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October 27, 2006
Quick Political Comics
I've been making political comics over at Quick Comic. I made one about fiddling while Rome burns and one about what I hear on the news and one about Leeroy Jenkins. You should make some comics too!
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October 25, 2006
Firsts: Academic article published
My first article published in an academic journal is now up online. The journal is Fibreculture, an Australian journal which is online only. The article springs from the work I presented at the University of Tampere, Finland, two years back, which originally started in Chuck Kinzer's Social Software class; it's on Dance Dance Revolution players and how they draw on global networks (I'm enamored of Bruno Latour and think he works well with Manuel Castells) to define how the game should be danced.
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October 24, 2006
Visions Productions Debuts Online
When we were in middle school, Robert Durff and I started a video production company called Visions Productions. (Well, actually, it was not so simple -- the ownership of the Visions name was in dispute among a number of kids in our class, as the company had started with Robert and Michael and a few other kids.) Between the rise of YouTube and my academic work among a number of people who focus on youth media production, I've been thinking about Visions lately... so I decided to digitize some of our old videos and get 'em up online.
Might as well put them on YouTube; people tell me that means they own the content, but hell, this isn't making us any money anyway, and it won't for them either. And Glyph and co. are already freaking out about the server space my site takes without me adding more videos. And I haven't added enough to the crapflood of the Internet lately.
I started out by editing the commercials as if they were actually going to be aired, but then the anthropologist side of me kicked in and wanted everyone to see how much worse of a flaming asshole I used to be. And as someone who has recently been ruminating on the norming of race, class, and gender with the use of media texts, it is verrry verrry interesting to hear some of the things my little prep school friends and I said between cuts. So aside from the Froderin video, I'm not going to edit the rest. The other two up online now are Ditz Bits and Madame Zola, featuring Jessica Durff and Lindsay Feldmeth as well as Robert and myself.
Hopefully all this will cause Robert to come out of the woodwork. BERT WHERE ARE YOU! WE MISS YOU!
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October 13, 2006
Oh crap a review of my life by Anthony Lane
NO I AIN'T READY FOR THIS NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOO!
hee hee hee!
I love Anthony Lane. I tend to turn right to him in the New Yorker and read his reviews even if I'd never see the movie. Especially if I'd never see the movie, because then usually he is going to disembowel it, and I get to have fun without paying the ten bucks.
Also, I am wearing my Roos today, so it seemed appropriate.
Goddamn, but I love me some comics. Everyone needs to go read Cow and Boy, even though Leiknes hasn't decided yet whether he wants to be Berke Breathed or Bill Watterson. That vacillation is pretty fruitful, actually.
And I love that Chris Onstad is spending some time on magical realism. I loves me some magical realism.
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October 7, 2006
It Doesn't Take A Nobel Laureate
... to create an "educational game" for the Nobel Prize's website. Apparently. I'm just sayin', is all. If anyone's recently seen educational game design that's less relevant to the subject matter being taught, and gameplay which is less compelling, I want to see it. And then I want to pit it against these games in a steel cage match. Hopefully none will survive.
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October 6, 2006
Green Sleeves
I am so pleased to see that YouTube and Google Video are in part fulfilling the promises of DIY media offered by the Internet... browsing the latter today I found "Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves?" a public service video about coughing and sneezing without spreading germs from my natal state of Maine. The video is really hilarious, on purpose. More people with important things to say should think about taking themselves less seriously; the humor of this piece appears to have made it -- dare I say -- go viral. The video's highly-rated enough to show up on the first page Google showed me when I first made my way to the site.
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