Neon Politik / i miss the desert

Cameron's band The Franks has a new video out and it looks great, sounds great. Very impressive and lots of fun. They sure are stylish over there ... something about watching The Doom Generation* this weekend and then seeing this video, combined with all the snow …

Jan. 8: Come see my new film!

My new short, Pre-Apocalypse, is screening next week along with the other projects from my fiction film class. These films are pretty rough technically- each filmed in one day on 16mm, edited by hand on the Steenbeck, single track audio, no sound mix, no titles, some …

tingle fingers

My friends Jon and David, and their friend Carson, are Tingle Fingers, an in-house design + screenprinting operation in Brooklyn. Their stuff looks really good- gorgeous designs and professional quality printing- but is made in the same loving d.i.y. way as when Jon …

audition for my film & others

Casting Call for VES 150: Fiction Filmmaking

Saturday, January 10, 2009

10am - 6pm

Sever Hall, Room 416

Harvard University

Audition for 6 films at once! My film class, VES150, is holding a class-wide audition for our spring films. Slots are almost full so don't wait to sign up.

wonderful animation

This student piece has everything I love in cartoons and folk songs. It's adorable and grotesque, in the tradition of both Betty Boop and Ren & Stimpy. Moral but not preachy, it makes me really happy.

Story from North America by Kirsten Lepore and Garrett Davis.

[via Paul]

Obligatory Obama Post

School has me very busy and hence not blogging much. But there's been some little things I want to post, mostly creative endeavors by my pals and smidgens of youtube joy, and it seems wrong to do so without first addressing the election. Not so much cause I have …

another cheerful post!

Foreclosure Alley - SoCal Connected

What I find particularly interesting is that there are no interviews with people who have lost their homes, just their neighbors. At the end, the reported asks something along the lines of "are you afraid of losing your home? We want …

Despite Everything, I Still Love America

This is not sarcasm. America is more interesting right now than any piece of fiction on my bookshelf. Frankly, I don't even care much who wins the election- we're fucked either way. But I find the whole debacle fascinating: if not a climax (though if Palin has her way, …

back at harvard...

And I can't deny that witnessing the total collapse of the house of cards that is our banking system makes the transition a little easier. I remember my first week on this campus, the special reverence with which the polo-shirted freshmen spoke of "I-banking", the …

goodbye internet

This weeks begins for me a much anticipated break from the internet. My laptop is sitting at home in NJ, I am many miles away (soon to be many more miles), and we shall not rendezvous again until September.

When public computers are available, I may log on to check …

phoenix house

spring break 2008, Olympia, WA

Century of the Self

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the angerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis

For anyone interested in why our culture is as it is today, I strongly urge you to watch The Century of the Self, an …

would you rather: princess edition

Its your daughter's 5th birthday. Would you rather give her...

Professional Photo Retouching

or

STRUTS

[via reddit & dad]

some paintings

muxtape

I'm a little late in the game posting about this one but I'm really digging muxtape. I've never been able to get into sites like last.fm because they seemed so impersonal, and kinda creepy... a robot spying on your itunes and then comparing you to this huge database …

los campesinos! + the orion experience @ maxwell's

It's not a trip back home without a visit to Maxwell's. Tonight I took my sister to her first rock show (and my first in some time- its been far too long since I've seen "live" music that consisted of more than a dude in front of a laptop or a coop jam session). It did …

animated graffiti. wow. wow.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Check out BLU's site for more awesome.

[via christina on del.icio.us]

prom

[via a beloved housemate]

We should not mistake the skeleton for the person it describes.

The problem lies in the fact that institutions devoted to preserving and promoting documents tend to think in terms of a legacy of objects. They see their work as part of a long chain of objects, and what counts to them is things with faces attached- not events or …

get psyched!!

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For ordinary Americans, though, it has been a different story. Real wages have been growing slowly; at just 1.6% a year on average over the latest upswing, well down on the experience of earlier decades. Business, of course, needs consumers to carry on spending in …