Daniel Binns

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  • I bought an NFT and all I got was this stupid NFT

    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 […]

    dwmbinns

    11 February 2022
    Blog, Research
    blockchain, crypto, here&now, immersive experiences, metaverse, NFTs, virtual reality, web3
  • A Saturday

    A Saturday

    Phone calls, coffee, vinyl. A Melbourne cliché.

    dwmbinns

    5 February 2022
    Blog, Random
    blog, cafes, cities, coffee, Melbourne, reading
  • Back on the (block)chain gang

    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 […]

    dwmbinns

    25 January 2022
    Blog, Cinema, News, Research, Writing
    bitcoin, cinema, crypto, ethereum, film, NFTs, research, web3, writing
  • Interview with Intellect Books

    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 […]

    dwmbinns

    8 September 2021
    Books, Cinema, News, War
    books, hollywood war film, interview, publishing
  • Art

    Art

    A ghost turned up in an inbox search yesterday. All too true. I miss you, my friend.

    dwmbinns

    26 August 2021
    Random
    friends, hunter cordaiy, Random, teachers
  • Material Media-Making is out (digitally) now

    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 […]

    dwmbinns

    21 May 2021
    Research
    filmmaking, media studies, media theory, media-making, publications, research, writing
  • Housebound revisited

    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.

    dwmbinns

    22 October 2020
    Filmmaking
    filmmaking, housebound, lockdown, observational, quarantine
  • 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 […]

    dwmbinns

    9 September 2020
    Blog, Random
    COVID-19, lockdown diaries, quarantine, Random
  • 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.

    dwmbinns

    18 August 2020
    Blog, Random, Writing
    bluray, books, lego, lockdown, lockdown diaries, media, old media, reading
  • 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 […]

    dwmbinns

    10 August 2020
    Blog, Random
    lockdown, lockdown diaries, pomodoro, Random
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