{"id":3054,"date":"2011-03-23T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:54:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:54:35","slug":"best-cublog-posts-ever-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"Best. CUBlog. Posts. EVER. Pt.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently we\u2019re not quite willing to leave well enough alone even though it\u2019s to your <\/em>benefit, dearest readers! While developing the special full-color insert that will appear in the next issue of C-U Confidential<\/strong> digest, celebrating the 5th anniversary of this very forum, we hit upon the idea of presenting favorite links to our past. We\u2019ve chosen five to fete in the insert, which will debut as a stand-alone freebie exclusively at the Art Theater<\/strong> in downtown Champaign <\/strong>on Friday, April 8<\/strong>, during the next New Art Film Festival<\/strong>. We\u2019ve also selected other items that we\u2019d love to share with you on C-U Blogfidential<\/strong>, starting right now!<\/p>\n

For the next six weeks, we will post weekly groupings of five key posts from our first five years and tell you a little bit about why we chose the ones we did. Feel free to click away and read what has gone before; leave Comments below about those stories or your own favorite CUBlog <\/strong>entries. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

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Select C-U Blogfidential Stories, 2006-2011
\nPart 1 of 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSnickers spot pockets $5,000<\/span>,\u201d 1\/22\/10<\/a> \u2013 We\u2019re always <\/em>happy to see the C-U movie brethren succeed and tickled pink when they do so outside of comfort zones. A small group produced and entered mock Snickers <\/strong>candy bar commercials for a challenge offered by crowd source Web site PopTent.net<\/strong>; they obviously scored big. We shout out to Joe Taylor, Bill Kephart<\/strong>, and crew for digging in!<\/p>\n

\u201cSked for IMC Film Fest available<\/span>,\u201d 2\/6\/09<\/a> \u2013 With the second NAFF on the horizon, we remember how this indie\/anarchist film event hosted by the Independent Media Center<\/strong> in Urbana <\/strong>stoked our fire, especially since we had a hand in putting on the show. We shout out to IMCFF originators Nicole Pion<\/strong> and Katy Vizdal<\/strong>, whose passion, instincts, and warmth made collaboration a joy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHef gives money to USC, not UIUC<\/span>,\u201d 11\/20\/07<\/a> \u2013 During a roughly two-year period, many developments simply got our goat for some reason or another; this insubstantial complaint at least gave us a good excuse to rail against our friendly neighborhood U. for not making a substantial attempt to offer film production studies. We shout out to Hugh Hefner<\/strong> for putting his money where his mouth is for art\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Scary\u2019 reprint is Sven-tastic!<\/span>\u201d 5\/27\/07<\/a> \u2013 More than most, this entry provides a little perspective as to your humble editor\u2019s genre specific sensibilities prior to launching MICRO-FILM<\/strong> and then CUBlog<\/strong>, through which he broadened his tastes a hundredfold. We shout out to inspiration Dennis Druktenis<\/strong> who has been self-publishing Scary Monsters<\/strong><\/span> magazine for nearly 20 years in northern Illinois<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere art thou, NORMAL LIFE?<\/span>\u201d 8\/11\/06<\/a> \u2013 At times, we still wonder if our name encourages filmmakers and potential readers who reside in nearby cities to gloss over CUBlog<\/strong>, errantly believing it\u2019s not also for their enjoyment and use. We shout out to all the creative media artists beyond Champaign-Urbana giving us continuous reasons to prove otherwise editorially, such as with this early attempt at inclusiveness.<\/p>\n

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:: Part 2<\/a> ::<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For your re-reading pleasure, we present our first set of C-U Blogfidential posts representing a cross-section of the best we think we’ve had to offer Champaign, Urbana, and the cities beyond in our first five years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,16],"tags":[361,107,149,360,305,657,658],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-u-blogfidential","category-jp-confidential","tag-bill-kephart","tag-hugh-hefner","tag-imc-film-festival","tag-joe-taylor","tag-normal-life","tag-scary-monsters","tag-svengoolie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}