June 21, 2008
Pressure Cooker: wonderful. High energy, moving, and hard to keep a dry eye. Great documentary.
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About to watch Pressure Cooker. Hope its as good as Baghead.
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Baghead was good: very funny and a bit scary.
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June 20, 2008
Waiting in line for Baghead. Excited and hope its good.
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More Santa Monica
More Santa Monica
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Santa Monica
Santa Monica
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Welcome to LA: noon-time traffic jam.
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June 19, 2008
Roar
With the Cannes Lions happening and everyone struggling to be the first to pat everyone on the back I remembered back to this great clip I saw in one of the “behind-the-scenes” judges videos for what…
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Travel service needed: airport security line alerts (a la traffic).
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Off to the LA Film Festival. Planning to see Baghead (directors of puffy chair) and Pressure Cooker (doc about culinary school).
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June 17, 2008

online video debate

the LA Times ran an article on Hulu yesterday in which it summed up the prevailing argument, “the issue boils down to this: Will low-cost original programming, à la “lonelygirl15” or those grainy, amateur YouTube clips, continue to dominate online video? Or will the little guys get crowded out in a new, heavily commercialized era, led by expensive, slickly produced studio shows that premiered on broadcast or cable?”

the article doesn’t say it, but it leads one to believe that the “slickly produced studio shows” will win.  ugh, this is the wrong question.  it should not be one vs. the other.  both will exist.  to be fair, the article does reference Veoh (which offers both amateur and professional content), but pretty much dismisses them altogether.

then, it states this, “does all this mean that pretty soon we’ll be ditching our flat-screens and watching “The Office” only on laptops”

another stupid question.  i’ll answer that one: no.  the market for laptop viewing is tiny in comparison to the market for TV viewing.

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the future of fitting rooms

I hate trying on clothes.  I find it to be a hassle and very inefficient.

What if instead of needing to try on clothes, every time you walked into a department store it scanned your body and created a virtual you, a hologram that followed you around and would try on clothes for you?  That way we could see how clothing fit on “us” as another person sees it.  And, what if a 3D you existed online for you to see how clothing fit as you shopped online?

Ahh, the future will be great…hopefully.

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June 16, 2008
Dined in Santa Cruz. Great town, even on a Monday night.
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"Skip the pun"? Not so fast.
As Sally Fields once pointed out, “’Pun’ spelled backwards is “nup,” and a nup is a nup.

I appreciate the point that Tom Tom made about looking beyond, or beneath, the pun, is his post of June 12.
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June 15, 2008
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
New Magnolia Electric Company song obession: Hammer Down
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