Technology/DIY/Skillshares

Hart Collective is teaching DIY Web at the US Social Forum!

The inimitable Sarah Jenny and I — wearing our femmetech hats as the Hart Collective — are going to the US Social Forum in Detroit this June! Our workshop, DIY New Media: Creating and Maintaining an Activist Presence using Websites, Blogs, Audio/Podcasts and SMS was accepted this week. We’ll be steamrolling our way through demystifying [...]

Images: Print vs. Web, an explanation, instructions + resources

I love it when my talented friends send me fabulous pictures as proof of our magical lives on the interweb. It makes me feel grounded. BUT – beauty as those pics are, they aren’t always great for printing when it comes times to make postcards or send images to people for printing in their magazines, [...]

My Friend Made My Site But…a Choose Your Own Updating Adventure

So your friend is super awesome and made your site a few years ago. You now have made more art or have new pics or got some great press etc. and want your site to reflect that…but your friend is Living On The Land and no longer does websites or perhaps is cray busy still [...]

Buying A Video Camera

Buying a video camera might seem like a simple task, perhaps because you haven’t attempted to do it recently, or maybe you live in a world where video cameras are an oft-discussed item. For the rest of us — hearty DIY people who would like to purchase a video camera who are not independently wealthy [...]

Webpages I: Getting A Name [how-to series]

So you want a webpage, or maybe you want to be like me and have six plus some blogs [see blogroll]. Either way, you have to start with your web name! This covers basics like getting a domain name [your URL], what the heck you do to make it work … and what you do [...]

How To Build a Fire – back story

How To Build a Fire – back story

How To Build A Fire, the queer multimedia performance/teaching tour with Heather Acs, Silas Howard and Leah Lakshmi I’m working on for Spring 2010 is exciting for several very specific reasons:

Silas, Heather and Leah are all really talented in different arenas so we make up a really interesting teaching team – covering theatre, writing, video, [...]

Gaybomb goes to Europe: Maplechasers

The illustrious and high-producing Coral Short gathered some of her favorite Canadian-made videos together for export to Europe with Maplechasers, and my music video Gaybomb is travelling with them. If you want to learn more about the Gaybomb, my site has info.

nikki forrest (montreal)  SCHOOL COLOURS FROM MEMORY 3.30 min
coral short (montreal/nyc)  QUEENS 3.55 min
coco [...]

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