I had the privilage tonight to see American Blackout, a film by Ian Inaba(pictured) in association with GNN. The film focuses on Cynthia McKinney and the criminal politics that transpired in her temporarily losing her seat. The film takes this injustice and builds the case that the one example of political misconduct is but a [...]
I had an opportunity to see two films at the San Francisco International Film Festival last night. The first film I saw was The Dignity of the Nobodies, a cinema verite documentary by Fernando E. Solonas. The film captures the untold stories of the everyday people in Argentina: a man who was shot in the [...]
Although I saw Street Fight at Min Jung’s house, I still haven’t had a chance to screen a film at the SFiFF as part of the Citizen’s Media Press Corps (there’s a few I plan to check out tomorrow), but I did get off work just in time to step in for the SF SuperCollider [...]
Ryan Blitstein’s article about me was just published on SF Weekly’s website. To Wolf, the government subpoena of his tape represents a threat to his ability to gather news as an independent reporter. He believes it’s yet another reel cast in a Justice Department fishing expedition that will stop at nothing to put his activist [...]
click here to download Last night, Min Jung Kim hosted a San Francisco International Film Festival pre-festival party for the SFIFF Citizen’s Press Corps. The event was part of a new initiative called SF360, and as part of a partnership with Ironweed Films, people throughout the city gathered to watch the documentary Street Fight, a [...]
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I remember watching a South Park episode a few years back that had a repeating chorus, “Simpsons did it” after every subsequent scheme the kids conjured up for a joke. Today, I stumbled across a situation around our own reality that brings to mind that same chorus… check out this Simpsons clip from 1996: Much [...]
I ran into Jennifer Myronuk from Storyfield today at the Vloggercon volunteer meeting, and she told me about this video she recently put together in which California Assemblymember Sally Lieber spent a few days living as a homeless person with limited resources. The skeptic in me says that this may be nothing more than a [...]
Hey everyone, so the judge just announced her ruling on our motion to quash and unfotunately our motion has been denied; I am still consulting with my lawyers as to what our next steps will be. The ruling can be found in th G8 grand jury resource library. In other news, Loaded Pun has recently [...]
click here to download Ok, so I’m almost three hours late — but here’s my third installment for videoblogging week.I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to join the citizen press corps for the San Francisco International Film Festival. This video are a few of the highlights from the conference. The Q&A from the [...]