Click image for my new Music Video: Nicky Da B “Go Loko” (NSFW, Seizure Warning)

If you haven’t seen the stunning 2001 documentary “War Photographer” about prize-winning conflict photojournalist James Nachtwey, you really must. It’s a beautifully filmed, deeply contemplative study of what it means to be a photographer, and what it means to be a witness to conflict.

It also features an absolutely enthralling cinematic technique: a tiny camera mounted above Nachtwey’s own shutter button, so you can see the stream of time and context around each of his decisions to capture (or not capture.) You can see it in the trailer above, at the 1:17 mark.

And this brings me back to my recent essay, On the Constant Moment. If the Decisive Moment is Nachtwey’s shutter button there with the protestors on the West Bank in 2001, the Constant Moment is your ability to choose different moments from the video feed, from wherever you are, in 2013.

Freed from instant decision in the middle of chaos, able to pause and rewind, did you make different aesthetic choices about when to “shoot?” Would Nachtwey, if he could?

That’s the Constant Moment.

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Harmless Observation #10 (Magic Hysterical Juan) (by Jon Goode)

Hot on the heels of last week’s amazing Hysterical Literature reaction video, there’s this one, wherein an innocent couch-surfer stumbles upon Stoya’s Session and decides to try it for himself.

Fun!

This Hysterical Literature response video is the best thing I’ve seen all day.

A small group of fabulous (and possibly drunk) friends gather and watch Session Four, when Stormy reads American Psycho.

More of this, please.

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Hysterical Literature: Session Seven: Amanda

Amanda visits the studio and reads from “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess.

See the rest of the series, and commentary on it, here.

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Momento 12/11/2005

“Masuimi Max does magical boob tricks on my set”

Big Freedia vs Clayton Cubitt : Rock Around Da Clock (Long Portrait)

When my lovely hometown superstar Big Freedia was in Brooklyn she stopped by my studio and we filmed this fun little long portrait with a couple of her backup dancers.

Makeup and hair by Katie Wedlund

Production Assistance by Rusty Lazer

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“10 min. edited video document detailing “The History of the Creole Wild West as Told by Themselves”. A performance and panel discussion with the Creole Wild West Tribe of the Mardi Gras Indians.

All events took place at the Louisiana Humanities Center on Saturday, April 19th 2008, 8pm. And were produced by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council.”

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Nighttime Mardi Gras Indian battle, 7th Ward, New Orleans, 2010

In case you’re wondering what it sounds like. Locals only.

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French television network CANAL+ ran a segment on Hysterical Literature on their program L’Oeil de Links. Embedded here, my segment comes on at about 10:00. Featuring clips and interviews with me and Session Three reader Danielle. I’m voice-overed in French for those of you who might be curious about how I’d sound in a Francophile Kung Fu movie.

I Fink U Freeky: Behind the Scenes with Die Antwoord and Roger Ballen, by Peter Schiering

“This film documents the influence that the imagery and aesthetics of Roger Ballen has had on Die Antwoord.”

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Vic Taurewa Biddle describes his moko (face tattoo), what tribe he’s from, and how homosexuality is viewed in Māori culture. Auckland, my hotel suite.

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Gun Machine by Warren Ellis - Book Trailer by Clayton Cubitt, Nightmare Mix 

Director: Clayton Cubitt
Editing, Compositing, Effects: Jeff Dragon
Soundtrack: Meredith Yayanos
Grooming: Katie Wedlund
Wardrobe: Signe Yberg
The Hunter: Joe Heaps Nelson
Additional audio effects: CGEffex via Freesound

(making these available here in more friendly YT format)

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