WORDS and IMAGES
May my selection from the impossible words of Porchia, those of Artaud, and of R.D. Laing inspire your work...maybe also similarly, the improbable image flow of Barbe (that is until the advent of AfterEffects and Commotion).

Also, I would send you in the direction of Jacob Holdt and Tony Harris, who are, with very few means, making a difference facing ourselves (American Pictures started with a small thriftstore camera and some courage).

Some images concocted by my Carnegie Mellon University students: counter-ads, as ways of learning more than Photoshop (cf. below under IDEAS).

And some alphabets from some of my Indiana University Students ("the computer is not a typewriter...") + a textured a student self-portrait about displacement.

And some images to inspire your appetite for dynamic lettering...

The work of such designers as Saul Bass, and his lineage: Hillman Curtis, Imaginary Forces's Kyle Cooper, Jakob Tröllback and Digital Kitchen's Paul Matthaeus. Check out also web sites that might represent the future (present?!) of "television" design (including for some interactivity): The Remedi Project, this web design studio making ample use of Flash.

Something about Jabberwocky ? Well, here is more than you would probably care to know about it.
If you are looking for images, video (and sounds) iMesh,, Ditto.com will help you.
Maybe you will get excited (good!) by looking at the history of Western writing. Then you might search "knowingly" a few places for free fonts: FontGarden, DaFont, AcidFonts, FontFreak, 1001 fonts. with examples here.

SOUNDS
General Information (+ a reading list): FilmSound.org, for a thorough sound and image relationship resource page.Of course, always consult your Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography.
A dictionary of most audio terms,as well as terms related to the World Soundscape Project, and an offshoot, the EarthEar CD collection (w. samples).
For the future of sound reproduction, check out HyperSonic sound information.
Activity in the field:
Incorporating sound effects to create music is just one aspect of the following sites: Musique Concrète, the Electronic Music Foundation, and the radio program on WNYC, New Sounds, that will stretch what you might enjoy listening to.
To hear the wild world of words unleashed, no better site than UBUWEB!

To search for sounds, besides those from our own BBC sound effects collection (PDF Part 1 & PDF Part 2) : Find Sounds and Sound Dogs.

FINALCUT PRO, AFTEREFFECTS, COMMOTION and QUICKTIME

To know more about the camera we use.
One major discussion site for FinalCut Pro.

For AfterEffects links, a ready-to-use site is San Francisco State's Portal.

For general tips and current discussions on working with new media (Photoshop, AfterEffects, Commotion...), this Postforum is worth the clicking, you can also go to Adobe's own forum for Premiere, AfterEffects...(you don't need to own a product to register), as well as this Technical Tips page.

For those exploring the Media 100/AfterEffects/Premiere environments, some more tips are available at Media Worldwide (you don't need to be registered).

Finally some key information for those pursuing the intricacies of Quicktime (besides the Apple main page): these authors who keep up with the latest, and this one for embedding a Quicktime movie into a web page.

 

DIGITAL MEDIA MAGAZINES AND VENUES

StudioMonthly (free!) and DV Magazine are important for the latest on desktop video. Lots to read... You can get them at some newstands, or read parts of them online.

Plus the two main digital media "film" venues: DFilm Festival, and RES, the magazine and traveling festival.

And then there's the great online resources: Design in Motion! and the Digital Media Net resources with its jobs in the field page.

 

MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS/FESTIVALS

The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, the Free Speech Internet Television and the University Film and Video Association's Student Video Festivals sites and these pages tracking other festivals: Insidefilm, filmfestivals, and FilmFestToday. One festival most appropriate for us is the Manhattan Short Film Festival, with a maximum duration of 12 minutes.

For funding, you could start here to guide you as to which organizations might help you.

 

IDEAS AND COUNTER-IDEAS

The center of the beast: Advertising Age, and some of its critics: StayFree!Magazine, the Guerilla Girls, Cultural Jammers and company, excerpts from Thomas Frank's The Conquest of Cool, the Commodify your DissentAnthology, and finally my own pages of links and influences.

& Some recent articles taking a jab at the future:

- from The New York Times Magazine: (explosive data?) BoomBox by Michael Lewis

- from In Context, an interview with Paul Hawken (true efficiency?), co-author of Natural Capitalism

- from Dan Carp, Kodak's C.E.O. and his vision of digital imaging

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