41 Posts from November 2007

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Story Circles: Approaches for Mining Great Stories

presentation by Joe Lambert at NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. This session will discuss a range of approaches from the field of media arts in capturing stories, from creative writing prompts, to interview techniques, to place-based recordings, and talking into images and film. Come learn what works, what doesn’t, and what might be best suited […]

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Power of Old Media in New Orleans

Opening keynote for the NMC Regional Conference at Tulane is Words and Music, Crafts and Costumes, Ritual and… Radio: The Power of Old Media in New Orleans by Nick Spitzer, of American Routes “the radio program from New Orleans devoted to the sources and symbols of blues and jazz, country and gospel, roots rock and […]

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When in New Orleans…

Hands Off My Beignets! posted 6 Nov ’07, 10.27pm MST PST on flickr Cafe du Monde, the famous spot in New Orleans for coffee and sugar piled on dough fried in fat! As the resident diabetic, I could only photograph the carnage. It’s the night before another great NMC event- the New Orleans Regional Conference […]

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NOLA Bound

Evening on Bourbon Street posted 4 Oct ’05, 9.51pm MDT PST on flickr I really like New Orleans. And I miss it. I’m off tomorrow early early for a flight to New Orleans- this week is the 2007 NMC Regional Conference hosted by Tulane University. C’mon down to the Quarter! (also trying desperately to see […]

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TimeScroller Rocks

I don’t spend much time with OS X widgets, and I prefer not to load up as the eat RAM, but I just found a very useful and free one worth the RAM. TimeScroller allows you to enter 8 different cities around the world. Now here is what’s cool, the scroll bar allows me to […]

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Am I Funky?

Doing productive work today exploring identity and perception via web 2.0 technologies… nah, I am just messing around at BeFunky. More or less with a limited tool set, you can create a “Uvatar” a mashup of “You” and “Avatar” – when I set up the account as a beta tester, it claimed to create these […]