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The War Tapes

The War Tapes
Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.

I went to a preview screening of The War Tapes on Monday.  The film was introduced by Orville Schell, dean of the UC Berkeley Grad. School of Journalism.

A half hour preview of the film has been shown as part of a discussion (video is online) of coverage of Iraq at the Journalism school in March.



After the film, executive producer Chuck Lacy and Mark Danner who has reported from Iraq many times discussed the film and took questions (I shot some video and will try and edit it together soon).

The film opens Friday, June 30th (tonight) at the Castro in San Francisco and will be expanding around the country over the next few months.  Sign up for their email list to find out when it will be near you (and to get scenes which didn't make it into the film). 

Lacy and soldier/cameraman Zack Bazzi will be at the 7 and 9:30 pm screenings tonight and on Saturday, July 1.  There was a front page story in the Chronicle.

More photos.

Rose who forwarded the email about the screening wrote about it and so did Tara: www.horsepigcow.com/2006/06/see-this-movie.html

Other movies on soldiers in Iraq include Gunner's Palace and Operation Dreamland.  Off to War
which also followed a National Guard unit was shown on Discovery Times.

Frontline has done many programs on Iraq and all of them are online.  Company of Soldiers was about soldiers in Iraq, and the Soldier's Heart was about what happens once they come home.
Private Warriors was about private contractors in Iraq (the soldiers in the War Tapes
spend a lot of their time guarding their trucks and talk about Halliburton - Dick Cheney was the subject of the Dark Side). 

 

Vox

I got an invite to try out Vox, Six Apart's new blogging service (which originally
was called comet).  So I've started to play with it here.

I'm not sure if I'm going to crosspost here and there, have a different focus here
and there, or...   At the very least, I'll answer the question of the day there.

Vloggercon (including an upcoming Boing Boing vlog)

Update:  At the Rocketboom panel  at Vloggercon, Andrew Baron began by talking about how Boing Boing had been one of his main inspirations. He ended by showing a silent clip of the opening for a new Boing Boing vlog he is collaborating on.  Afterwards, he told me it would debut within the next few weeks.

The second Vloggercon, a gathering of video bloggers from around the world (more info),  is taking place in San Francisco on Saturday and Sunday June 10th & 11th.  It is sold out, but there be live streaming and an IRC chat (there also are already many photos on flickr and I'm posting photos with links). 

Just look at the schedule and then watch and participate.

Friday evening at the Apple store in San Francisco,  TWIT was taping their show at the same time as a large crowd watched a Meet the Vloggers presentation (they'll now be happening every month in San Francisco).

 

If you can't watch live, everything will be archived, remixed, and vlogged.  You can  also learn to start you own vlog at freevlog.org (and to start learning the basics of video, check out the five minute episodes of videogrunt  ).  Michael and Ryanne (pictured at top) created freevlog and wrote a book.

There also is an archive of video from the first vloggercon.

Living with War

I'm just starting to listen to Neal Young's new album.

More at this blog.

SF International Film Festival through May 3

SF International Film Fest, April 29 - May 3
Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.

The San Francisco International Film Festival opened last night.

I'm one of about 20 bloggers organized by  Kevin Smokler who will be covering the festival.


  I'll be writing more, but until then I'm posting photos (and also have photos from last year).

Heather Gold is blogging and vlogging

Heather Gold at the Blogher Friday night dinner
Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.

On the way to or from the <a hef=http://www.blogher.org>blogher</a> dinner where she performed, I told <a href=http://www.subvert.com>Heather Gold</a> she should blog.  Later, I saw her at a screening of Jesus is Magic and showed her my then new ipod and told her she should vlog.

I certainly wasn't the only one who told her that, but now she is blogging and vlogging (she also does the intro video for Mary Hoder's company dabble).  I should link to individual posts, but it is late and you should read/watch them all anyway.

And join her email list  and add her as a friend on myspace (yes, it is owned by rupert murdoch, but it is an interesting way for independent artists to reach new audiences among other things).

She is also doing a workshop performance of the Law Project on Monday at the Magic Theater.  Details are on her website, <a href=http://www.subvert.com>subvert.com</a>.  I saw an early version of it at Ladyfest a few years ago.

2000 del.icio.us links

I just noticed that I posted my 2000th link on del.icio.us last night. I started using del.icio.us a year ago mostly as a way to keep track of websites, articles and other things of interest to me, but some of them are probably of interest to other people.

There is also now a del.icio.us tag cloud on the right.

Blogher

Heather Gold at the Blogher Friday night dinner
Originally uploaded by sar.

I'll be taking photos at several of the sessions at Blogher today.

There also will be people liveblogging and many of the sessions will be recorded and be available for downloading.

This photo is of Heather Gold at the Friday night Blogher dinner.

Update: I have a bunch of photos online and will upload more on Sunday and Monday (as well as add more captions, links, etc). This page has links to live blogging and photos, and this one has links to even more online about blogher.

tags: blogher, bloghercon, flickr, photoblog

Podcasting on the World

Adam Curry
Originally uploaded by sar.

Two people I met briefly at bloggercon in early November were Adam Curry and Tony Kahn of the World.

Tony Kahn

Tuesday (today) The World will be doing a story on podcasting (update- audio and a transcript is online):

Radio Revolutionary

Veejay Adam Curry once counted down the hits on MTV. Now he lives in Britain, where he's changing the way people listen to radio around the globe. He's a driving force behind PODCASTING, the internet craze that puts radio programs into your Ipod or portable MP3 player.

Typepad

Typepad, the software/service which is used to create this blog has officially launched a preview release. I'll be writing a more detailed review for Blogcritics (and hopefully some place which will pay me), but I reccommend it.