A. O. Scott’s article on the Abraham Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination captures something of the 50-year transition from the first cinéma vérité president (Kennedy) to a world in which everyone is their own cinéma vérité celebrity — stars and legends in our own minds. The Zapruder film in a sense predates all that — it comes […]
Posts Tagged ‘reality’
50 years
Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged JFK, reality, Zapruder film on November 16, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Plasticity run wild
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Ontology, epistemology, plasticity, reality, technoculture, virtual reality, virtuality on July 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In response to my Dharma of file sharing post, visual artist Tom Gokey, whose work readers may know from Speculations journal, shared a link to his video on “Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs, and Hackerspaces.” It is… stunning in its implications. Just watch. The democratization of production? The total plasticization of the world?