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Creative Commons Media Sources

I said I’d post a link to some resources for finding Creative Commons media. Since your homework is non-profit, you shouldn’t have any problems using media from the list of links here. (Just remember to attribute the creator of the media you use… that is, give credit to whoever wrote the music or made the film you sample from.)

Good luck!

Last Group Crit Essay

Here’s the last essay for group critique:

Last essay for critique (pdf)

And here’s the plan for the next couple of weeks:

June 4th: Discuss essay above

June  9th: Last Writing Exercise

June 11th: Group Feedback session

We’ll talk about the essay’s due date in class tomorrow!

Another Public Photography Crackdown

Here’s another strange photography crackdown: in this case, security told the reporter photography was not allowed right after the spokesman for the company that owns Union Station said there isn’t a law about photography!

For the Next Two Weeks

Here’s the promised discussion schedule for the next two weeks:

Next Week

Hi there,

I’ll be lecturing on June 3rd — and talking about your Final Exam, as well. There is nothing necessaryto prepare for that day except your feedback papers for the third panel discussion last Thursday.
We have one presentation left in our course! That’s this one:

June 5th: What Will Tomorrow Look Like? — The Fifth Element and Brazil

Sang Woon Hong, Sun Jun Choi, Yu-hwa Han, Minjoo Yu

Please make sure to see both those movies.

For June 10th, I ask that you watch the film Blade Runner — we’ll be looking at parts of the film in class, but not the whole thing. There’s a new director’s cut that supposedly is the best ever – I’m hoping we can see that one.

And for June 12th, we’ll be discussing the influence of science fiction — an important part of American popular culture, and my speciality — on general culture. In preparation for this, I’m going to ask you to watch Jon Ronson’s documentary Crazy Rulers, which is available on Google video:

Crazy Rulers is a bit long, but pretty weird and entertaining. Please make sure to set aside some time this week to see it, since next week you’ll be too busy with studying for exams!

UPDATE:

Oh no! The Jon Ronson videos seem to have gone offline. There are some small excerpts from them, though, available. Here are some short clips from the documentary: please watch these and I’ll give you a small bit of Ronson’s book to read if the files don’t come back online:

The first clip

Two clips on the “First Earth Battalion” (1, 2)

On Waco, Texas.

And here is the text of the crazy First Earth Battalion handbook that is discussed in the documentary. Read it, but be careful not to lose your mind!

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