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Download Mep Report #126

Das Pop: The Game from Big Active on Vimeo.

Between Two Points

Given that, hearing about the inner workings of DisneyCorp, was an irresistible opportunity.

Greg Gets a Mortgage (and Becomes an Adult), Russ Gets a Bear (and Becomes a Psychic), Storey Gets a Twin (and Becomes a Skeptic), Kobe Bryant and Jimmy Kimmel Destroy Society One Video Game at a Time, The Meppers Get Immersed, and Everything is Awesome In Sloooooowwww-Moooooo.

Download Mep Report #124

Of course, as part of the second generation BoingBoingTV team, I have some inside dope into this situation. Part of the split had to do with a dispute over revenue sharing with BBtv’s co-owner and production company DECA. DECA wanted to use the revenue from its flagship program, BBtv, to fund some of its other video ventures, and the BBtv crew wasn’t too keen on that happening.

Anyway, I still look back on my BBtv time with fondness, as I learned a tremendous amount about new media, production, and how to deal with a thousand things at once. But this new announcement does seem to close a chapter that I’ve looked back on for some time.

And while I’m thinking about such things, here’s the favorite episode I ever wrote/produced/ and starred in… An homage to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

This is not really meant to counterpoint with Greg’s post from late last month so much as to underline it. Teachers are not the ones over-medicating kids or insisting that we don’t adapt the curriculum or focus instead on standardized testing. Indeed, this video’s highlights of problematic changes have gone hand-in-hand with a continual flogging of teachers for not making an outdated model of education magically work.

The problem, ultimately, is of course with capitalism. Until people can educate for the sake of it instead of for some utility value that ends in a dollar-sign, we’re not going to make much progress. Public education may have been the gift of a small window in the history of capitalism, but that window has been swiftly slammed shut now and we’re looking at broken glass all over the floor.