those are subjective, down to personal opinion.
Steve Jobs' Stanford University Commencement address (2005) (bookmarked 12 Aug 2010 at 1:12pm) This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness by Pema Chödrön (bookmarked 12 Aug 2010 at 1:05pm) This book is about saying yes to life in all its manifestations?embracing the potent mixture of joy, suffering, brilliance, and confusion that characterizes the human experience. Pema Chödrön shows us the profound value of our situation of "no escape" from the ups and downs of life.
Open Leadership - Founder of Altimeter Group, Author of Open Leadership, Coauthor of Groundswell (bookmarked 12 Aug 2010 at 1:04pm) ?Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic? are the current leadership mantras ? but companies often push back. Traditionally business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness.
The Awesome Foundation (bookmarked 11 Aug 2010 at 1:22pm) The Awesome Foundation supports people doing awesome things in the world. Every month they give out a grant. If you have an awesome idea, let them know.
?5d or 7d? That is the question? (bookmarked 10 Aug 2010 at 10:22am) ?5d vs. 7d by Philip Bloom, updated.
Ty Ford?s Audio Bootcamp Field Guide (bookmarked 1 Jul 2010 at 11:20am) This field guide was written in the early stages of a technical revolution and is updated as the technology changes. That revolution brought us easy to use, affordable video cameras and editing systems that yield professionally acceptable video quality. Read this book in order to be in the know! A wonderful introduction to professional quality sound recording with video cameras. Sound is half of the picture! Your audience will appreciate your work even more.
25 Hour Day (bookmarked 18 Jun 2010 at 12:44pm) Blog of Bruce Sharpe, founder and CEO of Singular Software.
5 Tools For Integrating HTML5 Video in Your Website (bookmarked 2 Jun 2010 at 11:16pm) JW Player for HTML5 (bookmarked 2 Jun 2010 at 11:15pm) The JW Player for HTML5 is a fully skinnable and configurable player based on the new <video> tag found in HTML5. It is built using javascript (jQuery) and enables a seamless fallback to the popular JW Player for Flash. Currently, our HTML5 player is in Beta. Certain functionalities that we consider essential are missing in this Beta version and will be included in the 1.0 release, which we anticipate to be this summer.
46% of Web Users are Ready for HTML5 (bookmarked 2 Jun 2010 at 11:12pm) HTML5 Video & Media JavaScript Library | Kaltura: Open Source Video Developer Community (bookmarked 2 Jun 2010 at 11:05pm) This javascript library enables you to take advantage of the HTML5 <video> and <audio> tags today. With a consistent player interface across all major browsers including Internet Explorer. The library supports a seamless fallback with Flash based playback (using Kaltura?s media player ? KDP3) or Java Cortado for browsers that don?t yet feature HTML5 video & audio support.
Kaltura & HTML5 | HTML5 Video Player (bookmarked 2 Jun 2010 at 10:58pm) Kaltura has developed a full HTML5 Video Library ? in use by Wikipedia ? that works in ALL major browsers, even IE. The library supports a seamless fallback with Flash based playback (using Kaltura?s media player ? KDP3) or Java Cortado for browsers that don?t yet feature HTML5 video & audio support. Upon detection of the client browser, the Kaltura HTML5 library chooses the right codec to use (specified in the source attributes) and the right player to display. So whether you?re using flash, h264, ogg-theora or plan to use the anticipated VP8 codec ? Kaltura?s library will make sure it is played on all browsers with the same html based UI. While support for HTML5 video is growing, there is large percentage of the web browser market that is presently best served by the Adobe Flash plugin and an associated player.
Dive Into HTML5 (bookmarked 28 May 2010 at 4:28am) HTML5 is the next generation of HTML that provides new features that are necessary for modern web applications. It also standardizes many features of the web platform that web developers have been using for years, but which have never been vetted or documented by a standards committee. In addition to the new features, HTML5 is the first attempt to formally document many of the ?de facto? standards that web browsers have supported for years. Like its predecessors, HTML5 is designed to be cross-platform. You don?t need to be running Windows or Mac OS X or Linux or Multics or any particular operating system in order to take advantage of HTML5. The only thing you do need is a modern web browser. There are modern web browsers available for free for all major operating systems. You may already have a web browser that supports certain HTML5 features. The latest versions of Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera all support many HTML5 features.
The iPad needs its HyperCard - O'Reilly Radar (bookmarked 28 May 2010 at 4:22am) Easy to use content creation tools are key to the iPad's long-term success.
