Take a look at the video rebus below. The first person to post the correct resulting sentence will win the exclusive commercial rights to the next short video work I do. Good luck!
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As you know, nothing improves upon a lapse more than techno: Delinquest – No shoes. [mp3 link]
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My brother and I have been pitching a project to a couple to newspapers. it’s about interactivity and making the value of journalism transparent – a meta project where the end result is still valuable because it’s hard work and doesn’t rely on shouting first but rather articulating a subject well. In the age of borked analogies, good journalism is like a well knit sweater – You might know how it was made and even have the pattern for doing it yourself, but you’d much rather just wear it than bother with the production. (I’m not paid for writing good analogies.)
Above all, good journalism shouldn’t be about springing surprises on the readership. The belief that exclusivity and having a scoop is what makes newspapers relevant is one reason of why the news industry is frantically grasping for straws (We’re on Twitter now!) in hopes of looking hip, while at the same time not allowing the new technology to affect how they fundamentally view their role in society and the function that they fulfill for their readership. (And advertisers)
Clay Shirky has a brilliant quote in one of his posts on the subject:
One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.
→ Clay Shirky, newspapers and thinking the unthinkable.
Maybe we’ve gotten it ass backwards; Maybe we ought to be going at this as independents and establish our own platform instead of joining an existing one, but there’s so much knowledge amassed in the old journalistic institutions that it would seem a waste to disregard it. Just because the owners and directors can’t make money off of their papers doesn’t make the journalists themselves any less useful or interesting, so it’s disheartening to see where reporting seems to be heading and what lack of confidence journalists have in their own craft.
Let’s hear it for Artur Poças, the latest participant of To Whomever and one of the students at the course I’m teaching with Ana Betancour. Who could ever guess that there’d be so different takes on what this project was about? Thanks for the contribution, and email me your address – sending stuff by post has a nice haptic feel to it.
My name is Mathew Price. I came to Europe very early in my life and now I’m living in this small boring town where nothing attracts me more than my own room or the beautiful fingertips of my girlfriend, Therese.
Day one
My twin brother came to live with me. He left our parents house, I did the same some years ago and, apparently, the reason is the same, he became a vegetarian and our father told him: “if you want to eat plants, go to live in the garden, there are plenty of them”.
After so many years, his voice still echoes inside my head.
The good thing is that I found a job for my brother at the school, is going to teach with me, starting tomorrow.
One week later
First day at work, my brother fucked my girlfriend in our dirty bathroom at school. She thought he was me (eight years together and she doesn’t know I don’t wear silk underwear). He didn’t think at all. I broke up with both.
After all
Today I received the news by mail. She’s pregnant. Therese. For many years we tried an absurd amount of times to conceive a human being. Never succeeded. The fucker comes from the other side of the world and, with just one shot, guess what?
Twins
I don’t know what Olle has against people who don’t speak Swedish, but he contributed to the whomever project with a short biography in Swedish. The image is in the mail. Thank you Sir:
Bilden är tagen 1996 och publicerades i nöjesbilagan till Turku sanomat. Mannen på bilden uppgav sig heta Hasse Wigeèr och vara från Umeå. Bilden presenterades som en mingelbild vid en konsert med artisten Jimmie Tenor.
Några veckor senare ringer någon till redaktionen på Turku Sannomat och uppger att mannen på bilden inte är Hasse Wigeer utan istället föreställer den fd. rallyföraren Terje Vissää. Terje var känd för sin orädda och aggressiva stil på banan och prisades av president Kekkonen för sina insatser inom rallysporten. Terje var även känd för sitt hårda leverne och sitter i rullstol sedan en han onykter kraschat med sin motorcykel 1989. Terje var tidigare ett känt ansikte i Turkus nöjeliv, men har sedan kraschen inte synts offentligt fram till att denna bild publicerades. Vi önskar Terje välkommen tillbaka.
I just finished my MFA essay, in which I outline the idea I have for final work about lock picking. As it stands, I’m leaning towards either a presentation or a workshop on lock picking, but it just struck me that I could take a more direct approach.
Should I just be giving out lockpicks instead? Should I give out fake lockpicks? Jump on strangers in the middle of the street to give them lessons? Or just sit on a bench and pick a lock? Or only use locks as a backdrop for a talk om morals and the ethical imperative? Doesn’t anarchist theory belong here somewhere, In addition to my own personal interest in it?
I’m back on the caffeine pills btw. They seem to help. Let’s see if I can’t get the whole “life” thing sorted out in a day or two. After the examination (in which I will be told that I lack artistic references in the text, and that I should have put the bibliography at the end of the document, even though it’s only two or three items).
Ok, so at least the domain transferred ok; you’re here, aren’t you?
That said:
* The images aren’t up properly and might not display, or give you a “missing image” icon.
* The Revver videos are not displaying and look like empty space. I think it might be something that revver.com has screwed up, since I can’t reach their site. This might be a firefox issue, or just my computer acting up. Works fine in safari. (Wouldn’t it be a good idea to have a homepage dedicated to filling out what’s up with sites that are down? i think it would)
* Not all plugins are installed, so footnotes and audio doesn’t work
* The main page is down. that’s cause i’m working on a new version, and the old one hadn’t been updated for more than a year or so.
Be patient with me (and this site for a week or so while i iron all the thingies out.
Update: Video missing because Revver.com folded
I’m doing this on iMovie nowdays, so the font & cuts look a bit different. So much for consistency.
Oh, and I noticed that someone actually clicked that ad that comes up at the end of the video, and I am now $0.30 richer! Yay for me!
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Jebus chribes! This thing looks like shit! And I thought that it was stuttering only cause I previewed it on a slow computer. Ouch! Eh, I’ll redo it Sunday. Promise.
Fixed it. Screwed up the compression somehow.