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Boothism as Silverfish

by Boothism on 23. Apr, 2009 in Arts & Culture, Media

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A few years ago, after more than a few glasses of red, me and a close friend-uber talented italian photog/artist/model Marlene Demonte- were talking art work and collabs and ways we could work together. I’d been really into the multimedia collaborations between Bill T. Jones, Tseng Kwong Chi and Keith Harring and wanted to do something similar. (See the bottom of the post for some of the inspiring shots).

So after more planning, more drinking, and a hilarious trip through Chinatown and North Beach (who knew it would be so hard to find a live squid in San Francisco?) these are some of the results. I’m digging the shoot but I think I need to work on my brooding artist face. Check em out.

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Haiti's Digital Storytellers

by Boothism on 15. Apr, 2009 in Life

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more about “Haiti Digital Storytellers“, posted with vodpod

A look at how digitial tools are being used in Haiti. Feels kinda Afrigadget ish. Props to Klev.Dev for the vid.

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Maggot Brain-Cuz it's Easter Sunday and Funkadelic is a religion.

by Boothism on 12. Apr, 2009 in Life

While I’m not the most religious person, I can recognize when the spirit moves you. And this version of P-funk’s Maggot Brain is all kinds of spiritual. Happy Easter and all that…

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more about “Maggot Brain“, posted with vodpod

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Literature 2.0? It's about damned time

by Boothism on 06. Apr, 2009 in Media

When Mark Amerika created Grammatron 16 (?) years ago, who knew it would take the rest of the world so long to catch up?

Still, you have no idea how exited this article in the NYT makes me-enough to get me blogging again after umpteen months.

It’s always annoyed the hell out of me that writers were getting the short end of the stick in terms of cool digitools. The itunes, DIY, online community model works for the music biz, but it took (and to be honest this is all still very new stuff) the creation of a functional and practical e-book reader (the Kindle, and it’s soon coming knockoffs) to actually make to idea of books integrated with media a tangible reality.

According to the article, some enterprising capitalist types are finally seeing the light when it comes to the multimedia options available to authors. (more…)