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okay. it may be embarrassing but that’s why it’s so funny. noam came home with some obscurely patriotic in-class assignment. they were supposed to write letters to prospective immigrants to the U.S. in order to convince them to become citizens. and noam’s letter had a line in it like “illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes.” so i kinda freaked, got pissed and wrote the teacher an email which probably reads like a nutty letter to the editor.

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I worked on an animation a few weeks ago about “white spaces.” They are the frequencies between broadcast signals that will open up once broadcast TV goes from analogue to digital. The People’s Production House is advocating for public use of the space. Otherwise it’ll probably be sold of to the same [...]

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Here are some photos from my trip to San Francisco:

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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GDC – Day 4, sort of.
It’s day four of the GDC, more or less.  The first two days of the GDC were only open to pass holders who paid for the summits – which included the Serious Games Summit, which I was interested in attending.  However, upgrading to the two day pre-main conference pass provided [...]

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I suppose all things considered, it doesn’t matter that I haven’t posted since November.  Been lots of things going on.  Most importantly at the moment is that I’m in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference, which is apparently 16,000 strong.  I was fortunate to receive a scholarship through the International Game Developers Association.  Otherwise [...]

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Yesterday I worked with Gabriel Berrios and volunteer Laura Deutch on the third training in a series of workshops with South Philly organization Juntos. The trainings are being run by Media Mobilizing Project. The participants have already learned about every thing from framing a shot to writing a shooting script. Yesterday they [...]

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UNITE HERE and CUPE joined forces on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 to march against poverty and draw attention to the twenty locked-out workers of Toronto’s Holiday Inn on King Street. This video contains photos from the rally and a short interview with one of the locked out hotel workers.

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Online News Association Conference premieres. Wed. Oct 17, 2007. – today was the first day of the conference. though you wouldn’t know it by the lack of a registration table. supposedly it’s a “pre-conference” day, but there are a bunch of workshops going on. maybe they just need to admit that [...]

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i took public transportation from the airport to the hotel, a bus and then the subway for only $2.30 canadian.  speaking of money, the conversion rate sucks.  as i told someone yesterday, this is the only time in my life when i wished american imperialism worked ; – )   okay, not really, but the dollar [...]

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Newark International Airport – Headed off to Toronto (tuesday oct 16th).   the Online News Association is having it’s 8th annual conference there and I am going as a representative of the Media Mobilizing Project – which won a Knight Foundation Challenge Grant.  Though the conference is geared toward mainstream journalists, which i’m not, it will [...]

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