This was originally posted by Kate Bieze on the Center for Social Media blog. This month’s fair use question comes from an employee in the IT department at  a unversity library who is looking to take advantage of fair use in order to fulfill a professor’s request. Dear Center for Social Media, I work in […]

Nora Ephron, the writer and director responsible for some of the most charming movies in recent memory, passed away Tuesday at the age of 71 from a bout with leukemia. In her illustrious career, Ephron wroteSilkwood, When Harry Met Sally and My Blue Heaven as well as wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Michael and most recently Julie […]

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Digital media designer Noah Daniel Smith designed this cool infographic which illustrates the film in chronological order. View a larger version. As seen on Slashfilm You can also check out a high-speed two minute video version below or the regular speed version, which is available from the Media Services Home Use Collection: Pulp Fiction – […]

The 10th Annual AFI Discovery Channel Silver Docs Documentary Festival: June 18-24, 2012Silverdocs encompasses a seven-day international film festival and five-day concurrent conference that promotes documentary film as a leading art form, supports the work of independent filmmakers and fosters an atmosphere for public dialogue and civic engagement around the issues and ideas explored in the […]

Check out these titles that were recently added to the Media Services Home Use Collection! Being John Malkovich – HU DVD 91* Black Hawk Down – HU DVD 346*Psycho – HU DVD 411*Elephant – HU DVD 790* Kiss Me Deadly – HU 1058*The Architecture of Doom – HU DVD 1148*Glory – HU DVD 1171*Band of […]

Designer Paolo Canabarro posts these great textures available for others to download and use in their graphic design and web design projects. Each Tuesday he posts new ones on Abduzeedo.com in a series called Tuesday Total Textures. Check them out!

Local filmmaker, Rohit Colin Rao sat down with Kojo Nnamdi this afternoon to discuss his latest film, Ultrasonic. Rohit also shared his experiences creating this film which was all shot, edited, and produced in the DC area. Rohit is the writer, director, and producer of Ultrasonic. He was first inspired to pursue this project, by […]