Anyway, it's a really amazing piece, I watched it in Bobst at Avery Fischer because it's available on DVD. It's a projection piece utilizing a device called the Magic Lantern, which is very similar to a slide projecter. Jacobs modified this, making the shutter spin causing a strobing effect of the images--and from that he called his use of the device the "Nervous Magic Lantern." The DVD is compilation of several different performances of these projections in which no film or video were used, just simultaneous slide projections. John Zorn and Ikue Mori provided the soundtrack, which is a really great noise-based piece that really enhances the whole experience. I recommend checking it out, the whole thing is 68 minutes but youtube has two really short, low quality clips.

Alternately, you can do what many of you do yesterday in Dreamweaver: Insert>Media>Plugin.

In searching google, I found this info on alternate ways to embed quicktime which gives lots of options for showing/not showing controls, background color, autoplay, etc.
read about it.

I'll post more info as I find it.

playing quick time movies simultaneously

making a quicktime movie from Keynote: - click record timings at bottom of box where you load your audio

make websize quicktime movies (mp4s) directly from quicktime

Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the "Incubator" program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. - May 11, 2008: 1 a.m. at Ontological Theater, St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St., Manhattan, NY, www.ontological.com/
Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio. Audio and video at www.free103point9.org

Read about Bebe Barron (née Charlotte May Wind), who opened the first electronic recording studio in the US in the Village.

Jonas Mekas - info about his films and thoughts on the fate of Super 8mm films.
see also www.jonasmekas.com/

video documentation of recent Future of the Internet Panel at NYU.

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Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning filmmaker whose latest documentary, “Standard Operating Procedure,” examines the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, is being pressed about a procedure of his own: paying interview subjects. read NY Times article

NPR Studio 360 show on Errol Morris' film plus artist responses to the Abu Ghraib photographs.

Review of film

Errol Morris NY Times Zoom blog on photography, film, and culture.

Errol Morris website

Baghdad Film School-Making Movies in Iraq
Now available online - Film clips and audio recording of Maysoon Pachachi and Kasim Abid's presentation "Baghdad Film School: Making Movies in Iraq."
from ARTEEAST

what looks like a good panel coming up on April 29, 6:30-8pm:
Who Owns This Image? Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel
(fyi: I heard about this from Newsgrist, a great art blog edited by artist Joy Garnett. I suggest signing up for the email newsletter.)

another good one - LIVE from the NYPL:
Tuesday, May 13 at 7pm
PHILIP GOUREVITCH & ERROL MORRIS: Standard Operating Procedure
Author Philip Gourevitch and filmmaker Errol Morris, two of our keenest moral and political observers, have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison, based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the Americans involved. @Celeste Bartos Forum, NYPL on 42 st and 5th ave.

Errol Morris also has a blog on the NY Times site where he writes about photography and political issues. I recommend it.

and while I'm posting - do you know about tinyurl?

The curators invited fifty artists from various media to submit a one-minute original sound work that they could describe as a lament, a wail, a moan or a cry.

"The Lament Project grew from a desire to work with a wide variety of interdisciplinary artists to produce a unique online project that could respond to the personal and social anxiety found in today's contemporary global culture. We thought that the best way Viralnet.net could cut through the corporate media's commodification of suffering and conflict, would be in a personal and visceral way, using sound."

take a look: http://www.diaart.org/johnson/

The elevator that had "The End" written on the doors and played famous opening/ending credits music. I thought it was a cool take on elevator music, I rode it up to the fifth floor instead of getting off at the second because I wanted to hear what it would play next.

The short film that follows a filmmaker and the "Valkerie" with a broken nose and carried around a hunk of foam cheese and. I walked just as the viking woman was walking towards him explaining that some people didn't like being filmed. I thought that she was a temporary character and was gone when she walked out of frame, but she kept walking back and forth across the camera and talking and talking. It was pretty funny to hear her try to explain the placement of the camera and everything from a dam to burnt sneakers.

I also never got a chance to see Spike Lee's documentary, so I stayed and watched part of it while I was there.