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After the Tide
I’m actively looking for ways to integrate various aspects of my seemingly disparate interests. Having Rising Tide here on the campus of the university where I work was a major integrative...
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We take a break from our regularly scheduled odyssey to promote the following worthy item. This Friday, the New Orleans Film Festival is hosting the American premiere of the documentary film, The Big...
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Florestine
Once again we interrupt our regularly scheduled investigations to draw your attention to a notable screening. The Florestine Collection Experimental animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade...
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Eleven Times Eleven
On November 11, 2011, eleven of us gathered at The 1111 Building, in parking space #11, and at precisely eleven minutes and eleven seconds after eleven o’clock a.m., we raised a toast — the No. 11...
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The Theologians
Michael Homan has concocted another short movie of inscrutable strangeness. This one is called The Theologians. This one’s got a lot of academic in-jokes that are over my untutored head, but if you...
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The Old Testament in Five Minutes
Watching The Theologians this weekend reminded me: I finished work on another movie earlier this summer and never wrote about it. It’s a five minute animated version of the Old Testament. Believe it...
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Foam
The traditional gift is china, or diamonds, but we opted for foam. Let me back up. Twenty years ago, my mom and dad bought a mattress for Xy and me, a wedding present. This year, as an anniversary gift...
View ArticleSocial Media, Social Justice: Digital Activism from a Planetary Perspective
I gave this presentation yesterday. Digital Activism from a Planetary Perspective on Vimeo.
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Re-Upping Katrina
Moving video around the web has gotten a lot easier over the past decade. Studious types may remember that YouTube launched the same year Katrina hit: 2005. In remembrance of the ten year anniversary...
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Helen Hill Has Not Been Forgotten
Today marks ten years since Helen Hill died. I knew her, I loved her, I felt her loss badly — and I still do. (Since people always ask, I feel obligated to note that no one has ever been charged in...
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