Peace. I appreciate you stopping by. I am a Mediamaker & Media Scholar, specializing in Music Videos, Hip Hop & Urban Youth Culture. I am available for speaking engagements and lectures. What I offer is a candid and informed perspective on these topics. My lectures reflect an expertise acquired through a unique combination of experience and scholarly pursuit. Feel free to contact me at whitmoreii@gmail.com. Peace & Blessings.

Peace. I appreciate you stopping by. I am a Mediamaker & Media Scholar, specializing in Music Videos, Hip Hop & Urban Youth Culture. I am available for speaking engagements and lectures. I bring a candid yet informed perspective formed through a combination of experience and scholarly pursuit. Feel free to contact me at whitmoreii@gmail.com. Peace & Blessings.

Rubin's Video Juke Box (Produced and/or Directed by Rubin L. Whitmore II)

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Tuesday 30 October 2007 @ 6p

We Did It to Ourselves...or Did We? @ UW-Milwaukee-Union Rm.#E260, Milwaukee, WI. Rubin Whitmore II is holding a colloquium on the perceptions and portrayals of African-Americans in Media. Sponsored by Black Student Union.

Thursday 1 November 2007 @ Noon

Hip Hop Symposium @ UW-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI. Panelists discuss Film & Hip Hop's influence on gender relations in the U.S. Featuring, Byron Hurt, Alyssa Macy and Rubin Whitmore II. Sponsored by The Women's Center and African American Studies Dept.

Weekdays 1:30p

English/Media Studies @ The Hope School, Milwaukee, WI. Rubin Whitmore II is lead teacher for several sections of high school English with an integrated Media Studies curriculum.

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Rubin L. Whitmore II

Rubin L. Whitmore II

Brief Biography

Rubin Whitmore II believes in the pursuit of happiness.

Rubin has been invited to lecture on music videos, filmmaking and society at universities from Clark Atlanta University to North Carolina Central University, from his alma mater the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to Savannah College of Art & Design. He is a veteran filmmaker with close to one hundred film projects, ranging from documentaries to music videos. Rubin has amassed over fifteen gold, platinum and multi-platinum plaques for producing and directing music videos. He was recently nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation funded 2008 Media Arts Fellowship program through the Renew Media organization.

Rubin was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a self-acknowledged public school kid. An original music video teenager, who by the age of 13 had created a bunch of video shorts in various genres from suspense to westerns and sci-fi. Rubin is pursuing his master's in Media Studies at The New School University in New York. He received his bachelor's in Radio/TV/Film from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where he was nominated outstanding young alumni and was part of the team that won a student academy award during his undergraduate years. While at UW-O he created their first music video television show, the second longest running television program on Titan TV at fifteen years. He is developing his first feature film and is in production on several documentaries slated for public television and video release.

Rubin believes in artistic freedom and shuns imposed censorship yet believes that media holds significant influence over the minds of many and hopes to encourage people to utilize media more responsibly. Active in the community he regularly works with, at risk youth and the future mediamakers of tomorrow. He was selected as an Urban Education Fellow in Milwaukee, which has led him to teaching Media Literacy courses on a high school level at The Hope School in Milwaukee. He fearlessly tackles the impact media has on society especially music videos and the urban youth.

If you ask him what he does for a living he often says, raising his daughter.

Topics of Discussion, Education & Affiliations

Topics of Interest & Research

Media & Society, especially

Music Video & Hip Hop in Youth & Urban Culture
Media Literacy & Education
Media & Hip Hop outside of the U.S.

Education

BA-Radio/TV/Film (UW-Oshkosh),
working on MA-Media Studies (The New School)

Affiliations

  • University Film & Video Association
  • Action Coalition for Media Education
  • Independent Film Productions
  • International Digital Media & Arts Association
  • Alliance for a Media Literate America
  • Music Video Production Association
  • Black Alliance for Educational Options
  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Current & Recent Projects

Uprise: Hip Hop as a Tool for Political Change (documentary) – Writer/Director/Producer – a long form documentary with interviews and music videos of several politically charged hip hop artists, politicians, activists and detractors.

The Beautillion…an Urban Male’s Rites of Passage, (documentary) – Writer/Producer/Director – a documentary showing the history of the program and journey of ten young African-American males.

Black Thursday 1968 (documentary) – Writer/Producer/Director – a documentary on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights movement at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

The ProblemSolver (short media) – Writer/Producer/Director – a four minute high definition format, period piece; an interpretation about the man who created, Pong, the first popular mass produced videogame.

Monday

Here's What They Think of You (echo)...

So...when I was at North Carolina Central University I had the pleasure of speaking to a couple of classes and doing a keynote in the union for the 10:45 break. My topic of discussion was on media and its impact of society...The Weapons of Mass Destruction lecture.


I have to give thanks to Dr. Trevy McDonald and her crew for setting the whole thing up. I also appreciate Brent Walker for allowing me into his classes.

Brent requires his classes to blog frequently. I am fascinated by this virtual culture that is evolving. The whole blog experience is riddle with contradictions...on one hand it is so detached of feeling , an almost anonymous way to say whatever. Yet it is such a convenient interaction that it has created its on type of truth that seems to evoke a connection that has similar impact as a familiar voice whispered loudly in your ear.

Check out the varying comments made by a NCCU class.

http://getundertheshadetree.blogspot.com/2007/04/wmds.html

http://onthebananaboat.blogspot.com/2007/04/director-rubin-whitmore-ii.html

http://jmccullu.blogspot.com/2007/04/ruben-whitmore-ii_11.html
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