Heard a Nick Lowe interview last night on the radio show _To the best of our Knowledge_ from Wisconsin Public Radio. The show was called: "the fine art of aging"
http://www.wpr.org/book/070930a.html
Monday, October 1, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Fwd: Summercamp! in Chicago
Movie_ a sundance winner 1999.
Steve
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Summercamp! in Chicago
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:55:24 -0400
From: sarah price <ssprice@gmail.com>
To: info@summercampmovie.com
Hello friends--
Summercamp! opens at the Siskel Film Center Aug. 25-28. I'll be there
on the 25th for a Q&A, along with some of the kids in the film, with a
reception to follow sponsored by IFP Midwest. This is open to the
public (IFP members receive a discount ticket price on the 25th), and
should be a lot of fun. Rumor has it there will be camp snacks and
crafts (and bar) at the reception...
I look forward to seeing everyone and catching up, and please pass the
info on to your Chicago friends!
Thank you!
-Sarah
SUMMERCAMP!
Directed by Bradley Beesley & Sarah Price
Featuring music by the Flaming Lips and Noisola.
August 25-29, 2007
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60601
312-846-2600
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
Tickets $9 (adults) $7(students)
Sat @ 3:30pm, Sun @ 3:15pm, Mon-Wed @ 6pm
Co-director Sarah Price in person Sat. Aug 25th.
www.argotpictures.com <http://www.argotpictures.com>
www.summercampmovie.com <http://www.summercampmovie.com>
www.myspace.com/summer_camp_movie <http://www.myspace.com/summer_camp_movie>
REVIEWS:
"the saddest, sweetest, most magical and most deeply affecting movie of
the season." SALON.COM <http://SALON.COM>
"Summercamp is a riot of talent shows and campfires, canoeing, and
holistic clowning." THE NEW YORK TIMES
"With tenderness and joy, Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price capture the
precious moments of preteen freedom—not from parents and school, but
from self-awareness and doubt." TIME OUT NEW YORK
"Pure and heartbreaking, if you don't relate to this film you were
never a kid." CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A sweeter, more unassuming movie isn't likely to come our way anytime
soon." NEW YORK POST
"utterly charming.........Beesley and Price's young subjects are smart
and unusually articulate, and they talk about their lives with a
perspective one doesn't expect from children." TV GUIDE ONLINE
"Summercamp, a marvelously honest new film." NEW YORK SUN
"In its shuddering truth, Summercamp! dares to suggest that the grand
disaster of youth as we knew it was actually... fun." THE REELER
"A feel-good hit for the summer" THE ONION
--
Steve Brantley
University of Illinois at Chicago
Daley Library
M/C 234
Box 8198
Chicago, IL 60680
312-996-4032
jbrant1@uic.edu
--
Steve Brantley
Monday, August 6, 2007
link: SXSW Panel: Web 2.0 to Web 3D [part 1]
From Susan Wu's "Venture Capital" blog: SXSW Panel: Web 2.0 to Web 3D [part 1]
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
The question I was trying to answer was, “Is the next generation of the consumer web 3D?” I think the answer is not necessarily.
1. The reason why we’re asking this question is because there’s a bubble forming in the virtual world space right now.
That’s a pretty incendiary statement. What do I mean by it? What I see on the horizon are dozens and dozens of new virtual world platforms and titles hitting the market - far more than the public will want to consume. By ‘title,’ I mean a self contained, branded version of a virtual world much like “Virtual Laguna Beach.” All the big media and consumer goods companies are looking at what’s happening with online community sites like MySpace and Facebook and want in on this action desperately.
However, I think that all of the media hype around Second Life is misleading the public about what the next generation consumer Internet might look like. That isn’t to say that Second Life doesn’t have tremendous merit in moving the dialogue forward about what collaborative work and play spaces feel like. What I mean is that there are now quite a few companies who equate “future of online communities” with “3D graphical world.” The mad rush by these big brands to create empty showrooms in SecondLife is proof of this. Just like in the dot-Bust days, there will be lots of shoddy substandard products brought to market in the mad frenzy to create a ‘presence.’
