November 2007 Archives
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Very nice use of Google Maps at VPRO.
I hardly ever get a drummer shot, but the light at this show was great. See the full set at Flickr. (slideshow)
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It's back. It's bold. It's a book.
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View the entire movie by German director F.W. Murnau. Yeah, old news.
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Awesome strike swag. Am tempted.
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Makes mention of the birth of fans4writers.com on Whedonesque
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All the black and white movies collected
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"We need DHCP for Identity"
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"Unyverse makes it easy to exchange and share information between your mobile phone and your web account."
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Bought a simple flash with (free) Omnibounce. For emergencies only.
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So much to learn, so little time.
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A guide to our site. In Dutch.
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Using Google maps to navigate website
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Hydragenic gets a nod from The Guardian
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"It's true, that's what a lot of people say," Plant says. "The women at the kitchen sink in England have been waiting for me to do something since 'Big Log.' "
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My Sinead review, in Dutch. Haven't had time to translate it yet.
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I've always been told you can't walk in L.A. Guess people were wrong.
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Some interesting life size optical illusions
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"Each of us is from a place that is more than a dot on the map. Every experience that we can recall has left its mark on who we are. Nobody is from Clorox, but can't you smell the laundry room at the poet's house as a little girl?"
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Ten new videos, every day
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Beautiful stuff from Stuart on his 40th birthday
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New web app, ' OnMyList'. Kinda like listography
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Cool. But can I just say... ugly!
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Just donated to this Office Fans Christmas Fund. These donations go towards the laid off crew of The Office US. The show has been shut down because of the strike.
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Awesome. Can't wait to see this.
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"Once the independent financiers start going directly to writers, things could change really fast. I ask myself every week -- why aren't we all working with them? Look at the movies they've made. They are the new Medicis"
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Fun grid 'game'
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That's was the über I meant.
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Didn't uber used to be a magazine run by Ben Brown?
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An oldie, but still fun to play with
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Erwin Blom over Sociale TV. Zie.nl wordt genoemd.
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And plans to make regular donations. Meanwhile, both parties have agreed to go back to the negotiating table after Thanksgiving
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"Leaders from the WGA and the AMPTP have mutually agreed to resume formal negotiations on November 26. No other details or press statements will be issued."
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This I must try.
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Read the e-mail sent out to showrunners by United Hollywood
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Great BSG compilation video.
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"The mass audience splintered long ago; now viewers are divided into tribes with their own rituals and rites of passage."
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BSG's series creator has his own blog now
I remember this one so well. I wasn't at the Pinkpop festival in '88, but I watched it on TV. An angel in bovver boots, time stood still. The white jumper hanging from her jeans was her baby son Jake's. He's 21 this year.
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Our press release on persberichten.com
{Sinead O'Connor - Melkweg, Amsterdam, 15/11/2007.}
Never mind that the band absolutely murdered You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart, the non-performance, the crippling shyness and the obvious throat bug.
I kind of liked the suit.
See the full set of pictures.
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Doe de kijktest van Zie.nl en ontdek wie je kijkvrienden zijn. En win een jaar lang gratis tv.
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Zie.nl is een nieuwe tv- en webvideogids die gebruik maakt van collaborative filtering. De site is een initiatief van het dagblad DAG.
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I think this review gets the details about Last Day of Our Acquaintance wrong. I think that one was about Fachtna O'Ceallaigh, not about John Reynolds, but I'm not entirely sure. I agree about the band. Terrible.
Psst... wanna see my new website?
Um... that's 'our' new website. DAG Media bv, my employers, launched Zie.nl today.
Zie.nl is a new smart TV and web video guide, which makes use of collaborative filtering. Tips are presented in a flash application, the 'kijkwolk' (viewing cloud). Viewers can influence their personal cloud by voting thumbs up or thumbs down on individual programs. The engine tries to predict and present other shows a viewer might want to see, based on their voting and other behaviour on the site as well as some other stuff behind the scenes.
I've been part of the Zie.nl team since I started work at DAG Media back in September.
It's all in Dutch, beta, but it's live, baby.
(Zie is the Dutch word for 'see')
Um... that's 'our' new website. DAG Media bv, my employers, launched Zie.nl today.
Zie.nl is a new smart TV and web video guide, which makes use of collaborative filtering. Tips are presented in a flash application, the 'kijkwolk' (viewing cloud). Viewers can influence their personal cloud by voting thumbs up or thumbs down on individual programs. The engine tries to predict and present other shows a viewer might want to see, based on their voting and other behaviour on the site as well as some other stuff behind the scenes.
