“We’ve reached a time when we must declare open warfare on mediocrity, greyness and lack of expressiveness, and make creative inquiry a rule in cinema.”
Andrei Tarkovsky
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Tarkovsky_in_Italy.html
Russian definition of Trackback
* Удаленная система комментирования между блогами. Если Вы сделаете запись в своем блоге и разрешите функцию trackback, то другой блоггер, сделав в свою очередь заметку в своем блоге по этой же теме, что и Вы, может отправить пинг (короткое сообщение) в ваш блог. Выдержка из его записи отобразится на определенной странице вашего блога.
Its good to know that the the old USSR has capitulated, and one cant help wondering if its all because of blogs, or at least the web…
My point is, the web has fundamentally changed the way people in the world identify themselves. If you can access the www and understand how to navigate, you will find like-minded individuals. You will find content that will “explode your sensibilities”. You will realise that walls based on cultural difference are no longer valid or promotable. If you happen to be a government leader you will need to adjust your rhetoric. Or hire a Communication PR guru to repackage and re-present your newly found weaknesses.
Formerly disenfranchised and displaced communities and sub-cultures are able to (re-)establish themselves, at, least on one level, into a place of value by establishing an online identity. They may be anonomous and ignored by the immediate culture in which they live (eg Aust western culture and aboriginal culture),but by becoming visible on one single level, albeit in the cyber space, they have taken a significant step to empowerment.
In my research for my Indiv Media Project Doco, I was able to search/track the matriarch/mother figure in the photo back to their community URL.
http://www.jilkminggan.nt.gov.au/
The idea has hope and so grows.
Scene: 1988, Djembere Community, Roper River, Northern Territory.
The clear heat of the post-wet season. The air tingles with energy, a residue of the electrical storm that swept through last night. I’m standing like the alien I am, feeling displaced and yet somehow assured. Right place, right time. A feeling.
Jessie Roberts is telling me about her dream. Self-sufficiency, decent housing , a school…
It seems impossible. I’ve seen the drunks under the coolibah trees, the general store that only sells beer. I’ve been on railway platforms at midnight at Taree, on the coast three thousand kilometers to the east and witnessed first-class racism. The problem is us, and we are endemic…
http://www.schools.nt.edu.au/kathgs/jilkminggan/jilIntro.htm
* TrackBacks essentially provide a means whereby different web sites can post messages to one another not just to inform each other about citations, but also to alert one another of related resources. Typically, a blog may display quotations from another blog through the use of TrackBacks.
http://www.saugus.net/Computer/Terms/Letter/T/
* TrackBack is a system implemented by many blogging tools, including Movable Type and WordPress, that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it. The system works by sending a ‘ping’ between the blogs, and therefore providing the alert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackBack
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/
agood video demonstration of setting up a blog
http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2005/03/blogging_101_wo.html
shoni :: SBSi Submissions :: April :: 2005
shoni :: SBSi Submissions :: April :: 2005
sounds like they want completed docos or very near complete- I wonder if they are going to run a similar expression of interest in 2006…
Certainly this Alternate Reality Game site, projectsyzygy.com has constructed a portal that is hard to resist entering. We need to generate an equally enticing premise for our Collaborative Game Project. I find the virus angle a bit too “24″, and perhaps we need to be more innovative/concept driven in order to attract the audience. Have we firmed on the 20-40 yo demographic any further?
