Monthly Archives November 2007

Beet.TV: “Ungated” New York Times Brings Record Visits in October, Vivian Schiller tells Beet.TV

Sample conversation: “You know, making a good customer experience actually had a benefit! Customers come to the site and stay there! Who’d have thought?” Newspapers - executing the obvious, ten years too late, since 1622.

[From Beet.TV: "Ungated" New York Times Brings Record Visits in October, Vivian Schiller tells Beet.TV ]

Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook

Anyone remember when Yahoo innovated? Or at least acquired innovation? Why doesn’t Yahoo model the future of the web on unification of their core ethos rather than fragmentation into market chasing?

[From Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook]

YouTube - Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)

My film history professor was DOP on this film. It remains one of the best examples of structuralist cinema I’ve ever seen. It is also the untold influence on the cinematography of Wes Anderson I think, as well as some of his narrative structures, and other popular structuralist cinema.
If you can’t guess, I’m doing some [...]

YouTube - Meshes of the afternoon - Parte 01

I think every film student who worked in experimental narrative had a secret crush on Maya Deren.

[From YouTube - Meshes of the afternoon - Parte 01]

MovieMartyr.com - The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes

This is another film that caused some pukage in my film theory class (warning, don’t click this link). I wonder: why has no one gone back to experimental film and pull parallels between it and things like social graphs, new media theory etc? Not hard to do and rather interesting.

[From MovieMartyr.com - The [...]

Media Art Net | Snow, Michael: The Central Region

I feel like randomly posting this video because I remember the first time I saw it, and was thinking about that tonight. Why? Because I threw up afterwards. It is one of my favorite films, bar none.

[From Media Art Net | Snow, Michael: The Central Region]

Ashley Tisdale

She may be a teen pop High School musical star, but this site is damned amazing. This was originally the first site we launched in the “new” drupal infrastructure, and Shaun just did an amazing job doing database merges to launch it. Sara (ms. melodramatic.com) worked with David Hull on integration, and prod4ever.com on design. [...]