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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
CJ Morgan - Blog Post / Art Site
My "real" website of abstract art is actually published!. To make this week even more special, the new art website is published. It's far from done, but there's something at every link. I'll be adding more artwork and articles practically every day for a while.
Just as you can subscribe to this weblog, you can subscribe to notices about additions to the main website. I'll send these notices once or twice a month. And of course, your contact information will be kept completely private.
I'd like to sell my vessel sculptures through galleries, so if you have a favorite gallery and can recommend my work to them, I'll greatly appreciate it. The new website will make it easy. And of course I have slides ready to send as well. [Hand Forged Vessels]
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Board Recommends Expensing of Stock Options
Mediaburn also supports the expensing of stock options by companies. Stock options are contracts that businesses will pay out at a future date. They are an expense and should be accounted for in some manner. - Editor
Board recommends expensing of stock options. Businesses would have to treat stock options as an expense under a proposal from the FASB, which sets U.S. accounting standards. That's not likely to go over well in Silicon Valley. [CNET News.com]
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La Logotheque
 Logos. I know, I've already blogged them ages ago. But they are still expanding and regularly updating their website: La Logotheque. Downloadable company logos, all in illustrator format. Fab. [The Cartoonist]
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004 |
Shake It Up
Online Music Shakeout. Scrambling over tight profit margins, online music stores are merging or selling themselves off. Remember that the reason iTunes grabbed so much market share is because their focus is on selling hardware -- the music is a break-even proposition for... [Indie Music Club]
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Night of the Living Dead - Special Mention, Richard Ricci
I was fortunate enough to attend a cinema/lighting workshop by Richard Ricci in Albuquerque, New Mexico a couple of years ago at The Digital Filmmaking Institute. Originally from Pittsburgh, Richard was on the creative crew of Night of the Living Dead.
Thanks Richard, for the insights! - Gary
Night of the Living Dead on Archive.org. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is available for free on archive.org. Before 1978, any copyrighted work had to have a copyright notice on every distribution, otherwise it wasn't considered copyrighted. George A. Romero mistakenly left out the copyright notice when he distributed his 1968 film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The copyright has not recently lapsed, but was, in fact, never enforcable, which is why we have dozens of "pirate" distributions of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and innumerable knock-offs. [Boing Boing] [Cinema Minima]
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The Emergence of Cinema Minima (Small is Beautiful)
Trendwatch: new ways to distribute movies. What is Cinema Minima?
It is — as Jarrod Whaley has remarked — independent film [which] is actually independent. For there was nothing independent about the so-called Independent Film movement which flourished briefly in the waning days of the twentieth century. It was independent only inasmuch as its financing did not come entirely from studios. In every other respect — technique, dramatic conventions, distribution, and above all, aspirations — the Indie movement was indistinguishable from its better-financed cousins in Hollywood.
Now, however, the radically new tools for making movies — low-cost, light-weight digital video cameras, and inexpensive editing tools on personal computers — encourage a casual and fault-tolerant approach to moviemaking.
But even as the moment-to-moment, nuts-and-bolts of moviemaking have become easier, entirely new challenges have presented themselves to movie makers: new ways to show and to distribute their movies. Ways to identify new audiences, too.
The salient issue facing movie makers is distribution
2004 is turning out to be a pivotal year for new ways to distribute movies.
The self-distributed DVD is one way.
Recently, bold experiments have been made to discover new, feasible, ways to distribute movies over the internet, using combinations of distributed file-sharing (BitTorrent) and syndicated feeds (RSS).
Cinema Minima will be following these developments. [Cinema Minima]
6:55:31 AM
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Dylan Review From Skadz.com
Bob Dylan - Avalon - Boston - 03/24/2004. Went to see Bob Dylan at Avalon last night. I was totally psyched to go. Getting to see someone as great as Bob in a small club venue (capacity approx 2000) is a big treat.
I'll start with the complaints. First off, the stage setup SUCKED. Dylan was far off to the left playing keyboard most of the night. Why in HELL was he not dead center? I ended up coming in and heading to my normal location (through the biggest crowd I think I have ever seen at Avalon) and basically could not see Bob the entire night. That sucked.
Number 2, no guitar??? Bob didn't play any guitar all night long. That is no good. I would rather have had him at least play a couple of songs. Even better if he did a couple of songs solo.
