Q U A N T U M E D I A   F I L M S DOCUMENTARY VIDEO BLOG + MOTION PICTURE PODCAST Cultural documentary video images that examine the photographic truths hidden in our everyday global society, and the expressionistic influences of the very media through which they are captured.

This video blog was exhibited at the International Digital Media & Arts (iDMAa) IDEAS Exhibition at National University, San Diego, CA, 2006 Digital Poet: Gregory O'Toole, Ph.D. (ABD) <www.american-idolization.tv> <Professional Biograph> <www.otoole.info> Adjunct Professor + Doctoral Candidate Digital Media Studies My work is a continuous effort of innovative cultural documentation with an emphasis on the very media through which the work is influenced, created, and transmitted. Starting in the 1950s media theorist Marshall McLuhan held that "media are an extension of our selves." If this is true, and I believe it to be, we can further his theory, and posit that "the self can be a medium in turn". This ongoing process of life witnessed (documented) "through the eyes" of various new media is what I refer to as The Quantumedia Experiment™. Mine is an ontological perspective on the concept of "life as art". My work, then, is a philosophical pursuit of the fundamental unit of the life energy we know, that of electro- magnetism at the quantum level. A poetics of experience. The veritably abstract. Works that fall into such a category are not necessarily individualized creative works of any particular medium, nor are they the medium itself, as McLuhan also held in his widely popularized theory "the medium is the message"...but, perhaps, the event of life itself as the work of art. QUANTUMEDIA™ (kwntm) n. pl. quan·ta (-t) n. pl. me·di·a (-d-) plural me·di·ae /-E-"E/ n. (theory + practice) 1. The philosophical pursuit of the fundamental unit of electromagnetic energy; 2. A potent cocktail of citizen journalism, digital narrative, and enviromedia; 3. Multimedia documentation; 4. Creative format critical analysis of one's immediate surroundings, their environment, and/or socio-global issues.

"The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu in My Front Yard" The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu in My Front Yard is a snap shot of the world political, moral and spiritual leaders exiting their limousines and entering the performing arts building at the University of Denver for the Peace Jam Festival. The film incorporates a "grassy knoll" perspective, including the repertoire of the common citizen taking a secondarily visual, removed roll in celebrity life. Digital video, still photography, multimedia production and design by Gregory O'Toole. Published and copyright NUMBER NINE Arts & Books, LLC + Radio-QMX, The Broadcast Headquarters for the Quantumedia Experiment.

"Beethoven's Effects" 12-09-2005 Beethoven's Effects is a cacophony of visual residue set to the timing of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The short film uses the daily monotony of the average classroom as the setting. The media used is redundant and packaged and delivers a humorous tone in the end. Digital video, still photography, multimedia production and design by Gregory O'Toole. Published and copyright NUMBER NINE Arts & Books, LLC + Radio-QMX, The Broadcast Headquarters for the Quantumedia Experiment.

"The Only Silent Pome I Ever Wrote" 04-23-2006 The Only Silent Pome I Ever Wrote is a post-modern examination of the old-fashioned silent film overlayed by current day aeronautic technique. Digital video, still photography, multimedia production and design by Gregory O'Toole. Published and copyright NUMBER NINE Arts & Books, LLC + Radio-QMX, The Broadcast Headquarters for the Quantumedia Experiment.

"The Bucks Ad" 03-03-2006 The Bucks Ad is a short, experimental mock television commercial that emphasizes the monotonous ordinarity of TV today. The boring text, charted above even more mundane visuals brings to the forefront the necessity to insert shocking imagery, not excluding the draw of women making out in their underwear with other women...in their underwear. Digital video, still photography, multimedia production and design by Gregory O'Toole. Published and copyright NUMBER NINE Arts & Books, LLC + Radio-QMX, The Broadcast Headquarters for the Quantumedia Experiment.

"Heros + Influences" 02-19-2006 Heros + Influences is a short film exploring the literary starlets, subjects, and settings which have made an impression on the author over the past ten years. The use of the historically tame American musical "Wintertime" is used in juxstaposition to the raw and usually somewhat unkempt nature of the visual. Digital video, still photography, multimedia production and design by Gregory O'Toole. Published and copyright NUMBER NINE Arts & Books, LLC + Radio-QMX, The Broadcast Headquarters for the Quantumedia Experiment.

"The Shakori Ramblers Family Reunion" (forthcoming from Quantumedia Films) The Shakori Ramblers Family Reunion will be a documentary film DVD, Podcast and audio CD that brings together the workings that go into a group of individual artists creating, manifesting, and often times performing their ideas: an integrative process of percussion and folk music, and contemporary American poetics taken on the road and investigated at the Shakori Ramblers' various North American Headquarters. The film is an experimental documentary on these processes. Digital video, still photography, multimedia production and design by Gregory O'Toole. Published and copyright NUMBER NINE Arts & Books, LLC.

"Violence in Mass Media" 1994 (Currently being transferred from Sony Super 8 format) Violence in Mass Media is an experimental Sony Super 8 anologue format film produced in the Art & Film Department, Bradley University. Lighting effects, conventional film processing, and analogue audio mixing were used in development of this film. Creative production and design by Gregory O'Toole. Published and copyright NUMBER NINE Arts & Books, LLC. Some scenes filmed over Pink Floyd's The Wall; footage of the Third Reich; music by The Doors. All rights reserved.

TECHNOMADOLOGY. Gregory O'Toole. TECHNOMAD. Broadcast Headquarters for the Quantumedia Experiment. QUANTUMEDIA™ (kwntm) n. pl. quan·ta (-t) n. pl. me·di·a (-d-) plural me·di·ae /-E-"E/ n. (a communication theory) 1. The philosophical pursuit of the fundamental unit of electromagnetic energy. 2. Multimedia documentation. 3. Creative format critical analysis of one's immediate surroundings, their environment, and/or socio-global issues. Graphomania |psychiatry| Morbid and excessive impulse to write. Origin: Grapho-+ G. Mania, insanity Agromania |psychiatry| An obsolete term for a morbid impulse to live in the open country or in solitude. Origin: G. Agros, field, + mania, frenzy