Since Nicola Tesla developed the notion of alternating current, arguably more cultural change has occurred worldwide than in all of our collective human saga. In examples ranging first from electric lighting, to radio, to television, to personal computing and now onto the proliferation of non-location based networked communities, homo sapiens has now entered a world […]

(Note: This essay first appeared in the arts blog Practice Based Re/search written by Michael J. Masucci) For the past two years, the middle of February has been a time of emotional depression for EZTV’s Kate Johnson and me.  It was at this time of year when a true force of nature was senselessly taken […]

A mini-review and statement of appreciation:   (Note: This essay first appeared in the arts blog Practice Based Re/search written by Michael J. Masucci)   Michael Kearns is an acclaimed actor, writer, and director. He is also an activist and has, for decades, lived openly as an HIV+ survivor. Michael Kearns is an American hero. […]

(Note: This essay first appeared in the arts blog Practice Based Re/Search written by Michael J. Masucci)   There has never been a time, in all of recorded history, when art and technology were not intertwined. Each inform the other and both are really an extended continuum of the creative process. Sometimes technology suggests new […]

Video is all too often seen as narcissistic, trivial, or ineffectual. And admittedly, that may be sometimes true. But there have been those moments when a single video took center stage and actually made a difference in the lives of many. Such is the case of a video worth remembering. As we remember the amazing […]

John Dorr’s vision of the wide-spread use and acceptance of feature-length narrative cinema created on home analog video equipment, of course, never came to pass. At least not in the way he envisioned. Even today, almost never is a low-cost narrative feature film widely seen or distributed. The 2013 Academy Award nominated film “The Beasts […]