IN THEIR ROOM is a series that shows the lives of real people in their rooms, alone. Each episode focuses on one niche demographic, in this instance, BUTT MAGAZINE readers.
I’m working on future episodes that will work from the same premise of capturing the banal and the erotic, the intimate and the voyeuristic, it’s just the demographic that shifts. The two new demographics Ill be in the bedroom with are girls (straight and gay) who buy/wear vintage. I won’t be asking about your vintage, it’s just the unifying thing that’s bringing you together as a demographic. Indie girls, you know who you are. The second piece will focus on women (bio and otherwise) over age 50. If you’re either, or you know someone who fits the bill, please be in touch.
IN THEIR ROOM, Butt Magazine readers.
20 minutes.
IN THEIR ROOM, Eli
1.01 minutes.
From time to time I will post short scenes (usually under 2 minutes) from various bedrooms. The guys below will be featured in greater length in the second BUTT readers piece.
One of my greatest mix tape/CD accomplishments was Wanna Go Do Something Sometime? from June of 2001. In addition to being a mix you can listen to from beginning to end there’s a “feeling chart” to supplement the all-too-familiar narrative that goes along with each track. You know the story: meet someone, fall in love too quickly, things get weird, resolution. Notice my narrative arc! I’ve included the CD inserts so everything I just said makes sense. Just click on them and they’ll pop up all big and legible. Music is below liner notes.
If you want to listen to the whole thing (or download) as one long MP3, click here
I’ve heard that the best art is often made during the worst economic times. That’s positive reframing I can live with. I have noticed that there’s been a lot of good music coming out over the past couple of years. And in keeping in line with these ugly economic times, I’m passing off a great mix of music as your holiday gift ‘08. Gone are the mix tape and the mix CD, everything’s online. I hope you like it!
YOUR X-MIX MASH OPTIONS
listen to (and download to your itunes) a single 60 minute MP3 of all 17 tracks from the below PLAYLIST: X-Mix Mash
You can listen to (and download to your itunes) the tracks individually. I wouldn’t normally put 4 songs from the same artist in one mix, but I’m still swooning over the Deerhunter record so deal. The whole album is good and I encourage people to buy it (along with the other music).
You can ignore all of the above and just listen to this XMAS DISCO RECORD from 1977: SIDE A / SIDE B.
I’m thrilled to be featured in the February issue of MacLife Magazine for my videography work. I’ve worked hard in the past year to get my work seen, so it’s exciting to see some free press materializing. If you’re not familiar with my work, I’m basically a one man show. I create mini-documentaries with a social justice angle that, in most cases, are researched, shot and edited by me alone. Please feel free to review my resume, my reel, and to peruse my site for any full-length pieces that you might find interesting. If you like what I do send me a line. I’m continuing to work as a freelance videographer and am very open to new professional relationships. The full article from MacLife can be downloaded here.
Thanks to the generous staff at MacLife for providing all that valuable real estate!
By bridging performance and academia these Bay Area activists are bringing attention to fat bodies and then asking, so? But their serious ambitions aren’t without a certain flare for fun and fashion.
Kelly Cochran, a young college activist, rewrites her beliefs about what it means to be a fat dancer by joining the PHAT FLY GIRLS. Long-standing activist, Marilyn Wann, takes to the streets with her handmade YAY SCALES that beg the question, aren’t we all a little bit fabulous? Sondra Solovay takes a more scholarly approach as a lawyer/teacher/writer behind the forthcoming FAT STUDIES READER. The Reader promises to bring the world of fat activism and fat academia together through a varied collection of writings. The assumption is that fat is a civil rights issue and an area of study no different from race, gender and queer studies.
I don’t know how this happened, but I got into an art show. The multi-talented smoke fetishist, Skye Thorstenson, took some footage I shot of suburban people casually exiting an exploding bus and made it into art! He’s calling the piece Amerika. That’s right, with a “k”. I’m sure it’s as stunning as it is disturbing.
There’s an opening reception this Friday, Dec 5 from 6-9pm. Come say hi and ask about our process!
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On the resort island of Ambergris Caye, just off the coast of Belize, is a community sometimes referred to as the forgotten place. Officially known as San Mateo, this is a community of 1,500 or more living in shacks made from found materials. They live in swampland, sewage, garbage and many without running water or electricity.
In 2004 two American missionaries were vacationing on the island when they noticed an appalling number of school age children wandering the beaches alone. Because the public school was far past capacity and the private schools were beyond most people’s means, these children were left to fend for themselves.
Francis and Vernon Wilson decided to work with the Belize government to build a school that would benefit the community of San Mateo. In 2006 its doors opened and enrollment has soared. The school has provided education, food and healthcare to the community.
This emerging success story is being threatened by the very resort development that employs many of those living in San Mateo. Encroaching beyond the mangroves are condos and the threat of displacement. The most immediate threat is to the school which rests as a buffer between development and the community.
