The Boston Blasts and ‘Terrorism’: A Historian’s Take on What It Means

Sociologically this is very relevant as terrorism is so objective- yet we are very quick to move into the subjective…definitions are important!-

Yes, do this! I love my local bookstores!

Lisa Asanuma

1) To support your local bookstore. Here’s a fantastic list on why you should buy books locally.

2) YOU GET A BOOK! You get to slip inside a whole new little world for a while, and maybe learn something new.

3) You get to SEE other books that you might want… browsing is one of my absolute favorite things about bookstores!

4) You’d be supporting your local economy… and times are tough, what goes around comes around.

5) A lot of other people are doing it. Okay, that doesn’t look like a lot… but if you and your friends join, maybe it will!

What reasons do you have?

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WHY FILMMAKING CANNOT BE A HOBBY – director Paul Devlin on the IRS’s battle with documentary filmmakers (via Procure multimedia’s Blog)

and 3/D is major now….and expensive (thinking outloud)

 Last year at a summit meeting of the independent film community called “The Conversation,” Ira Deutchman was compelled to propose, “Filmmaking has never been a business…it’s a hobby.” Sentiments like this are not uncommon after the hardships filmmakers have faced in recent years, the multiple threats to our business models that accompanied both technological change and the global economic crisis. In fact, many filmmakers have been forced to re-e … Read More

via Procure multimedia’s Blog