A common gripe amongst creatives, especially in the wake of Battleship The Movie, is that the Entertainment Industrial Complex is afraid of engaging with new intellectual properties. While that is likely true, the video below does a fantastic job of tracing the history of the Flintstones franchise as it drifted into and out of favor, [...]
If you’re nerd enough, you know the true test of any new social media solution – can you play D&D with it? And nerds can be pretty quick in picking up on whether a medium supports the needs of the game. Some folks in publishing don’t seem to be as quick on this. Case [...]
05.24.12 | media, technology, writing | bradley
Looking for volunteers. I think I got this cloning thing down. Downside: this’ll probably hurt. Upside: two places at once. Serious inquiries only. [I will be so responsible with this.]
The news story caught my attention because of the blurb below the headline Gray Alan Combs, Jr., 22, of no fixed address, allegedly threatened officers with a sword. The inherent tragedy is obvious, a mentally unstable man had wandered into a situation and was armed with a sword. According to the article, the police responded [...]
I like Futurebook.net, I really do. They tend to write on point commentary about, as the name might suggest, the future of books. But since Waterstones agreed to start selling Kindles, the folks at Futurebook seem to have embraced the old guard tactic of hating Amazon. This obviously bears repeating: hating Amazon is not a [...]
05.22.12 | media, technology | bradley
I fell hard for Mass Effect. Sure, the gameplay might have been monotonous at times, but the story was epic. I mean epic in the classical literary sense of the word and the story played in a way that really focused on the strengths of video games. That is to say, in game decisions had [...]
05.22.12 | life, media, technology | bradley
Couple of stories have bubbled across my desk today both with a common thread that I personally disdain. The first, a story that seemed to break in Mother Jones last night, is that the famed TED lecture series was holding back a video on what could, but shouldn’t, be a controversial topic – the impact [...]
05.17.12 | Intellectual Property, media, technology | bradley
So, this just happened. two pieces of horrible news back-to-back. In manual retweet form, no less.
05.15.12 | technology | bradley
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending what turned out to be the third and final ROFLcon. On the surface, a convention about memes seems like a silly attempt to turn internet yucks into real world lulz. And while it’s true that I can now say, “I sat next to Tron guy,” or “I [...]
05.15.12 | Intellectual Property, life, media, technology | bradley
The above image is, I’m assuming, the cover of the Ozymandias cover of Before Watchmen, the undemanded attempt to expand the Watchmen universe against the will of their creator. But we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about the recent uptick in attention to BDSM amongst housewives and Twilight fans – 50 Shades of Gray. [...]
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