I've been part of the Zie.nl team since I started work at DAG Media back in September.
It's all in Dutch, beta, but it's live, baby.
(Zie is the Dutch word for 'see')
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MySpace's new 'news' application puts our entire site in their frame. That's the kind of thing I thought we threw out with slavery and the blink tag!
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Nice looking website.
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Some info about Fire Eagle, the thing Tom Coates is working on
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I love the Flemish, but afraid of the general sentiment behind a united Dutch union.
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Please vote for the Fans4Writers project on the MeFi Projects forum.
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funnier short urls
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"And just as the owners of vaudeville theaters broke down and bought hand-crank movie cameras, the studios will figure out a way to make absurd amounts of money off of whatever is beaming onto whichever sort of screen.
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"I like Napalm's unusual odor, because it reminds me of winning"
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More fun strike pictures, actors joining in. Allyson Hannigan, Morena Baccarin, etc
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I've had capture cards for the last 10 years, but they wer always too slow, too buggy, crap software. This Dazzle doesn't get a lot of good reviews, but it's working fine for me so far. Transferring my VCR collection to any format has now become painless.
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(via powazek)
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Might put this on my old pc
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Blog your thoughts from anywhere, with your voice
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Hadn't noticed they've started a tv blog at TWOP.
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"It's obvious that all TV entertainment will come through the Internet soon. [The networks] re going to make a ton of money through it, and they know it, and that's what they're fighting for."
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"Beginning on 05 November 2007, the membership of the Writers Guild of America went on strike. That same day, their fans went with them."
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The purple one posts his five favourite strike movies
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Nuglah makes freaky videos
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Extensive Joy Division/Control post on Mefi
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What if Jack Bauer used AOL 3.0
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Pictures taken at the picket lines by members of Fans4Writers.com, the grass roots, cross fandom movement in support of the WGA strike.
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It's a monkey, walking the line
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A flashthingy to put your pictures on your blog in a nice flash gallery
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"...it's not as though they're going to ask how work's going, or is mom all right, or about those cupcakes you were making. These people are not your friends. They're not going to be. [..] They aren't who you think they are. They're just people."
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"Crowdstorm is where you make better-informed purchase decisions based on the crowd's advice and recommendations. Your crowd includes the most trusted and knowledgable people on the web - giving you advice on what to buy."
Dubbed 'The English Piaf' by the British press, he does resemble a little sparrow a bit. The motorcycle accident he had three years go has left its marks. Marc Almond's tough tattoos don't obscure the fact he seems a little frail now. In his stylish suit he reminds me most of that other French chansonier, Charles Aznavour, whose work Almond has covered. I think he's aging well.
On stage he admits he's got trouble remembering his lyrics now and when, during a fabulous performance of Jacques Brel's Jacky, he's climbed on top of the grand piano, his tour manager has to help him climb off. Ouch. 'I've done my back in,' he says and grins and bears it.
The venue's filled up with ex-goths, you can tell. They don't wear make up anymore - unlike Almond - but they're still clad in black threads, two or three sizes up. They probably have well paid jobs, they are 'creatives' and they adore their MacBooks. Sorry, I've been working with tv demographics data a little too much lately.
It would be fun to drag a couple of emo-kids from their Evanescence concerts and show them what lies in store for them, Scrooge-like. I jest. I'd rather have this devoted but clearly geriatric crowd than cackling, texting, fickle 20-somethings. This lot know of Almond's misfortune, that much is clear. Even before he's sung a note, he's welcomed with a thunderous applause and the crowd's enthusiasm doesn't wane over the full two hour show. They sing along, the hands go up, the tears run rings and hearts swell. We're close to a conga-line here, it's that kind of atmosphere.
I surrender, let myself go with the flow, but the camera's lens creates a bit of distance. Just enough to realise there is not a lot of difference between a night out with Almond and evening with Engelbert Humperdinck, that's entertainment. Marc is so very, very British. In Bizarro World he would probably make a fine Redcoat. In this reality, however, he's just subversive enough to make it art.
I'd always liked Marc Almond's work before, but as a live artist he was just a little too camp and over the top to really move me. He moves me now. The drama's real and we all feel it. Back from death's door, a miraculous recovery, just turned 50, from Sex Dwarf to Stardom Road... his opening song, Aznavour's J'ai Vécu, says it all, really: I'll explain my life and show you all I am and all I've been, and I'll say for my defence that I have lived.
