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From Fox News to the New York Times to Google News and Aljazeera, the news media are the main channel through which our interpretation of reality and our future are created. We look to expose hypocrisy, innovation, integrity and possibility.

April 29, 2008

Obama in 30 seconds - 15 Finalists

Check out the Finalists.

I think my favorites are:

Positive Vision:

Targeted at Republicans:

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October 6, 2007

Sundance and Skoll : a good year to be at Oxford B-school

This is turning out to be a perfect year for my long term partner Christie George to be attending Said Business School at Oxford.  She worked in the documentary film world in NYC for many years, and then was selected to receive a Skoll Scholarship to attend the school. 

Now, the week that classes are starting, it turns out that the Sundance Institute and the Skoll Foundation announced $3
million, three-year partnership dedicated to exploring film's role in
advancing knowledge about social entrepreneurship. Good timing.

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May 19, 2007

"I Have a Dream" and the rise of a healthy culture

I'm sure this video came out a while ago, but I just saw it for the first time, and it makes me feel good about where we're moving as a culture. Common and Al Gore and General Electric are all moving the culture in a more healthy direction. Now we gotta speed up the momentum.

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March 20, 2007

Next Generation Cultural Democracy hits 2008 Election

This video pretty much makes it clear why a certain percentage of the younger generation would prefer a country with Barack Obama as the president instead of Hillary Clinton (or John McCain and the others for that matter.) The 2008 election will clearly see the next phase in the evolution of visionary (and incendiary) citizen produced political media. Let's hope it serves more to carve out a positive vision for the future than to play into the horse race of which person will represent us as president.

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August 22, 2006

Idioteque enters the Youtube experiment

Inspired by Radiohead's prophetic song, a group of friends and I collaborated in November of 2001 to create Idioteque, using footage and images from "Here is New York," television ads and archives, and the film Baraka. Just submitted to youtube, and I'm curious to see how the response is, both from viewers and also from youtube and EMI and other copyright holders.

When we had first completed it, I exchanged emails with the Radiohead manager at the time, only to accidentally send a faulty link and lose track of the email address. Since then, I became educated in Fair Use and the possibility of the commons, and am interested to see how the youtube copyright battles shape up, and if Revver's more pro copyright model will win out. Till then, enjoy the video (despite the unfortunate thumbnail image chosen by youtube).

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