Friday, July 11, 2008

Juan Devis, Too Good for KCET

I worked for all of two months at KCET, and they had to be the silliest, stupidest two months of my life. That place is the fucking abyss.

However, there is one, single redeeming quality to that clown factory: a straight up creative genius named Juan Devis. Juan's conception of what's possible with online multimedia is visionary, and actually delivers on the much-ballyhooed promise of the internet to combine the best elements of film, television, radio and print media and surpass all of them in its capacity to tell stories in a non-linear, interactive and artistic way. I'd say Juan's 'Departure' series on kcet.org belongs on display at the Guggenheim, or maybe the Smithsonian, but it properly belongs out in the world, not in a stuffy museum.

One thing you can say about Juan's work being on kcet.org is that it's getting the worst of both worlds: no prestige and no exposure. Someone with money and a vision should liberate him from that cesspool of mediocrity.

Here's Juan's latest, a profile of Watts.

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