Art & Commerce :: These Poems Are Not Pretty

"These Poems Are Not Pretty" - written with Bruce Weber - may be found @ Amazon.com.

Support the arts, yo.



















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Two Camera Assistants :: Tool Belt / Bibliography

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Two camera assistants with whom I had the pleasure to work this past summer give us glimpses into their world of work.

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POST NOTE: Focus on the TOOLS; interview subjects are immediately at ease in front of the camera with the tools of his or her trade.

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Tags: work, camera, assistant, tool, belt, tips, tricks, interview, bibliography

Re-vlog :: Laurie Anderson :: The Lost Art of Conversation

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Golly neds - haven't bought any Laurie Anderson music in a while but this video from Anderson's site inspired me to get this tune, "The Lost Art of Conversation".

Appears Lou Reed.

Love it when the truth hurts; Anderson always speaks truth.

Couldn't find any links to buy the tune she sings in the video. Shucks. Perhaps a one-off, or from her forthcoming '08 album, "Homeland".



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Re-vlog :: Not Buying It :: Consumerism & Promises

Re-vlogging Michael Krasny's interview with Judith Levine, author of Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping.

I like promises and work with them a lot. As a person-with-depression I tend not to keep promises when in the middle of a dark time, and making promises helps me discover strategies with which to overcome that propensity.

Judith Levine made a promise not to shop for a year; this book is the result.

My consumer-related promise is simple, too: I can buy anything I like so long it is a creative tool.

My diet plan: I can eat any calorie-busting thing I like so long as I cook it - a device that also served as inspiration to cook better for myself.

Both commitments serve me well.

Began in 1995 to live a modified ascetic life. Still do.

This relates to Faux Press' current motto: "Pay More". But I'm not sure exactly how it relates.

Any ideas?

[Source: Michael Krasney's Forum on KQED]


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When Virtual Reality Becomes Real: the Virtual Economy of Fictional People

From "On the Media".

Edward Castronova speaks to the legal nature of fictional people (think of corporations as fictional people) and has a book that could have an impact on the vlogosphere.



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A New Age of Economics

Lawrence Lessig. Read him.

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Travel Notes No. 1

Nothing in the Amsterdam digital world is how I should have preferred or imagined, but the solutions to digital road-problems are sometimes elegant.

Scarce resources. I give mine over mostly to VlogEurope! since this location has become defacto headquarters.

I become efficient with online time if a bit disconnected skimming quickly the vlogosphere news.

With browser access (but no upload - period) at "home" I am able to create posts, assign filenames / addresses to media and know that eventually a connection will be made for upload. In the meantime, I edit offline and it's fine with the G4 to do that. There's no way we can figure to move files into the local PC since USB is disabled and no networks can be created.

Test drive the iPod as field recording device. The default naming convention (date & time) works well for cataloging content. The mix piece Joel and I did with Yogi is a work I'm very happy with on so many levels. Capturing and making creative commons music as rewarding an experience as I can imagine.

Reading J.D. Lassica's "Darknet" whilst here. It is required reading. It may require a second time through to begin to really understand the implications.



Surprise guests Max & Stacy journalist / economists were in attendance. We needed citizen economists. Yeah. We've been waiting for you.

Furthermore, that wildman Graham Walker stationed in the Czech Republic kicked my editorial ass with his presentation on editing. Many good ideas. Radically re-editing the portrait of Max & Alex and other films already posted. This is a road-worthy concern: to want to rush the editorial process. One man band can benefit from off-scene editors to be sure. Just need reliable, consistent DSL or better to maintain contact with home base.

See the VlogEurope Wiki for a complete list of attendees and links.

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How to Open Media / Cookin' for One :: Potato Salad / Botany of Desire

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Never again be frustrated trying to open a new CD or tape; Mom's rockin' potato salad recipe; and a recommendation for a book that changed my life.




Music: "Hackensack" by Thelonious Monk from his album "Monk".

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A Book That Changed My Life: Technology of Orgasm

Funny and scholarly, Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) - by Rachel P. Maines - is one of those four-or-ten-in-a-lifetime reads.



Maines gives me reason to see the medical industry in a vastly different light, a historical context that is so silly and amazing I can hardly contain the giggles.