watch it: “Urban Art on Spring Street”

One of the presenters at the Mead discussion I mentioned yesterday was Jenny Douglas, cocreator and coordinator of KarmaTube, an online collection of short videos culled from YouTube that encourages you to not just enjoy cool and interesting videos but to act on them, to “be the change” the videos inspire. I’ll be using KarmaTube … more…

watch it: “The Machine Is Us/ing Us”

I spent part of Saturday and all of Sunday at the American Museum of Natural History here in NYC at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, which focuses on films of anthropological interest. It turns out, though, that the program that affected me the most was not a movie at all but a discussion … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica: Razor,’ ‘Persepolis,’ ‘Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,’ ‘Enchanted,’ ‘The Savages,’ ‘August Rush’

I’ve got a somewhat less crazy week this week, so I should be able to catch up with my Doctor Who and Torchwood blogging… It’s the movie I’m officially Dreading at the moment: Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf [opens November 16]. I used to really like Zemeckis’s stuff, back in the day of Back to the Future … more…