Glitter re-visited (deadly and disembodied)
Image Credit: NortonH / T to my mom for sending me the video in response to last week's postLast week on Viz I posted about glitter as an undermining agent in images of solemnity. In this commercial...
View ArticleMulti-Media New Orleans
"Hey Cafe Magazine St. Uptown NOLA Jan. 2010" byInfrogmationVia FlickrThis weekend, I visited a friend in New Orleans. On Sunday, we sat in plastic chairs outside a coffee shop along Magazine...
View ArticleWhen Humor Hurts - Domestic Violence PSAs (part one)
Image credit: The OPCC via YouTubeH/T to Rachel for suggesting the topic sending me the clipAlthough Halloween is behind us, and we've packed up the glam make-up and eaten all the goodies, I'd like to...
View ArticleWar Games - Isao Hashimoto
"1945-1998" by Isao HashimotoOriginally created in 2003 by the Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto, "1945-1998" maps all 2053 nuclear explosions during that period. read more
View ArticleReboot: Teaching You Tube by Emily Bloom
Youtube is (as self-reflexive as my video book)via MediaPraxisme H/T Justin HodgsonLast month, MIT press published Alexandra's Juhasz newest scholarship in what they are terming a video-book format....
View ArticleTOMS'"One Day Without Shoes" - Awareness, Activism, Advertising?
"One Day Without Shoes 2011," TOMS via YoutubeToday TOMS shoes conducted its second annual One Day Without Shoes campaign in which anyone (wherever in the privileged world) was encouraged to go without...
View ArticleLesson Plan - Teaching Poetry with Image Databases
Image credit: My video "reading" of Donald Revell's "Election Year"Last semester I began to experiment with various programs, particularly iMovie, as I think about how I'd make digital technology part...
View ArticleYouTube & Fair Use
Recently, one of my YouTube videos was automatically removed for "copyright violations." I decided to take a closer look into YouTube's policies and found they may be dissuading users from exercising...
View ArticleYouTube & Fair Use (Part II)
Image Credit: Scott Nelson, Creative Commons, Attribute, Share-AlikeLast week, I addressed only the first stages in a YouTube copyright dispute. Should a copyright holder wish to issue a Digital...
View ArticleHurricane Irene, Internet Argument, and Punishment
As the Northeast prepared for Hurricane Irene last week, southerners who had weathered dozens of hurricanes sent both insults and helpful advice to their less-experienced neighbors in the north. The...
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