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 [...]
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 [...]
The always dark and creepy world of Tim Burton is now on Twitter, in the form of a crowdsourced project. For fans of his 6-part micro-cartoon titled Stainboy, this will be a whole lot of fun. While Burton is not the first to crowdsource a story on Twitter, this controlled experiment will likely produce something [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
DIY filmmakers have always inherently understood the idea of microfunding, because in some sense or another, raising a few hundred or thousand from friends and family IS essentially the same idea. And now, with social media providing the kind of community reach that would have been impossible even ten years ago, this model has become [...]
I hate rules. I’ve never been able to follow them. And I find the tyranny of web lists obnoxious. BUT, somehow one cannot deny that in an era of such chaos as we are experiencing in the media arts especially, this kind of list may…possibly… have some value. There, I said it! This is my [...]
It all began one night last week. I was in my apartment in New York, feeling somewhat nostalgic for LA, which like some kind of happy-slash-sad drug, makes you miss it. I turned on the TV and surfed. Caught the last few minutes of Californication. Sighed. Then remembered I could watch the whole episode again. [...]
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