Now that those are out of the way. WOW. What a show. Bob's voice sounded awesome. You could almost even understand him :) He was projecting well too. It was very interesting to hear how he plays his own songs these days. Very different than the album versions you are used to. I definitely didn't recognize some songs until a certain hook in the vocals or something.
Overall, an amazing show, great to see Bob in a place that small.
Setlist:
1. Maggie's Farm
2. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
3. Lonesome Day Blues
4. Just Like A Woman
5. Things Have Changed
6. Tell Me That It Isn't True
7. Highway 61 Revisited
8. Can't Wait
9. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
10. High Water (For Charley Patton)
11. It Ain't Me Babe
12. Honest With Me
13. Saving Grace
14. Summer Days
Encore:
15. Cat's In The Well
16. Like A Rolling Stone
17. All Along The Watchtower
By (Skadz). [Geeks, Guitars and Guinness]
6:51:53 AM
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Message From Userland Software
Scheduled Maintenance for Radio: We are in the final exciting stages of moving Radio UserLand servers over to new equipment that will provide a better experience when publishing or reading your Radio weblog. All the content is already being upstreamed to the new server and existing content has already been moved. There is really nothing you need to do. The server changes will not require you to re-publish your site or make any changes to your Radio configuration. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us directly at webmaster@userland.com. Dates to keep in mind are: Wednesday, March 31 for the Salon Radio UserLand Community Server and Friday, April 2 for the Radio UserLand Community Server. We appreciate your patience. We think you will love the results. [Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
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Monday, March 29, 2004 |
Celestial Moments
The sky last night showed Luna with Saturn.
High up in the sky, Jupiter hung right under the lion. Here is the planet flanked by two of her moons, Io and Europa. The photograph below was made with the same 180mm f/2.8 lens tht I shot the dog show with.
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Distributed Computing
Folding Proteins at Home. As part of a groundbreaking distributed computing experiment, Noah Johnson and half a million other people are donating their spare computer capacity so Stanford University scientists can remotely simulate protein folding, an essential biochemical process that controls vital body functions. [Mar 29] [Apple Hot News]
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Sunday, March 28, 2004 |
Moving Pictures
 Gooch To The Rescue
This blog has always been devoted to independent and digital filmmaking. Given the budgetary constraints that seem to go hand-in-hand with this type of filmmaking, it's with great pleasure that I get to post today's link from Mike Luciano. Luciano is an avid DV filmmaker who is always looking for ways to make better films more economically. In class, we've been discussing ways to make shots more visually appealing (and, accordingly, the often painful cost of renting dollies, jibs, cranes and such. )
Gooch located a site with tons of plans for economical versions of all of the above. Home Built Stabilizers has an amazing link page. One of the best links on the page is to the site of Ron Dexter. A professional cinematographer, Dexter (pictured above) graciously shares lots of practical information in his site. There's a lot of reading there.
Dexter recommends DV Moves. The best thing on the site is their video of their camera in action. It definitely elevates the quality of the shot in a heartbeat. Finally, Cody Deegan has a book with plans for another stabilizer and comparison videos on his site. If you're aching to tell your story with moving pictures instead of a bunch of static, tripod talking heads, check out these sites. [Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog]
9:23:18 AM
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Notes: Ottmar Liebert on Flamenco Roots
Sephardic Jews in Turkey. Interesting article I found on the web regarding Sephardic Jews in Turkey.
Our story begins in March, 1492, when after the fall of Granada which marked the end of the Reconquista, the Catholic monarchs of Spain, Isabella of Castille and Ferdinand of Aragon, together with their fanatical prime minister Torquemada, decided to send all the Jews who refused to be converted into exile. Approximately 200,000 Spanish Jews were exiled towards the north of Europe, and also spread out in branches throughout the Mediterranean area. It is of course, quite difficult to estimate the exact number of refugees in every country but according to some historians about 93,000 Jews came to the Ottoman Empire.
