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The All-Seeing Public Eye, Part 6: Your Homework Assignment Workshop on grassroots journalism by Derek Wallace. Part 6 is your homework assignment after having experienced the entire workshop. Anyone with a hunger for truth and a thirst for justice can be a journalist - so if you're looking for permission, I give it to you! Go be a reporter! You don't need a badge or a degree or any credentials. Heck, you don't even need to have gone to school (although it would most certainly help). If you want an assignment, I'll give you one: go interview someone interesting wherever you live. Do a Q&A with them, maybe take a photo and toss the final product online by using the free services at Blogger.com. Or, if you want to do a video interview, toss the final product online at Youtube.com. And when it's done, send it to me so that I can check it out! My website is organicreform.org and my e-mail is derek@organicreform.org No what are you standin' 'round about for? Get on that story! MOVE! Tags: the killers mr. brightside question and answer blogger blogspot youtube stumbleupon google derek wallace organicreform organic reform myspace facebook digg e-mail email homework superman perry white lois lane daily planet newspaper pretty girls make graves this is our emergency all seeing public eye |
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The All-Seeing Public Eye, Part 5: Internet - Great Equalizer Workshop on grassroots journalism by Derek Wallace. Part 5 deals with how the Internet can act as a great equalizer to help spread awareness of the stories that mainstream media either distorts or ignores altogether. Topics covered include using Youtube & Google to host videos, adding tags and keywords to maximize search results, utilizing social networking sites like MySpace & Facebook to share your stories and connect with kindred spirits, spreading your stories through Digg.com & Stumbleupon, potential change to the system brought about by the CNN/Youtube Presidential candidate debates, submitting political/educational videos to corporate-sponsored contests as a form of online activism, getting your videos on mainstream media outlets, joining hyperlocal news stations, the importance of securing Net Neutrality so that corporations can't limit which sites we can visit and how people can use the lessons they've learned in this workshop to gain an architect's view of media to detecting mainstream propaganda. Tags: elastica youtube google digg digg.com stumbleupon technorati reddit twitter cnn presidential debate katrina voting ballots gay marriage peak oil seventeen magazine 17 PSA war ABC news Talkback halliburton lockheed martin hyperlocal jarah euston fresno famous net neutrality save the internet neo matrix keanu reeves agent smith all seeing public eye |
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The All-Seeing Public Eye, Part 4: The Fundamentals of Filming Workshop on grassroots journalism by Derek Wallace. Part 4 deals with the fundamentals of filmmaking. Topics covered include acquiring a camera (buying, renting, borrowing), using still photo cameras with video capability, storage and transfer of footage, investing in batteries, making sure footage can be admissable in a court of law, avoiding backlighting, maintaining clear focus, capturing good audio, knowing when to use tripods and when to go hand-held, framing up subjects for aesthetically-pleasing compositions, how to film at protests and rallies without making yourself a target, the art of subtle filming, smuggled cell phones being used to document abuses of power during the 2004 Republican National Convention where protesters were incarcerated in Pier 57, how some simple training could have resulted in the footage of the beating of Rodney King by the L.A.P.D. and the tasering of Mostafa Tabatabainejad in the U.C.L.A. library being better evidence for a court of law and why protesters shouldn't rely on cell phone uploading (considering that jamming technology is being utilized more and more by law enforcement). Tags: spoon video hidden camera camcorder handycam hi def hdr hdd sony sr1 usb cable dvd film eBay rent-a-center current tv cell phone jammer mobile memory card lithium ion battery Sean Penn Lower 9th Ward fluxrostrum Jack Black Dan Harmon Justin Roiland Acceptable TV Democracy Now Pier 57 2004 RNC Rodney King L.A.P.D. U.C.L.A. taser Mostafa Tabatabainejad all seeing public eye |
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The All-Seeing Public Eye, Part 3: What Price Freedom? Workshop on grassroots journalism by Derek Wallace. Part 3 deals with the environmental costs and human rights abuses involved in the manufacture and distribution of personal electronics. Topics covered include the slave-like conditions in modern mining operations to extract the precious metals used in cell phones/iPods/video cameras/computers, the funding of civil wars in Africa, Annie Leonard's "The Story of Stuff", petroleum consumption and dependency, recycling programs like ReCellular, the dumping of eWaste in Third World countries and how cell phones with video capability can be re-purposed as cheap camcorders for students in high school/college journalism clubs so they can help document the stories that mainstream media either distorts or ignores altogether. Tags: Matchbox 20 current tv coltan mining Africa mercury bling civil war Annie Leonard Story of Stuff Wal-Mart petroleum consumer electronics recycling ReCellular Chuck Newman treehugger ecobiz dump landfill Simran Saiti club high school college campus China Michael Zhao eWaste acid Berkeley HP Dell Apple Youtube Firefox Unplug Downloadhelper eBay all seeing public eye |
