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MidTerm Review, BL Press Kit and Press Release for RTCV 167

For my students to download, the midterm review, a sample Press Release and Press Kit (text portion):

Midterm 167 StudyGuide

MoMAPressRelease

BL Press Kit2011

Homemade 4×5 Cyanotype Negative

This came out way better than I thought was possible. This is a forty hour exposure taken out my front window with a 4×5 Crown Graphic camera on a homemade cyanotype negative. The blue image is the cyanotype, it’s a really old chemical photo process that you can mix by hand and spread on to a substrate – in this case card stock paper. I scanned the blue neg then desaturated and flipped to a positive in Photoshop and was shocked by how much detail it produced.

Occupy San Diego

Here are a few shots from the Occupy San Diego march today. For the record, I did not see Tony Baloney.

INDENTURED to screen at UNSPOKEN film fest

INDENTURED is screening this month at the UNSPOKEN film fest (a human rights conference) in Utica, New York Oct 13 at 9pm.

Here’s the film guide to the event.

Oct/Nov Screenings

There’s lots of good news coming in from Washington D.C. about the possibility of new legislation to address the status and living conditions of foreign laborers on US military bases abroad. Thanks to a connection from Sarah Stillman who wrote a great piece for the New Yorker magazine last summer INDENTURED is in the hands of a highly motivated attorney who’s working hard to make things happen in Congress. Feels great to have finally broken through and found the right place, scratch that, person for the film. It looked bleak for a long stretch. In the meantime, I’m in touch with some workers in Afghanistan via facebook who are getting shafted by a Turkish company on a US war contract there. There aren’t too many options but I’m trying to cook something up to help these guys out.

On the other end, Bush League will screen at a special event at Rutgers University, New Brunswick campus Nov 17th at 7pm. This is a exciting opportunity to present the film to college students and faculty from several departments. I’m really looking forward to this one.

Shots From the Blackout in San Diego

Here are a few photos from the black-out last night in San Diego. The only lights on were from back up generators and headlights. Never seen anything like it, was kinda fun really.

The Store is Open!

I’m happy to announce that the Bush League DVD is now available for home/private use and for institutional use. There’s also a Bush League T-shirt available!

This isn’t a sad-Africa film nor a commercial project, this is my attempt to build a bridge between my home and a distant place and people that I fell in love with and above all to reflect our uncanny similarities. I’m very happy to finally be able to share it.

International shipping is also available, just click the “shipping outside U.S.” tab on the check out page.

Cy

Bush League screening at Rutgers and INDENTURED news

Bush League will screen 7pm Friday October 14th at Rutger’s, New Brunswick (Voorhees Hall #105) in the “Best of” section of the NJIFF Fall edition. NJ + Bush League forever. Heart heart heart.

In other news, INDENTURED, my short film about labor abuse on US bases in Iraq screened last week at the US Pentagon during a workshop on human trafficking. Attorney Sam McCahon presented the film to Pentagon staff, which is amazing because this is truly who the film was made for – hence all the text in the film. I’m trying to guide them right to the bureaucratic waters though the problem is really one of human rights and decency.

Good Copy Bad Copy, free feature doc film

I just came across this Danish doc film about copyright, mashups, remix etc on blip TV and thought it was great. GirlTalk, Danger Mouse, Pirate Bay founders – they’re all there but what I was really looking for was something about the Nigerian film industry and distribution. Their model seems to be becoming THE model in some respects, esp for us small fries. The movie is a feature length and it’s free, the link:

God Copy Bad Copy

Twitter feeds about Malawi in anticipation of Aug 17th protests

I’m re-posting from Dr. Kim Yi Dionne’s blog:

For those interested in following events in Malawi associated with demonstrations against government slated to begin on August 17, here is a list of Twitter feeds from Malawi and the abroad:

• Journalist Agnes Mizere @amizere
• Writer Steve Sharra @stevesharra
• Editor of The Nyasa Times (tweeting in the diaspora) Thom Chiumia @thomchiumia
• Lecturer and blogger Jimmy Kainja @jkainja
• Online news agency Malawi Voice @malawivoice
• European expatriate researcher/writer in Malawi @Jacaranda146
• Journalist Pilirani Semu-Banda @Pilirani