I just finished watching the Graffiti Research Lab Movie which is available as a bittorent from http://graffitiresearchlab.com/
Its a testament to the cultural value of the free and open source approach.
The Graffiti Research Lab develops new often low tech approaches for graffiti, street art and protest. They invented ‘throwies’ l.e.d ’s that you can throw up onto metal surfaces , or write with, and also developed laser tagging which allows for street artists to write or draw over the entire surface of a large building from a distance using a projector and a laser. They publish the know how and software for doing these things for free online and watch the projects then take on a life of their own. They also talk about how big business has appropriated the projects for advertising and commercial purposes and in response GRL’s own counter strategies.
This film is enjoyable, inspiring and fun. Definately worth the watch.
The League of Noble Peers have just released part 2 of Steal This Film. A documentary about the battle between new media and old, between the pirates and the corporations, over control of the media landscape in the information age.
These are great documentaries on cutting edge subject matter.
Currently this release is distributed solely online through p2p file sharing networks. It is also available to view streamed from Youtube, Google Video and in a better quality divx from Stage6.divx.com
This is just one of a number of full length documentary films circumventing traditional corporate media distribution and finding new audiences cutting out the middlemen and distributing online. A blog post by one of the filmakers http://jamie.com/ claims that there where over 150,000 downloads of Steal This Film 2 in the first 4 days of its release. No doubt this is unprecedented for an independent film release online.
That old saying ‘the revolution will not be televised’ comes to mind.
If you like what you see share it with friends or organise a screening in your area.
This high contrast video drawing analogies between powerful sense of transformation experienced in natural phenomena and spiritual transformation of the human soul.
Hello to any and all who might wander upon my research blog here. Well I’ve not been a very good blogger these past few months the reason being that I’ve been very busy. Mid September I got an offer of a place on the Masters of Fine Art at University of Ulster Belfast. So I dropped all in Galway packed my bags and moved up north. Its a 2 year practice based MA and so far so good. Apart from the usual bit of adjusting things have been going well up here. I landed on my feet and found a nice place to live, where I hope to stay for the duration of the course. This is a relief since I’ve moved 6 times in the past 2 years and moving is such a pain. So all is well. Whats the story Kev? What are you at? I hear you ask. Well I’m currently focusing on working with video and film so I’m setting up a video blog called ‘edits’ which I will be setting up asap. I don’t have a lot of videos at the moment but I hope to upload maybe a new video every fortnight. So watch this space as I’d love to hear comments and criticisms. Thats it for now.
These guys are hilarious. Great agit-prop activist theatre. This is a video of an action they took against the minutemens anti-immigrant demonstration. They asked them for their papers and told them if they could not produce them they would be declared illegal aliens and must leave the Galaxy. No Papers No Milkyway. Anyway its fun check it out.
