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How to Change Your Group Identity

How to Change Your Group Identity By Sujewa Ekanayake Introduction Most group identities are manufactured.  Identities such as racial identities - White, Black, and other such identities are manufactured or human-made identities.  Or geography based identities - African, Asian, European - or religion or philosophy based identities - Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Platonist, Existentialist, and other such identities are all manufactured identities as opposed to natural identities. A natural identity would be the fact that you are an individual human being or the fact that you are a man or a woman.  Natural identities are true whether labels created by society for the purpose of organizing and controlling people exist or not.  For example, you would still physically be a human individual even if no other humans were around to identify you as a human individual.  However, this is not true for manufactured social identities or political identities.  For example, you would not be eith

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Amir Motlagh media explosion

Filmmaker/musician Amir Motlagh is making videos, writing blog posts, making films, making music, making other media, and doing it all on a regular basis now - weekly, monthly, and often daily.  Check out all of his work through links at his main site -  http://www.amirmotlagh.com/ . - Sujewa

Welcome to the easiest time period in the history of the world to be an artist. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc are all art making mediums.

So what are some well known art making mediums?  Paint on canvass certainly.  Film projected onto screens certainly.  Luckily for those of us alive in the present, and who want to make art, a lot of us are now, on a daily bases, logged into new art making mediums.  A Facebook post can be art - take a photo of it, frame it, done! :)  An Instagram photo can be art.  A Tweet can be art.  It all depends on how you think about what art is and what art mediums are. Almost anything can be art.  As long as an artist is making it or the end product has some art qualities.  Making a sandwich can be art.  The end product - the sandwich - can be art.  Paying bills can be art - if properly documented and presented to the public.  Writing down dates or painting them can be art - see this exhibition by work by On Kawara for proof . Make art everyday.  Interact with the ordinary, daily world at a deeper, more creative level.  Might be a rewarding experience for you and others. - Sujewa

The Unstoppable Ed Burns

Review of Independent Ed, career autobiography by Ed Burns Review by Sujewa Ekanayake Ed Burns is a survivor.  His story is, in part, a fairy tale story of great, unexpected highs and lucky breaks. Independent Ed tells the story of Burns making his debut movie The Brothers McMullen  - which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance , acting in Steven Spielberg’s epic World War II movie Saving Private Ryan , making the digital feature Newlyweds for $9000 and tales of many filmmaking and acting adventures in-between and after. While there are many moments of luck and several breakthroughs in his story, one very useful aspect of it is how Burns perseveres through repeated challenges, several failures, and much uncertainty and keeps going after the thrill of making a movie - represented by his magical 12 days of making McMullen.  Independent Ed is a how-to on making one’s own luck through hard work, persistence, and surviving the low points of a filmmaking career. The book should be

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