Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. […]
“Most of you are not going to make it in show business. Most of you aren’t that good.”
Those words spoken by Lucille Ball during an eight week comedy course Taylor Negron took from her in the 70s. His piece The Pink Gorilla (Tuesdays With Lucy) in Fresh Yarn is a great read.
On […]
Everything’s coming up web series these days. Latest: hitvidi’s call for entries into its hit video web pilot competition… All right, maybe it isn’t “latest” exactly. Deadline’s May 1 which doesn’t leave you a lot of time to get your act together.
What do you got to do?
Create a hit web show of any kind
comedy, prank, […]
Bud Caddell has neatly summed up Henry Jenkins Seven Core Concepts of Transmedia into one image. It’s a great little crib sheet but for a fabulous education in transmedia nothing matches reading Jenkins posts on the subject (part one and part two) or watching his talk from the Futures in Entertainment conference which I’ve […]
TV is about to pick up again with a lot of series starting new seasons (Breaking Bad, True Blood, Treme and Glee), but also on tonight’s agenda is the Mad Men season 3 encore starting Sunday March 21st on AMC.
An awful lot of people come to this blog looking on a search for Mad Men […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely. I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that would help it stand out from […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Friend of the blog Sébastien writes:
I watched “The Sopranos” pilot five times and it’s driving me crazy : I can’t distinguish the act breaks!
Well, I don’t know. Do you? I haven’t watched that episode in a very long time and don’t have it on hand to break down right this second, so I thought I’d […]
Over the holidays I spent quite a bit of time watching videos from MIT’s Futures of Entertainment conference. I was particularly taken by the case study of Purefold, a project which seems to defy description.
It’s a transmedia project in its early stages that has no elevator pitch and is the antithesis of high concept. […]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
A couple of days ago here at CrossoverMontreal 0′9, Richard Adams shared a collection of sites with the group. He emphasized the simplicity of each them; they are each built on a very clear and simple concept. That was one of Richard’s big messages: avoid unnecessary complexity.
These are the sites Richard shared:
The […]
