'MOOZ-lum'

i just finished Production Design on this film.
it's going to be swell.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mooz-lum

Richard Barnes meets a Prehistoric Whale

(i made this during September.)

On August 31, 2009, at the University of Michigan, in preparation for his gallery installation 'Past Perfect/Future Tense', artist Richard Barnes and a prehistoric whale skeleton led a parade of onlookers across campus from the Exhibit Museum to the Institute for the Humanities.

See the installation, Sept 17 through Oct 30, in the gallery at the U-M Institute for the Humanities, 202 S Thayer at Washington, Ann Arbor, MI

exhibition curated by Amanda Krugliak

music
ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/13813
ccmixter.org/files/stickymcbiscuit/670
ccmixter.org/files/accousticRyan/5248

A Pivotal Speech in the Idea War

Brett Gaylor's documentary 'RiP! A Remix Manifesto' is a profound declaration in our Conceptual Era's "Idea War."

http://www.hulu.com/watch/88782/rip-a-remix-manifesto

MOOZ-lum

I'm working on this film now.
(I forget that I have this "blog" often.)

Here're's some links about the film:
http://iamnotamoozlum.com/Home_Page.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/MOOZ-lum-The-Movie/80227858126
http://twitter.com/Moozlumthemovie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1450328/

Thoughts of this production design occupies me even in my sleep,
moreso than the inevitable extinction of my individual financial stability.

I eat big words for breakfast...
and regurgitate them here... for you to swallow again... ...

Whoa. I'm getting serious or something.Re: Arts Funding

From: joeyostrander@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Economic Recovery Package Must Include Arts
Date: March 27, 2009 4:59:08 PM GMT-04:00
To: senator@stabenow.senate.gov

Really!?!

Thanks, for the cookie cutter response. It makes me feel like you really care. No response at all could have made me feel less neglected.

I fail to see how any of your attached email relates to continued annual loss of support for Art.

American Culture and Art are dying, Senator Stabenow, particularly in Michigan. The only self-sustaining visual art form in our country any longer is filmmaking. We cannot rely solely on a consumer public, nor especially on a capitalist economy to revive us. Sustenance for Art has always needed support from government.

Today is little different from days when men painted Roman chapels, or carved the physiques of great leaders from stone, from days when photographers documented for and future playwrights were employed by Roosevelt's WPA. Grecian sculptors, Michaelangelo, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Miller, each were supported and funded by their governments. Without such state-sponsored efforts, these historic artists could not have achieved such historic works.

American government has begun to decreasingly offer financial aid toward our Art education, production, and appreciation. The NEA has grown progressively weaker, more overlooked, and grossly underfunded relative to the evolution of the rest of our economy. A continued neglect of Art in America's future will foster the bankruptcy of our culture, and likewise the morale of our society.

This is not an argument. This is a warning, of inevitability.

Joey Ostrander
Photographer & Filmmaker
SE Michigan



On Mar 27, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Senator Debbie Stabenow wrote:

Joseph Ostrander
413 Ballard St, Apartment 1
Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Thank you ...

... for contacting me to express your concerns about the economic recovery plan recently passed by Congress. I supported this legislation because ... (click for full letter) ...

... ... [ blah , blah , senate intern , or computer drone , sent this ] ... ...

... Thank you again for contacting me. As always, please continue to keep me informed about issues of concern to you and your family.

Sincerely,
Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator

Look What We Have Created

i made this short for PlayGallery.org and U-M's Arts on Earth.
this is Malcolm Tulip's clown class from the University of Michigan.
they don't know what they are doing.
but we are making fun.

funding for the arts is under-estimated

The senate adopted an amendment to the current stimulus bill that effectively restricts any stimulus money for the arts, most specifically $50 million for the NEA.

"This amendment would mandate that no stimulus funding be used for 'any casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, swimming pool, stadium, community park, museum, theater, art center, and highway beautification project'”
(senatus.wordpress.com)

but Toby Ziegler and I, feel differently about availability of funding for the arts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA1hCogpHnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1DClkECF4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZHr1o0Mnn0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gE-XqsGpP0

Li'l Brudda

My little brother - entrepreneur he is - is starting his own corporate design company.
Or perhaps, it is two? One new (Chair Image Consulting), inside another existing (Core Design Group.) [Not sure. . Anyway.]



He is quite creative.
and here I am, supporting.

Did I mention I made (shot/edited) this?

A video of interviews and images reflecting on the difference that the students of Michigan both experience at the University and make in the world.



These people are each very happy with their trajectories, and appreciative of their education.
I like all of them.
And they are nice.