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Smoke and Clouds

In Poetics, Termite on 30 December 2008 with 1 comment

The artwork as a field of potential meaning. Frustrating for some, exhilarating for others. An interview with Diane Williams in elimae. elimae: …. Is it your aim, as much as you may be able to describe your aim, to allow the language of your fictions to achieve some semblance beyond which you intended, to become, [...]

Novelty and Authenticity

In Novelty, Poetics, Termite on 19 June 2008 with 1 comment

Six months away from the vlog. There is a lot going on behind the scenes – personal/professional/national/global – but really I have been thinking, reading and absorbing. Where to go with one’s extra energy? Being a contemporary “media worker” is all about stops, starts and about-faces. Mark Deuze’s Media Work lays out the opportunities and [...]

The Boring Everyday

In 'Pataphysical, Poetics, Spatial Montage on 31 October 2007 with no comments

Derik A. Badman’s great blog about comics, multipaneled storytelling and generative literaure…etc. He is here quoting Alison Bechdel on “incidental life.” “The comic strip is the definition of quotidian: it comes out everyday, you read it on the toilet, it just weaves itself into your everyday life. It’s about little details. It’s not about grand [...]

Now What?

In Poetics, Termite on 8 October 2007 with 4 comments

A recent podcast interview with Adrian, gets me thinking about what he calls “minor video” or “minor cinema.” The value of the miniature in a networked world. The battle for attention, screen space, hits, ratings as modeled on youtube will, Adrian predicts, subside within six years. We are experiencing the growing pains of a new [...]

In Search of a Form

In Poetics on 21 September 2007 with no comments

Looking at contemporary online examples of haibun and haiga- forms that still inspire me as approaches to videoblogging and net cinema – I end up on this great exchange about our storytelling future: The 21st-century novel. – By Walter Kirn and Gary Shteyngart – Slate Magazine Can written narratives represent this world? Can they convey [...]

Professor VJ

In 'Pataphysical, Handmade, Poetics, Ritual, Termite on 10 August 2007 with no comments

In bed with a bad back and consuming the archives of Mark Amerika aka Professor VJ. He is making cinema and modeling a spontaneous, intuitive way of working through his blog. Mysterious, body-centered, "not-me" explorations with actors, landscapes, camera and editing tools – nutritious fodder for ambitious art vloggers. And not to mention an important [...]