UNCONSUB by Mark Lewman

2012 Talks

What Happened to the Big Idea in Music Technology? (with Dave Allen, David Ewald, Rick Moody, Jesse von Doom, and Anthony Batt)
2pm, March 14th, Room 17A
Austin Convention Center
SXSW
Austin, TX

My Books

I was Assistant Editor on Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky's Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, which is available from The MIT Press and fine bookstores all over.

My first book, Follow for Now: Interviews with Friends and Heroes, is an anthology of interviews with all kinds of minds. Disinformation named it "among the most important books published in 2007," and Erik Davis called it "a crisp and substantial remix of the major memes of the last decade or so."

I have a little piece in Disinformation's first book, You Are Being Lied To, a compendium of dissent, which also includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Douglas Rushkoff, Howard Zinn, Richard Metzger, Alex Burns, and Mark Pesce, among many others.

Shutter to Think

February 02nd, 2008 | 4 Comments | Category: Marginalia, Videos

My friend Mark Lewman sent me this video clip a few years ago. It’s sort of a video zine called “UNCONSUB” that he made with a digital camera. At the time, one couldn’t share such things as freely as we do now (he sent it to me on a CDR via the regular mail), but now that we have the bandwidth, I thought I’d share it.

In the letter accompanying this clip, Lew wrote,

I made a zine called ‘UNCONSUB’. Fuck going to Kinkos and spending $50 and 50 hours folding and stapling. I did this digital slideshow filmstrip high-voltage head-trip Tivo style zine in 1 hour with a digital camera. It’s a bit sloppy, but whatever. That’s the excuse for its unpolished feel.

Enjoy.

Further Posting:

4 Comments »

Brian Tunney said:

Dang, I missed it…

# February 07th, 2008 at 11:16 am

Roy Christopher (author) said:

Missed what, Brian?

# February 07th, 2008 at 11:24 am

Matt B said:

Clicking on it gives you “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available”.

# February 07th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

Roy Christopher (author) said:

It’s fixed.

# February 08th, 2008 at 6:54 am

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I am currently an Assistant Instructor corrupting the youth at The University of Texas at Austin, where I am also pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication Studies. My main interests are figurative language use and the social impacts of technology. My main goal as a writer is to entertain and as a scientist is to find novelty. I’m more of the former than the latter and more of a fan than a critic. This site is where all of these things play out. It’s where I think aloud about all of the above.

I’m an aging BMX/skateboard 'zine kid. That’s where I learned to turn events and interviews into pages with staples. The pages and staples have long since given way to links and scrollbars, but the rest is basically the same. I still ride bikes, and I still skateboard. I do still commit quite a bit to actual pages, too. Read on »