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A friend recently loaned me his Sony PMW-EX1 XDCAM EX camcorder for a few days so I had a chance to take this fascinating new camera for a spin. In this post I’ll share my first impressions. I’ll be taking the camera out for another spin next week for more shooting, so I’ll get into [...]

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A recent BBC news story, “Google must divulge YouTube log,” reports on the latest phase in the Viacom case against Google’s YouTube: A U.S. court ordered Google to disclose the viewing logs of each and every YouTube user. This gives Viacom access to over 12 terabytes of data so they can prove their dubious claim [...]

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A recent Pew Internet and American Life Project report titled “The Internet and the 2008 Election” states that a record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others. And Barack Obama’s backers have an edge in the online [...]

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3D Fail Whale Originally uploaded by Hil. Now this is delightful, like the classic “Bomb icon” the Twitter “Over Capacity” image has been seen by users far more, I’m sure, than the developers intended. This lovely sculpture pays homage to that. Thanks to Karl Long for pointing [...]

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Bob Alexander, president of IndiePix, wrote recently in a guest column in Digital Cinema Report, “An Extraordinary Moment?” that in the wake of decline in independent divisions among the major studios (e.g. New Line Cinema was closed by Warner Bros), “the traditional models of distribution, which barely work for the major studios, do not work [...]

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A wired story reports that during her presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Monday morning, Arianna Huffington charged traditional media outlets with failing their readership miserably by hiding behind a fake curtain of neutrality, when the facts often stack up more heavily in favor of one “truth” over another. She [...]

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OLPC 2.0 on Flickr At Media Fabrics for Media Makers, MIT Media Lab, June 20, 2008, Nicholas Negroponte discussed the status of the OLPC project and was very frank how some corporations have actively tried to sabotage the project. OLPC moves forward undeterred with plenty of cash in the bank, excellent technology, a clear vision, and [...]

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I recently watched Nina Davnport’s new film, Operation Filmmaker at the ICA in Boston. Not since watching Shadow of the House last year have I enjoyed watching a documentary so much. This is one of those films that started out as one project and ended up a completely different one, because the filmmaker was able [...]

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A celebration of Glorianna Davenport's three decade effort at MIT focused on documentary storytelling and technology, "Media Fabrics for Media Makers: Realizing an Expressive Landscape for Digital Dialogues" is a day-long symposium to be held on Friday, June 20, 2008 at the MIT Media Laboratory.

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On Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the ICA in Boston the Facing Realities: Dialogues in Boston Documentary Film series continues with Ross McElwee’s “Backyard” (1984, 16mm, 40 min) and Nina Davenport’s “Operation Filmmaker” (2007, HDCAM, 95 min) in its Boston premier. Screenings will be followed by a dialogue with Davenport and [...]

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Media Tech Tonic is a series of monthly demos/seminars held in Boston on media technology topics for media makers and artists. Meetings are hosted by MassArt Professional and Continuing Education, presented in collaboration with Boston Media Makers and organized by David Tames. Check out the Media Tech Tonic web site for information on upcoming sessions. The [...]

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Curator Rachel Greene recently asked several artists (Sue de Beer, Matthew Higgs, Matthew Ronay and Wayne Koestenbaum) to present their favorite YouTube videos in Manhattan on May 13th at the Kitchen gallery and Virginia Heffernan wrote about it in the New York Times. I wish I could have seen the show. I’m fascinated [...]

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On Friday, May 30, 2008 I will be moderating a panel discussion titled, “The Future of Documentary in the Age of Internet Video” at Making Media Now, the annual event for professional and emerging filmmakers in the Boston area presented by Filmmakers Collaborative. The ecosystem that supports the funding, production, promotion, and distribution of documentary [...]

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Intimidad is a documentary film that weaves together a mix of home movie, cinema verite, and informal interview footage to present a portrait of Cecy and Camilo Ramirez, and their daughter Loida, a hard-working, young family living in Reynosa, Mexico.

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Is the growing genre of websodics the future of episodic entertainment? I’m not sure I answer this questions in my Art Film Talk interview with Gravityland creator John Herman, but it’s interesting to ponder.

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Some people who I tell about the monthly Boston Media Maker un-meetings can’t imagine getting up early on a Sunday morning and trekking across town. For me, Sunday mornings are usually reserved for slowly sipping coffee while reading the Sunday New York Times, so I can relate, however, take a look at the depth and [...]

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Online registration for the 4th Annual New Media Expo is now open. This year the expo will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center on August 14-16, 2008. This show has become the definitive must-attend event for corporate content creators, independent media makers, and production companies who produce podcasts, online video, and blogs. [...]

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti The Lowell Film Festival will presents a series of documentary and feature films on the subjects of globalization and immigration this year along with panels on filmmaking. Always an “immigrant city”, Lowell stands today in the midst of a population transformation no less profound than the one that shaped the [...]

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Effective January 1, 2008, the Department of Transportation (DOT) will no longer allow loose Lithium & Lithium Ion (including Lithium Polymer) batteries in checked baggage. These recent revisions have added the inconvenience of having to carry-on all of your batteries, so this may impact media makers who travel with some of their equipment in checked [...]

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