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Cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan. For more: http://nyr.kr/YzIRye
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Harold Feinstein. Coney Island, 1950s
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“I work for the Internet” is a picture campaign to Congress started by Fight for the Future, a group that wants to...
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“Amazon’s publishing house will be in service to a different idol, because publishing isn’t, right now, and hasn’t been, for 500 years, about...”
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a need for Astronaut Candidates to support the...
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BEETLE TREES (by Bastiank80)
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In Bob Dylan’s 2004 memoir Chronicles Volume One, he describes meeting Rotolo backstage at a concert. “Right from the start I couldn’t take my eyes...
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“Leaving somebody a voicemail is just plain rude.”— Ricky
Once you’ve lived in a writer’s room… you never lose the feeling. This captures it perfectly.
Taran Killam Does His Best Robyn Impression at 4:30 am on SNL’s Writing Night
With bonus flashlight rave from Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer, Sarah Schneider, and Abby Elliot.
(via whatevs)
“When it comes to literary adaptations, this may be a miscalculation. America’s top-drawer television producers ought to take note of their British counterparts and apply their newly elevated standards to reviving the fine art of the miniseries. After all, even Dickens knew when to call it a day.”
TV and the novel: A match made in heaven - Salon.com
Couldn’t agree with this more.
Things I underlined in this article:
1) TV in the future will be an app.
2) WiFi technologies are now capable of providing seamless handoff and extensive metropolitan area coverage.
3) The cable pipe is a dumb pipe. It’s all about packaging and repackaging wireless access everywhere.
Hence — TV is “TV everywhere, on every kind of device.”
And it’s coming NOW.
HOW DID I NEVER KNOW ABOUT THIS? Pronunciation Book on You Tube teaches you how to say the words you read all the time but never hear pronounced correctly.
A THANKSGIVING LIST: THE TEN THINGS I’M THANKFUL FOR IN DIGITAL NEW YORK
Feel free to comment / email / send your own suggestions!
THE TEN THINGS I’M THANKFUL FOR IN DIGITAL NEW YORK (in no particular order)
- The Subway. No, it’s not wired… yet. But it is the great equalizer, the great point of mass contact, and a big part of how startups and their employees can afford to live in New York, work practically anywhere, and get from one end of the city to the other in record time. ( Most of the time.)
- The CUNY Journalism School — most notably Jeff Jarvis and Jay Rosen. A constant reminder of the massive brainpower lying just under the surface of our city, and how it can be harnessed to find new solutions to old (in this case old media) problems.
- Fred Wilson and his “orbit.” I think Fred has done more to set the tone for VCs and investors in New York than any single person. It’d be a colder, harsher digital life without him.
- Red Burns and her NYU program. The brain incubator for so many NY startups.
- Internet Week and the Webby Awards. They’re still random and crazy enough to feel totally alive.
- General Assembly, WeWork, Rose Tech Ventures, and all the other great communal working sites.
- Madison Square Park and Shake Shack. It’s like Casablanca… “Everyone goes to Rick’s.”
- The new Stanford Lab. Go east, young man.
- The New York Tech Meetup.
- Tekserve. My lifeline for the past 25 years.
Why is it so difficult to do what we say we’re going to do?
The lizard brain.
Because the audience will eat it up!!!
“Intelligent Gratification for Global Youth.” —Nusrat Durrani
An marvelous, if unexpected revolutionary, Nusrat Durrani is one of those guys that makes me completely forget whatever cynicism about the media business I might have accumulated over the years, and remember why I’m constantly excited to be part of the global conversation.
And I mean global.
Completely aside from being my colleague at MTV.com, Nusrat is the founding executive at the amazing MTV Iggy, the newest music offering from the former American music channel (no comments, please; read on), an online channel where the ambition is easily as grand as the very interent itself.
Nusrat discovered MTV in his native India after a chance nuclear mind explosion in the form of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” and his life was was never the same. Against all odds, he made his way around the world (via Dubai) and barged his way into MTV.com and never gave up his dream of uniting world music cultures. No matter how firmly MTV kept walking away from music (and for some very compelling reasons) and how many “wiser” heads begged him to abandon ship, Nusrat would not give up on the brand’s worldwide status and his faith that it could mean more to world pop than just about anything else.
It looks like he’s been right on all along.
I’ll let you read an interview to get the rest of the story and about the Best New Band in the World program because it’s a great story.
But let me tip my hat to one optimistic, smart, determined man. We all should support more of his kind. Nusrat, you’re incredible.
(via fredseibert)
Critics call the program “a vanity press,” and the rates “gouging.”
NBC is going to remake The Munsters… with dramatic overtones.
Of COURSE Betty likes the Stones, secret bad girl that she is. Veronica? Beatles — especially McCartney!
(via fredseibert)
Great post about… oh, let’s be frank… STEALING approaches, ideas, thoughts. And Stealing from What Works… But, you know, being honest about it.
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via enderkay)
Allen Lane, founder of Penguin, is smiling from the “cloud.” He began with a highly democratized view of the classics — essentially, everyone should have access to the best of literature. Now, every author can have access to the best of audiences!
LIVE IS THE NEW LIVE
THE CHANGING NATURE OF THE EVENT
There are new ways to skin the cat here. And I think the big idea for creatives is wrapped up in the evolution of the “EVENT” in media.
Live is going to save creatives who can turn their work into a “performance.” TV will survive through its ability to make you want to see something “when it happens.”
BUT we all get better if we can stretch the “time space continuum” and create events that can play out over a very long time.
The Theatre Owner always sold an “event.” A specified time when an audience and a performance would come together. Even when theater became film, film became tv, and tv became cable, the owner could pretty much control when and where the audience and the performance came together. When videotape hit the scene, there were some paroxysms, but the system absorbed the change, and they were still selling access to a specified audience over time. (Best example: Disney’s timed releases of their classic films.)
Digital changed ALL of that. And I believe to the benefit of creatives.