Film Sprout | Grassroots and Community Distribution for Independent Documentaries (bookmarked 27 May 2010 at 12:35pm) grassroots and community distribution for independent documentarites
ARLINGTON WEST (bookmarked 24 May 2010 at 7:27pm) Each Sunday from sunrise to sunset, a temporary memorial appears next to the world-famous pier at Santa Monica, California. This memorial, known as Arlington West, a project of Veterans For Peace, offers visitors a graceful, visually and emotionally powerful, place for reflection.
Another Foxconn Worker Kills Himself (bookmarked 24 May 2010 at 11:14am) Today, another of Foxconn's workers jumped to his death from a dorm window. The story goes that the 21-year-old jumped (or fell) from his window, just like the eight who died this year. This time, there's (potentially NSFW) photos. I don't have to say that Foxconn is facing an epidemic of social proportions?you've read the undercover report posting the resigned nature of its workers, the long days, the little hope they have of ever having a better life.
?How do I delete my Facebook? query growing - Holy Kaw! (bookmarked 11 May 2010 at 4:30pm) ?How do I delete my Facebook account?? has popped up on the drop-down Google Suggest box for queries starting with ?How do I??, indicating a growing popularity for the search.
FUTURESTATES (bookmarked 11 May 2010 at 9:07am) Independent Television Service (ITVS) asked 11 renowned and up-and-coming filmmakers to take the current state of affairs in the United States, and extrapolate them into stories of the nation in the not-so-distant future. The result is FUTURESTATES, a series of groundbreaking digital shorts. Each episode presents a different filmmaker?s vision of American society in the not-too-distant future, fusing an exploration of social issues with elements of speculative and science fiction. We invite the public to join the discussion about what the future holds: Will you let it happen, or will you make it happen?
After Photography by Fred Ritchin ? BOMBLog (bookmarked 7 May 2010 at 5:39pm) Review By Francesca Romeo, May 5, 2010: Weaving through philosophical analysis, photojournalism, propaganda, quantum physics, and cyber-culture, Fred Ritchin?s recently reprinted 2008 book After Photography charts an effective path through the multifarious aspects of digital photography, illuminating a new world of spectacle as it emerges ...
Scribd (bookmarked 6 May 2010 at 3:30pm) Scribd is the world?s largest social publishing and reading website. The company claims more than 50 million readers every month and houses more than 10 million documents, including best-selling books, research reports, recipes, presentations, and?
Scribd CTO: ?We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5? (bookmarked 6 May 2010 at 3:24pm) Adobe?s much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing ...
The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia: David Mccandless (bookmarked 28 Apr 2010 at 1:03pm) The Visual Miscellaneum is a unique, groundbreaking look at the modern information age, helping readers make sense of the countless statistics and random facts that constantly bombard us. Using cutting edge graphs, charts, and illustrations, David McCandless creatively visualizes the world's surprising relationships and compelling data, covering everything from the most pleasurable guilty pleasures to how long it takes different condiments to spoil to world maps of Internet search terms.
Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! (bookmarked 28 Apr 2010 at 1:01pm) David McCandless is a London-based independent data journalist and information designer with a passion for visualizing information ? facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions ? all with the minimum of words.
ITVS Digital Survey Report 2009 (bookmarked 27 Apr 2010 at 4:09pm) Producers today face unprecedented challenges in finding and engaging audiences. The proliferation of platforms and promotional outlets make it harder than ever to develop a unified strategy for connecting with diverse viewers. In the spirit of helping each other navigate the changing landscape, ITVS for the second year surveyed nearly a thousand independent producers to determine what is working, what is not, and how the attitudes of filmmakers are gradually changing in the digital era. Some key findings: (1) Television is still king; (2) Social media is rising; (3) Internet drives revenue; (4) Nonexclusive digital rights are essential.
Videophones, Skype: Why People Don't Like Video Chatting (bookmarked 15 Apr 2010 at 11:02am) [...] Skype requires me to look at you while you're talking, which is totally ridiculous. The only sci-fi show that understood this was Star Trek. Bones and Jim would use their flip phones to talk quickly about beaming or health issues. The only time they'd fire up the videophone was when a Klingon was sitting in a spaceship 20 yards away with guns pointed at them. Even then I think Sulu was checking out Go Fug Yourself [...]
