Projects.

Photography: Shows, Awards, and Ongoing Projects

• JerCom Photo Newsletter—a free email newsletter and blog containing one or two photographs per post. View archive and/or subscribe to the Newsletter.
  
• Solo show: "The Churches of Tuscaloosa County, at Night," Lorrie Lane Studio, February 2025. (Prints available online. Select image below to enlarge.)
  
• Group show: West Alabama Juried Show, January-February 2025. Two photographs from the "Churches of Tuscaloosa County, at Night" project (above).
• Second place, Jefferson County Conservation District Photography Contest: “Rivers, Lakes, and Streams." Photograph displayed at the Hoover Public Library, December 2023. (Print available online. Select image below to enlarge.)
  
• Group show: Tuscaloosa Juvenile Court Lobby Gallery, April 2019.
• Group show: Double Exposure Photography Exhibition, February 2018. Two photographs from the 1970s in black-and-white.

Online

• JerCom Photo – homepage for my photography activities.
  • JerCom Photo Newsletter – emailed updates (free!).
• Bark Landscape Architecture – official homepage for Starin Butler's architecture studio.
• Druid Ukes – homepage for a ukulele club, formerly the Tuscaloosa Ukulele Club.
• TheChukker.com – homepage for Tuscaloosa's iconic counter-cultural bar. "Eat cornbread. Raise hell."
• Butlerana – merch store for the Druid Ukes, Sunheart Metalworks, Northwestern University Kaffeeklatsch, the "Save the Park" campaign (Northport, AL), and more.
• Northwestern University Kaffeeklatsch – activities of a cohort of Northwestern film students from the late 1970s.
• Brown University Film & Semiotics Courses Taught by Professor Michael Silverman – an index to online course materials created by Silverman during his long tenure at Brown.
• The 1970s in Black & White – photography gallery.
• The Sitcom – author's blog for the book, The Sitcom.
• Laugh Logger – an app for the statistical analysis of laugh tracks television (a fork of Shot Logger).
• Shot Logger – an app for the statistical analysis of editing in film and television.
• TVStyleBook.com – online companion for the book, Television Style.
• MediaCommons – a platform for scholarly discourse about media.
• ScreenLex: A Pronunciation Guide for Film/TV Studies – learn to speak like a true film nerd.
• Screenpedia – a wiki site for film and television studies classes.
• TVCrit.com – online companion for the textbook, Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture, formerly, Television: Critical Methods and Applications.
• ScreenSite.org – supporting film/TV studies. Founded 1994, completely renovated in 2003, 2006 and 2011.
• Screen-L – an e-mail discussion list for film/TV educators and students. Founded 1991.
• Crappy Software – a blog for rants about software that is, shall we say, substandard.
• ScreenChat – real-time chat.
• ScreenBoard – Usenet-style newsgroups.
• Telecommunication and Film Department Website (merged into the Department of Journalism and Creative Media Website) – including a timeline of radio, TV, and film at the University of Alabama and a small archive of other historical documents.
• The Internet Folk Radio List – database of folk and acoustic radio programs from around the world. Deprecated.
• FilmAlert – announcements of indie/international films in town. Deprecated.
• Tuscaloosa Contra Dancers. Deprecated.
• Internet-based seminar in American cinema
  • Pilot project with the University of Wollongong (Australia)
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies Web Site – co-founder and former system administrator
• SCMS-L – original email distribution system for SCMS
• UFVA-L – original email distribution system for the University Film and Video Association
• Cripes! A Humor ‘Zine – humorous (he hopes) essays by Jeremy and Brent Davis.
• UAWebs – an e-mail discussion list for Webmasters at the University of Alabama. Deprecated.
• The Jeremy Butler Vanity Page – like it says…
• PoV Bulletin Board System – dial-up BBS (1990-1996)
• TeacherCam – a Webcam of a professor at work. Deprecated.

Radio

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  Alabama Public Radio (WUAL/WQPR/WAPR/WHIL, Tuscaloosa / Muscle Shoals / Selma / Mobile), producer and host, “All Things Acoustic“–streaming live Fridays at 8pm Central, 1993-present. Recorded programs are available for streaming anytime, for free.
• KXCI, Tucson, Arizona, substitute host, “Acoustic Alternative”.
• WVUA-FM, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, announcer, "Progressions," 1983-1988, 1992. Listen to Progressions promos.
• WNUR-FM, Evanston, Illinois, announcer, 1976-1978.
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  WBRU-FM, 1972-1976; and WBRU-AM, Providence, Rhode Island; FM music director, 1975-1976; FM production director, 1976; FM announcer, 1973-1976; AM program director, 1974-1975; AM announcer, 1972-1973.
• KDKB-FM, Phoenix, Arizona, film reviews and audio features—including an audio documentary about The Wallace & Ladmo Show. The latter can be heard on the Internet Archvie.

Film/video Production

• Minecraft tutorials, basic how-to guides for the popular video game, screen captures, some made in collaboration with Ian Butler, 2011.
• Producer, director, cinematographer, Elevator Doors, super-8 film, 3 min., 1982, Click to view.
• Producer, director, cinematographer, Tuscaloosa: It’s Unique, super-8 film, 13 min., 1981. Click to view.
• Producer, director, cinematographer, Film Fundamentals, super-8 film, 7 min., 1980. Click to view.
• Co-producer, co-director, co-cinematographer, co-sound (with Lilly Boruszkowski), Washday, 16 mm film, 25 min., 1979. Click to view.
• Producer, director, cinematographer, sound, Hommage Kit, 16 mm film, 8 min., 1978. Click to view.
• Producer, director, cinematographer, sound, Intro to Film History and Criticism (Paddy Whannel lecture), 16 mm film, 10 min, 1978. Click to view.
• Producer, director, cinematographer, sound, Threshold of Boredom, 16 mm, 7 min., sound, 1977. Click to view.

Film Exhibition

• UA Film Society (faculty advisor, 2004-2008)
• Bama Theater, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Programming consultant, 1999-).
• Sandburg Theater, Chicago, Illinois (Programming consultant, l979-1980).
• Devon Theater, Chicago, Illinois (Manager, 1979).
• Carnegie Hall Cinema, New York, New York (Manager, 1978).
• Film Societies: Brown University (1973-76), Northwestern University (1976-80), The University of Alabama (1980-88)

Video & DVD Production

• Producer, co-director, Television: Critical Methods and Applications, companion DVD for the textbook. Produced at the Faculty Resource Center, The University of Alabama, 2003.
• Co-producer, co-director, scriptwriter, Man with a Video Camera, 33 min., produced at University Television Services, The University of Alabama, 1983. Click to view.