OMG, this just came out:

"DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation is a film project based on a remix of D.W. Griffith's infamous 1915 film Birth of a Nation. The original film was based on a novel and theater play by Thomas Dixon entitled The Clansman - essentially what Dj Spooky is doing is applying dj technique to cinema in a way that parallels, deconstructs and remixes the original."

[purchase]

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"You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene."

--Deborah Solomon interviews David Lynch

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To better understand Deleuze & Guattari's concept of mapping vs. tracing, it is crucial to understand the concept of homeomorphism:


In the mathematical field of topology, a homeomorphism or topological isomorphism is a bicontinuous function between two topological spaces. Homeomorphisms are the isomorphisms in the category of topological spaces — that is, they are the mappings which preserve all the topological properties of a given space. Two spaces with a homeomorphism between them are called homeomorphic, and from a topological viewpoint they are the same.

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"What Is Flash Fiction?"

by

Steve Smith and Kathy Kachelries

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Bright Eyes - "At the Bottom of Everything"

Directed by Kat Solen

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"Find Us With the Lemurs: Disability and the Språkgrotesk"

By Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson

[a manifesto on soft surrealism]

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[the following short film is beautiful, but NSFW]





"Bathtube"

a short film

directed by Priya Sanghvi

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HTMLGIANT is an amazing community building project that fosters a vital emerging movement in independent literature. If you are a writer doing work outside the mainstream, looking for a group of like-minded folks, here is your chance to get involved:

Dear Readers,

We are pleased to announce our First Annual Secret Santa Gift Exchange to support independent literature.

Here’s how it works:

1) If you want to participate, email your name and mailing address to htmlgiant@gmail.com with the subject line: SECRET SANTA. The due date for this is Midnight on Friday, December 5th.

2) As soon as possible, we email you the name and address of your assigned gift recipient.

3) We assign your name and address to another Secret Santa.

4) By Christmas, you purchase for your gift recipient a wonderful gift and email us to let us know what you got him or her.

5) You simultaneously enjoy the gift that you receive from your own Secret Santa.

[visit their site for more info.]

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Fashion photography from Ruvan Afanador: