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 "If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of to musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than with truth or beauty. If content is worthless, then people will start to become empty-headed and content-less. The combination of hive mind and advertising has resulted in a new kind of social contract. The basic idea of this contract is that authors, journalists, musicians and artists are encouraged to treat the fruits of their intellects and imaginations as fragments to be given without pay to the hive mind. Reciprocity takes the form of self-promotion. Culture is to become precisely nothing but advertising."

- Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

... and yes, I'm aware of the potential irony/hypocrisy of posting this on a blog. I encourage you to go out and buy the whole book, at a real bookstore, like I did.

Four Frame Gallery Duet

From the exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum. Click on the image to see the video.

The Object in Space

Here's a short video of my piece The Gate to the Enclosure in the gallery where it's installed at the Weisman Art Museum.

(video documentation by Isaac Gale and Dave Underhill)

I'm planning on adding a page to my official portfolio website (videohaiku.com) to archive the piece soon, but I haven't figured out how to accomplish that, yet.

It's a new challenge for me, because most of my work is well suited to the two-dimensional space of a computer screen - this is the first time I've really stepped out of that frame.

Blogversification

Hello.

I've just begun to work on a new documentary project, inspired by my experience in a men's group (kind of like group therapy, without the therapist), and the organization that the group is a part of, called "The ManKind Project."

It's hard to say exactly, but I'm guessing that it'll take at least a year to gather all the footage, and we have to find money for the project too - but I'm very excited about it, and it looks like I get to work with some long-time collaborators, Dain Ingebretson and Charlie Borden.

I've decided to start another blog, to track the progress of that project, and explore and discuss all of the surrounding issues that come up... it's called Masculine Myth.

Feel free to go check it out, and I do hope it'll become a collaborative effort, so if you have content to suggest, links to articles, etc.. - don't hesitate to let me know. I plan to post there at least a couple times a week.

The Gate to the Enclosure

x4= Morgan Thorson

Installation is Underway!

...for the video installation at the Weisman Art Museum, where this new four-camera series will be displayed.

x4= HIJACK + Sherman

x4= Mad King Thomas

Charles Campbell - Country Road