I finally left Los Angeles to return to San Francisco. I made my last movie, another homage to the singer songwriter, based on the work of Rickie lee Jones, and then I devoted myself entirely to interactive media in education, working with UCLA and the Seeds University Elementary School in their graduate school of education. I was glad to be working with children again. Then my mother turned 70, and I wanted to be with her in the last years of her life, however many she had. I judged San Francisco to better understand what was variously called “interactive media,” “new media.” I worked with a startup that made five hour long interactive movies and delivered them, networked, to the desktop as part of another rich, multimedia database. The product was directed at Fortune 500 companies for training, not my usual field of endeavor, but I still had an abiding interest in seeing if there was a way to build a new semantic that might help with the dissolution of print, and they were a real world way to do that. The browser was taking over the desktop. Popular music speaks less and less to me. On the charts Britney Spears sings “I Am a Slave 4 U” – released September 24th – and in the video appears tousled and sweaty, walking down a hallway surrounded by dancers. (From Ethan Russell: AN AMERICAN STORY)
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