Curation not Creation is the experimental mantra today. I can’t seem to to find a site or blog that provides a filtered guide to the best video content available on the web. Part network, part guide and a lot distributor I have decided to cobble together my own daily guide to the best video content out there. As a working title we’ll call it, ‘Fat Man Guideovision to Web Video’. Discovering video to watch can take all day so I thought I’d arrogantly tell you what you should be watching if you want to remember what is was like to wet your pants without drinking a gallon of cider with a twist of lemon and whilst also satisfying your daily ‘quality’ craving.
1. Puppet Love
2. Fonejacker - Doovde
3. Martin Scorsese short film sponsored by some sparkling vino.
I’m getting into Twitter and thus regularly answering the question ‘What are you doing?’ and then broadcasting the answer to all and sundry. For those of you immune to Twitter’s childish allure it’s like Facebook status on ketamine… which given the general disquiet about the Facesoft Beacon advertising system is a somewhat apt analogy. Ketamine will either put the mighty stallion to sleep or send it down the discotheque to dance it’s jaw off.
I should clarify ‘getting into’. I’ve logged on, left the account dormant for 3 months, wondered why a lady (who turned out to be a man) called Trish Hussey was sending me text messages late on Friday nights and which I had to explain to my wife: Read the rest of this entry »
When I die You Tube will owe me a large part of my life back and whilst sipping Martini’s in Hell, I’ll ponder just how close Jeremy Beadle and You Tube are and whether one is the demonic spawn of the other. It’s Friday so there’s wit and meaning in this clip from Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
Media content silos should open their vaults and let the content run amok on You Tube and if the lawyers disagree just get the work experience ladyboy to stick a dv cam in front of the boxed set and put it on You Tube anyway, because everyone else is. By releasing it officially you’d control the quality and build brand awareness and promote DVD sales.
Can anyone tell where all the online video guides are? Not the community stuff, but an independent editorial voice? Isn’t it time we re-invented the TV Guide?
I’m too busy smarting with iPhone envy after meeting a similar bearded creative with a hacked iPhone to bore you with the results of my search for the perfect cleaning cloth to wipe away those grubby incriminating smears from my touch screen. But hats off to El Jobs for creating both the most alluring phone to thieves (and if it ever happens please let it be a gentleman thief and not some crackerhead… you know like a cellular Robin Hood robbing iPhones from beardies to feed swans or something.)… but also a phone that uniquely captures their fingerprints with such beautiful accuracy.
Some choice picks on the iPhone development landscape:
‘So Steve Jobs has finally announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. It will be available sometime in February of 2008… more‘
My iPhone arrived a week ago and since then I’ve spent a lot of time looking for the optimum cleaning cloth in order to remove my grubby finger prints. I’ve battled pizza and the need to check my mail knowing full well I’d probably cause some hideous smear which would send me into a paroxysm of panic and handed it around to my friends like a newborn whilst looking carefully over their shoulder as they coo and rock.
My first email to my wife was ‘I no longer need human interaction’ which in my naivety contained the signature, ’sent from an iPhone’. ‘Good she replied, does this mean I can get hold of you now?’.
With my iCal sync’d she most certainly can.
I’ve learned to delete the signature, there’s no need to rub people’s face in it and I enjoy playing with the magnified bubble cursor anyway so deletion and correction are pure pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »
WGA writers striking over new media content, girls in bikinis prove popular and Hollywood business models get torched, a few choice links on the evolution of the great white letters on the hill:
Screenwriters DIY !.. come up with a Net-driven revenue model and leave the dinosaur conglomerates of Hollywood behind? (more)
The Guild…clearly there’s a huge potential audience for MMORPG-themed videos. (more)
Sell Off!… MySpace recently launched two original web series: the high-minded (and high-priced) quarterlife, about 20-nothings in existential crises (check out Karina’s review), and the blatantly low-brow Roommates, about slender women lounging in bikinis. (more)
Blowtorch Aims to Burn through Movie Biz… Get ready to put your skeptic face on. A company raises more than $50 million from VCs and hedge funds before even launching a web site. They’re talking about people using their company name as a verb. (more)
A sleepless night spent sweeping imaginary spiders from beneath my 2 year olds bed on Friday led to an early night on Saturday where, as the wife snored, I was shocked to find myself transfixed by ITV’s The Kylie Show. Part PopPorn Lite, part sketchy sketch show, one song had me reaching for my You Tube the following morning.
So I thought I’d use this unreleased track as an exercise in how to capitalise on the new methods of musical promotion out there and look at a few of the areas where technology and sequins combine: Read the rest of this entry »
Facebook is using it’s virtual spy planes and blanket ruling that the phrase ‘privacy issues’ must never be raised at Facesoft Towers to develop Facebook Music and steal the sampled thunder from MySpace.
Here’s how it works:
Major and independent label artists and will register their sub-domain name through Facebook. Like “www.facebook.com/insertbandnamehere” for example.
On this page Facebook users will be allowed to become “fans” of the artist and connect to the media hosted on the “artist page.”
In the first generation of Facebook Music “fans” will be allowed to listen to artist’s music, watch videos, upload pictures, add music to their page, receive tour information and interact with other fans. Read the rest of this entry »
Big in Japan was a song in the 80’s. I know because I used to dance to it. It’s also a turn of phrase in this case, ‘Unazukin dolls are big in Japan’, these eggs with faces in Alpine attire answer your questions with an unambiguous yes or no.
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