{"id":5022,"date":"2009-12-01T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2009-11-30T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:44:55","slug":"a-sad-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=5022","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

voting<\/a>
\nVoting (2008, 37.2MB, 13:37)<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re deeply sad to have to report the untimely death on Sunday of
\nMillie Niss, at the age of 36.
\nAnyone fortunate enough to have met her, either online or in person,
\nwill have been struck by the combination of razor sharp intelligence,
\na glorious sense of humour and personal kindness with a sense of utter
\npuzzlement at pomposity, bullshitting or self-agrandisement.
\nShe just didn’t get<\/em> the latter three.<\/p>\n

In recent years, working in close collaboration with her mother, Martha Deed
\nshe brought us the wonderful Sporkworld Microblog<\/a>,
\nsomething that always felt to me that rarity, the invention
\nof a new form (or at least an unprecedentedly deep and
\nthorough realisation of the possibilities of a new medium,
\neffectively the same thing.)
\nIt’s uncool to the deepest degree, being about domesticity,
\nillness, food, birds and animals glimpsed from a car or house window,
\nthe life of a small blue-collar town -its problems and its festivals- and so much more,
\nbut then cool -being a facade- was a concept lost on Millie and that’s why I
\ntreasure all the more this beautiful work and I mourn her loss
\nas an artist, as a friend and as a marvellous human being.<\/p>\n

We send our deepest condolences to Millie’s family but in particular to Martha.<\/p>\n

As a small tribute we post once again their short collaborative film about Millie’s
\nattempt to deal with the absentee ballot form in last year’s presidential election.
\n