This feels related to how I teach indie filmmaking/mediamaking: literally nobody cares about your project (as much as you do), so you have to be entirely ok doing it by yourself.
You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen
March 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
This feels related to how I teach indie filmmaking/mediamaking: literally nobody cares about your project (as much as you do), so you have to be entirely ok doing it by yourself.
I interviewed dozens of today’s most influential Black mediamakers. The interviews were heavy, juicy, astute. I tell their stories through an arc of mediamaking that links them to predecessors and successors revealing a collective practice of national intervention and imagination they ask us to join
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I interviewed dozens of today’s most influential Black mediamakers. The interviews were heavy, juicy, astute. I tell their stories through an arc of mediamaking that links them to predecessors and successors revealing a collective practice of national intervention and imagination they ask us to join
andreessen doesn’t know what education, let alone thinking means.
my students *will* know now how to operate a camera and edit a film because that’s how they learn to think and problem-solve in the physical world.
mediamaking isn’t supposed to be a perfunctory time-saving process. it’s a craft.
my students *will* know now how to operate a camera and edit a film because that’s how they learn to think and problem-solve in the physical world.
mediamaking isn’t supposed to be a perfunctory time-saving process. it’s a craft.
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
October 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
andreessen doesn’t know what education, let alone thinking means.
my students *will* know now how to operate a camera and edit a film because that’s how they learn to think and problem-solve in the physical world.
mediamaking isn’t supposed to be a perfunctory time-saving process. it’s a craft.
my students *will* know now how to operate a camera and edit a film because that’s how they learn to think and problem-solve in the physical world.
mediamaking isn’t supposed to be a perfunctory time-saving process. it’s a craft.
happy to see a fellow Chris messing around with fan mediamaking again!
New video review! Appreciate and reposts and the support. youtu.be/Iuxurx2aTTc?...
February 8, 2024 at 11:46 PM
happy to see a fellow Chris messing around with fan mediamaking again!
Ready for @asapartsnow.bsky.social conference Day 1! See you at Mediamaking/Mediabreaking with @lkonstan.bsky.social & Ben Mangrum!
(The t-shirt was a kickstarter backer gift for this btw stackeddeckpress.com/product/ooop...)
(The t-shirt was a kickstarter backer gift for this btw stackeddeckpress.com/product/ooop...)
October 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ready for @asapartsnow.bsky.social conference Day 1! See you at Mediamaking/Mediabreaking with @lkonstan.bsky.social & Ben Mangrum!
(The t-shirt was a kickstarter backer gift for this btw stackeddeckpress.com/product/ooop...)
(The t-shirt was a kickstarter backer gift for this btw stackeddeckpress.com/product/ooop...)
Students might have thought they were signing up for a breezy intro to video production course focused on environmental mediamaking, but little do these freshmen know I'm gonna hit them in the 2nd and 3rd weeks with @hannahknox.bsky.social and @matthewarcher.bsky.social. Very excited
January 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Students might have thought they were signing up for a breezy intro to video production course focused on environmental mediamaking, but little do these freshmen know I'm gonna hit them in the 2nd and 3rd weeks with @hannahknox.bsky.social and @matthewarcher.bsky.social. Very excited
I tried to do the "hidden curriculum" thing in an Intro to Grad Studies class I dlvpd back in 2008. 'Twas the height of all the "craftsmanship" theorizing so I used craft as a frame 🪢 tgthr rsch + mediamaking (the two prongs of our pgm) plus the meta "intellectual craftsmanship" / prjct mgmt stuff
How Do You Teach the Hidden Curriculum?
After finding that first-year students have misconceptions about how college works, a professor tackled them head on.
www.chronicle.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I tried to do the "hidden curriculum" thing in an Intro to Grad Studies class I dlvpd back in 2008. 'Twas the height of all the "craftsmanship" theorizing so I used craft as a frame 🪢 tgthr rsch + mediamaking (the two prongs of our pgm) plus the meta "intellectual craftsmanship" / prjct mgmt stuff
This is happening. Not next year but hopefully the year after. Now I just need a donor to fund a research trip to Disney World for all the students.
