Category Archives: subverting dominant paradigms

SOHO & Sebastian Horsley

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

While I was in graduate school at Central Saint Martins, I worked in a dingy little pub on the corner of Old Compton Street & Charing Cross Road that was fumbingly trying to reinvent itself as a drag cabaret hotspot. … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced funding campaign: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

I love The Yes Men, “a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce. Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them, our targets are leaders and big corporations … Continue reading →

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How small festivals are the future of meatspace film distribution: Thoughts 4 & 5

Posted on March 22, 2010 by

In January, I attended the Slamdance / Sundance extravaganza in Park City, Utah, helping produce the Slamdance, WorkBook Project & Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit.  While there, I participated in and listened to a lot of conversations about the shifting … Continue reading →

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‘Unplug’, now in blog and online video form

Posted on March 19, 2010 by

Confirming my opinion that the next big online trend will be to turn the power switch to the off position, I bring you ‘Yelp (With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg)’ from filmmaker Tiffany Shlain (and everyone’s favorite cranky editor, Dalan McNabola). … Continue reading →

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How small festivals are the future of meatspace film distribution: Thought 3

Posted on March 10, 2010 by

In January, I attended the Slamdance / Sundance extravaganza in Park City, Utah, helping produce the Slamdance, WorkBook Project & Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit.  While there, I participated in and listened to a lot of conversations about the shifting … Continue reading →

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How small festivals are the future of meatspace film distribution: Thought 2

Posted on March 1, 2010 by

In January, I attended the Slamdance / Sundance extravaganza in Park City, Utah, helping produce the Slamdance, WorkBook Project & Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit.  While there, I participated in and listened to a lot of conversations about the shifting … Continue reading →

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100,000 eyeballs to your film, in 3 days flat.

Posted on October 17, 2009 by

An important new weapon in the arsenal for filmmakers who are bucking the system and choosing to self-distribute, VODO is incredibly subversive. Its success, after all, is predicated on human generosity, not to mention the radical (and counter-intuitive) act of … Continue reading →

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Eat, Eat

Posted on September 8, 2009 by

We screened this film at Silver Lake Film Festival’s Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag showcase back in 2007. It’s totally fucked up.

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i have an idea, and it’ll solve road rage.

Posted on August 30, 2009 by
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