The Facebook Privacy Settings You've Lost Forever - Facebook - Gawker (bookmarked 10 Apr 2010 at 9:37am) While covering Facebook's systematic elimination of privacy, we've been deluged with questions from readers asking how to restore certain Facebook privacy protections. Sadly, many such settings appear to be lost forever. Here are the most glaring examples.
Facebook's Great Betrayal - Facebook - Gawker (bookmarked 10 Apr 2010 at 9:36am) Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil.
Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget. - Book review by Michael Agger in Slate Magazine (bookmarked 10 Apr 2010 at 9:08am) Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget has one of the more sobering prefaces to be found in recent books. "It's early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons," it begins. The words will be "minced into anatomized search engine keywords," then "copied millions of times by some algorithm somewhere designed to send an advertisement," and then, in a final insult, "scanned, rehashed, and misrepresented by crowds of quick and sloppy readers." Lanier's conclusion: "Real human eyes will read these words in only a tiny minority of the cases." My conclusion: Is that really such a bad thing?
A paradox @ ?The Conversation: Social Media, Digital Distribution, and the Future of Film? > Week of W... (bookmarked 6 Apr 2010 at 9:10am) [...] the paradox?though the topic was digital, the excitement came from face-to-face, real-world, real-time, high-touch experience of bodies in a room [...]
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say - NYTimes.com (bookmarked 6 Apr 2010 at 9:09am) With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor. [...]
Film Futurist | Insights into the convergence of film & media arts | blog (bookmarked 2 Apr 2010 at 10:18am) Aina Abiodun, a filmmaker pondering the intersections of film/media art and technology.
Jeff Jarvis on Influencers (bookmarked 2 Apr 2010 at 10:11am) Jeff Jarvis writes: We keep hunting the elusive influencer because marketing people, especially, but also politicians (marketers in bad suits) and media people (marketers in denial) think that if they can find and convince or brainwash that one influencer, he or she will spread their word like Jesus and their work will be done. But I think this quest is starting to look like a snipe hunt. [...] What does this mean then for marketers in social media? I think it means they need to reread The Cluetrain Manifesto (out in a 10th anniversary edition) and recognize that messages and influence aren?t the future of marketing; conversations and relationships are. No getting around it. No shortcuts.
In This Digital Age, What Is A Filmmaker? | Truly Free Film (bookmarked 30 Mar 2010 at 9:27am) Today?s guest post is from Chris Dorr. Isn?t it curious in this age where more moving images get created and distributed digitally that there is this group of people who still call themselves ?filmmakers?? It seems a term that is so archaic, so analogue, so yesterday?s news. But is it any of these? I think filmmakers look for three opportunities that truly define them as filmmakers.
Art Review - 'Marina Abramovic - The Artist Is Present' - At MoMA - NYTimes.com (bookmarked 29 Mar 2010 at 10:28am) With the opening on Sunday of ?Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,? a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force. The show is a four-decade survey of work by one of the field?s most visible and magnetic figures. And its combination of stressed-out flesh in documentary films and live bodies, some nude, in the galleries, makes pretty radical fare for this institution [...]
Lowave (bookmarked 25 Mar 2010 at 11:03pm) Lowave is an independent film label founded in 2002 by Marc Horchler and Silke Schmickl to promote experimental film and contemporary video art and make them accessible beyond the film festival and gallery circuit. Their catalogue features artists with varied backgrounds working with different techniques and multiple modes of expression, and ranges from abstract experimental films to militant documentaries. Alongside historic figures such as Marguerite Duras, Maurice Lemaître, Takahiko Iimura, and Helga Fanderl, Lowave has put forward some of the most important young artists from around the world.
Ballet (Wiseman, 1995, 170 minutes) (bookmarked 25 Mar 2010 at 4:58pm) BALLET is a profile of the American Ballet Theatre, an important classical ballet company. The film presents the company in rehearsal in their New York studio and on tour in Athens and Copenhagen. Choreographers, ballet masters and mistresses are shown at work with principal dancers, soloists and the corps de ballet. Other sequences involve the administration and fundraising aspects of the company.
The Conversation: Exploring the Future of the Entertainment Industry (bookmarked 19 Mar 2010 at 11:40am) On March 27, 2010, pioneers at the forefront of change in cinema, video, digital media and technology are gathering again to share ideas, insights, and innovations. Our focus for this second edition of The Conversation are the opportunities created by social media, the Web, digital distribution, and an increasingly engaged audience. Rather than sitting through a standard conference, you'll be part of a dynamic series of overlapping conversations -- some led by the speakers and moderators on the agenda, some shaped by you.
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