October 2006
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
by jlesage
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
September 2006
Popular Tags on Flickr Photo Sharing
by jlesage & 1 other
For teaching film, popular tags to follow include "narrative," "fiction," "story." It makes a good early Easy assignment: ask students to do a photo narrative, which now can be posted in Flickr and tagged with a class title, e.g., "101lesage"--teacher mu
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
by jlesage
The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.
the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking
by jlesage
clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers
Visual Ethnography and Anthropology Links
by jlesage
of interest to anyone interested in documentary
Coudal Partners
by jlesage
interesting tidbits of news about film and television, especially independent
Lens On Lebanon
by jlesage
"documentary material, photo narratives, and video diaries of daily life conceived, produced, and contributed by residents of Lebanon"
Medical Animation and Medical Illustration
by jlesage
Beautiful online animation of the Life of a Cell. I want to return to the site to learn what I just saw means.
August 2006
SubCine: Independent Latino Film and Video
by jlesage
distributors for latino independent artists, bios and summaries included, also email contact
Self-Reliant Filmmaking » Blog Archive » First Post: Declaration of Principles
by jlesage
blog on how to do thrifty video or super8 filmmaking
Strictly Film School | Analysis of Landmark Cinema
by jlesage & 4 others
many important avant garde films here in clips
July 2006
motion picture, it's called
by jlesage
blog by viewer with far-ranging taste, including Asian cinema, experimental works, etc. Good place to find new things to see on DVD.
edddhhhaalllltteerrr.....ccccoooommmm
by jlesage
Ed Halter's reviews of avant-garde film, often for the Village Voice, and his observations on the experimental film world
