Bonus Ups! w/ Colin Ward
Two weeks ago I was sitting in relatively the same place, having coffee, and watching Mark Gonzales videos. I'm always watching these fucking videos. They're entertaining on a handful of levels, both skateboarding and non-skateboarding related. They are performance-based, in a sense. I had done this, however, for the better part of a two-hour span. I read threads and picked out newer videos to sift through, but it was getting me nowhere. Finally a friend of mine told me to look up his friend Colin's videos. I was familiar with Colin to some degree already. I had seen his band Phonebooks play in the past and actually knew one of the other members from my brief stint of living in Santa Fe, NM....Read more
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tags: Colin Ward William Wegman Tony Oursler Video Youtube Paul Reubens PeeWee Herman
Hate to Love YouTube
The other night I had an uncontrollable urge to show my friend a short film I knew he would love. I hopped on youtube, pulled the film up, and pressed play. The quality was so horrible that I groaned to him that we should turn it off while he reassured me he could tell what was happening and was getting the gist of it. I squirmed, while he watched, and in the end he loved what I had shared and was pumped on the filmmaker. As the film editor here on illiteratemagazine.com it is my job to love on film so much that you, my ever loyal readers, will begin to love on film as much as I do. Because we are not in a classroom and I do not have an infinite reserve of 16mm and 35mm ...Read more