The Tribeca Film Festival will start in three weeks in NYC and I hope to attend parts of it. However, there are wonderful festivals around the world that I would love to attend but can’t. For example, I’ve wanted, but been unable, to attend Sundance for the past couple of years.
I am sure this is […]
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Film festivals and the online audience
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Film Festivals and Technology. 5 CommentsI 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 […]
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 […]
As we watch the films of today, it is great to take a moment and think about where this medium has evolved from.
In the 1890s, the Lumiere brothers were hard at work to make a motion picture camera. Their father was a photographer and working for him, the men were introduced to the medium and […]
Different sites for different types of film? Maybe, maybe not.
Published by November 3rd, 2006 in Filmmaking and Technology. 4 CommentsI discovered UbuWeb from the Self-Reliant Filmmaking blog. The author’s wish that You Tube was more UbuWeb got me thinking.
UbuWeb is a place where you can watch and learn the techniques of filmmakers who were very innovative in their time. YouTube is a place where you can be entertained, you watch the latest viral gimmick, […]
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