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But Is It Art?

By Sharon Katz | Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 12:30 pm | Blog: Ambling Around

Posted In | Blog Categories: YouTube, Op-Ed, Mass Media, Commentary | Site Categories: Art, Films, Internet and Interactive, Technology

Screen shot from youtube.com

Two billion videos are viewed every day on YouTube (YouTube fact sheet). Twenty-four hours of video are uploaded every minute.

Is any of it art? And does it matter?

Warfare As Gaming, Gaming As Warfare

By Sharon Katz | Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 12:37 pm | Blog: Ambling Around

Posted In | Blog Categories: Pop Culture, Op-Ed, Mass Media, Commentary | Site Categories: Awards, Films, Games, Internet and Interactive, Short Films, Technology

A still from Josh Bricker's video "Post-Newtonianism"

Josh Bricker’s video “Post Newtoniansim” runs real footage warfare (Iraq?) side-by-side with gaming warfare. But the viewer’s response is the real subject of this film.

Ric Viers, The Master of Sound Effects

By Sharon Katz | Monday, March 7, 2011 at 7:43 am | Blog: Ambling Around

Posted In | Blog Categories: Sound, Learning, Interview | Site Categories: Books, Films, Music and Sound

Capturing clean sound

Ric Viers not only creates vast libraries of sound effects, he also shares his knowledge with anyone who wants to create their own sounds.

YouTube Play: Corralling Wild Cattle

By Sharon Katz | Monday, November 1, 2010 at 1:28 pm | Blog: Ambling Around

Posted In | Blog Categories: YouTube, Op-Ed, Mass Media | Site Categories: Art, Films, Internet and Interactive, Short Films

YouTube Play.

Since 2005 YouTube has given us a prime venue for quick and dirty moving images. And now the powers that be in the art world are trying to grade that production.

The result is the first YouTube-Guggenehim joint exhibition, YouTube Play, an effort to pick the best of the 2 billion videos being screened daily on YouTube.

Who selected and juried the 23,358 submissions?

YouTube Play - Presenting The Jury

By Sharon Katz | Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 1:19 pm | Blog: Ambling Around

Posted In | Blog Categories: YouTube, Op-Ed, Mass Media | Site Categories: Events, Films, Internet and Interactive, Short Films

Experimental, psychedelic musicians Animal Collective

The YouTube Play jury list is out and there are some stellar people on it. Who are they? Well, for one thing they're all hard driving experimental artists.

Cowboy Bebop

By Sharon Katz | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 3:55 pm | Blog: Ambling Around

Posted In | Blog Categories: Review, Guest writer | Site Categories: Anime

Still image from Cowboy Bebop.

“Adventure Time” as seen through the eyes of guest writer Shawn Edrei.

Getting Past the Legalese - Book Review

By Sharon Katz | Friday, June 15, 2012 at 8:35 am | Blog: Ambling Around

Posted In | Blog Categories: Learning, Book Review | Site Categories: Education and Training, Licensing

The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers by Thomas A. Crowell

Success brings contracts, and contracts bring legalese. To get past the legalese painlessly, you need a good crib sheet and The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers gives you just that.