Over the last two years, I have circled the landscape surrounding the art and business of film in this blog. It was my way of thinking through a transition in the future of a medium I had spent nine years of my life learning, pursuing, loving, hating and finally [...]
After I wrote my last post about the dearth of innovation in film, I happened to read Anthony Lane’s New Yorker piece on Pixar, “The Fun Factory”. It made me slap my forehead in an “of course!” way. Lane starts out as a skeptic, ready to debunk the myth of Pixar as the den of [...]
I just got back from LA (which is where I both attended film school and spent the majority of my professional life until about a year ago) and something struck me this time that had never occurred to me before: there is no model for innovation in Hollywood. Most of the younger folks in the [...]
The rumblings are out there: 2011 is the year of TV Everywhere. We’re cutting the cord, watching movies on Netflix, rejecting pre-packaged entertainment deals – therefore, the future, at least for us web content advocates, is here. Yet every time I hear the “TV Everywhere” chorus, I wonder who made this “the moment”. Because it [...]
About a year and a half ago, while working on the release of The New Twenty, a feature film I produced, I began thinking about cross-platform marketing strategies, and became interested in the idea of short video messaging/interaction both live and recorded, mobile and web-based. I played with Kyte, Seesmic, 12 Seconds, Qik and uStream [...]
Whatever you thought of The Social Network, one theme was clear: social networks are about status. And I don’t mean your “status update” on Facebook in which you tell people what you are thinking, feeling or doing. I mean that thing that exists in real life which the Winklevoss twins so completely embodied called STATUS. [...]
The ad below was Twitter’s first attempt to pitch their position as an “information network” as opposed to a social network. I like the idea. And the video is well executed. But it got me thinking…Is Twitter really just an information network? I do in fact use Twitter as an information network. Breaking news comes [...]
At first glance, it seems slightly harder to find a convincing personification of “Evil” on the web. Not general evil, the big “E”–you know, the bad guys, the devils, murderers, predators, and even the cold-hearted snakes. At one time, Bill Gates might have been the closest thing to the devil and now perhaps Steve Jobs [...]
Over the last couple of weeks, the murmur of a strong movement in interactive media properties aimed squarely at the target of social change seemed louder than usual. Perhaps it was my discovery of Impact Games’ Peacemaker Game which though over two years old, existed entirely outside my radar until I heard the creator and [...]
No one can argue that some of the most socially and even politically transformative ideas to come out of the technology boom of the last ten years were a) social media and b) the attendant proliferation of user generated content. There was MySpace, then YouTube, then Facebook, Twitter followed by every other niched and slightly [...]
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