Hey GM

Checking in from Norway, where I should be working on my paper, but got distracted by a post-bond Sean Connery film, a spoof on media, terrorism, and suicide bombers - in 1982, a movie with the Orwellian title of 'Wrong is Right'. Check Prof Notes for more on that...

But the real treat of the evening is getting to screen the de-pixellated vblog post of Gary Hustwit on his doc Helvetica. It might be the jet-lag, but I think you all have set a very, very high bar for us all: capturing the McLuhan-esque cool of the doc, great visual and verbal dialogue between film, author and the class (in the form of written rather than spoken questions, which I assume was a solution for the sound problems), keeping your focus on the central theme, how it is still possible to be an indie in a medium that has reduced the very category to a subset of the media machine. Some take it or leave it suggestions: do not feel tied to the chronology of the event in your re-representation of it, i.e., take some visual/poetic license, move upfront or showcase the money of the event, such as his refusal to sell-out; or the fact we had a great infinite regress of meta-media going in the class, i.e., zoom in on on the mac on the podium, so your audience can get an idea of why we are not just talking to a computer, but to Santos on visual skype watching us watch him...

Doubleplusgood to you all, JDD