Last night I scared my wife telling her about the horror movie I’m outlining. She couldn’t sleep; I felt bad. But that’s not the scariest story I… Read more “History’s Scariest Story”
Category: art
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance.” -Aristotle
Europe’s The Spiral is Great TV 2.0
With American TV borrowing so much from Scandinavia, England, and Israel for our best TV shows, how about we borrow from Europe’s best transmedia television phenomenon: The… Read more “Europe’s The Spiral is Great TV 2.0”
Syfy’s Defiance and Transmedia TV Gold
My interest in transmedia storytelling exists at the intersection of my obsessions with participatory culture, new media, and entertainment. I believe storytellers can create deeper experiences for… Read more “Syfy’s Defiance and Transmedia TV Gold”
Transmedia, TV Time and the Brain
So what the hell is Transmedia? It is not watching a TV show on an iPad. That’s “watching TV.” It is not telling many stories in the same… Read more “Transmedia, TV Time and the Brain”
Preventing Cut and Paste TV
Clay Shirky wrote a great article that contained another example of how we must adapt or die: Fifteen years ago, a research group called The Fraunhofer Institute… Read more “Preventing Cut and Paste TV”
Parks & Rec Transmedia Wins
Parks & Recreation is great. And it’s also doing a lot of transmedia storytelling right. I watch TV with a device on my lap, and when Amy… Read more “Parks & Rec Transmedia Wins”
5 Pitfalls of John Cusack’s Rush Project
As in Rush Limbaugh. Script not done – well see what it’s looks like – could be good hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-cusa… — John Cusack (@johncusack) November 4, 2012 I… Read more “5 Pitfalls of John Cusack’s Rush Project”
Film & TV 2.0
Around 2003, after Democrats were walloped in the midterms, and the established liberal advocacy organizations in D.C. proved unable to register any victories against President Bush, the… Read more “Film & TV 2.0”
Stephen Colbert Wins
He won a Peabody. His winning “Super PAC” segments embody some of my favorite rules – both from writing and improv: He says his responsibility is to… Read more “Stephen Colbert Wins”
What The World Needs Now Is…
More of this, please. If you don’t know what this Goya riff is working from, behold: the future. From Eater: The owner of a café in the… Read more “What The World Needs Now Is…”
What’s New in Hollywood
Rarely is very much new. Of the 45 films Warner Brothers released in 1940, 15 of them were remakes including Bette Davis’ The Letter and Errol Flynn’s… Read more “What’s New in Hollywood”
That Jeff Buckley Movie Thing
This one hurts. It’s not that they’re making a Jeff Buckley movie, nor that they’re making two – but it’s that one of them is the movie… Read more “That Jeff Buckley Movie Thing”
We’re On To Something
A few years ago I wrote a 10 minute play with Chris from my old improv group that The Dare Project in NYC was kind enough to… Read more “We’re On To Something”
“Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
Time to turn back and descend the stair… A nice image in that line. Which, since reading A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, has made me… Read more ““Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?””
#OWS as a Judd Apatow Movie
What if Occupy Wall Street incorporated as an investment bank and an attached savings bank? And what if at #Occupy demonstrations around the country, protestors could walk… Read more “#OWS as a Judd Apatow Movie”
The Heart of Catch-22
“And don’t tell me God works in mysterious ways,” Yossarian continued, hurtling over her objections. “There’s nothing so mysterious about it. He’s not working at all. He’s… Read more “The Heart of Catch-22”
Tech and Self
Fun art installation idea about how technology can obfuscate one’s projection of self: Cinemagram makes moving gifs of a few frames. There’s this feature where you can… Read more “Tech and Self”
Ira Glass and David Foster Wallace
I immediately thought of itsasickness when I read this: “Almost anything you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting” – David Foster Wallace, ‘The Pale King’ Similarly,… Read more “Ira Glass and David Foster Wallace”
Departures Magazine: “The Coolest New Website on the Internet”
This was nice of them to say: The Coolest New Website on the Internet By Eric Klinenberg, Sep-2010 The creators of the networking site itsasickness.com are betting… Read more “Departures Magazine: “The Coolest New Website on the Internet””
Slavoj Žižek on WikiLeaks
Every lefty’s favorite Slovak philosopher looks into the WikiLeaks story and knocks it out of the park. First he dissects The Dark Knight movie in a way… Read more “Slavoj Žižek on WikiLeaks”