Future Predictions
30 December 2011 | 0 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in aina media, dream, facebook, Futurisms, gaming, Hollywood, los angeles, louis b mayer, New York, Old School Film in The New World, Social Media, storycode
Old School Film in The New World
22 July 2011 | 1 Comment
In Jeffrey Katzenberg’s recent interview with Fortune (watch the full interview video below) which has garnered some media attention over the last couple of days, he lambasts the “showbiz” for being too much biz and not enough show. He thinks almost every film this year so far “sucks”. While I wouldn’t entirely disagree with the [...]
Tagged in blockbusters, facebook, Fortune, Hollywood, interactive, katzenberg, movies, Nicholas Carr, Old School Film in The New World, passive entertainment, Scientific American, Shallows, storytelling
Social Media and Art
18 February 2011 | 2 Comments
When I saw the title of The February 2nd New Yorker blog post Does Egypt Need Twitter? , I looked to see if Hosni Mubarak wrote the post. After all, it was a case of dogma superceding the truth, and that was a signature Mubarak move during the 17 days that preceded his resignation. But in [...]
Tagged in does egypt need Twitter, egypt, facebook, malcolm gladwell, Mubarak, revolution, Social Media, tweeting, twitter
Social Media and Art
15 November 2010 | 0 Comments
The New York Times just ran a piece called “Who Will Be Oprah’s Last Star?” on what has been called the “Oprah Effect”, complete with slideshow of the beneficiaries of the talk show hosts immense influence over the last 25-odd years. Oprah’s book club did wonders for authors and she became a fairy godmother to [...]
Tagged in digital, facebook, filmmakers, influencers, klout, oprah, TV, twitter, web
Future Predictions
1 November 2010 | 3 Comments
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. [...]
Tagged in design, facebook, ford focus, foursquare, Futurisms, games, gamification, gaming, hybrid, jane mcgonigal, jesse schell, michel reihlac, power to the pixel, predictions, reality, status, winklevloss, zuckerberg
Social Change
8 October 2010 | 1 Comment
Tagged in 2008, activism, change, facebook, hope, malcolm gladwell, new yorker, obama, politics, presidential election, revolution, slacktivism, Social Media, us, voters, Youtube
The Dirty M**** Word
24 September 2010 | 0 Comments
Our collective memory is so shallow that although we harbor a vague nostalgia for the days of going to Blockbuster on a Friday or Saturday to rent a “blockbuster” movie, it is so far away that it seems as if the concept never existed. How this could have happened to this once high-flying, formidable brand [...]
Tagged in bankruptcy, blockbuster, facebook, Futurisms, futurist, NASDAQ, netflix, Reed Hastings, Relativity, Warner, Youtube
Future Predictions
10 September 2010 | 0 Comments
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 [...]
Tagged in bill gates, bogeyman, catfish, facebook, Hollywood, mark zuckerberg, movie, predator, Social Media, steve jobs, Sundance, the social network, the web is dead, toronto film festival, trends, wired
Video Without A Cause aka Interesting Moving Pictures on the Web
26 August 2010 | 0 Comments
I’m back after a work-induced hiatus from social media. And I return happily with a delightful trending confection — a tasty morsel only to be found in the faraway land of Turkey… Your attention is required at 4:00 for the Ninja cameos, and then again, at the dramatic turn of events at 4:27. I would [...]
Tagged in facebook, ismail YK, music, music video, pop, Social Media, Turkish
Social Media and Art
4 March 2010 | 0 Comments
Tagged in a prophet, distribution, facebook, failure, foreign, french, Hollywood, jacques audiard, jail, mafia, michael barker, niche audience, Old School Film in The New World, oscars, Social Media, sony classics, sony pictures, tom bernard, twitter