Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'w/video'
Philosophy of Signage Followed By a Short Blogger’s Vacation
I will be starting a new job on Wednesday, 27 January and have decided to take a much-needed break starting today. This means no posts until Wednesday, 27 January at the earliest and Saturday, 30 January at the latest....
RSS Plainly Explained
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and for those of us struggling to keep up with all the information available on the web, here is my (for now) definitive contribution to the genre of “Why you should use an RSS...
An American Dream (subprime palette)
While the Fed works overtime to ensure that shareholders of publicly traded companies don't lose their seasonal homes in Telluride, CO, and the weekend pickmeups in Martha's Vineyard, working class Americans set up shanty towns in Los Angeles, CA, home...
Post-Symbolic Stroll
This YouTube video reminds me both of David Blair's Wax: or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees and Chris Marker's San Soleil as well as Jaron Lanier's musings regarding post-symbolic communication.1 It's a powerful video with two parts, both...
Robot Vernacular
(source) Clicking downloads a 2.5 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .” I'm interested in the kinaesthetics of such dances, the way in which mechanism and organism are...
A Leopard Ringtone for iPhone
John Siracusa has an in-depth review of Mac OS X 10.5.1 I was holding off upgrading to Leopard until I read that 10.5 significantly improves the performance of older machines. Apple is legendary for OS rollouts that are faster than...
I Walked With a White Woman
The motive force of vodou is asserted by Paul and Wesley's mother, Mrs. Rand (Edith Barrett), who confesses to asking a houngan to zombify Jessica as revenge for being unfaithful to her son. Though Dr. Maxwell (James Bell) dismisses Mrs....
If America Were on Arrakkis
Amuhrikka! Clicking downloads a 1.2 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .”...
Project R
This entry contains spoilers.One of the problems I'm addressing in Zombie Nation is the way in which North American racial history is cinematically encoded into George Romero's Living Dead Series. There is little dispute that classic zombie cinema (prior to...
Hello Corruption
1 Some do not understand how Mr. Pongpat Chayaphan's policy of issuing wayward Thai police officers Hello KItty armbands could serve as a deterrent to police corruption. The following video should clarify matters.2 Hello Kitty (Corrupted Mix) Clicking downloads...
Help Me. I’m Evil.1
Jean Rollin. La Morte Vivante. (1982): 01:05:38 - 01:05:46 Clicking downloads a 1.8 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As …” The above clip comes from a French film wherein the...
Wherefore art thou, Mario?
I giggled while watching this. I’m not sure why. (via) Clicking downloads a 9.4 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .”...
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