Archive for April, 2008
One Second Film Festival
I was there in the first one, and it’s brilliant!Third ONE SECOND VIDEO FESTIVAL extended its deadline till 5/5/2008
////jury:
The winner will be selected by a formula that combines the Gambling Online and the algorithm DEEP DREDD.
////rewards:
+ In this edition you can bet for the prize-winning video and gain some good money to cash or to spend on our favourite website virtual casino: UNIBET
+ THE VIDEO WINNER WILL INCREASE HIS/HER ECONOMY IN AT LEAST 500 EUROS.
+ watch the Bingo conference for the presentation of the festival (spanish)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=65141081480C642C[/youtube]
////dates:
1 April - 5 May : UPLOAD videos
5 May - 9 May : BETTING on videos
10 May : online PRIZING
////requisites:
_ fill up the application form
_ upload the 1 second video (.mov .wmv .avi .mpg) _ upload a snapshot of the vide
i.mirror: Second Life Documentary
I saw this film/machinima at NYUFF last month, I found them on Youtube and I thought you guys might be interested. It was also featured as part of the China Pavilion in the 2007 Venice Biennale
i.Mirror is a documentary in three acts recorded through China Tracy, the Second Life avatar of artist Cao Fei. The video opens with a poetic overture to the world of Second Life, followed by a waltzing, in-game romance between the artist and a man not exactly who he seems. i.Mirror’s conclusion is a montaged roll call of Second Life’s citizens, each peering into the camera—China Tracy—as they might the reflection of their own eyes. As the sequence crescendos, the mood of yearning held throughout the video shifts to triumph and the auras of real people peek through their digital fantasies. (NYUFF catalog description)
PART 1
More on the workings of OLPC…
Hey guys, here is a link to a video I found about how OLPC works - everything about the technology of the little green laptop! Enjoy…
Closing post- My Youtube videos
After constructing two completely different videos, I have received a total of 260 views, (114 for the older video 146 for the newer one.) Â If you haven’t seen them yet, feel free to check out my youtube channel where you will find both of them.
I have learned SO much from inserting myself into the youtube community. Â Here’s a little summary of the main points:
- Making a video that the world can see does not guarantee that the world will see it
- Creating content can be difficult and daunting for first time users
- Comments and views often must be solicited in order to garner any response
Read the rest of this entry »What Fresh Hell is THIS?!?!?!
PLAGIARIZED I SAY
http://8bitcollective.com/images/GonZo/Donkey+Kong+IN+REAL+LIFE%21%21/
This guy…he basically ripped my idea and my title! This is quite an interesting little development; I think it’s a little too similar to be happenstance. I’ll post a comment and see what happens…maybe we’ll see how the Creative Commons licensed 8-bit community takes to this kind of thing…
a little more current update on the happenings of the OLPC project…
Sad to say, but perhaps the nice video of Dr. Negropronte might be a spector of days gone by…if you want to get edumacated on whats happing right now, try this:
Summary for the Final Week…
Kiss and Make-Up?
So I waited a week to let things calm down and to give myself a chance to see whether some of the members of womansavers.com would include or ignore me if I joined them in the community chat room. I was intrigued to find that, although I may have caused some upset with my post, they didn’t hold a grudge and were quick to give me another chance and include me in their conversation, and their community. Before I describe the email and feedback I personally received, before I was ‘forgiven’, I am going to compare the variety of reactions I did get to my post, on both womansavers.com and dontdatehimgirl.com…
Read the rest of this entry »From The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Before the semester is gone, here’s a message we got from one of the lurkers on our blog:
Did you know that
- In the top box office G-rated movies from 1990-2005 three out of four characters are male?
- In the top box office G-rated movies from 1990-2005, plots with female leads often revolve around physical appearance and the ability to attract a male?
- That the prevalence of female characters being depicted as sexy (scantily clad, bedroom eyes, females valued for appearance rather than strength of inner character) is as high in G-rated films as in R-rated content?
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (GDIGM) works with the entertainment industry to reverse these discrepancies. In 2004, Geena Davis sat with her pre-school age daughter watching television and movies, and they both began to notice something: a lack of female characters. Davis thought, if my daughter notices, then what message does this send to all children? She went on to raise funds for the largest research project ever undertaken on gender in children’s entertainment (4 discrete studies, including one on children’s television) and to found GDIGM (pronounced Gee-dime). Learn more at www.thegeenadavisinstitute.org.
——————————–Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks again,
Melody Morrell
Program AssociateFinal week: Wikimarathon, Digital Divide and Postnationism
The next week would be our last, so I want us to go on a wikimarathon and get the process we discussed in class going. The main focus in my view would be to discuss our work this semester through the themes - meaning not make this deliberately a summary of the course, repeating information which is already in the blog, but work on a manual addressed at the embed researcher. Write theme pages and then refer to the your travelogues with links from it. No need to repeat what we already have on the blog. Ideally we will have a theme which refers to several different travelogues to make its point.
Please continue the good work here: http://www.mushon.com/spr08/nmrs/wiki/ (don’t forget to log in)
Before you do anything, please log in and provide your real name (or something we can cross reference with the blog). Now you are welcomed to start editing.
More discussion can happen on the wiki discussion pages, here on our blog, or on Max’s weird chat thingie… (any chance we can embed it in the wiki’s sidebar?)
Please make sure to each make at least 20 edits this week, or in other words, make sure you edit so much that you stop counting. This wiki is what we leave behind this class and will be what you take with you from it.
Required Reading:
Frost, Catherine “Internet Galaxy Meets Postnational Constellation: Prospects for Political Solidarity After the Internet†(a pdf will be emailed to you, please do not share.)
Required viewing:
Nicolas Negroponte, â€Interview with Riz Khan” Al-Jazeera October 2007:
For Stephanie & a volunteer:
- Read the article and view the presentations
- Summarize it for us in a nicely accessible post to be published by Sunday (the 27th), ideally running some threads between them.
- Add to the themes covered to the wiki (hint: look at the title for this post)
- Be prepared to present the article and lead the discussion in class
- Post to del.icio.us some links that expand the discussion either about the text or about key themes in it.
