my two cents - I just wish there was a way to get daily updates of
frameworks instead of receiving every single email. I have to admit I don't
have the time to read all these emails and many I'm not interested in, but
about 10% of the emails I find to be extremely important.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Seth Fragomen <sef208_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Couldn't both facebook AND the conventional email list be used? The current
> setup may be discouraging people who can't keep up with the onslaught of
> postings from participating more actively. Maybe the combination of fb and
> the listserv is a sensible compromise? Could there be a way to make every
> post appear both places?
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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, k. a.r. <a_r_k__at_hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi there. I think that a facebook, frameworks connnection is a bad
>> thing.
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>> My experience:
>> I participate in a different online forum that is a web page, and you have
>> to have a login
>> to see the discussions.
>> People there can start a topic, and anyone with a login can comment on
>> that topic.
>> This forum had been a busy, interactive forum, with people from all over
>> the continent participating,
>> until the last year/year and a half.
>> The traffic on that forum has slowed down so much, that days pass w/o any
>> new posts.
>> Very odd.
>> When it was addressed on the forum about the forum slowing down,
>> everyone's answer was "facebook."
>> The other participants said that so many people are using facebook to just
>> connect with who they want,
>> that they don't need the forum anymore.
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>> Which is pretty sad, it was a great resource.
>> If you only want to connect with people you already know, you never get to
>> meet anyone new!
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>> ANYWAY, in the context of that, I don't think that Frameworks should start
>> up on Facebook.
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>> Participation in FB would totally change the aesthetic of Frameworks.
>> It would probably dilute the subject matter, and like someone else said,
>> people would start posting
>> pics of their dogs, and new shirts....it would not be only experimental
>> film anymore.
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>> And that would be sad.
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>> With the amount of filmmaking resources diminishing so rapidly, do we
>> really want to voluntarily do that ourselves?
>> Take away from ourselves one of the great resources still left to
>> experimental filmmakers?
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>> Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.
>> Director of Cinematography, Electric Visions
>> Curator and Head Projectionist, Electric Mural Project
>> The Mission, San Francisco, CA
>>
>> 'A first class technician should work best under pressure.'
>> - - - Issac Asimov
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