This seems to somewhat dispute what Paco says in the interview regarding the influence of Sephardic music on Flamenco. If 200,000 Spanish Jews were exiled at the end of the 15th century, how could they influence Flamenco that much? However, it is possible that a large enough group of Sephardic Jews remained in Spain at the time, and maybe met with other persecuted peoples like the Gypsys and the Arabs. I think it is highly likely that Flamenco started at the cultural intersection of these three ethnic groups. [Ottmar Liebert]
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World Music Central - Interview with Paco de LucÌa
Interview w Paco. Nice interview with Paco DeLucia from last December. I found some Sephardic scores and there I noticed the great influence that this music has in Flamenco. I used to think that Flamenco was more influenced by the Arab culture, but I am pretty sure now that it is more linked to the Sephardic music made at Toledo at that time.
At the end of 1988 I played guitar at a resort hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. After one set a man came up to me and said that my playing reminded him of Sephardic music. Up to that time I had always assumed that Flamenco was mostly Arabic in nature, with bits and pieces from India and stops along the Gypsy migration... [Ottmar Liebert]
9:16:18 AM
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Ah Yes....Mister B.I.M
 This is your Bishop Information Minister speaking. Enough repeats for today. The stupid person known as The Cartoonist will be back tomorrow. I'll bugger off now, crawling back into my damp hole in the Garden, underneath the pond, where that silly prat has ordered me to stay. I've had enough anyway. I'll go back into politics. I could easily become a spin doctor. See ya. [The Cartoonist]
9:05:20 AM
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The Simputer
Simputer ships. The Simputer, my favorite example of socially responsible vaporware, has finally become a hard reality, the Associated Press reports. It's a low-cost, Linux-powered handheld computer designed by Indian scientists in 2001 to introduce computing to populations too poor to afford... [seattlepi.com Buzzworthy]
9:03:11 AM
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Mister B.I.M.
 This is your Bishop Information Minister speaking. The person known as The Cartoonist has been busy walking The Streets of London [MP3, 4MB] together with his uncle from Hamburg, who was so kind to supply him with the 1960's issues of 'film'. So I'm simply going to post a few repeats from September and order you to check out the Cartoonist's archives! The stupid bugger (aka The Cartoonist) will be back tomorrow. [The Cartoonist]
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Saturday, March 27, 2004 |
Bee In Flight
Bee in flight:
I saw something like this on the DP Review forum recently and wanted to try it myself. I used a 24-120mm Nikkor with Vibration Reduction technology and the D100's built in fill flash. Here's more insects. [101-365]
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Internet History: J.C.R. Licklider
--- It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a 'thinking center' that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval.
The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services. In such a system, the speed of the computers would be balanced, and the cost of the gigantic memories and the sophisticated programs would be divided by the number of users. ---
- J.C.R. Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis, 1960.
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Friday, March 26, 2004 |
motion
Prius Awards + synergy. 
Check out all of the awards the Prius has been getting with the title link.
And this is what the Prius is all about: the synergy betweeen gas-engine, electric motor, generator and traction battery. One reason it works so well is that here is no conventional starter, where gears grind together to start up the engine. I am told that the Prius starts the conventional gas engine via magnetic induction instead of gears. This is very important because the engine is turned on and off many times during a drive. Every time you come to a standstill for more than a few seconds, the engine is turned off automatically. If you should need to move quickly there is the electric motor to get you going and the engine is turned on right away as well. All of this happens automatically and you would never even notice the interplay unless you choose to look at the display. [Ottmar Liebert]
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Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
Free Shrimp For Earthlings
Free Shrimp For All Earthlings!.  You'd swear this was an Onion story, but it's true -- Long John Silver's is giving away free giant shrimp because of the recent discovery of evidence of an ancient flowing body of salt water on Mars:
"We can't wait to celebrate NASA's out-of-this-world success, and there's no better way to recognize their giant accomplishments than with free Giant Shrimp for America."
