Arin Crumley writes of his participation in a new independent film project, From Here to Awesome, aimed at solving the problems independent filmmakers face both in finding distribution and in maintaining intimacy with their audience. Their first video is a short manifesto and worth watching.
If you’re unfamiliar with Arin Crumley, check out his debut film, [...]
Tagged: arin crumley, indie films, youtube
Four-Eyed Monsters is a film chronicling the beginnings of an actual artistic+love relationship between two Brooklyn youths whose initial connection was created within the artistic mediums, without speech.
The entire 71 minute film is available to watch on YouTube. It’s brilliant.
Categories: Art
Tagged: Art, diy, film, four-eyed monsters, indie, internet media, love, youtube
In my literary criticism class, we studied the artistic movement and philosophy of structuralism, which states that a structure (think abstract) defines a system, which then spawns interactions.
I was thinking about YouTube specifically, and Web 2.0 social interaction sites in general, and I think, with the prevalence of computers, our tool for building systems and [...]
Categories: Philosophy
Tagged: criticism, facebook, school, social web, structuralism, thinking, web 2.0, youtube
I present to you an on-again, off-again blog series called “Fucked Up Cinema”. I have a video of Jackie Gleason playing a caught-mobboss on an acid trip drawing math with tommy-gun bullet-holes in the wall, but I’ll save that for later and opt for the much easier-to-watch actual music video for the Beatles song, I [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: cinema, fucked up, i am the walrus, the beatles, youtube
Categories: Music
Tagged: in my life, music video, the beatles, youtube