Okay. Enough already. Time to get serious. Though I barely even used the “Interactive” half of my Gold SXSW badge (hard to do when you’re seeing 3-4 films daily), I did visit just enough panels on blogging to realize that this fad really is a valuable distraction. I don’t plan to be the obsessive-compulsive type that spends 3-4 hours a day making sure new content is updated every day, but...
I’m very impressed by Mark Cuban recently. Only days after reading a recent Wired article (that directly followed another maverick hero of mine — Robert Rodriguez) discussing Cuban’s imminent and self-financed upgrade of his Landmark theatre chains to digital projection, I just read a string of articles and a nicely-stated exposition on Cuban’s blog about his decision to fund the EFF in the Grokster vs. MGM case. Here is a...
Slashdot recently posted a telling article titled “When would you accept DRM?” — which intrigued me more than most, since my thoughts have been wrapped around the schism surrounding this issue. On one hand, you have the “tragedy” of the music industry, whose losing battle with unsympathetic audiophiles and a taken-advantage-of artist community have led to an ugly and untenable PR situation which may bury the existing music business altogether....
I’m going to get busy again with the spirit of redefining film. Digital is a no-brainer these days. The film purists can balk about gamma curves and light response till the cows come home, I’ll shoot digital from here on out, thank you very much. The pros just so strongly outweigh the cons. I saw a mockumentary recently in Seattle, called Nothing So Strange, which is being distributed online via...