Justin Callaway has been working as a Portland, OR based film and video editor and independent filmmaker for over 10 years. Currently enrolled in the online M.A. in Media Studies at the New School University, his studies focus on first-person, creative applications of emerging media technology in testing social hypotheses. His animated music video and accompanying parody website, feelingcingular.com, which examined the vulnerability of brands in the age of consumer-generated content, was featured on the cover of the March 3rd, 2008 Business Week magazine.

Blog Entries by Justin Callaway

Copywronged: Lessons from Leibovitz on Likeness and Liability in the Digital Era

Posted September 8, 2009 | 05:57 AM (EST)


What do Barack Obama and Woody Allen have in common? It's too early to tell, but maybe American Apparel didn't learn its $5 million lesson and will be bold enough to license one of Leibovitz's Obama photos from the future Art Capital collection for yet another shock billboard campaign....

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Constitution: 1, Nanny State: 0

Posted March 11, 2009 | 01:36 PM (EST)


Hurray for the First Amendment! Now it's time for Second Amendment games. The recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to overturn the prohibition of violent video games sales to fragile, impressionable California youth has dealt a blow to the budget-celebratory Governator by telling him to take his Nanny...

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The Ugly Side of Progressive Politics

Posted March 9, 2009 | 01:19 PM (EST)


While I wish I wasn't looking for additional part-time work outside of my current full-time employment, I have been browsing the occasional job site as I ponder this inevitable necessity of additional income in raising a young family. Even in these "economic times," I have tried to maintain the "audacity...

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MMIX: 2009 is the Year of the Handgun

Posted January 2, 2009 | 01:04 PM (EST)


Happy 2000 and the 9mm!

Yep. My prediction is this will be the Year of the Handgun. The reflective half of the palindrome of the Roman numeral for 2009, MMIX, is 9mm when using the right mirror. That's destiny in the making baby! Go get one while you can.

I...

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A New American Boxing Day Tradition

Posted December 26, 2008 | 09:52 AM (EST)


Just as the Commonwealth has borrowed role reversals from the Roman Saturnalia festival, this year we need to import an extended version of the tradition to America. My proposal follows: Legislative members of both houses of Congress must find a family in the "final throes" of foreclosure within their...

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Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing

Posted December 14, 2008 | 08:05 PM (EST)


While the Lame Duck Express remains stalled at the intersection of Hubris, Greed, and Religion as the country spirals into a near Depression, someone else has decided to honk his horn at this ideological crossroad. Forget the ghost-written pontifications of McCain-made-me-feel-"dirty"-Joe-the-Plumber, meet Joe the Deacon. That's Joe...

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New Media Brings More People Into the Politically Active Fold

Posted October 16, 2008 | 06:07 PM (EST)


The debate is over and here come the video responses. Larry Flynt and SNL aren't alone in their election opportunism, many an enterprising YouTuber has uploaded distractions aplenty before the debate to clutter your results.

Check out this one.

Sadly, one would think GooTube would allow you to sort...

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