I’m doing a backyard Iwo Jima movie on my cell phone, calling it “Spiking The Hill.” I’m using a white guy, a Native American, one African American, an Asian American and a Jew. Rather than going for “accuracy” I aim to capture the oneness of our polity. Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project busted through the barrier of having to use mainstream camera equipment, so I think this format will herald yet a further step towards defining a visual genre that we truly share in our daily lives. And my cell phone does a job similar to the scratchy photos from the original flag raising. I’ll let you know when I finish stitching the estimated 152 files together.
Anybody know where I can get a cotton flag made in the USA? All I can find around here are the nylon Chinese jobs. And not one of those 57 starred things like on Barack’s lapel pin.
