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Junky movies, junky start-ups

Waiting in line at Safeway, I noticed the crappy movies near the impulse buy candy: Adam Sandler’s Zohan and Mike Myers’ Love Guru and they got me thinking…. So many junky disposable movies get produced. So many junky disposable start-ups get funded. Where do the similarities end? Studios are a bit like VCs. They even share [...]
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Iron Man

So just for a moment, imagine if the Cardigan’s Iron Man cover was the one they went with for the movie. (Sorry, another thinly veiled post to demonstrate a new feature, S3 integration.)
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Design stills from Tati’s Playtime

Jacques Tati’s Playtime is a wonderful movie; the setting, the color, the cinematography, the soundtrack, the fashion, everything, all wonderful. Sure there’s not much of a “traditional” plot, but this was the 60s, in Paris! Come on. Googling around, you’ll find many articles & books discussing (usually) the film’s architecture [...]
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Baby Steps

In the world of hyper-personalized advertising, if Minority Report movie style ads are your goal: Then you’ll need to embrace a few bowls of fried gravy on the way: Steve shows some pics of his recent experience with a KFC advertising truck. (Pepsi, which owns KFC, seems to be experimenting with Bluetooth and advertising these days.)
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The Conversations – Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

The Conversations : Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film / “Walter Murch is a true oddity in Hollywood. A genuine intellectual and renaissance man who appears wise and private at the centre of various temporary storms to do with film making and his whole generation of filmmakers. He knows, probably, where a [...]
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