Seen: Paradiso Amsterdam, October 27, 2007
This piece is a loose translation of the review posted to my Dutch 3VOOR12 weblog.
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Whedon takes over our front page and he's very welcome to it.
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Fans of the series 'Supernatural' follow our lead
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Lord of the rings origami
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Social engineering for photographers.
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"The 5 biggest of these points are: internet residuals, original online content, streaming, home video/DVD residuals, and reality TV."
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The Office (US) explains why the show is shut down for the strike.
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Joss standing next to the Whedonesque poster. W00t.
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Lots of showrunners picketing, bearing cool signs. The ' Lost' one is great.
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Photoblog. Run by good old mrgreen.
Joss Whedon posts more about the writers' strike:
More Whedony quotes:
"It’s necessary, though. We’re talking about story-telling, the most basic human need. Food? That’s an animal need. Shelter? That’s a luxury item that leads to social grouping, which leads directly to fancy scarves. But human awareness is all about story-telling. The selective narrative of your memory. The story of why the Sky Bully throws lightning at you. From the first, stories, even unspoken, separated us from the other, cooler beasts. And now we’re talking about the stories that define our nation’s popular culture – a huge part of its identity. These are the people that think those up. Working writers."In the meantime, Supernatural fans have followed Whedonesque's lead.
More Whedony quotes:
"None of the writers – or anyone – I’ve spoken to have ever heard of fans organizing and supporting a strike the way you guys have. Supporting our right not to entertain you. Seriously, that’s rare."
"When I showed my wife the banner that went with the pizza scheme, she just said, “These people are gonna be running the world.” Man, I hope she’s right."
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"We have to protect the rights of the people who tell the stories, however they’re told."
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"Isn't it kind of hypocritical that on one hand the studios and networks say that unauthorized downloading or copying of content is "stealing," -- but on the other hand, they say the writers don't deserve residuals, because the content is valueless?"
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Variety's WGA strike blog
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Whedonesque's pizza delivery mentioned on AfterEllen.com
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And.... the nytimes tvdecoder blog.
To show their support for WGA writers currently on strike, members of Whedonesque.com, the Joss Whedon community weblog, delivered pizza to the picket lines at Universal, L.A. with flyers stating "You fed our minds, we'd like to return the favor."The gesture was much appreciated by Whedon-related writers and others on scene: "Seeing you guys with your pizzas and your poster... It was very touching...", "It was such a touching gesture and they were hungrily gobbled up.", "...your pizza was well-appreciated during our picket at gate 1."
Plans for more pizza runs and other efforts to support the writers are currently underway. Some writers expressed surprise. In general, TV shows writing staff do not have close relationships with their fandoms, but the Buffy, Angel and Firelfy communities have always been as passionate about the actors as they are about the stories and their writers.
Editable banner images are available to post on your blog. Other fandoms are encouraged to join in.
Why strike? Brian K. Vaughan, executive story editor on 'Lost' explains.
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Members of Whedonesque.com chip in to have pizza delivered to picketing writers at Universal, L.A.
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Flyers included with the pizza sent to picketing writers in L.A.
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Writers' strike updates on Twitter
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Flyer handed out with pizza's at the picket line at Universal in L.A.
I'm at level 4 in WoW and level 5 in LOTRO/Shadows of Angmar. I've only just started. Don't laugh, I suck. I've never played MMORPGs before and was never much good at games in general. But I'm enjoying it, LOTRO in particular - familiarity with the subject helps - and I'd like to get a little better. I'm a little shy talking to other players and when someone invited me to a fellowship some timeduring the first two days I played, I declined. That's how much I suck. Maybe it would be easier if there was someone around who I already know and can maybe teach me or help me get better. I'm tired of the spirit healer already. Anyone?
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140 character recipes.
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Info for LOTRO newbies
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"Enter the Yoconut, a pared-down, flesh-only version of the coconut. Instead of being enveloped in the equivalent of a solidified front-door mat, it's embraced in a cool, moist vacuum pack."
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Slideshare presentation
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American tv writers go on strike. Re-runs, baby.
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Current top artist by geographical location
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Whedon and Minear and Eliza Dushku team up for a new series called Dollhouse.
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Baldwin supporting the tv writers's strike