May 2009
36 posts
Dollhouse, Joss Whedon, and the Strange and... →
Because then, there’s Topher, the programmer, who is responsible for constructing the artificial personalities and implanting them in the dolls. [He] is noted feminist auteur Joss Whedon reflecting, very consciously and very obviously, on his life’s work - hiring gorgeous women and making them into who he wants them to be - and saying that sometimes, he feels kind of icky about it.
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johnaugust.com » Professional Writing and the Rise... →
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guerrilla semiotics | Note on Unimelb →
Print Article: Illegal downloads soar as hard... →
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is... →
Watch] Waiting for Godoshina
Worst Idea Ever: Hollywood to Make Bubblegum... →
Roy is a worldwide sensation on Youtube - People -... →
Why journalists deserve low pay →
Wages are compensation for value creation. And journalists simply aren’t creating much value these days.
via @rachelhills: Why journalists deserve low pay: http://tiny.cc/ouzWT Ouch!
The Australian Film Institute | The St Kilda... →
Cheap Wi-Fi tethering solution for your Nikon →
1984: The masterpiece that killed George... →
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some...”
– ] George Orwell quoted in the Guardian
“The way you become the best in the world is by quitting the stuff where you...”
– ] Seth Godin, Pushing Through the Dip
"…I came to the conclusion that in any project we... →
Australian entertainment rebounds - Variety →
It’s been awhile coming. The biz has been buffeted for three years by immense industry upheaval, matched by local auds’ disinterest in homegrown films — a sentiment in common with international auds.
The Future of Internet TV (in America) - Cringely... →
As I’ve written over and over, Apple is moving slowly and steadily toward becoming primarily a content provider.
[…] And just as the artistic heart of TV shifted to cable with HBO in the 1980s, so it will shift to the Internet and Apple.
10 Tips For Viral Shorts →
Viral shorts have taken the web by storm! It’s a tough game with its own rules—here are some ways you can keep your viral short up to speed with the Internet traffic.
1) Make it something you want people to see:
There are millions—if not trillions—of viral videos all over the web. Why should browsers click on your short over anyone else’s? Are you offering important information? Or a profound...
Rands In Repose: The Art of the Tweet →
Rands In Repose: The Trickle List →
You can do more than you think with small, consistent investments of your time.
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Strategic holy shits only come from well-informed chaos, and you can take a stab at building a productively ephemeral perspective with the tactical information you gain from a structured task list combined with hopeful strategy provided by a slippery, healthy Trickle List.
I love this article. It...
Casing a date lands me a 'friend' in need of my... →
I know one woman who read a man’s entire blog, which he had been keeping for years, before agreeing to go on a date with him.
I am the man in question. We are still together. Awesomely.
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“Art is every kind of human behaviour that presupposes our unity as transcending...”
– ] David Milch
new media guru: joss whedon →
Once the project was completed, a few companies took interest in it. Joss and his cohorts went to a meeting at CAA, “and they were literally like, ‘We don’t know how to proceed with this,’” at which point Day took the lead. “Felicia was following sites and [explaining that] ‘you have to go here, and they don’t have a bandwidth, and we always said we were going to stream this for free, and we...
