Peak My Oil
May 9th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
An eco message about peak oil told through the popular medium of erotic dancing. Twisted.
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VOD On…
May 7th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
newteevee has a story about 2008 being the year of VOD:
‘For all of you too lazy to drive to the video store or too impatient to wait for your DVDs in the mail, 2008 is shaping up to be a banner year for you. The video-on-demand (VOD) space is heating up, which means you have one less reason to pry yourself off the couch.’
Now I don’t know what a banner year is, but I hope it means someone will be kind enough to make me a banner that I can stick in my window, perhaps VOD could make it himself?
What it and the Wall Street Journal article it references don’t mention is the opportunity to release a film in the cinema and online simultaneously, let me choose to watch it as nature intended on the big screen with my atomized Read the rest of this entry »
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Paranoid Schizophrenics
May 7th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
Webby Winner, The Onion has some advice for schizophrenics.
In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?
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Batman v Ironman
May 7th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
Stick a playboy billionaire in a sharp plastic suit, give him a butler, some angst and a leggy love interest, stir vigorously, and bake for one hour and hey presto, it’s a perfect summer blockbuster.
This home spun tale of rival figurines casts a cynical eye on movie marketing.
For a more detailed critique on whether to go viral or not and the benefits of a microsite, see here and here.
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Graffiti 2.0
May 7th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
Total aerosol Banksy gathered together some of street arts finest for a 3 day exhibition over the weekend entitled the Cans Festival (geddit?).
The general arty hipness was countered by parents like me and others requesting their children pose in front of Banksy’s witty daubings. Whilst I had some beef with the staff who asked that I remove my daughter from a tree house covered in tags and barbed wire and surrounded by sand, it was as the unwashed Japanese gentlemen who stood beside me in the queue said ‘controlled anarchy’ and I’m all for that along with ‘waterless baths’.
Whilst real paint on real walls distracted, cyber graffers calling themselves Smif & Dicky set to work on former Banksy pal Dface’s website, hacking into it and replacing it with the following.
Beware all who accept money from pneumatic pop sirens, pixelated graffiti is on the rise.
Is this Graffiti 2.0?
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Will It Exit?
May 3rd 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
The effervescent Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital has a neat follow-up to an article from last October about how Zukerberg’s much vaunted Facebook platform has simply allowed inane zit popping apps to flourish and further dilute any real business model.
“But, so far, as popular as those apps have become, what Zuckerberg and the widget-makers have wrought is mostly silly, useless and time-wasting and the kazillion users of these widgets are pretty much just acting like little children.
I never thought I would call the often frivolous AOL (TWX) back in the day–very simply, a Neanderthal version of Facebook–a mature offering in comparison… Read the rest of this entry »
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Intelligent & Profane Theft
May 3rd 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
You ain’t a net denizen if you don’t know about the hoopla surrounding the release of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV.
The last game I played with any real compulsion was hide in a bale of straw from the farmer with the gun and the rabid dog. I was 9 and my Sinclair 48k Spectrum had over heated after a zealous neighbour denied its simple pixelated pleasures, played Jet-Pac Willie until steam rose from the memory board.
So instead of reviewing Grand Theft myself, I’ll simply link to the New York Times who see it as ‘…a violent, intelligent, profane, endearing, obnoxious, sly, richly textured and thoroughly compelling work of cultural satire disguised as fun.’ Which pretty much sums up my life to date.
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