Monthly Archives August 2008

Fred Durst, family film director? Seems a longshot - Los Angeles Times

Fred Durst looks like a plumper, a bit younger MIchael Stipe. Scary. Down to the hat and facial hair. I met Durst about 6 years ago. He was actually a nice guy. The End.
[From Fred Durst, family film director? Seems a longshot - Los Angeles Times]

Micro Persuasion: Cloud Computing’s Impact on Digital Marketing

“Cloud computing is liberating people from their computers.”
[From Micro Persuasion: Cloud Computing's Impact on Digital Marketing]

More puffery (hah) from PR about Cloud Computing. Last time I checked, Cloud Computing wasn’t new, smartphones are computers and its not liberating me from anything. Stop the hype on this shit. Its tiresome.

Muxtape gets shut down. Pandora might get shut down. Everyone is pissed off. A call for patronage. » VentureBeat

Patronage is not a new thing in art. Go get some experimental films of the 70’s, or experimental art works that included music at the same time (John Cage, even Brian Eno, etc) and take a look at the credits about who paid for the work. Everyone is so ingrained in one structure for how [...]

Media Art Net | Snow, Michael: The Central Region

This is by far one of my favorite films ever made. If anyone out there reading this has any interest in formal vs. mechanized aesthetics, this film is for you. The perfect play on the environment/nature with the mechanic. The film is much longer than this clip and is very hypnotic in full, especially on [...]

kanYe West : Blog

Kanye West just had himself elevated in my admiration gradient. Thanks for linking to what is an awesome video sir.
[From kanYe West : Blog]

CNN Fails To Include Spoiler Alert In Tweets, Ruins Olympics

Not to join the chorus: but the Internet kind of renders “spoilers” meaningless, especially as related to artificially imposed time-zone restrictions. TechCrunch just wanted some traffic. Poor techcrunch.

[From CNN Fails To Include Spoiler Alert In Tweets, Ruins Olympics]

The Bottom 1.5%, up from 0%

I periodically will take a dive into our statistics to check out trends I see. This doesn’t happen as often as I’d like, as we have 100+ sites and its time I don’t necessarily have. This week though I did and found something interesting. Typically I take a look at browser stats to find trends [...]