hello and intro-post

hi class

The readings thus far for this NF seminar are really enjoyable and I look forward to future discussions.
i'm a grad student in the moving image area of the MFA program and am focusing mainly on making videos about the life of Karl Hess. Additionally I have a pretty active writing practice that has thus far consisted mainly of interviews with artists, activists, and ecologists. Sometimes I also write exhibition reviews and occasionally I write reviews of nonfiction books. Here are some links to a few of the NF book reviews I've written (I am hoping to add to the list with the readings for this course!):

• On Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers (Scribner – April 20, 2010) for Farmtogethernow.org
• Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Redding (Bloomsbury USA – June 9, 2009) for Farmtogethernow.org
• Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song by David Margolick (Harper Perennial -January 23, 2001) on personal blog.
• Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now By Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee in association with Exit Art (AK Press, 2010) for Afterimage Vol.38 #5
• In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives By Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Greg Albo (PM Press/Spectre – May, 2010) for Working In These Timesblog.
• Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph (Henry Holt and Co.; 2006) for personal blog.
• The Big Sort by Bill Bishop (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) for The Next American City Magazine print edition, Fall 2008 – Issue #20
• An Atlas of Radical Cartography edited by Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2007) for Proximity Magazine issue #1.
• Three Books In One: Realizing The Impossible: Art Against Authority edited by Josh MacPhee and Erik Reuland (AK Press 2007); Who Cares (Creative Time Books 2006);and Group Work: A book of information and dialogs about creativity and collaboration in groups by Temporary Services (Printed Matter, Inc. 2007) for BootPrint #2 and Lumpen Magazine.
• Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy By Stephen Duncombe (New Press, 2006) for Lumpen Magazine with Todd Tucker.
• Belltown Paradise/Making Their Own PlansA double book edited by In the Field (Brett Bloom and Ava Bromberg) (WhiteWalls, 2004) for Clamor Magazine.