January 7, 2010
I bailed on this blog in the middle of last year because I got too busy to think. I really was too busy to think for a while, then I just got lazy. But then Pizzolo busted my balls and said that people actually like this blog, and that I’m easier to deal with when [...]
July 15, 2009
It’s like if you and I wanted to hang out and there’s a perfectly safe path between our houses, but Steve Jobs and Bill Gates erected bridges and demanded we pay tolls and they spent millions marketing their bridges so we think we have to take them… but their bridges aren’t crossing a raging river, they’re just crossing a path that’s actually EASIER for us to take than their stupid bridges.
July 3, 2009
There have always been indie film snake oil salesmen. Back in the heyday of the 90s Indie Film Boom there were gazillions of books telling you how if you just sold your car, sold your blood, or sold out your family’s mortgage you too could sell a film at Sundance and be an overnight multi-millionaire. [...]
June 30, 2009
This week I’m back to work on “Godkiller,” Halo-8’s first Illustrated Film. An Illustrated Film is a highly stylized animated movie that mixes original graphic novel illustrations with motion graphics and dramatic voice performances to create an edgy new style of story telling. Its like Liquid Television meets Ralph Bakshi, allowing us to tackle stories [...]
June 29, 2009
I spent much of last week authoring the DVD for “POP SKULL,” a new release from Halo-8. Pop Skull is a manic, twisted, drug-infused and award-winning psychological horror film directed & co-written by Adam Wingard (“HOME SICK”), starring & co-written by newcomer Lane Hughes, co-written and co-produced by E.L. Katz (”AUTOPSY“), and produced by Peter [...]
Is this any different from any other networked technology? On September 11th our cellphones stopped working… I imagine for some people, Jacko’s death was a 9/11-esque event (?). Is your concern that in the event of a nuclear attack, we may not be able to watch the Kim Kardashian reality show on Hulu?
My Kardashian collection is safely on DVD.
The concern is that there isn’t sufficient bandwidth in the Internet universe to stream all of the video content that we wish was available. If you believe the pundits, there is a deluge of video content about to get crammed down the pipeline, and wired directly to our TVs in HD. Does the current available bandwidth need to be expanded? I’m sure someone is working on that business, but I’ve never here anyone discuss what the specific bandwidth requirements are for consumers to be watching HD internet videos “en masse.”