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Blogging, Punk, and Militant DIY
I’m frantically busy planning a course and finishing off some outstanding articles, all without my sexy home PC which has some fried hardware and is in the shop, so I haven’t had much time online lately. Nevertheless: From Empty Bottle, a vigorous, and highly Romantic post-punk blogging manifesto well worth reading. You’ll have to go…
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The Pleasures of Production II
Damn you, antipopper, for pulling out the term “prosumer” before I had even discovered it: Apple?s announcement of GarageBand today was interesting ? it?s bundled with all new Macs from this month onward! There are concerns that Apple?s treading on third party developers? toes, but the emphasis of Apple?s ever broadening iLife suite spans the…
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On the Inside
This image is from Michel Gasarian’s “Cellule” series of photographs documenting the images that adorn French prison walls. I was struck by the way the photograph’s crumpled appearance adds to the poignancy. This is vernacular creativity in extremis. Found via Ashley Benigno.
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Distributed Creativity
I keep forgetting to post something about the Distributed Creativity forum which I first heard about on the fibreculture list. Thanks to Anne for reminding me. As regular visitors know, I’m interested in emerging definitions of creativity, and I have a sense that the concept has shifted in meaning and has absorbed or displaced elements…
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Craftster
craftster.org is a repository for hip, crafty, DIY projects.
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Straight out of Brisbane
Straight out of Brisbane is a festival of independent and emerging arts, culture and ideas. It’s on again this 2nd to 7th December, in locations in and around Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. I didn’t get along last year, but by all accounts it is a worthy enterprise. I also find it interesting as an example of…
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Link: Amateur Movie Portal
One of many “amateur” resource sites, the Amateur Movie Portal has links to tutorials, movie collections, software and libraries, forums and news groups.
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Linkdump: Amateur Creativity Online
Some interesting sites I’ve found that in various ways function as portals for “amateur” creative production, consumption and networking – beyond the well-trodden ground of fan production. Creative Writing Zine5 – very extensive resource/community site with masses of creative writing from various genres – I’m guessing based in India? Photography photoblogs – probably the best…
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Fanimatrix
A superb example of the collapsing boundaries between professional and vernacular creativity, and despite squarely belonging to the fan production category, definitely exposing the constructedness of the Hollywood budget-to-quality ratio: The Fanimatrix – Run Program is now available for free download. The Fanimatrix – Run Program’ is a collaboration between over a dozen professional actors,…
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The Pleasures of Production
Tom has a typically thoughtful and balanced piece on the pleasures of production vs. the (lack of, for him) pleasures of consumption. When I’m less pressed for time I’d like to engage with it more deeply. I’d especially like to interrogate the idea that production is ever really separate from some kind of consumption –…