The only connections I can think of between the discovery and giant shrimp are that perhaps LJS's is admitting that these giant mutant shrimp are actually not from earth, or perhaps that the discovery of salt water on Mars opens the possibility of shrimp farming on the red planet, which would certainly be much better for our environment considering that shrimp is one of the worst species to eat because of the environmental impacts of their harvest...but then again, they are so tasty, especially wrapped in bacon....
via boingboing [Street Tech]
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Via Ed Cone
A pair of Picassos from the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC-Greensboro
Maternite
Picasso, Pablo
1963
color lithograph
Paolo as Harlequin with Flowers
Picasso, Pablo
1923
color etching on paper [EdCone.com]
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Monday, March 22, 2004 |
Wind and Solar Energy Prices
Wind and solar experience curves: " with each doubling of world wind-generating capacity, costs fall by 15 percent. The recent growth rate of 31 percent a year means costs are dropping by 15 percent about every 30 months. While natural-gas prices are highly volatile, the cost of wind power is declining. .. [Solar PV] industry experts estimate that with each doubling of cumulative production, the price drops roughly 20 percent. Over the last seven years, solar-cell sales expanded an average of 31 percent annually, doubling every 2.6 years." [Ken Novak: Future energy]
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Sunday, March 21, 2004 |
From CGRB
"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
Film Director
"I steal from every movie ever made."
Quentin Tarantino (1963 - )
Film Hack
[Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog]
12:20:55 PM
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Word of Mouth: More Passengers on the Cluetrain
Cluetrain Conversations. I am currently reading Cluetrain Manifesto. I know I am way late on this one. In the essay "Markets are Conversations" by Doc Searls and David Weinberger, they talk about customers and word of mouth: It's nothing new, in one sense. The only advertising that was ever truly effective was word of mouth. , which is nothing more than conversation. Now word of mouth has gone global. The one-to-many scope that technology brought to mass production and then mass marketing, which producers have enjoyed for two hundred years, is now available to customers. And they're eager to make up for... [A Penny For...]
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Saturday, March 20, 2004 |
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Friday, March 19, 2004 |
Gas Electric Hybrid
Toyota Prius. 
This car definitely exceeds my expectations. Apparently Toyota is subsidizing the Prius in order to bring it to the market at this low price. This is a smart investment as they are developing the car rapidly and getting feedback from drivers. I am told that Ford is licensing last year's Hybrid tech from Toyota and that this 2004 model already incorporates a lot of improvements.The entry system is keyless and no key is needed to start the car. A brief push of the power button is all it takes to get going. The small drive selector resembles a gear shift, but could have been a couple of buttons as it is completely drive by wire. The car is quiet and actually quite zippy.The bluetooth system built into the car works well. I was able to pair my T610 cellphone with the Prius on the way home from the dealer and downloaded my phonebook into the car in about a minute.The navigations system seems to work very well. I have had Nav systems in a few rental cars over the years and they always seemed clunky, but this is smooth.When I got home I fired up a hair dryer to soften the glue/cement used to attach signs + labels to the body and removed all insignia, except the Toyota sign in front and back. They have holes underneath them or I would have taken them off as well...So, if you see a insignia-less Prius, honk because it is probably me..... I bet that Jon's acoustic bass would fit in the back with the rear seats folded down. This car is amazingly roomy! [Ottmar Liebert]
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Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
The Mini Cooper Robot
 The Mini Cooper Robot. Amazing. A proper robot at last? Check out the videos. Via linkfilter.I first had the vision to build a robot while working as an engineer on the old Mini Coopers in the late 1960s. There were no real robots at the time of course, so it was purely science-fiction. But I always believed a robot would be the most natural complement to the automobile - a full biped, intelligent version having great strength, dexterity and a library of mechanical knowledge. I imagined a robot with the ability to repair vehicles, direct traffic and watch over high-accident crossroads to preempt accidents. [The Cartoonist]
6:40:38 PM
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Mac OS X Downloads
 Mac OSX Downloads
While I continue to database catalogs, I also spend time searching Bloglines for exciting tidbits of information. I always find exciting freeware or shareware things at MacOSX Downloads. Today, I found MahJong and a MIDI Percussion Program. I also ordered iLife 4 just to get Garage Band and the updated iDVD.
I am aching to get some digital filmmaking projects going. It is only exacerbated since The Promethean (Kohl Glass's film) took BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM at Cinequest. It gets the fires of creative desire burning white-hot! [Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog]
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 |
P2P Information Sharing
P2P in the US Gov't. /. reports that the Department of Homeland Security has selected Groove Networks P2P infrastructure for sharing information among its staff members. Groove’s website provides the core info: Groove Networks Inc., a leading provider of secure virtual office software that lets... [datacloud]
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Monday, March 15, 2004 |
The Edge of Real
The Edge of Real.