May 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is happening. Not next year but hopefully the year after. Now I just need a donor to fund a research trip to Disney World for all the students.
In deep ironies, today was the day our president came to my department meeting to learn more about us. You can be certain our message was “don’t need to tell you how important we are right now” and not just media literacy but our students imagining and building new worlds with film & mediamaking.
I've talked to a few folks this morning who were talking about stopping work on their creative projects. Because it's "not important anymore."
I don't know who needs to hear this, but DON'T DO THAT.
We win by living our lives as loudly and truly as we can. That includes your "silly" art project.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but DON'T DO THAT.
We win by living our lives as loudly and truly as we can. That includes your "silly" art project.
November 7, 2024 at 3:48 AM
In deep ironies, today was the day our president came to my department meeting to learn more about us. You can be certain our message was “don’t need to tell you how important we are right now” and not just media literacy but our students imagining and building new worlds with film & mediamaking.
Creating this podcast involved more than recording audio ✨
From researching peer-reviewed sources to scripting content to communicate the final project.
One of the biggest takeaways was thinking critically about how platforms influence what fitness looks like online.
#MediaMaking #ContentCreation
From researching peer-reviewed sources to scripting content to communicate the final project.
One of the biggest takeaways was thinking critically about how platforms influence what fitness looks like online.
#MediaMaking #ContentCreation
May 24, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Creating this podcast involved more than recording audio ✨
From researching peer-reviewed sources to scripting content to communicate the final project.
One of the biggest takeaways was thinking critically about how platforms influence what fitness looks like online.
#MediaMaking #ContentCreation
From researching peer-reviewed sources to scripting content to communicate the final project.
One of the biggest takeaways was thinking critically about how platforms influence what fitness looks like online.
#MediaMaking #ContentCreation
Thank you #laurenherold and #autostraddle for this meaningful conversation about "Please Hold," #queerness, and #DIY #media:
"Smallness is often what you need to have deep impact ... it might not change the badness, but it is itself a goodness."
"Smallness is often what you need to have deep impact ... it might not change the badness, but it is itself a goodness."
New DIY Documentary Honors AIDS Media Activism, Love, Loss, and Queer Community
Shot on a mix of consumer-grade recording devices — iPhone, Zoom, VHS camcorder, and Super-8 film — the documentary is an homage to grassroots AIDS mediamaking across decades and its ability to captur...
www.autostraddle.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thank you #laurenherold and #autostraddle for this meaningful conversation about "Please Hold," #queerness, and #DIY #media:
"Smallness is often what you need to have deep impact ... it might not change the badness, but it is itself a goodness."
"Smallness is often what you need to have deep impact ... it might not change the badness, but it is itself a goodness."
This new article brings the current dynamics of the ‘creator economy’ (hosted distribution) into conversation with decades of explaining how creative autonomy is constrained in commercial mediamaking. This lets us explore how the ‘creator’ sector encompasses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
On hosted media, simple-professional cultural production, and micro media logics in anglophone video - Amanda D. Lotz, 2025
The media sector has expanded in the 21st century to encompass a ‘hosted model’ of circulation and ‘simple-professional’ dynamic of cultural production that coe...
journals.sagepub.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This new article brings the current dynamics of the ‘creator economy’ (hosted distribution) into conversation with decades of explaining how creative autonomy is constrained in commercial mediamaking. This lets us explore how the ‘creator’ sector encompasses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Vote now to help launch American Creed project at SXSWedu
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
August 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Vote now to help launch American Creed project at SXSWedu
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
Vote now to help launch American Creed project at SXSWedu
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
August 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Vote now to help launch American Creed project at SXSWedu
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
Bring this conversation to SXSW EDU 2026 by voting for two opportunities to support content that develops civic skills and agency:
NASCAR Racer on Autism and Mediamaking: bit.ly/4fJRVLw
American Creed Youth Media Challenge: bit.ly/3UrFNVD
Here's a draft of the first film production course I've ever designed. Film & Media Action is SLU's intro to production requirement that combines activist and ethical approaches to media production. My section is called "Mediamaking For Climate Action." drive.google.com/file/d/1gFYX...
