Archive for February, 2007

Fandango - wasting the opportunity

I love Fandango’s core service. Buying tickets is simple, elegant and most importantly it works.
But Fandango probably realized recently that it has all this wonderful data that it could use. For example, it shows me all the films I’ve ever watched. Great — that plus Netflix would be a good encapsulation of most everything I […]

Fair use and documentary films

I am very interested in how culture evolves, how technology and art are inspired, and how prevailing laws enable or choke that innovation. I read Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture when it came out and was fascinated with the history of innovation and his hypotheses on where we were headed.
I’ve been meaning to find Lessig’s […]

Clever images

An artist can do so much with an image. Some of the visuals in the video have really interesting messages…

First draft

For me, writing the first draft is the hardest thing.
I think of an idea and just twirl it in my head for a few days. I think about it any time I am free… images running through my head. I’ll hit an issue. Some issues are deal breakers - if it destroys the premise or […]

The Hand

The Hand is part of a compilation DVD called Eros. It includes three movies/shorts by Wong Kar Wai, Steven Soderbergh, and Michelangelo Antonioni.
I’m just going to focus on Wong Kar Wai’s “The Hand”, which kicks off the trio. The Hand is like a lot of Wong Kar Wai movies - it is a sad, sad […]