What’s in style? Moby Dick and Appropriation Pranks
So, this first part’s no joke… This weekend, I was talking to one of some of my old Teach For America friends about our Moby Dick Teacher’s Strategy Guide. They were really excited about the prospect...
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Clusterball and Drawball: Visualizing the Web in Circles
What does the web look like? Somehow, millions of people and ideas are mashed together and create an intricate cluster… or is it more like a messy canvas? I wanted to share two projects that have...
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Creative Sampling, Creative Sharing: Samples for the Children of the World.
Last week I found out on the Internet a great resource for all of you interested in sampling and making music, sound art and sound collages without violating copyright laws. “Samples for the Children...
View ArticleOct 2 – 17, 2008: Participate in Testing Ground’s Live Blog
Friends of Project NML at The New School University, Liz Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse have established Extreme Media Studies, a project of smudge studio inc. a non-profit media arts studio. Their project,...
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More Thoughts on the Convergence of Fandom and Criticism
A couple of weeks ago I discussed Son of Rambow in this space as an obvious, and exhilarating, example of young fans creating new media works out of their passion for existing ones. Nowadays we’d be...
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“Inter” Means Between
Here at Project NML, we are very interested in how new creative works often spread across a variety of media types. The new media landscape is full of stories that exist in books, TV, and social...
View ArticleYouth and the Election
Happy Election Day! Don’t forget to VOTE! Keeping with the theme, I would like to highlight a few videos that have been floating around the internet that show young people engaging in the election and...
View ArticleBuilding Villages in the Primal Depths
The following is a copy of a letter I wrote to the editors of the newspapers on our press mailing list after Mixed Magic Theatre’s trip to the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC to do our production of...
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Join us at Home, Inc.’s Media Literacy conference Oct 24th
We hope that you will join us in a couple weeks for Home, Inc.’s Media Literacy conference. It will be held here at MIT and will run from 8:00am to 4:00pm. This conference was the reason I first...
View ArticleCan “Digital Hollywood” support education & innovation? Opportunities,...
I recently attended Digital Hollywood, a digital media trade conference in Los Angeles for executives in the film, television, computer, music, and telecommunications fields. As a Ph.D. student in...
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