Karina’s Capsule: Here Comes McCain Again
Were you as surprised as I was that so many people even questioned whether the first McCain Girls video was an earnest effort by genuine supporters? I was amazed that some people even went as far as to...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: Braxton Price
Show me a circa-2008 satiric political web video, and I’ll show you well-meaning liberal media makers who, more likely than not, haven’t had much contact with real people (as in, not TV talking heads...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: Father Wrote the Play by Leeland Greenmess
Adam J. Robinson’s web series Father Wrote the Play by Leeland Greenmess consists, so far, of a single episode and two promos. Both the promos and the pilot episode mix found public domain footage with...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: The Mena Show
The Mena Show is a period piece, set in 1994, starring 30-year-old Six Apart co-founder/president Mena Trott as the 17-year-old version of herself. It’s “what my vlog would have looked like if I had...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: Lindsay Campbell Gets Arrested
Last Wednesday, the team behind CBS Interactive’s MobLogic went out on the streets of New York to cover the Sean Bell protests. During the protest, MobLogic host Lindsay Campbell (formerly of...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: Kinoland
Daniel Robin’s short film my olympic summer, about how the 1972 Munich Olympics kidnappings had the unlikely side effect of saving his parents’ marriage, won the Jury Prize earlier this year at the...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: James St. James at American Idol
World of Wonder, a production company spearheaded by documentary filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, has created a vast array of campy cultural touchstones over the past decade and a half, from...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: Harriet Christian
Hooray, it’s the Weekend of Women! As of this writing on Sunday afternoon, it looks like the Sex and the City movie is going to make at least $55 million in its opening weekend, thus establishing a new...
View ArticleKarina’s Capsule: Common/People
Yeah, alright…that William Shatner “Common/People” Star Trek mashup spoof thing has a few things in it to make it worth recommending. It is, for the most part, edited with enough proficiency that the...
View ArticleNewTeeVee in the Movies: We Live In Public
We Live in Public — Dig! director Ondi Timoner’s frantically paced feature-length doc on Silicon Alley web TV pioneer Josh Harris — won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film festival last week,...
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