Formerly the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), now known as the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Film Festival is kicking off on Thursday March 13th and runs through March 23rd. CAAM Fest 2014 will be showcasing films made by Asian/Asian American filmmakers, and films relating to the Asian and Asian American experience, with screenings in theaters located in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland. I was looking through the film program of CAAM Fest this year and a …
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Edward Snowden beams in from Russia to Austin’s SXSW festival on a ACLU panel about net privacy technologies. Due to the stream being bounce through seven proxies, there is slight delay, echo, and glitches in the video. Snowden and the ACLU panel discuss the future development of crypto-technology that is easy to use for journalist, and accessible to average people sharing information across the internet. Edward Snowden and ACLU at SXSW video …
South By Southwest (SXSW) festival kicks off this Friday March 7th and goes on til March 16th. Here is a short documentary profiling the the founder of SXSW Ronald Swenson and the development of the festival, from a Dailymotion series called “That Was Me”. In the sea of conservative red state Texas, the city of Austin (where SXSW is hosted) stands out as a liberal, and progressive beacon. Ronald Swenson, SXSW staff, artists, and event collaborators hosting SXSW in Austin …
“The beat drops like a cliff/over looking my heart,” said poet, actor, teacher and writer Saul Williams. Live from Kaufman Music Center’s Ecstatic Music Festival, Williams collaborated with New York City’s Mivos Quartet and German composer Thomas Kessler to spit alchemy over orchestration. Their collaboration is intense. At moments they clash and scatter, but Williams and Mivos are rhythmically in-sink. The changing pitch of the strings, from high to low summon a roller coaster of emotions. The whole performance works like …
‘There are now two Americas” according to writer, journalist, and author David Simon. He’s the creator and writer of “The Wire,” “Treme,” and “Homicide: Life On The Street.” Some think “The Wire,” myself included, is the illest show ever created in the history of television. It takes a living breathing picture of a disenfranchised society and suffocates you, inhale. It’s easy to understand how he wrote “The Wire.” He reported on the crime beat for the Baltimore Sun. Its impossible …
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