http://digissuesseminarw09.pbworks.com/f/Nao2.swf

Never ceases to amaze me.

I love it when this shit turns up….

http://snarkattack-gracenotes.tumblr.com/post/142219816/women-are-hungry-by-dominique-lowell

And this one, t’aint not a thing wrong with self-promotion. p. 113

Knew that if I waited long enough the stuff I never got paid for to begin with would be available for free…
This is not meant as a statement on free use or copyright. Just small bits of fact.
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More on Danny Plotnick

Live Download of I’m Not Fascinating – extraordinary work of 90′s lo-fi brilliance with walk-on by moi
http://www.dannyplotnick.com/im_not_fascinating.php

1996, super 8, 49:00
[I'm Not Fascinating-The Movie!]

Brace yourselves for one of the most resplendent footnotes of rock ‘n’ roll anti-history ever to grace the silver screen. I’m Not Fascinating-The Movie! chronicles the pointless shenanigans of San Francisco rock ‘n’ roll ne’er-do-wells The Icky Boyfriends and their futile quest for rock stardom. Undaunted by the universal hatred of both their music and their look, the band perseveres, netting themselves a hefty major label contract. But stardom proves elusive as they descend into a world of murder, intrigue, nepotism, consumer research groups, excessive use of caffeine-laden soda pop and death. Who kills the Ickys? You’ll wish you had!

“A Monkees-meet-Hate-comics slice of cinema non-vérité.”

-San Francisco Weekly

“Move over Magical Mystery Tour, take a seat Tommy: San Francisco’s Icky Boyfriends and Danny Plotnick have topped the semifictional rock-drama genre with their epic I’m Not Fascinating The Movie! A weirdly beautiful spectacle of self-defeat. An instant classic.”

-San Francisco Bay Guardian

Writing on Demand interview of me taped while recently in Los Angeles and hosted by Mende Smith.  Couldn’t have asked for a better interviewer.
Here’s a direct link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/2010/04/02/writing-on-demand-hosted-by-mende-smith

Also a flash player embed of what’s currently on World Wide Radio Network:

Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to Heidi Blanton, info gal wiki warrior and former classmate at Wayne State’s MLIS program, currently living in Birmingham, England. Her blog entry Livin In The D does a great job of pointing to the iconic American crossroads Detroit represents. It’s an exciting if somewhat scary time, fraught with all kinds of possibility. As someone who lived part of her adult life outside the city but still very much identified with it – “originally from Detroit” a badge of honor or courage – I have to agree that it is a place that never leaves you.  It fascinates me that I have entrenched myself here again at such a time.

Isn’t it an ancient Chinese curse (or maybe just a fortune cookie) – “may you live in interesting times”?

I am curious how Professor Bergmann’s New Work will fit into all of this.  It seems very much a time and place for such an idea, and certainly many of his ideas can be seen at the root of things like urban farming and localized economy and barter.  I know he has been very much at work in Detroit but it has been difficult for me to pinpoint, and he has been out of the country most of the time since we began working on the site last spring.  Much of the material he has given me is archival more than current.  He is a brilliant man and it is important to archive his work, just wish my scanner hadn’t decided to give up the ghost .  I have great hopes for the social interactivity of the site, the user provided content, and was thrilled to find a post by David Stevens linking New Work and Detroit Techno.

Google Wave Is Coming! Invite only releases tomorrow…

***And Fun With Widgets!***

Much more work done and a new screenshot! This is after crashing the entire site and having to reupload. Which turned out to be a good thing really. It needed a fresh start. Very interesting emails with Thomas Schneider, who is revamping the German site with all kinds of fabulous flash navigation, he has mad skills way beyond mine. We’ve talked a bit about the difficulty in organizing the as yet unclear content, but hopefully a meeting with Frithjof this week will clear that up.
Thinking alot lately about my own new work. The juggling of a variety of part time work seems to be the zeitgeist, and really a good way for me to sort out direction. I am included in a forthcoming poetry compilation being shopped to university (a womens studies angle, interesting), perhaps a reading in SF this fall, want to develop and shop a college level “poetry in performance” class, have another small site build project to do, and will keep applying for library jobs. Somewhere in all this there is certainly a life, and hopefully a living too.

Teaching at Cranbrook Theatre School has me tired unto my bones but it’s a good tired. It is work that I love, feel a deep passion for. Have two pretty talented young actresses doing the battling queen scene from Mary Stuart this week. Big fat juicy fun.
The website is looking much better too.

More work to do on this as well but as Professor Bergmann is out of the country again it will wait.

As I suppose is per usual having gotten over feeling proud of myself for navigating the configs and modules and nodes and whatnot of Drupal I am now completely over the theme/layout of the site.  The more content gets added the more that big huge Marinelli banner is a distraction.

And the run of the mill navigational categories are boring.  It isn’t a hugely complicated library site and could probably stand more intriguing tabs – something like work: meaningful, culture: self-sustaining – something gleaned from Professor Bergmann’s writing.  Quite the creative project and I have been given license.  Imperative to use it!

Mostly Unrelated – Cannot get this out of my head.

new work | new economy new culture

Screenshot of a work in progress….Drupal based website for Frithjof Bergmann and New Work New Culture.  Very exciting work, a bit of learning curve for me, thrilled to be participating in such important and relevant work.  And oh yeah, Drupal rocks!