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Digital Storytelling Workshop: Reflections
Here’s a couple of the participants in the YIRN Digital Storytelling Workshops at Visible Ink putting the final touches to their films in Adobe Premiere. The trainer in the shot is Jo Tacchi They all finished in the three and a half days total workshop time and the results were great. Once they’re up on…
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starfishman: the book, the movie, the website
One of my ex-students from the music subcultures and the media course has revealed to us his multi-talented secret identity as a creator of the comicbook superhero starfishman. Starfishman is blue, cute and quite the gallant knight in shining..er…scales. He’s also a hand-illustrated book, a film-in-progress, and a website. I must insist you check it…
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Digital Storytelling is Go
Tomorrow I start to put my money where my mouth is, as part of a team of QUT trainers conducting a digital storytelling workshop with young people at Invisible Ink in Fortitude Valley. It’s part of the Youth Internet Radio Network project as well as research for my PhD. I’m very excited about putting my…
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Digital Storytelling and the aesthetics of the deeply uncool
Together with three brilliant people, Mel Gregg, Jane Simon and Kris Cohen, I’m putting together a panel proposal for this year’s Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Everyday Transformations. We are tossing around ideas about amateurism, the banal and mundane, and problematising the default hipness of new media and digital technologies. Here are some of…
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Junk Collector as Online Curator
I’ve had this little question in my head for a while about the distinction between various kinds of amateurism – on the one hand, there are “hobbies” – stamp collecting, gardening, cooking – and on the other there are capital “C” creative leisure pursuits – being in a band, exploring photography, going to life drawing…
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Amateur Film Day
25 April is Amateur Film Day at the University of Brighton
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More on (non)photography
Jeff of This Public Address responds to some of my recent thoughts on vernacular creativity in photography. He says: I really must disagree with the idea that the philosophy on this non photography site is well developed. Actually, I find it rather naive. Having ?no rules? actually suggests the most difficult to adhere to rule…
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Online tools for vernacular creativity
DFILM is a software tool that enables you to create short animated films online…including writing your own dialogue, within four set narrative structures. Also, go play at NOISE_UP_THE_SUBURBS – thanks to cnwb, who has more thoughts on post-dance bedroom musicians at his blog.
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An Embarrassment of Riches
A busy few weeks here–on Friday we had a visit from Nick Couldry, who gave a seminar on the topics of citizenship, culture and the (im)possibility of connectedness to a ‘public sphere’. I’ve liked Nick’s quite particular approach to the key issues in cultural studies ever since I came across his provocative book Inside Culture,…
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Non-photography
Interesting street images and a developed philosophy of vernacular creativity at this website. As I develop a kind of relational taxonomy of the new ‘amateurism’, I’ve been struck by the pervasiveness of this kind of neo-punk, militant DIY, determinedly lo-fi ethic and aesthetic. Example: While making street photos, non-photography was formed. non-p is the concept…