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Media League Championship Countdown – Day 1
Wow. What an exciting game filled with talented young artists and enthusiastic fans of their awesome artworks. That’s what The Media League is all about! With a little over 24 hours left JP Stevens (28,965 points) has extended its league after regaining it from Power On (22,773 points) 2 days ago. Meanwhile North Point High…
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Media League Championship Countdown – Day 7
For the past year I have been privileged to act as the Commissioner of The Media League, the world’s first competitive creativity league for high schools. And as I write this there are but 7 days left in The Media League Finals. 7 days to determine the very first Media League Champions! May the best…
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Goodbye to Jayne Cortez
Great poets are warriors. Jayne Cortez, who died on December 28th 2012, was a great poet and a great warrior. Were the world under attack and a champion needed to stand for us, I’d have taken Jayne over the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger any day, remaking life and death and every hopeful or violent human…
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The Media League in the Media
If I have been away from this blog for a while (I have) it’s only because I have been so totally focused on The Media League, my brand new digital business/digital culture venture, which has been exciting but all-consuming. Happily, here’s a link to a new article about us featuring an interview with yours truly:…
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Making Meaning Around the World
What does a book mean in Cuba? A cell phone in Iran? What do the millions of miles of fibreoptic cable wound round the earth mean to you, to me? How are those meanings changing? How are our changing tools changing our world? Changing us? These questions concern artists in every corner of the world,…
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Ottawa’s Feral Choir : skyrrxifliggrzbtnmlif
Thanks Max. Thanks Phil. Max is Max Middle, poetic curator, and Phil is Phil Minton, veteran vocal confabulator from the land beyond the sea and maestro of Ottawa’s briefly resplendent Feral Choir, which I was part of, one of 25 growling, howling vocalists in sensible shoes. (Nikes in my case. Phil wore Chinese slippers.) We…
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Index of first 50 posts on “You Are Your Media” blog
Hi. This post lists and links to my first 50 posts on this blog, indexing 50 brief critical essays on contemporary media culture. Topics include The Leveson Inquiry, Occupy Wall Street, Privacy, Music, Food, Economics and more. Try one. 1. Happy Birth Day! my blog is born 2. Gifts and Books, Books and Gifts books as…
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Kim Dotcom’s Amnesia = Media Warfare (Dancefloor Style)
In New Zealand, electronic-bracelet-wearing Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has gone on the offensive again, launching a new dance video produced by Black Eyed Peas’ musical director Printz Board that directly attacks John Banks, the NZ cabinet minister whom Dotcom claims asked for – and received – an anonymous and illegal $50,000 campaign donation from him.…
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Media Circus – revisiting radical TV criticism
In 1974, Ontario’s public broadcaster (OECA) launched a unique experiment in live broadcasting and media criticism. Media Circus was 90-minutes of live commercial-free analysis of ‘what is on TV right now’. Until recently it was believed that no recordings of this groundbreaking TV series existed, but recently a copy of the first episode came into…
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Global Freezing
It occurs to me that if the result of climate change was ‘global freezing’ rather than ‘global warming’ we’d be paying a LOT more attention to it. If instead of recent years being the hottest on record they were the coldest, people would be sitting up and taking notice. People don’t like the cold. A…
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