That's a photo from the far edge of Real de Catorce. Its about a 15 minute walk to the far side of town where you enter through a 3km long mining tunnel, one lane wide. The road continues out on the other side of town, but I never saw a single car on it. [Abstract Dynamics]
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 |
Ocean Wave Energy Converter
Ocean Power Delivery Limited: "Ocean Power Delivery Ltd has developed a novel offshore wave energy converter called Pelamis. Building on technology developed for the offshore industry, the Pelamis has a similar output to a modern wind turbine... It is anticipated that future `wave farm' projects would consist of an arrangement of interlinked multi-machines connected to shore by a single subsea cable. A typical 30MW installation would occupy a square kilometre of ocean .. " The final full-scale prototype machine is built and being prepared for initial sea trials which will begin at the beginning of March.
Animation available. News story summarizes operation: "The 750 kW Pelamis machine measures 120m long by 3.5m wide (about the size of four train carriages) .. [It] is a semi-submerged, articulated structure composed of cylindrical sections linked by hinged joints. The wave-induced motion of these joints is resisted by hydraulic rams, which pump high-pressure oil through hydraulic motors via smoothing accumulators. The hydraulic motors drive electrical generators to produce electricity. Power from all the joints is fed down a single umbilical cable to a junction on the sea bed. Several devices can be connected together and linked to shore through a single seabed cable. A novel joint configuration is used to induce a tuneable, cross-coupled resonant response, which greatly increases power capture in small seas..
The machine is held in position by a mooring system, for which a patent has been applied for, comprising of a combination of floats and weights which prevent the mooring cables becoming taut .. Ideally the Pelamis would be moored in waters approximately 50-60m in depth (often 5-10km from the shore). This would allow access to the great potential of the larger swell waves but it would avoid the costs involved in a longer submarine cable .. the prototype design [meets] (DNV) offshore codes and standards."
[Ken Novak: Future energy]
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Tuesday, March 9, 2004 |
101-365, Corner Pocket
Rear curtain pool action
These photos were done with a 1/10 second exposure and a rear curtain synced flash. The flash was given 2/3rds of a stop less and the exposure was cut by a full stop to create the 'trail' look. [101-365]
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Monday, March 8, 2004 |
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Thursday, March 4, 2004 |
Information Flow: New Zealand --> U.S. --> .............
There is no End User. That is the revelation that hit me a couple of days ago. There is no End User in Information Flow (which is a term I am using a lot these days, along with "Bottom-Up Knowledge Management"). It took a 1997 presentation to tell me this.
In the article I'm currently writing for Digital Web Magazine, I mention that in the mid-90's websites were designed for "viewers", or an "audience" - which is broadcasting terminology. However since the turn of the century, it's been all about Users Users Users. We're supposed to design websites for "customers" or people who will "use" them.
Nowadays, weblogs and wikis are all about reading and writing. It's a constant flow and information doesn't have a destination. There is no End User.
When we write and publish, we may well be targeting a group of people who will use our content in a specific way. That's certainly still true of most corporate websites and intranets. Maybe some weblogs too. But weblogs are also perhaps showing the way it will be in the future. With weblogs, our readers don't just "use" information - they re-mix it, add to it, edit it, comment on it, dis it, transform it, link it, pass it on, etc. The word "use" doesn't really do justice to all these activities. Don't you think? I'd be interested in your feedback. [Read/Write Web]
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Tuesday, March 2, 2004 |
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More on Music and Other Media
Music Connections
Music-related links are the topic of the day. Music marketing information can be found at Buzz Factor. Another resource is Music Business Solutions for information on marketing and selling your music. A great place to find alternative and smaller distributors' CDs is CD Baby.
Also Music to my Ears: Without A Box is now FREE to filmmakers. Formerly $70 annually, the festival registration service gets its primary funding from festivals. This is GREAT news! (Thanks to Kohl Glass for the update on that one!)
How Did I Miss This?  A student from Scottsdale Community College had a short film in the 2004 Sundance film festival. Larry Blackhorse Lowe had Shush in the Indigenous Shorts category. The film also appears to have appeared in the AIFI (American Indian Film Institute) in San Francisco, the Native Voice Film Festival in South Dakota, Canada's Image Nation Film Festival and The New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.
[Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog]
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Books Via Cyndi Greening
 Batch of Good Books
Anyone who has taken a design class from me knows that I am a BIG fan of John McWade's Before & After Magazine. I would always refer students to his website, PageLab.Com and urge them to subscribe to his publication. Now, many of the best projects in the magazine have been compiled in a book. Very worthwhile!
In the realm of film production, well, there's always a slew of new books coming out. Lately, I'm looking at $30 Film School. That's pretty good. Ross gave me Digital Filmmaking 101. I'm fond of this book because it's written by a couple of dudes from Wisconsin. Economy and necessity would have to drive their filmmaking! [Cyndi Greening's Radio Blog]
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XML / RSS / PR
RSS moves closer to mainstream.... Well RSS gots some well deserved attention during the weekend with an AP story "Enthusiasts Call Web Feed Next Big Thing".
The story prompted some lively discussion on Slashdot and PR blogger Greg Brooks bravely got involved.
The story is very upbeat and features practically every major blogger on the Internet...
"Remember when you first starting seeing URLs appear on billboards and at the end of movie trailers?" Zawodny wrote in his blog in December. "It's going to be like that. One day we're just going to look around and realize that RSS is popping up all over the place. And a couple years later, we'll all wonder how we ever got along without it."
Of course RSS isn't mainstream, you could argue (in awful 1990's parlance) it hasn't even crossed the chasm, but it's certainly reached the edge.
What does this mean for PR people? Right now it's still in it's early stages, but it's no harm to begin offering corporate news over RSS. You might be surprised with the results. [PR Opinions]
9:18:01 AM
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Update From Self-Publishers Event Council of Chicago
Okay folks, we need readers IMMEDIATELY for upcoming events:
Saturday, March 13 at Mojoe's Cafe Lounge (2256 W. Roscoe, Chicago)
After the roaring success of our Friday, Feb. 13 show, it looks like we
are
going to be producing monthly shows at the friendly and relaxed Mojoe's
Cafe
Lounge. This show is going to be hosted by the inimitable Emerson
Dameron,
and the theme of this reading event is "Bad Habits."
Saturday, April 10 at Mojoe's Cafe Lounge (2256 W. Roscoe, Chicago)
Host and theme t.b.a., but if you're available and are up to the
challenge,
let us know. If you are really brave and would like to host & come up
with a
theme for the reading, give us a holler....
Saturday, April 24 at the WLUW Record & Zine Fair, Pulaski Park
Fieldhouse
in Wicker Park (1419 W. Blackhawk; corner of Blackhawk & Noble,
Chicago)
The entire event runs from 10 am - 6 pm, during which SPEC Chicago will
be
providing a variety of readings, workshops and panels:
The schedule is as follows:
10:00-11:20 am: workshop - "how to make a zine" group zine project
11:30-12:50 pm: panel - "Radio Station panel"
1:00-1:50 pm: readings - [6 to 8 readers]
2:00-3:20 pm: workshop - "how to workshop a zine - the basics of
critical
analysis"
3:30-4:50 pm: panel - "FCC panel"
5:00-6:00 pm: readings - [6 to 8 readers]
If you are interested in reading in the 1 pm or 5 pm time slot, or in
either
workshop or panel, please contact us ASAP!!!
This is going to be a huge event, with over one thousand people
expected
during the day. As Shawn Campbell, Program Director at WLUW 88.7 FM
indicated: "We have set table rentals for the event at $50 for a 6
foot table. The record fair is a fundraiser for WLUW. Vendors keep
100% of
what they sell - WLUW makes its money off table rental and admission at
the
door ($7, $5 with flyer)." She also mentioned to me giving a discount
on the
table cost to members of / participants in SPEC Chicago, as we're
organizing
eight hours of programming to round out the event, and to bring more
self-publishing friendly folks out to support the cause of community
radio
(& find all kinds of great deals on records, printed matter, and most
good
flea market-type finds). If you're interested in getting a table or
going-in
with another person/group for a table at a reduced rate, please let me
know,
and we'll see what kinda deal can be swung. Cool?
contact: Brent Ritzel, 773.269.2918, spec@selfpublishers.org,
http://www.selfpublishers.org
And don't forget to attend these upcoming events:
Tuesday, March 2 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at DePaul University (Schmitt
Academic
Center [SAC] room 154, 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue in Chicago).