DMF 101 Syllabus.pdf
drive.google.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a draft of the first film production course I've ever designed. Film & Media Action is SLU's intro to production requirement that combines activist and ethical approaches to media production. My section is called "Mediamaking For Climate Action." drive.google.com/file/d/1gFYX...
🎙 Behind the scenes of “Rolling Beyond Borders”
Making a podcast isn’t just about talking — it’s planning, scripting, recording, and editing (plus 10 tries to get the intro right 😂)
Ever tried making a podcast? Here’s my process 👇
#SkatingCoach#BehindTheScenes#MediaMaking #FreestyleInline
Making a podcast isn’t just about talking — it’s planning, scripting, recording, and editing (plus 10 tries to get the intro right 😂)
Ever tried making a podcast? Here’s my process 👇
#SkatingCoach#BehindTheScenes#MediaMaking #FreestyleInline
May 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🎙 Behind the scenes of “Rolling Beyond Borders”
Making a podcast isn’t just about talking — it’s planning, scripting, recording, and editing (plus 10 tries to get the intro right 😂)
Ever tried making a podcast? Here’s my process 👇
#SkatingCoach#BehindTheScenes#MediaMaking #FreestyleInline
Making a podcast isn’t just about talking — it’s planning, scripting, recording, and editing (plus 10 tries to get the intro right 😂)
Ever tried making a podcast? Here’s my process 👇
#SkatingCoach#BehindTheScenes#MediaMaking #FreestyleInline
🎙️ Behind the mic: what I learned from making my first solo podcast Creating From Stadiums to Scrolls was more than hitting record. It took research, planning, writing, and creativity.
Thanks for all the support so far 🙌 #BehindTheScene #MediaMaking #StudentPodcast #PodcastReflection #SportAndSocial
Thanks for all the support so far 🙌 #BehindTheScene #MediaMaking #StudentPodcast #PodcastReflection #SportAndSocial
May 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🎙️ Behind the mic: what I learned from making my first solo podcast Creating From Stadiums to Scrolls was more than hitting record. It took research, planning, writing, and creativity.
Thanks for all the support so far 🙌 #BehindTheScene #MediaMaking #StudentPodcast #PodcastReflection #SportAndSocial
Thanks for all the support so far 🙌 #BehindTheScene #MediaMaking #StudentPodcast #PodcastReflection #SportAndSocial
On Day 2 of #WebSummitQatar2026 the stellar @nuqatar.bsky.social line-up continues, with wide-ranging contributions in research, mediamaking, and other modalities of evidence-based storytelling!
#NUQProud
#NUQProud
February 3, 2026 at 6:50 AM
On Day 2 of #WebSummitQatar2026 the stellar @nuqatar.bsky.social line-up continues, with wide-ranging contributions in research, mediamaking, and other modalities of evidence-based storytelling!
#NUQProud
#NUQProud
@GrumpyBlackGrad Global Activism, Global Media (de Jong, Shaw & Stammers), Mediamaking: Mass Media in Pop Culture (Grossberg) r main texts.
November 21, 2024 at 5:36 PM
@GrumpyBlackGrad Global Activism, Global Media (de Jong, Shaw & Stammers), Mediamaking: Mass Media in Pop Culture (Grossberg) r main texts.
You’re invited to join @bavcmedia.bsky.social at their upcoming 50th Anniversary Gala to celebrate their legacy of opening doors, disrupting narratives, and building mediamaking careers: Wednesday, May 20 from 5:00-9:00 pm at SOMArts. Tickets and event info at bavc.org/50-year-anni... #SFLegacyBiz
50th Anniversary Gala - BAVC Media
BAVC Media 50th
Anniversary Gala
Join us in celebrating 50 years of BAVC Media’s legacy of opening doors, disrupting narratives, and building media making careers!
The evening will include a cockta...
bavc.org
March 5, 2026 at 12:47 AM
You’re invited to join @bavcmedia.bsky.social at their upcoming 50th Anniversary Gala to celebrate their legacy of opening doors, disrupting narratives, and building mediamaking careers: Wednesday, May 20 from 5:00-9:00 pm at SOMArts. Tickets and event info at bavc.org/50-year-anni... #SFLegacyBiz