Why bother with Joost?
A few months ago I received my invitation to use Joost, a new, legal peer-to-peer distribution software for Web video. Although hyped (by Joost execs) as both the future of television and streaming...
View ArticleThis seems to be the month for Israel-Palestine video games
I’m not exactly sure why Peacemaker was on NPR this morning, since they covered the gamemaker almost exactly one year ago. Like political art that doesn’t take into account its role as a market luxury...
View ArticleWho made this artwork?
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine, the artist Judi Werthein, asked me to participate in a book project she is organizing. The project involves, in her words, writing “a story you’ve been told...
View ArticleThree Questions for Shelly Silver
© Shelly Silver. in complete world, 2008. Video still. Courtesy Shelly Silver John Menick: Rather than begin with photo or video, I wanted to bring up the third medium What I’m Looking For deals with:...
View ArticleScott Kirsner on Technology and the Film Industry
Scott Kirsner — columnist, blogger and author of Inventing the Movies — speaking to the folks at Google. I’ve been meaning to read Inventing the Movies for a couple of weeks now. It’s one of the few...
View ArticleBookmarks Clearance Sale — 12/14/08
This week’s selection of somewhat fresh links presented here for your time-wasting pleasure: FiveThirtyEight debunks the myth that African-Americans are to be held responsible for Prop 8 passing. Old...
View ArticleOpening: A Series of Coincidences
I’m showing Hearsay in “A Series of Coincidences,” a group exhibition curated Regine Basha opening this Saturday (Feb 21) at Cabinet’s new exhibition space. Stop by if you get a chance. Details follow....
View ArticleHearsay (2010)
This year’s version of Hearsay, an ongoing project collecting hearsay I’ve heard from the previous year.
View Article“Paris Syndrome” Now Available on Vimeo and YouTube
My 2010 short documentary, “Paris Syndrome,” is now available on Vimeo and YouTube.
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