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I bought an NFT and all I got was this stupid NFT
Today I bought an NFT. I realise that with this post I run the risk of coming off as Steve Buscemi with the skateboard. But — despite my being a reasonably tech-savvy person, even I struggled to really wrap my head around NFTs until I managed to scan, verify, and confirm my way through several […]
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Back on the (block)chain gang
My current writing project is around blockchain and the entertainment industries, and mostly involves sorting hype from legitimate ideas. This is one of the first not-super-conceptual academic pieces I’ve written, so it’s interesting to sort through a whole bunch of reportage, blogs, videos, and just get a sense of what the current atmosphere around something […]
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Interview with Intellect Books
In the chaos of 2020 I didn’t post this, but here’s a chat I had with the lovely James from Intellect Books. Mostly we chat about war and cinema (my first book The Hollywood War Film was published by Intellect in 2017), but there’s a small nod at the end of the conversation to Material […]
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Material Media-Making is out (digitally) now
The digital (PDF/EPUB) version of my new book Material Media-Making in the Digital Age is available now! Head to the Intellect site to purchase (or tell your institution’s library to do so!). Exciting! From the blurb: “How might one craft a personal media-making practice that is thoughtful and considerate of the tools and materials at […]
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Housebound revisited
Made in August 2019 while waiting at home for a tradie. How young I was. How naive. Housebound from Deluded Penguin Productions on Vimeo.
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An actual lockdown ramble
There are many strange and scary things about this pandemic. About this year more broadly, too. But on the strange side, there’s the way the mundane, the ordinary, the unconscious, becomes at best unwieldy, and at worst nigh impossible. A simple outing, today, planned well within the rules of Stage 4 lockdown. My bike wheel […]
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More lockdown ramblings
It’s an old conversation now, rife with misinformation and half-baked platitudes. But there is a loss of the moment when you’re swept along by the stream.
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Lockdown ramblings
Sun streams in through the window. I’ve left the light off today: for some reason the sunlight is enough. The driveway is being dug up, so the door to my study is closed, and my noise-cancelling headphones are nestled over my ears. In my head, for once, things are relatively calm. I’m working through a […]
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Daniel Binns 