how to stereo
Most of film culture has been built around monocular capture and reproduction. A single camera lens produces a flat image. The flatness of the image has l...
Category: ideas
epistemology, philosophy, theology, religion
a thousand authors
While writing about the 1979 movie Alien and what it can teach us about extractive capitalism, I noted that movies can be more nuanced, profound and comprehensi...
the new now
A picture worth a thousand words.
new wave 2021
now that i’m off the gram, having already gone off the book of faces, i must post saturday morning audio doodles on the main. as it was, so shall it be ag...
desperately seeking sounds
After nearly two years of working on an audio drama, I’ve come to wonder if I should have spent more time thinking about the audio part and less on the dr...
more money in trolling
I made this video for Instagram [in 2019] just over two years ago. It should probably be hosted here as well. Transcript: “what happens when there’s...
Queens English
From my February 7, 2021 newsletter. Reprinted in full with a few grammatical corrections. “You don’t sound Cuban.” “Where’s your ...
how to free text on instagram
as mentioned in my free newsletter: Fela “Zombie“
free the USA, repeal the HSA
A video for Instagram: The New Republic has a fine recap. File under: “Little Green Men“
shifts
It hit me first thing this morning, upon waking into our quarantine & curfew, that a character is interesting when they shift from one point of view to anot...
Xpanding the diaspora
I’ve been thinking about “what we talk about when we talk about Latinx” for some years. My main question has been: Why not Latines? why not us...
A Long View on YouTube
A long view on YouTube is that it’s a platform for artists – outsider mostly, many of whom make art about their own lives – and educators. The “how&...
that migrant life
When you’re a migrant, be it a refugee or an immigrant, you’re forever an outsider. You’re no longer fully of the culture you left and yo...
the wall and whole foods
A diverse group of readers have told me that this edition of my newsletter is my best to date, so I am indexing it here for posterity. It’s about the wall...
Boundary issues
Friston draws a carefully regulated boundary around his inner life, guarding against intrusions, many of which seem to consist of “worrying about other people.”...
a proposal
from february 18, 2017:
a big lie
most car commercials are really public road commercials
Actual Science Fiction
A hundred years from now half the cops will have psych degrees and we’ll look back on today like a horror show. (the movie “Bright” is not actually ...