[Frameworks] Facebook could be the death of this list

[k. a.r.]

Hi there.  I think that a facebook, frameworks connnection is a bad thing.

My experience:
I participate in a different online forum that is a web page, and you have to have a login
to see the discussions.
People there can start a topic, and anyone with a login can comment on that topic.
This forum had been a busy, interactive forum, with people from all over the continent participating, 
until the last year/year and a half.
The traffic on that forum has slowed down so much, that days pass w/o any new posts.
Very odd.
When it was addressed on the forum about the forum slowing down, everyone's answer was "facebook."
The other participants said that so many people are using facebook to just connect with who they want, 
that they don't need the forum anymore.

Which is pretty sad, it was a great resource.
If you only want to connect with people you already know, you never get to meet anyone new!

ANYWAY, in the context of that, I don't think that Frameworks should start up on Facebook.

Participation in FB would totally change the aesthetic of Frameworks.
It would probably dilute the subject matter, and like someone else said, people would start posting 
pics of their dogs, and new shirts....it would not be only experimental film anymore.

And that would be sad.

With the amount of filmmaking resources diminishing so rapidly, do we really want to voluntarily do that ourselves?
Take away from ourselves one of the great resources still left to experimental filmmakers?



















Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.

Director of Cinematography, Electric Visions

Curator and Head Projectionist, Electric Mural Project

The Mission, San Francisco, CA



'A first class technician should work best under pressure.' 

- - - Issac Asimov 

 		 	   		  
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