Posts Tagged ‘movies’

Blogs are to Books are what TV-Shows are to Movies?

So Penelope Trunk wrote a book. I previously wrote about her here. A commentator on one of blog-posts asks: Penelope, I read your blog regularly. Is there anything in your new book that I wouldn’t have already gotten from your blog? Either way, I’ll probably buy it… but I was just curious. Posted by Kelly [...]

Avatar – a review of its technologies and message

This movie was one I anticipated for some time. I’m a Sci-Fi geek, a movie freak, and a Cameron disciple (ever since Terminator 2). Most important to me today however: seeing whether the world of cinema was about to change forever… or not. My review will *not* be about the story, but about a number [...]

Some thought-inspiring podcasts for you, which you may or may not have heard of

There’s talk on the web about “thought leadership” (I prefer the term “thought inspiration”), so I felt like writing something about what sources, podcasts this time, inspire thinking with me. An obvious example would be TED, which I think most of us know, but today I’ll list a few that I listen to regularly, which [...]

Hitchcock / Truffaut and the future of the moving picture

If you look at the world of video now, there are a number of trends that reign: The shift from TV to web (Youtube, Hulu, iTunes Video, etc.) The shift towards gaming, aka interactive video The shift towards 3D cinema The unabated reign of piracy, which means that content-producers have to look beyond traditional media. [...]