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Tag Archives: California Is a Place

What we’re watching: picturing mercy, breaking down remixes, and garage fighting with keyboards (really)

You bulked up your movie-watching to prepare for the Oscars, and now they’re over. What next? If you’re pining for some new things to see, we’ve got some options for you. And for better or worse, none of them involve Kirk Douglas.
“Afghanistan, February 2011,” assembled by Alan Taylor at The Atlantic (who previously founded The [...]

What we’re watching: used car sales’ Big Vinny, artists living in uncertain times, and the true price of a dowry

Great visuals can inspire storytellers, even when they’re employed for other ends. Below are a collection of beautiful photos and video used in intriguing ways to evoke a way of life, a community, and even the shadow that hovers over a whole gender. And just to help with integrating all the conceptual ideas into the [...]

What we’re watching, from Korean War veterans to skate punk trespassers and a town that lives off prisons

This round of selections shows the diversity of visual storytelling, from drawings to documentary and interactive immersion. Whether it’s kinetic camera work or the power of a single subject, each of these projects offers some aspect worth swiping. Happy viewing!
“Cannonball,” a short film from California Is a Place. In the midst of economic turmoil, skateboarders [...]

What we’re watching: in which we ponder people with scars, the making of sex dolls, a birth in Sierra Leone and the soul of Athens

There has been some debate of late over just how “cinematic” documentary multimedia should be. (See the comments on this Khalid Mohtaseb post on the DSLR News Shooter blog, brought to our attention by Josh Benton at Nieman Lab, and also filmmaker Travis Fox’s response on the same site.) Today, however, we’re taking a look at videos [...]