Design: E2: An upcoming PBS program, “Design: E2″ is a series that will explore “the most complex issues facing our environment: from green architecture to water culture to organic farming to recycled clothes - challenging us to live smarter, greener lives.”
From Inhabitat.
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Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW?: It’s the collision of documentary filmmaking and intellectual property law, and it’s the inspiration for this new comic book. Follow its heroine Akiko as she films her documentary, and navigates the twists and turns of intellectual property. Why do we have copyrights? What’s “fair use”? Bound By Law reaches beyond documentary film to provide a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture.
And WorldChanging comments / follow-up.
Josh Oakhurst: Ten Great Documentary Films: Here is a smart list of recommended documentaries from Mr. Oakhurst… There are a couple on there that I have never heard of and now want to check out… [Advertising and the End of the World.. nice... my library has it...]
USB: Here is a new short film I recently finished work on… Please enjoy…!
VideoBomb: The Art and Subversion of Ron English: This is really great…. Ron English is a street/underground/activist artist who hijacks billboard space with his own subversive artwork…
Wired: “Global Warming: Be Very Afraid”: It’s great to see articles like this on sites that do not primarily focus on these issues, and it needs to start happening more elsewhere… like, the mainstream media… But when will we reach that point?
Balún: The superbueno Puerto Rican trio has moved their site, and updated with a bunch of neat news: a full length album is due out in June, the Snol EP will be released on iTunes in April, and their video is done being shot, etc. They are good. Check them out. Ok.
Crazy Mirror: This is a pretty funky little piece of software that allows you to manipulate a USB or DV camera input feed with some pretty neat video generator effects… Some are really quite nifty. It also allows you to export your live feed, which is very, very potentially useful. Freeware!
I’ve updated the main small-scale site design, and it seems to be mostly working fine in Firefox and Safari. There are a couple of distracting “bugs” in Firefox, but nothing site-shattering. I have done no testing in IE (please toss it already), so hopefully everything is stable.
Shortly after graduation in May, I will be visiting the Dancing Rabbit ecovillage in Missouri. I have been reading up on them and other alternative/sustainable living options for the past year or so, and I am immensely excited at the opportunity to explore their community. DR directly (and strongly) ties in to my growing interest in sustainability (and the like) that has been growing over the past few years through the bulk of my reading. I’m curious to know what will develop during the course of my visit, since my post-graduation plans as of right now are sketchy at best. I have some ideas in mind (some potentially involving more DR if everything works out during the visit), but something is about to go down this spring/summer, indeed… What it is, I’m not quite sure… but… something…
Also, I’ll be bringing along my camera for a (very) potential mini documentary shoot. I’m very excited about the prospect, since the topic and concept of ecovillages is extremely important to me… It will make for a great first post-school project…
Dear Brian,
We are sorry to inform you that your film, The Immortality of Man, has
not been selected for the sixth annual Media That Matters Film
Festival. However, you should be happy to know that The Immortality of
Man was one of 60 semifinalists! We received over 500 submissions this
year. All the films were exceptional and our jury had a difficult time
narrowing it down to sixteen official selections.
Close, but no cigar. Maybe next year…(?)
