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“Paris Syndrome” Now Available on Vimeo and YouTube

John Menick — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:46:51 +0000

My 2010 short documentary, “Paris Syndrome,” is now available on Vimeo and YouTube.

Hearsay (2010)

John Menick — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:46:30 +0000

This year’s version of Hearsay, an ongoing project collecting hearsay I’ve heard from the previous year.

Opening: A Series of Coincidences

John Menick — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:59:33 +0000

I’m showing Hearsay in “A Series of Coincidences,” a group exhibition curated Regine Basha opening this Saturday (Feb 21) at Cabinet’s new exhibition space. Stop by if you get a chance. Details follow. A Series of Coincidences Sat, February 21, 6pm – 9pm Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn (map) FREE. No RSVP necessary. Organized by [...]

Bookmarks Clearance Sale — 12/14/08

John Menick — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:31:58 +0000

This week’s selection of somewhat fresh links presented here for your time-wasting pleasure: FiveThirtyEight debunks the myth that African-Americans are to be held responsible for Prop 8 passing. Old news, I know. (The post is a month old.) According to his reading of the data, a voter’s age was a better predictor of how he [...]

Scott Kirsner on Technology and the Film Industry

John Menick — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:38:06 +0000

Scott Kirsner — columnist, blogger and author of Inventing the Movies — speaking to the folks at Google. I’ve been meaning to read Inventing the Movies for a couple of weeks now. It’s one of the few books I know of tracing the technological advancements in the movie industry. More accurately, it looks at Hollywood’s [...]

Three Questions for Shelly Silver

John Menick — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:35:04 +0000

© Shelly Silver. in complete world, 2008. Video still. Courtesy Shelly Silver John Menick: Rather than begin with photo or video, I wanted to bring up the third medium What I’m Looking For deals with: the Internet. More specifically, the video uses social networking sites in order to produce its narrative. Could you describe how [...]

Who made this artwork?

John Menick — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:59:34 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine, the artist Judi Werthein, asked me to participate in a book project she is organizing. The project involves, in her words, writing “a story you’ve been told about another artist’s work – a work that you yourself have not seen – anywhere in a composition book [...]

This seems to be the month for Israel-Palestine video games

John Menick — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:56:03 +0000

I’m not exactly sure why Peacemaker was on NPR this morning, since they covered the gamemaker almost exactly one year ago. Like political art that doesn’t take into account its role as a market luxury item, one has to wonder if politics should really be understood as a video game…

Why bother with Joost?

John Menick — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:53:26 +0000

A few months ago I received my invitation to use Joost, a new, legal peer-to-peer distribution software for Web video. Although hyped (by Joost execs) as both the future of television and streaming video, my initial experience was extremely disappointing, mostly due to the exclusive presence of corporate content. Thinking Joost might expand its content in the coming months, I decided to let some time pass before I tried it again. Last night I checked back, and sure enough nothing has changed. Crucially, most of the programming available to watch is already on the cable stations I refuse to pay for in the first place. I watched about 10 minutes all together and closed the future of Web TV for yet another three months.

An Intermission

John Menick — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:42:03 +0000

Not interested in posting much lately, so I figured this was appropriate: Found on Strangeharvest.