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every teaser trailer ever [video]
Every Teaser Trailer Ever — powered by Cracked.com Someone finally cracked open their new copy of the new iMovie and tried out the “movie preview” templates… yay! jbb
MoreANOTHER EARTH Official HD Trailer [video]
Saw this film over this past weekend, this is must see if you care about great story telling and films that make you think. Uploaded by FoxSearchlight on Apr 21, 2011 In ANOTHER EARTH, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, […]
MoreiPad’s Achilles Heel: Moving Media Companies to the Current Century
It’s something that the computer geeks don’t get. It’s part of why Microsoft’s efforts to promote Tablet PCs for the past ten years has completely failed. It’s not about the hardware or the feature list. It’s about the books, magazines, newspapers, and movies I can connect to and my access to my stuff stored on […]
MorePixel – A Pixel Art Documentary
In the early the early days of TV the promise of this new medium was how it would benefit culture, offering notions that one day we would all attend college lectures on TV. Not so much. Similar notions were advanced as the Internet came to be. As I watched the above video I caught a […]
MoreThe Cat Piano & Random Web
I love the random web. A student referred a short film nominated in this year’s oscars, wondering how they got away with using so many logos and trademarked images in their film: logorama (which, interestingly, has a copyright symbol in their movie title!). So I went to YouTube to see the full video. It wasn’t […]
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Save the Prize – Cha-Ching Version
Part of my class at Full Sail University involves issues of Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons. One of the videos I share is about the difficulty a particular video documentarian is having securing the rights so that he can share his documentary “Eyes on the Prize” The video prompted the following video response by […]
MoreThe King of Kong & the Ongoing Myth of Objective Documentary Films
This past summer I saw the critically acclaimed documentary, “King of Kong” at the inaugural meeting of a Full Sail documentary film club. Great film. When one of my fellow film viewers confessed that he wanted to punch the antagonist, Billy Mitchell, in the mouth and everyone in the room agree; it was clear that […]
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