[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiQoej_9-Js] Yesterday, Elon James White’s This Week in Blackness released a hilarious new video in which he dissects the recent vice presidential debate and questions the mysterious power of “folksiness.” (The full version can be found here.) I found myself particularly drawn to the excerpt above where Elon asks the question: “Why do people like… Read more »
October 6, 2008[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU&hl=en&fs=1] I’m a little late here, but this talk by Michael Wesch provides some really nice background on his work. He’s great at taking the hugely complicated topic of social media and presenting succinct and straight forward explanations about the way that the web is restructuring human relationships. For those of you not familiar with… Read more »
August 11, 2008[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDvlalPW8QE] Welcome To My Study by artist/comedian Mitchell Magee. From his artist’s statement: Although deriving much from a formalist vocabulary of the 1960’s, I think of my work as displaced objects from some forgotten window display, or the leftover prop from a play, or part of a sign from some unknown business. I’m guessing this… Read more »
August 10, 2008Hilariously enough, I spent the past week feverishly trying to find a new place to live and moving all my belongings for the second time in a month. This was not planned at all, but instead came as a quick reaction to a few unexpected surprises with the place I moved into on July 1st…. Read more »
August 1, 2008I’m in Los Angeles right now taking part in the DIY video conference at USC. The panels have been pretty incredible so far. I wanted to get here for the first one called “State of Research,” but I realized late last night that I wasn’t realistically going to be able to drive all night. I… Read more »
February 8, 2008So I am establishing this blog as a place to update friends and other folks about my experiences at graduate school. I just started a program in digital arts and new media at UC Santa Cruz. Hopefully this blog will be a place where I can also share video and other artwork that I’m producing…. Read more »
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