Vlog: A Rant about Sony Classics’ Marketing of “A Prophet”

Social Media and Art 4 March 2010 | 0 Comments

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Me & Hank Moody – Yes, the Dude from Californication

storytelling 10 December 2009 | 7 Comments

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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Emotions + Algorithms = Stories

Social Media and Art 12 November 2009 | 1 Comment

With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook status updates, one expects to see all manner of ideas useful and useless, swirling around these platforms and vying for our attention. so it was no surprise when Mashable ran a piece last month on Twitter Art.  The ideas tend to revolve around the age-old putting visuals-to-text using — what [...]

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Paranormal Activity – Anomaly or Trendsetting?

Old School Film in The New World 27 October 2009 | 1 Comment

I should say first that I have NOT seen Paranormal Activity, chiefly because, well…I’m a scaredy-cat and probably wouldn’t sleep for days afterwards. BUT, that never stopped me from a big picture analysis. Of course the hype everyone is hanging on to right now is the parallel between Paranormal and Blair Witch. And I get [...]

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