I doubt such wonderful intertextual and cross media moments could come from any other place than the internet. My evidence? this single frame from the Brick Testament, a retelling of the Bible done in the medium of Legos.
I rest my case.
Here’s a debate from last Friday’s scrimmage between The King’s College, Manhattan and St. John’s University, Queens. The motion is This House would publicly fund all election campaigns.
This is a great event and I hope we can do it at least once a month, if not more. The next one appears to be scheduled the weekend after the Cornell tournament, unless I’m out of town that weekend. I’d better check on that sometime today . . .
Still figuring out the camera. This video is not in HD but was shot in HD – Google video does not yet support HD, and vimeo’s support even with subscription is only 1 GB files. This debate is around 2.5GB of data. I’m reducing it in various ways to preserve the HD quality and allow it to be posted on vimeo. Once it is, I’ll replace this lower quality Google video link.
Finally I got this thing up. The quality isn’t as good as I’d hoped but it does prove that you can have a good debate within the Second Life virtual environment.
Comments welcome!
I always thought Playmobil was odd and also very attractive because I never had very many of them. However now that the creator of Playmobil has died, there are several nice blogs that review some of the oddest of the oddities in the Playmobil line.
Here’s the first, at Woot.com.
And one that details the stylishness of various figures.
And finally the oddest of the odd.
Great arguments and great fun were had at King’s College Manhattan under the Friday Night Lights.
STJ and Kings started this practice last semester and I think the value of it is amazing. This is why it’s such fun to coach in NYC. Opportunities like this would take a lot more to put together in less urban areas.
The Motion tonight was This House believes that all elections should be publicly funded by the state. Video to be posted soon!