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Yeah Yeah, newmediacoolcoolgeewhiz, But Still, most Bloggers != Journalists
I just removed the (i'm now certain) right-wingedly nuts "reporter"(ranter)/photographer/"filmmaker" (and ridiculously-mustachioed) Karl Hoffman from my facebook friends list. i should have done so long ago but today he finally completely went over the line with his latest smear-job hate-piece on his Tucson Citizen blog.
The Citizen has really screwed up letting practically any whackjob with a computer and an axe to grind have a megaphone on their site. I guess i shouldn't be surprised coming from a Gannett (USA Today) publication. but still. they really should have SOME quality control. After they ran out of money and closed up their print operation, they reinvented themselves as an even more crappy web-only operation with legions of free, untrained, amateur bloggers pretending to be writers. This and the similarly fact-starved Examiner.com consistently get my blood pressure up lately. They really make one tremble for the possible dark fate of journalism - not that I'm against the transformation of the media landscape thanks to blogs and social media - but sites like these that purposely, just to save a buck, blur the line between professional, ethical, skilled journalists and unqualified, prejudiced hacks are really doing harm to that landscape.
Anyway, i'm not even going to link to Karl's story because if you click you'll just be giving him more hits. suffice it to say the piece is full of hateful lies and conjecture about No More Deaths and Samaritans. He hates them because they're pro-union, is the best i can figure out. And he's a former cop who can't stand the idea of anybody doing anything against any law, i guess. Actually, his poor videography should be against the law. I've been politely sitting through his lame youtube output for years, not wanting to be too critical, but the gloves are off now. and i'm not just talking about his political position - he's really incompetent with the craft, especially with editing and sound. The good thing about his shitty work is that the poor quality, of his video as well as his writing, is an important flag that says to the alert, intelligent reader: "hey this guy's fishy. if he knew what he was talking about, he'd probably also know how to spell "guerilla" (not "gorilla").
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Steev
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1951
rating: 3
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date added: 2010/10/15
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
author: David Sedaris
name: Steev
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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date added: 2010/10/15
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One Day On Earth raw footage selects (2 of 2 parts) from the u.s./mexico borderlands
near Sasabe, Arizona, an interview with and demonstration by Glenn Weyant, a musician and sound artist who plays the u.s./mexico border wall as a musical instrument.
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Cast: steev hise and Glenn Weyant
One Day On Earth raw footage selects (1 of 2 parts) from the u.s./mexico borderlands
this is 1 of 2 clips of footage selections from my 10.10.10 shooting day for the One Day On Earth project. This first one concentrates on nature footage, mostly in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Sasabe, Arizona.
note: this is just a selects/demo reel. My raw footage contains longer takes of each of the shots in this reel and is available for use in the One Day On Earth film.
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Shampoo Planet
author: Douglas Coupland
name: Steev
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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date added: 2010/09/30
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Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America
author: Brian Francis Slattery
name: Steev
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2010/09/30
date added: 2010/09/30
shelves: after-the-fall, fun, novels, own-it
contested bandwidth.
i wish there was a way to just limit freeloaders of wifi to low-bandwidth
use and just stop them from watching videos and doing big
downloads/uploads and other high-bandwidth stuff, because in principle
i'm for open networks. it'd be great if anyone could freely use our
wireless to get email or whatever low-impact stuff they wanted. it's
just that when the freeloading makes it impossible for us to do what we
need to do, there have to be limits. so we've finally Read more>>>
The Bats of Ruby
The colony of bats leaving the old mine in Ruby, Arizona, as they do every sunset during the summer. This was shot in May 2010.
Shot on a Canon SD780 and then motion-stabilized in post with Apple Motion. I played around with time rate a little too at the end.
Cast: steev hise
Thoughts About Immigration, and Labor, and Myths in America
I've been reading an excellent book called "'They Take Our Jobs!' and 20 other myths about immigration", by Aviva Chomsky. It's a really straightforward, easy read, and I've been highlighting key summarizing passages as I go with the intention of blogging at least a couple of times to share them. I will get to some of those soon, but I want to briefly mention one "big idea" from the book and how it relates to some other things I've been thinking about.
One underlying lesson of Chomsky's book is that, as we all keep seeing, history is such a great way to get at the truth or part of the truth that's often been glossed over in many discussions. She looks not just at the immigration situation right now but at the history of labor in the New World to show that immigration is a simply one part in the puzzle of how capital has always fought to provide itself with cheap labor. Cutting labor costs depends on having a population of workers who don't have the same rights as the rest of the people. An underclass.
The reason we've always had an "underclass" in our society, whether it was slaves, indentured servants, immigrants, foreign workers in far-away foreign factories, or undocumented immigrants, has always pretty much been because business needs to reduce what it spends on labor. They need to cut costs so they can offer cheap prices to consumers, and so they can increase profits.
Furthermore, the need to reduce retail consumer prices has become especially important in the last half-century, because middle-class workers here, the "non underclass," in other words, the consumers, have had their (real) earnings drop steadily since the 60s. Income inequality has been increasing as money gets funneled from regular people to the upper class. This means things, to put it simply, life has been kind of bad and getting worse and worse for the last few decades, for most people in this country.
To make up for it, rather than offering a truly better, more just and fair life for most people, Read more>>>
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