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The All-Seeing Public Eye, Part 2: What is Grassroots Journalism? Workshop on grassroots journalism by Derek Wallace. Part 2 deals with citizen journalism. Topics covered include September 11th, the London train bombings, Abu Ghraib, Saddam Hussein's execution, Senator George Allen's macaca incident, the Ft. Bragg scandal, sousveillance, IndyMedia, CopWatch, Video the Vote, Peter Gabriel's WITNESS Project, smartmobs and their integration into journalism clubs on high school & college campuses around the United States. Tags: Michael Franti Spearhead September 11th 9/11 Twin Towers WTC london train bomb Abu Ghraib Charles Graner Lynndie England Saddam Hussein execution George Allen macaca Ft. Bragg Robert Gates sousveillance Indymedia CopWatch WITNESS Project police brutality diebold grassroots netroots journalism Peter Gabriel TED human rights smartmob flashmob Howard Rheingold Global Frequency Warren Ellis Michelle Forbes mobile phone cell text webcam college high school all seeing public eye |
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The All-Seeing Public Eye, Part 1: Why Isn't Mainstream Media Enough? Workshop on grassroots journalism by Derek Wallace. Part 1 deals with why mainstream media is not, and never will be, enough. Topics covered include media consolidation & monopolies, corporate sponsorship, video news releases, fear-based tactics, sensationalism, lack of context for local viewers and political/religious biases. Tags: Plain White grassroots netroots journalism video activism workshop John Mayer SNL Saturday Night Live Robert Smigel tv funhouse conspiracy theory rock news release ethanol CNN ABC FOX outfoxed Rupert Murdoch Greenwald war profit terror fear politics religion president bush media iraq Bill O'Reilly Hannity Colmes Homeland Security all-seeing public eye monopoly network peter finch howard beale all seeing |
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The Road to Sustainability 9-day cross-country road trip in a car that ran on waste vegetable oil from restaurants. Tags: waste vegetable oil wvo mercedes veggie car alternative energy vehicle solar biofuel ethanol diesel fuel gas gasoline |
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The Curtains Hang around...FOR TERROR! Tags: comedy funny horror movie killer curtains shed spooky house satire |
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Gracie's "Thriller" @ the Shattuck Down Low The funk of 40,000 years, ya'll. Tags: michael jackson thriller karaoke berkeley shattuck down low king of pop queen dance werewolf choreography sing music |
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"We Are the World" by Derek Wallace @ the Shattuck Down Low This is why Youtube was invented. Tags: we are the world usa for africa lionel richie stevie wonder bruce springsteen michael jackson kenny loggins bob dylan |
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Further Adventures in the Bookwormhole Further proof that books are exciting! Tags: book parody frankenstein war worlds tarzan romeo juliet pippi longstocking sherlock holmes time machine sliders ahab |
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The Thing About Diabetes... There is no cure for diabetes. Tags: Diabetes Wilford Brimley Quaker Oats Liberty Medical The Thing John Carpenter Kurt Russell Endor Ewok Star Wars |
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Naked Air No clothes = no threat! Tags: naked nude airport airplane security |
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The Cat's Out of the Bag A break from my political videos. Everyone who meets my cat falls in love with her! Here she is hiding in my friends's camera bag as I get her to jump out at me. Tags: cat surprise cute cuddly kitten animal funny meow attack jump leap |
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TV CRUNCH! Totally inappropriate sketch show that is NOT to be watched under any circumstances. Okay, maybe once... Tags: funny comedy humor short film television sketch kids lawyer pee satire parody Ramones |
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Alive & Kicking Kickball gives you purpose! Huah! Tags: funny comedy humor joke sports kick ball alive purpose channel101 short film serial pilot simpleminds djshadow beastie |
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The Bookwormhole Proof that books ARE exciting! Tags: funny humor comedy short film gun shoot sci-fi book wormhole reading Frankenstein literature teleport workout cable pool |