7 Mar
It’s my birthday and I’ll cry (sing) if I wanna! From the Thumbs Down webcast in ’07:
Wish I’d thought up this lo-fi video technique. Basically they’re webcams attached to bike helmets with a stick. Your head is therefore always perfectly upright in the video, while the rest of your body and the world teeters about wildly.
Someone should attach it to a dancer for maximum dizziness factor!
I finally got around to watching PressPausePlay. It deals mostly about music and film, but you can see how it really applies to all media. First off, this Shirky quote is right on. Why would we ever urge anyone to pass up the chance to actively create to be passive consumers? If we discourage and [...]
Whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business, with a market capitalisation, even after a rough year, of some $12.6 billion to Kodak’s $220m. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both saw change coming. Larry Matteson, a former Kodak executive who now teaches [...]
If you haven’t seen this interview, block out an hour and a half to see it now. I transcribed (and lightly edited) a great deal of it, because it was great (not the least because Chase Jarvis references one of my favorite Errol Morris films, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control). Originally I was just [...]
What is economic growth for, anyway? It’s for expanding our choices and making life better. Is it really so surprising that, as we grow wealthier as a society, more and more of our young people, when the amazing resources of the modern university are put at their disposal, choose to use them learning something satisfying [...]
Arturo Soto There are probably more than 10,000 articles about how unwise and un-blog-attractive it is to apologize for not posting frequently enough to your blog. (“Don’t keep hamsters if you can’t remember to feed them”?) It is the blog version of saying, “I’ve really let myself go.” Supposing that I have, it seems that [...]
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I feel as if I was introduced to this technique over a decade ago with shows like Fear Factor and one where people hunt ghosts or some such. I didn’t like it then and I still haven’t seen it applied well, even sparingly, to my eye.
In fact, it was used in the last film I saw, Terminator Salvation. It went from new trend to cliche at the same moment for me. Oh, look, the character is dazed from a fight! Or in a drug-induced hallucinogenic state! Strap a camera to his head to make the audience “feel” it!
My apologies for ranting. I had no idea how strongly I felt about this. Hah.