Assignment: Share – Day Two
As promised, here’s an open thread to share today’s contributions…
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December 15th, 2009 at 3:55 am
R.A.W.
self promotion
All that is, is metaphor.
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December 15th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Um, OK … how do I edit the HTML in a comment?
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December 15th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Sharing History: I’m a bit of late arrival so this will count both as an introduction of self, and as my daily sharing assignment. I’ve been absent from the “ write” part of the Read Write Web for the last several months, and it’s a bit odd to be participating here rather than trying to catch up on all the projects that I’ve left hanging. I probably should say something about who I am, why I’m here, and what I’m about, but that would presume a body of knowledge which I frankly lack. I’m trying to figure all that out; I suppose in some sense we all are. As self identified artist of one sort or another I’ve been thinking about sharing pretty much since I was old enough to think about thinking. Here’s something from the late 80s; perhaps a bit long, but not without interest.
Chess from Donal Little on Vimeo.
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kath Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
@dmlittle, interesting – esp the pace – it seemed a lot slower than web-videos these days. I suppose that’s due to the vhs/tape format with less bandwidth issues and people had longer attention spans. I liked the idea of sending the floppy disks with comments/notes back to you as feedback – the precursor to web/blog comments in a way. we were tossing up the idea of doing an art video zine on usb key or cd/dvd and sending them out to people like you did with the sending 6 and they pass it on (bit like the chain letters – a chain video art movie?)
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:35 am
@psychegram, Comments are automatically in html format, ie you can use html tags directly.
Posts, on the other hand, are in wysiwyg (Visual tab). You have to click on the HTML tab to go into HTML mode and embed videos.
Wordpress has a Preview button so you can see what you’ve written before Publish-ing. This is how I learned about the Visual and HTML tag.
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December 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am
How far will you go for what you believe in?
Activists climb up Sydney Opera House sail
Never say never but I think I will never be like one of these activists.
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malyn Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 10:05 am
@malyn, Here’s the SMH article link again…
Activists climb up Sydney Opera House sail
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December 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Maybe this is cheating because I just posted it on twitter, but I rather obsessively follow the constantly unfolding political drama in Thailand. This link sums up pretty much everything that is happening right now, in case you’re interested in the fate of the nation-state that once the US’ strongest ally in Southeast Asia (Viet Nam, ironically enough, is or probably will supercede it, according to various CRS reports I’ve read.)
Five Political Risks to Watch in Thailand
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December 15th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
one of my favourite sites…
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/topic.html
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psychegram Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
@amt, That is incredibly cool. It is incredibly cool that you think that is cool. Are you spoken for? Mary me.
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amt Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
@psychegram, sorry, I’d like to consider your offer but I think I’m in love with donal little, circa 1980s…
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malyn Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
@amt, beautiful resource – esp for a maths teacher like me; geometry is quite likely my weakest link in maths.
thanks.
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ctucker Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@amt, amazing!
@malyn, second that! The only geometry class I ever took, the teacher was semi-retired and gave final grade percentage points for watering his plants. I thought it was luck that I had a green thumb, until I hit calculus and they expected me to know all the geometrical relations!
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December 15th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
today I’m sharing one of my favourite music artists – Jane Siberry / ISSA (she just emailed her list and said she’s known as JS again)
my favourite albums are “WHEN I WAS A BOY” and “MARIA” – both are perfect for Sunday mornings, reading or relaxing over a leisurely coffee & breakfast, especially if sitting on a warm sunny balcony watching the world go by
http://issalight.com is her website & http://www.sheeba.ca is her store
I’d written a blog post about her “self-determined pricing policy” a while ago – she’d been doing it before radiohead made it more popular. she shares her music with you as a ‘gift from Issa’ or you can nominate a price to pay
and I’d made a quick video using part of her “Mimi on the beach” song for a video project I was doing in 2008
if you’re in sydney in march, then she’s performing in newtown : “the evening is about sharing music and creating community” nice. via project-sisu – it will be a low key salon tour. she’d asked people to host them in various cities – I thought about it but didn’t know enough people in Sydney who might want to come along, and I didn’t think they’d go to the western suburbs, but as it turns out, I’ll be moving to the inner west early next year anyway.
if you’re in other places, her tour page lists where she’ll be in 2010
and for some reading, a review of her recent performance in NYT
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December 15th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Smoking Mirrors, the political commentary of Les Visible. “As long as certain twisted souls feel the need to lie, cheat and murder to achieve their ends some of us need to keep pointing it out…” I’ve been following Les’ work for a couple of years now. He’s been an immense influence on my life in that time, on multiple levels. He’s sort of a hero of mine, as well as a teacher, and a friend.
Everything he does – not just the blogs, but the music and the literature too – he shares with the world for free. His material needs are few and all accounted for. He lives like a monk in the mountains of Italy, tending his olive groves, meditating, talking to his invisible friends in the Devic realm, observing the world and speaking his mind about it, to anyone who will listen, whether or not anyone does listen, and regardless of what anyone thinks about what he says. That the Dog Poet is a mad literary genius is only gravy: what really matters is that he’s done enough real inner work to have things to say that are really worth listening to.
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December 15th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
And here’s my sharing from day two, a photo of my friend Steven on Bondi Beach in Sydney…
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December 16th, 2009 at 12:36 am
here’s a shared music group I made using the handy website-tool called SOUNDCLOUD.
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December 16th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Today I want to share a film adaptation of A Christmas Carol that I started watching yesterday during lunch: Scrooge (1935), directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, who also starred in the silent 1913 version.
The whole film is available for free at Archive.org, which points out that “This British import is notable for being the only adaptation of this story with an invisible Marley’s Ghost and its Expressionistic cinematography.” Beautiful and moody stuff–and especially fun when you’ve just breezed through the book, because so much of the dialogue is reproduced verbatim. I especially like the purposefully horrible trio of instrumentalists in the first scene who try admirably to get through “The First Noel” without hitting a wrong note. Edwards lets their screeching go on for long enough that I went from annoyed to charmed–exactly as I was supposed to.
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December 16th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
@kyledstedman, thanks for this. will try watch it when I have more bandwidth. there was a thread on the videoblogging list a couple of weeks back about Dickens and how his serialized stories which were later turned into books were in a way comparable to some web-video series/stories. and then one of the guys mentioned how Dickens had basically invented “Christmas” as we know it (for most people in the West) – is it his fault it’s become a commercially driven season! I haven’t read this, but one of the guys mentioned this book goes into this a bit more.
“The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits”
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December 16th, 2009 at 9:04 am
This was one of the first Maya Deren films I ever saw. I love the control of his body, the dislocation effected through her editing… the contrast with the static god image looking in many directions and the dancer’s spinning face. One of my best friends is so into Maya Deren, but at the same time extremely… down to earth (?)… and when we watched Divine Horsemen, it was a wonderful tangent of our lives.
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kath Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
@ctucker, lovely! I liked the extension stretches whilst in the branches. he was like the branches reaching out and moving (sped-up compared to the real branches)
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January 7th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
It is credit to Zemeckis though that his use of 3D isn’t the drawcard for this wonderfully told fable, it purely enhances it. The opening title sequence is one of the most breathtaking of the year, as we soar over – and through – the old Victorian town in which Scrooge inhabits in only one shot. It doesn’t end there however, with no less than two more flying scenes and a splendid chase sequence on foot, which capably show what mo-cap and 3D are capable of. One small gripe, as was present with Up, the glasses still make everything darker and subsequently duller; especially as this picture is intentionally not well-lit to begin with.
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