Documentary Storytelling According to Les Blank
It is rare to find film documentaries that are narrator-less and avoid having a first person point of view. Even more rare, is to find documentaries that are at...
Month: November 2011
Outer Space and the Home/Personal Computer
The history of the personal computer revolution has several myths. Some of them focus on individual geniuses (hackers, nerds, or hippies), others on single mach...
A Man as a Caricature: Cheech Marin
Today i went to a special event organized by the center for mexican american studies that featured the film screening of Born in East L.A and a talk with direct...
Seeing Comala in the Big Screen
The first time i encountered an image of Comala was in the written words of Juan Rulfo’s master piece Pedro Paramo (1955). I was fascinated by the poetica...
a telegram via snail mail (and in an envelop)
i invite people to mail me a telegram. since telegrams are a dead medium and we cannot send them anymore, i invite you to download the following image, print it...
Book review : The Victorian Internet
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers By Tom Standage. New York : Walker and Co., 19...