SPEC Chicago, in conjunction with DePaul University's radio station
(WRDP at
http://radio.depaul.edu), presents an evening of readings featuring a
variety of Chicago-area self-publishing luminaries. This event will be
filmed by the DePaul TV station, on only their second day of existence.
This is an all-ages, free show (though we strongly encourage
donations).
Contact Brent Ritzel at spec@selfpublishers.org or call him at
773.269.2918
for more information.
hosted by Brandon Wetherbee (WRDP program director, Foul Inc. -
http://www.foulinc.com)
Emerson Dameron (Kazoo zine - http://www.selfpublishers.org/features.htm)
Mitchell Szczepanczyk (Chicago Media Action -
http://www.chicagomediaaction.org)
Louis Silverstein (Columbia College professor)
Alicia Dorr (Random Life In Progress zine, Zine Guide -
http://randomlifeinprogress.blogspot.com)
Brent Ritzel (Zine Guide, Tail Spins Magazine - http://www.zineguide.net)
Kurt Heintz (E-poets Network - http://www.e-poets.net)
Aaron Cynic (Diatribe zine - http://www.diatribemedia.com)
Keight Sandler (Backstabber zine - http://www.selfpublishers.org/features.htm)
Billy Roberts (Her & Proot I Exist zines, Loop Zine Distro -
http://www.loopdistro.com)
Andrew Mall (Living Proof zine - http://www.atm4.net)
David David Katzman (author of ©[macron]Death By Zamboni©[breve] novel -
www.daviddavid.net)
Jeremy P. Bushnell (http://www.imaginaryyear.com)
Michelle Aiello (Inidgo zine)
Matt Fagan (Meniscus zine)
Dan Rockwood (independent writer, Zine Guide webmaster -
http://www.zineguide.net)
Saturday, March 20 from 8:00 to 11:00 pm at the Independent Video
Alliance
(7009 N. Glenwood, Chicago). SPEC Chicago is co-sponsoring a benefit
for
Redline Radio (99.1 FM reaching Rogers Park, Edgewater, Uptown,
Evanston and
Lincolnwood), featuring an evening of irrelevant films and irreverant
readings. This is an all-ages show with a $5 cover charge. Contact
Brent
Ritzel at spec@selfpublishers.org or call him at 773.269.2918 for more
information.
readers include:
Al Burian (Burn Collector zine)
Emerson Dameron (Kazoo zine)
Brent Ritzel (Zine Guide, Tail Spins Magazine)
Alicia Dorr (Random Life In Progress zine, Zine Guide)
Noah Berlatsky (publisher of "Angry White Clerihew")
Dan Rockwood (Vanilla Virus zine)
...and others to be announced!
Friday, April 16 in the evening at Ann Sather (929 W. Belmont in
Chicago).
SPEC Chicago is co-sponsoring Gapers' Block Party II with the popular
local
web magazine (http://www.gapersblock.com). This huge knockout dragout party
will
feature more readings PLUS A WHOLE LOT MORE. Contact Brent Ritzel at
spec@selfpublishers.org or call him at 773.269.2918 for more
information.
readers include:
Larry O. Dean (http://www.larryodean.com)
Wendy McClure (http://www.poundy.com)
Emerson Dameron (Kazoo zine)
Aaron Cynic (Diatribe zine)
Keight Sandler (Backstabber zine)
Alicia Dorr (Random Life In Progress zine, Zine Guide)>
Brent Ritzel (Zine Guide, Tail Spins Magazine)
Michelle Aiello (Inidgo zine)
...and others to be annouced
Love you all, send any questions our way... and get back to us ASAP
concerning your interest in reading at one or more of the above events.
Brent Ritzel & the various other entities that inhabit the SPEC Chicago
space
spec@selfpublishers.org
773.269.2918 - Brent's phone number
http://www.selfpublishers.org
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Why not. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 
The book 
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Space Art. [2] Ancient Mars, there's water everywhere. 
Space Art. [1] 
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Bloomington by Gaslight. Now this is a really nice exhibition: 
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Casshern. No idea what this is about, it's all in Japanese and comes straight from the .jpg)
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Funny. In fact, very funny. 
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Bon Voyage. Journeys over land & sea. Journeys of the mind. Journeys of the imagination. 
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