Thursday, August 2, 2007
two cool things
Make Magazine published a project to make your own tricked out Guitar
Hero controller!
HOW TO - Make a DIY PS2 Guitar Hero controller:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/how_to_make_a_diy_ps2_gui.html
Hero controller!
HOW TO - Make a DIY PS2 Guitar Hero controller:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/how_to_make_a_diy_ps2_gui.html
Tech crunch blog reports that Morgan Webb from X-play is hosting a new
daily news show focussing on breaking technology and gaming news.
got to the webbalert: http://www.webbalert.com/
or go to the tech crunch post:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/02/webbalert-a-lot-like-rocketboom-except-its-interesting/
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Sarah Price's new movie _Summer Camp_ is out!
Sarah Price of _American Movie_ (1999) fame (and several other projects) has a new documentary out called Summer Camp.
summercampmovie.com
myspace.com/summer_camp_movie
trailer
It is premiering at July 18th at the IFC Center in New York but opens across the country over the next couple of months.
summercampmovie.com
myspace.com/summer_camp_movie
trailer
It is premiering at July 18th at the IFC Center in New York but opens across the country over the next couple of months.
The NY Sun beat NYT to it
The New York Sun published an article about the Hipster librarians three days before the NYT did.
For New-Look Librarians, Head to Brooklyn
By GARY SHAPIRO
Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 5, 2007
Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles.
Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.
annoyed librarian blog rants on the librarian hipster article
This New York Times article "A Hipper Crowd of Shushers" by Kara Jesella is spreading across the library community like the hamster dance c. 1997. The annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com posted an annoyed screed about it. I posted a comment:
Your post is just as shallow as the NYT piece. Other than a disdain for the Brooklyn hipster culture, you offer no real critique of the article or of the people profiled. Of course the article is shallow. It is a puff piece that people read because it turns a commonly held belief on its head. You rail about how these hipster librarians never speak of or perform real librarianship yet you do not define librarianship as you see it. The article was not intended as an investigation of librarianship, and I highly doubt that such an investigation would have made it to print. Other than the profiled librarian's interest in left leaning social activism, which you obviously do not connect with librarianship, your post is at the very least denigrating to your own profession. I don't uinderstand how you can say that librarians do not contribute to society, and your position that only people working for the corporate "man" are contributing members of society is just plain weird. If librarianship does not lend itself to social activism, why then does ALA have committees on intellectual freedom, policy monitoring, diversity, and the status of women in librarianship as well as supporting groups such as the Social Responsibilities Round Table, The GLBT Round Table, and the Black Caucus of ALA? It seems to me that your post is incendiary where it should be ironic. If you want to rail against the writer and the article, do so but leave the hipsters out of it. They'll grow and change (hopefully) to a point where the trappings of rock shows and tattoos are no longer required to support their identities.
P.S. who cares where they buy their clothes?
Your post is just as shallow as the NYT piece. Other than a disdain for the Brooklyn hipster culture, you offer no real critique of the article or of the people profiled. Of course the article is shallow. It is a puff piece that people read because it turns a commonly held belief on its head. You rail about how these hipster librarians never speak of or perform real librarianship yet you do not define librarianship as you see it. The article was not intended as an investigation of librarianship, and I highly doubt that such an investigation would have made it to print. Other than the profiled librarian's interest in left leaning social activism, which you obviously do not connect with librarianship, your post is at the very least denigrating to your own profession. I don't uinderstand how you can say that librarians do not contribute to society, and your position that only people working for the corporate "man" are contributing members of society is just plain weird. If librarianship does not lend itself to social activism, why then does ALA have committees on intellectual freedom, policy monitoring, diversity, and the status of women in librarianship as well as supporting groups such as the Social Responsibilities Round Table, The GLBT Round Table, and the Black Caucus of ALA? It seems to me that your post is incendiary where it should be ironic. If you want to rail against the writer and the article, do so but leave the hipsters out of it. They'll grow and change (hopefully) to a point where the trappings of rock shows and tattoos are no longer required to support their identities.
P.S. who cares where they buy their clothes?
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