The Format with Japhy Grant

Get Your Colorwars On

April 21, 2008

Imagine for the moment that instead of being a bloviating, gossip and porn-filled time sink, the Internet were a giant game with teams creating and re-appropriating content and services to find new and novel ways with connecting with strangers and you’ll get an idea of what ZeFrank’s latest venture, Colorwars 2008 is all about. I’ve [...]

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This Week on the Web

April 17, 2008

Here’s some of what I’ve been working on this week: An interview with Arthur Dong, director of Hollywood Chinese, a fantastic documentary about the Chinese-American experience in Tinseltown. I could have talked to Arthur for hours– a really funny, fascinating and thoughtful guy. (The Advocate) Flaming Politics takes on Bittergate and Small Town America. I’m [...]

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Ryan Adams Lonely, So Very Lonely

April 17, 2008

A Life from Ryan Adams on Vimeo. Ryan Adams has a blog. It’s called “Foggy”. He started the blog, it turns out, because he’s very lonely now that everyone he’s ever loved has rejected him. But he’s okay with it. “I hope I die alone and under a lot of work” he writes, adding “I [...]

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NY: Slurp Up Some Paul Mpagi

April 14, 2008

Hey New Yorkers, here’s something for you. Up and comer Paul Mpagi Sepuya takes photos of his friends and associates. They’re lovely, intimate and a refreshing shift from the usual way my generation likes to portray itself. Someday we’ll learn the difference between expression and posturing, I swear. That said, a lot of his friends [...]

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The View From My InBox

April 14, 2008

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Obama Responds to "Bittergate"- 'Yeah, People ARE Bitter"

April 12, 2008

You know, this was the big lesson I walked away with when I did my religious roadside attractions documentary– people in Middle America aren’t hateful. The reason they jump on all these conservative bandwagon issues (extreme pro-life, anti-gay, creationism) has more to do with their own anger and frustration at the poverty, lack of access [...]

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First Look at Blindness

April 11, 2008

A pretty awful trailer for the movie adaptation of one of my favorite books, Blindness. Still, the film has an amazing cast (Julianne Moore, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia-Bernal) and the story– a chilling, almost Orwellian tale of what happens when an epidemic of “white blindness” grips an unamed country, makes me hope for the best. [...]

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More Points if You Cry Alot and a Few More if You Cut Yourself

April 11, 2008

Okay, cutting your wrists is stupid, but blaming some cultural movement for it is stupider. See: Punk rock, Kurt Cobain, hippies, flappers, The Sorrows of Young Werther. On a related note, I’m totally fascinated with the way teens now identify themselves by musical demographics– emo scene, punks, rockers, etc… It’s like The Warriors as played [...]

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Flaming Politics- The Gay Generation Gap

April 10, 2008

More video from VisibleVote08 One of my bosses calls this the video where I don’t cross the line, but definitely get somewhere in the vicinity of it. Let me know what you think.

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Paparazzi vs Perez: Academic Edition

April 10, 2008

A fantastic video of a panel discussion on Britney, but especially on the difference between the regular media and bloggers. Perez haters will enjoy this, the rest of you will find it interesting. I love that the NYU School of Journalism is having serious conversations about the journalistic ethics of the paparazzi and the “parasites” [...]

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