Word: mtv
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...your online notes for Rebirth of a Nation, you draw a line between the montage filmmakers of the 20th century and the DJs of today. But cutting and sequencing beats to create a narrative has been reconstituted by the MTV generation as an ADD alternative to actual storytelling. How do you reemploy the method to startle and challenge audiences? What is the future...
...product of 60 days spent with soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a.k.a. “The Gunners,” the film consists of everything from interviews to impromptu freestyle sessions, punctuated by mortar fire and MTV-style editing. The movie doesn’t quite shock and doesn’t quite awe. But it does achieve a subtler success: it captures the difference between the disjointed world of war and the smooth, clearly-labeled sound bytes of the coverage on the nightly news...
...Staff imagines a day when all Harvard students can wake up and sign on to CSFB Webmail, have a few Purdue broccoli chickens, head to Sever Hall (presented by Visa) for a lecture with The Halliburton Professor of Literature, crash the MTV pub in Loker Commons, and then end the day at an Undergraduate Council meeting where Bylaw 62.35, sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor, is invoked. Is this day that far off at our current pace...
...Internet voyeurs, someone hacked Hilton's Sidekick II, a wireless phone/camera/PDA/Internet terminal sold by T-Mobile. The hacker then spilled its contents online, including numbers of celeb pals such as Ashlee Simpson and Eminem, along with photos of a topless Hilton cavorting with Eglantina Zingg, a VJ for MTV Latin America. The intruder didn't hack the Sidekick; he nailed the server that stored Hilton's personal data...
Then, of course, there is the show's M.C., Chris Rock. Host of the MTV awards for several years, Rock has been promoting his new gig by bashing the Oscars ("What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars?" he said last month), raising concerns that his irreverence might be too much for Oscar--or the FCC. But there will probably be a time delay, and Cates insists he isn't worried. "He told me a couple times he never curses in front of his mommy," says Cates, "and his mom's going be at the show." Cates also...