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Archive - Feb 2010
First Truth On The Line cast interview
We hear from Ryn about why he became involved with Truth On The Line, his thoughts about the unique nature of the project, and the challenges of playing the role of Joel.
Truth On The Line cast interview: Ryn Shane-Armstrong
We hear from Ryn about why he became involved with Truth On The Line, his thoughts about the unique nature of the project, and the challenges of playing the role of Joel.
Truth On The Line's first episode is in post-production. For more information and related content, and to sign up for the TOTL newsletter, see truthontheline.tv
Shot in HD (720p) with a Canon SD780IS, audio recorded with an Edirol R-9.
Bovine Blues
This is a letter to the editor that I never sent because certain someones thought there would be some sort of repercussions. But I have persmission to post it here...
Dear Tucson Weakly, Read more>>>
Wild Versus Wall (2010 Revision)
This is an updated version of Wild Versus Wall, produced for the Sierra Club. The film concerns the ecological effects of new enforcement infrastructure on the U.S./Mexico border.
Narrated by David Yetman.
for more information see the Sierra Club Borderlands campaign web page: sierraclub.org/borderlands
Cast: steev hise
Meta TV News Story
In the category of inspiring stuff that resonates with some of the questions and ideas TOTL will be tackling, here's a brilliant and clever meta-take on the trite and cliched tropes common to many TV news stories:
Dying to Live: A Story of U.s. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Open Media)
author: Joseph Nevins
name: Steev
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2010/02/18
date added: 2010/02/18
shelves: own-it, politics
TOTL Comic #1
This first weekly installment of the Truth On The Line comic strip introduces one of the main characters of the show.
Senselessness (New Directions Paperbook)
author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
name: Steev
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2010/02/08
date added: 2010/02/08
shelves: novels, own-it, politics
The Cost of Life
While we move closer to the final edit of Truth On The Line's pilot episode(s), we're going to periodically point out here on the site a variety of other media that's out there that is relevant to the project and its goals. This might include, books, music, films, whatever resonates.
Today we have an excellent music video by Juan Luis Guerra, to a song of his called "El Costo De La Vida" - The Cost of Life. Watching the video it will be easy to see some of what it's about, even without knowing much Spanish: topics like the media, the truth, trust in official institutions for your knowledge, thinking for yourself, government oppression, and more - all concerns of Truth On The Line as well. At the start of the video we see Guerra (a Dominican super-popstar, by the way), in the role of a news anchor on TV, tossing his papers casually behind him as he finishes with each, while his backup vocalists sing in screens behind him. He chants "it's the truth" again and again and then in english "do you understand?" At the end he literally pulls the plug on a political leader's speech.
Despite the seriousness of some of the lyrics and imagery, which includes montages of riots and military and police actions, the song also has a bright and happy feel to it. TOTL has a similar format - we're intent on providing engrossing, dramatic entertainment that also asks some hard questions and conveys serious ideas about our society and world: what is truth? what is journalism? How are stories told and who can and does tell them? Truth On The Line is about news and people who deliver the news, but who resist, or try to resist, the status quo. Read more>>>
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