Craig Baldwin

After watching Sonic Outlaws for the second time today and finding out that Craig Baldwin is visiting UWM, I decided to find out a little bit more of what he's all about.
From what I've read about him, Craig Baldwin aims to rattle some of the traditional pillars media today rests on. He uses montage and remix in his work to present things in a new light, like copyright laws. His work can be controversial, but it seems to be for our sake, so we can exercise a little self-reflexivity.
I see his work as being for the purpose of present media society. As far as the copyright law issues in Sonic Outlaws, it seems that Baldwin wants to bring attention to the fact that the laws can weaken the creative voices in our culture (an example being Negitivland).
Personally, my favorite part of Sonic Outlaws is when one of the guys taps into a phone conversation. While I know the importance of the law and usually abide it, I have to admire their curiosity and boldness.

Cellphone Scanning clip

Love's Refrain

I would like to investigate further into Love's Refrain. In response to Frampton's formula I said that this film is about patterns. I also noted that it could be about shadows and groups also. I say this because it is what I saw most in the film (obviously). The patterns showed up everywhere -the repetitive shapes of fences, the reflective strips on the semi trailer, lights (many I could not make out their source). Groups of birds, leaves, flowers were everywhere as well. As soon as I noticed one -I couldn't stop noticing them everywhere. I would say this definitely took me into an understanding of the film. I'm not sure if that's what Dorsky's intention was, but the film became so much more meaningful to me when I had a place to take it. I took it to a personal place because I felt more involved once I had something to look for. I kept wondering if I was putting too much thought into it, or if maybe I was tapping into something that Dorsky wanted me to.
After this exercise, I would say I definitely think Frampton's formula is useful. I got more involved in the film when I was participating by constantly observing it rather than just sitting back and passively waiting for it to affect me. However, I am not sure that I would want to apply the formula if I was watching a narrative film because if I am busy watching for what appears most I will probably miss most of the development. Although, to contradict myself, it would be easy enough to just look back on the movie and recall by memory what appeared most.