What follows is an exceptionally pedantic rant about something ultimately inconsequential. I should know better, but when has that ever stopped me? People use ‘quantum’ as if it means almost the opposite of its actual definition. The blame for that probably belongs to an NBC producer in the late 1980s. However, since I haven’t blamed [...]
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, [...]
It’s 2012 and the state of our digital content stream is bullshit. We are nearly 3 years from the switch to a pure digital broadcast television system, six years since computers landed in our living rooms disguised as gaming consoles and 16 years since the passing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We have home networks, [...]
03.26.12 | life, media, technology | bradley
Web-based episodic fiction is hard. Really hard. You have no budget, which is good because viewers have no attention span. However, when creating your narrative, this means restricting episodes to pretty much one simultaneous plot line. Television viewers rejected the single plot line ages ago. Even the most basic television series have had an A [...]
02.27.12 | life, media, technology | bradley
What a day. Here’s a rundown. Apple Announced iBooks2 and iBooks Author The news came, as expected from early rumors, Apple was going to revamp their eBooks to support more interactive elements. The software is nice, feeling a lot like a robust Keynote that outputs Epub files. I haven’t had time to dig through the [...]
01.20.12 | life, media, technology | bradley
Ah, the Franklin Mint. You’ve stood too long and produced too many “commemorative” items to go without some serious checking. Wow! Don’t you feel patriotic! Don’t you want to own not one, but fifty pieces of American history? Well, let’s hope not, because then we couldn’t be friends. Let’s dissect a commercial, shall we? I [...]
If you happen to follow my Twitter feed, you’ve undoubtedly notice that I tend to watch a lot of television. And by a lot, I mean not just in volume, but also in variety. I sample a large section of genres, with my primary viewing focused on story. I am a sucker for story. I [...]
So, I skipped the video for Episode 4, and you know what? I’m not going to apologize about it. But here’s last night’s rather middle-of-the-road episode “This Place is Death” No real big suprised this week, except one teensy little one near the end which I’m not even totally sure of yet. And sorry for [...]
Last night Ron Moore and company laid out the road to the end on Battlestar, and that end is bumpy. Contained below are my thoughts on not only last night’s episode, but also the rest of the series. Caution, there are spoilers after the jump.
The show is pushing into it’s fifth (of six) season. If we are applying traditional story structure, we are in the “falling period” and working into the resolution period. If we’re looking at the original Star Wars trilogy this is the first half of Jedi. There will be spoilers. There will be theories. There will [...]
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