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OtherFilm Festival
On the OtherFilm Festival – 23-26 March www.otherfilm.org Otherfilm Festival is a four-day festival of expanded cinema, installation, sound ecology and Super8 workshops, and music/moving image performances. We start from a point of view that sees ‘cinema’ differently, as something that’s open to re-imagining; something that’s crying out to be liberated from predetermined structures and…
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pragmatism, old-school
I am envious of the early pragmatists’ certainty and sense of purpose: If a theory makes no difference in educational endeavor, it must be artificial. The educational point of view enables one to envisage the philosophic problems where they arise and thrive, where they are at home, and where acceptance or rejection makes a difference…
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complexity, pragmatism, critique
According to Theory, Culture and Society we are having a complexity turn. From John Urry’s introduction to the special issue on the topic: Overall, complexity approaches both signify and enhance a new ‘structure of feeling’; one that combines system and process thinking…such an emergent structure involves a sense of contingent openness and multiple futures, of…
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found and homemade and other things
Around the traps lately: Feeding my growing and almost-totally-phd-related obsession with the seductive mystery of vernacular photography and the curation and exhibition of the found photograph (not always the same thing, but both concepts that have begun to operate as magnets for popular enthusiasm and interest lately): the abandoned photo museum, BigHappyFunHouse (‘found photos. free…
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CFP: Creativity, IAG/NSGS/IGU Brisbane 2006
CFP for a session on creativity at IGU 2006: Regional Responses to Global Changes: a view from the Antipodes: 3-7 July 2006 Brisbane, Australia Co-sponsored by the Cultural and Rural Studies Groups of the Institute of Australian Geographers Session description: The cultural turn in human geography has, inter alia, highlighted the complex ways in which…
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narcissistic filler
Four jobs I’ve had Flute choir conductor Polyphonic ringtones composer Selling crappy toys door-to-door in industrial estates, on commission (during the recession we had to have, which seems to have lasted for my entire life) Barmaid (at which I was a complete and abject failure) Four movies I can watch over and over Wild at…
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all new lookin’
Now that I’m back from the UK, and then back from Melbourne, and about to go even more into overdrive: time for a redesign. Naturally. That is, it was time. I didn’t have time, but did it anyway. Thoughts?
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audio recording on ipod video: signs of life (updated)
From Gizmodo: Xtreme Mac have announced the upcoming release of a voice recorder that attaches to the ipod video via the dock connector, allowing the user to record at 22khz through the flexible microphone provided or with any mic via the 3mm input. What I really want, though, is a built-in stereo microphone or at…
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update from abroad
After a lovely, wintry European break, I’m now into the fieldwork I’m doing in the UK as part of my PhD. Spent an interesting day with the capture wales team at BBC Wales, as well as meeting some participants from canllaw online, who will be participating in the train-the-trainers digital storytelling workshop that I’m observing…
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sabbatical
I’m off to the northern hemisphere tomorrow for a good hit of actual holiday-type activities, before my patchwork of fieldwork starts and I hit the digital storytelling and interviewing and thick description slopes. Back in Brisbane at the end of January. Everyone, have a lovely break, and I’ll try to remember to blog a little…