Running and Passing.

I recently had the opportunity to curate an online exhibition for the Add-Art Firefox plugin. The show features the work of participants from My Story photography workshops. The show information will be archived on the Add-Art Site.

Add-Art works in conjunction with the AdBlock Plus Firefox add-on effectively replacing online advertisement with curated art shows. The Add-Art project is lead by Steve Lambert with support provided by NYC’s Eyebeam center and the Rhizome arts community.

The show goes live November 7th and will run through November 21st. If you already running Firefox, installation instructions can be found at http://add-art.org/content/installation-instructions. If you’re not running Firefox, I hope you’re using Chrome, Safari, or Opera, because Internet Explorer is quite clunky.

Last week, I was interviewed by My Story Director Christine Cearnal. The interview is now available as a special feature on My Story’s website. Christine stated she would like to host more photograph related special features, as well as interviews with the participants of My Story workshops. My Story is a great organization and I’m happy to be affiliated with them.  Be on the lookout for more interesting stories and interviews via the My Story blog.

I am currently serving as co-instructor for a 3 week My Story photography workshop at Arbor Glen Housing Development in Portland, OR. It’s great being able to work with excitable, interested participants in a small group setting. I can’t wait to see our final prints.

http://mystoryworkshops.org/news/?p=185

* Update *

11/01/2009 : I found a OpenCulture.org post from this past week that compiles a nice listing of Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites

I have not subscribed to a cable television service, or for that matter owned a TV, for over 2 years.  As I am still quite enthralled with the broadcast news, entertainment, and the general educational possibilities that video can provide, I have compiled the following list of online video resources that I find most useful.

Fora.tv : The World is Thinking – Highly Recommended – Primarily an education resource, Fora features critical debate, lectures, and interviews from the world’s top universities, think tanks, and conferences. Topics range from the economy to technology to environment and nutrition.  They aim to “help intelligent, engaged audiences get smart” and I can attest to the quality of their unmediated offerings.

TED Ideas Worth Spreading – TED  started as an annual multidisciplinary conference featuring 18 minute lectures from the world foremost thinkers and doers. Similar in scope to Fora, TED covers science, politics, global issues, development, and more. However while Fora aims for insight critical discussion, TED functions primarily to disseminate contemporary ideas and innovations.

Myp2p.eu – Highly Recommended – Myp2p is an excellent resource for watching live sporting events. If someone is streaming sports video myp2p attempts to collate and organize those streams into coherent weekly schedule.  I primarily use this to watch Major League Soccer matches, Cleveland sports teams (Here we go….) and other major events. Many of the streams are available through justin.tv, ustream.tv, Veetle, or 3rd party programs. I have found TVU and Sopcast to be my primary streaming applications.

Channelsurfing.com – Channelsurfing offers basic streams for entertainment based television broadcasts. Featuring major sporting events and the nightly offerings from the (former?) big three networks, channelsurfing is a simple no frills outlet for live broadcasts.

Hulu – Hulu provides a broad range of content but is plagued by commercials and it’s connections to high-profile media players. It primarily features purely entertainment based video, however they do feature a decent selection of documentary features, journalism, and science+healthy related content.

I am interested in any other resources that offer similar programming to Fora and myp2p. I welcome your comments and suggestions.