Jonesing for a 21th Century Joseph Mitchell

Here, allow me to share a cautionary tale so that others might learn from my mistakes.
Some time back I agreed to video tape a dance piece. It was performed over three days. Excellent, I thought. Each performance I’ll set up at a different part of the theater. Up high for the [...]

Ray Bolger’s Hollywood Hug

Shit. I’m pushing to finish a project due tomorrow. Some of the video footage is in a different frame rate. At least I have a new and faster computer which will make the render time less ghastly. I also have this other computer I can use between render sessions.
Last night I [...]

Spit and Potatoes

I’ve been holding my tongue in regards to Cosmo Inserra and his San Antonio Media Future Initiative organization. Actually I had typed out an eye-rolling blog some weeks back which I decided not to post. You know, all about how here we have another individual who is helping to Keep San Antonio Lame. [...]

Doubled-Booked Tuesday and the Fountain of Youth

Laura Varela premiered her documentary tonight at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. I had all the best of intentions to attend.
But I had failed to look closer at my calendar. It was the same night as the San Antonio Film Commission’s monthly Film Forum at the library. I’d planned to attend so [...]

Jumping Jesus, the Singularity is Coming on Fast!

This afternoon I was catching up on the blogs I subscribe to. One is the Live Journal kept by sci-fi author Joe Haldeman. After conveying a rather amusing joke he learned from Ben Bova, he segued into mentioning an interview he read in a recent issue of New Scientist with futurist Ray Kurzweil. [...]