Writer, Professor, and Everything Else
From Improve Everywhere, a “mission” involving desktops being mobile:
On a less humorous note, I do sometimes wish I could/would do this. I’m working on a desktop now and will switch to a laptop soon to go and do some work elsewhere, and I know I will inevitably forget something….
I’ve come across a couple of different resources for teaching about YouTube: Henry Jenkins has parts one and two (will there be more?) parts of an interview with Alex Juhasz about teaching with and about YouTube. Yet another thing I link to without having actually read, but it’s on the list for this week.
I thought this was a pretty cool video– via boing-boing.
Also via boing-boing this morning: Here’s a clip of the voice actors from Spongebob Squarepants doing voice-overs of scenes from Cassablanca, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Godfather. More than just a little funny…
Update #1: Doh! Removed by user! I must find this video again….
Update #2: Yeah! It’s back at a different place– check out the link here.
These both might be kind of teachable moments in a couple different classes. First, there’s the Obama inspired “Yes We Can” song/video:
Well-done, inspiring, etc. And then, via Deb Hawhee, I came across this parody featuring almost certain GOP candidate John McCain:
Good luck with that in November 2008 indeed….
I stumbled across this tonight for reasons I can’t explain, director/writer Paul Thomas Anderson talking with Henry Rollins about (among other things) There Will Be Blood.
Cool stuff.
A lot, apparently.
I think the video is pretty self-explanatory; via boing-boing.
Yesterday was Groundhog day (apparently we’re likely to have six more weeks of winter), which naturally brings up that great movie, Groundhog Day. Now, I’m all for obsessive/compulsive behavior, but this analysis of how long Phil Connors was stuck in that Groundhog day time-loop is a little much.
Besides, everyone knows the answer is really seven years. Duh, they didn’t include every day in the movie!
Here’s a good example of the challenges of posting stuff here that will reach different audiences, potentially in different ways.
The first one is pretty easy, and something I might before have put on my “official” blog, because it is an example of a “smart mob” phenomenon that gets talked up once in a while in computers and writing circles. From the group/organization (?) Improv Everywhere comes “Frozen Grand Central.”
Okay, and now the yang, the sort of thing I would have posted on my unofficial blog: I personally find Sarah Silverman funny, but she also is really really good at being pretty darn offensive and/or annoying. This video is an excellent example.
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