April 2013
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March 2013
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Andy Baio on the Indiepocalypse →
“Publishers will have to evolve just to stay alive. Labels, studios, and other publishers can provide huge value — they can take care of the bullshit that artists don’t want to do.”
This whole thing should be required reading for all aspirants in a creative field.
February 2013
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January 2013
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“If I had the license to own a machine gun and a cannon I would, and I would have...”
– some guy on my Facebook feed who thinks he can use a personal cannon to defend the Constitution
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December 2012
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2012 Movies #166-172
Les Miserables
Jack Reacher
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Total Recall (2012)
Push
Sound of My Voice
And so my final tally for 2012 is 172 movies… Honestly, I was hoping to get over 200, but I think this isn’t a bad showing.
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2012 Movies #141 - 165
The Road Warrior
The Master
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Step Brothers
Evil Dead 2
Great Expectations (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook
Indie Game The Movie
Hobo With A Shotgun
Skyfall
Miami Connection
Babe
West Side Story
The Red Shoes
A Clockwork Orange
Back to the Future
Frankenstein (1931)
Lincoln
Back to the Future 2
Back to the Future 3
Secret Documentary...
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Watchvhxtv:
Over the past year we’ve learned volumes about the current state of distribution and the challenges presented to today’s aspiring filmmakers. Working with Erica Gorochow, we created a video to summarize these ideas and help shed light on what the future holds for filmmakers.
Watch it with your eyes, spread the word by sharing with your friends and filmmakers, and let’s work together to...
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“The Chili Appreciation Society International specified in 1999 that, among other...”
– From the Controversy over ingredients section in the Chili con carne Wikipedia entry.
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November 2012
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Movie Posters I Like →
I started using Pinterest. Here’s a board containing a bunch of movie posters that I like.
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October 2012
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other...”
– Thomas Mann
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2012 Movies #102-133
I’m a couple months behind on blogging about the movies I watch during 2012, and at this point it would be ridiculous to do a post for each film on its own. So here’s a catch up list.
Ted (2012)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
Pieta (2012)
Joyful Noise (2012)
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (2012)
Anna Kareninia (2012)
Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
Passion (2012)
The Sapphires...
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The Magazine
My favorite people are contrarian makers. We all have moments where we realize the world isn’t quite the shape it should be. Most people grumble and deal with it, but the contrarian makers actually do something about it. They roll up their sleeves and start changing the world. They’re not satisfied figuring out how to win within a broken system, they want to figure out a better way to do things....
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The Brief →
nostrich:
A daily briefing of technology news worth caring about, edited by Richard Dunlop-Walters
I made a thing.
I love “The Brief.” A simple way to keep up-to-date with technology news.
September 2012
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Screen Time #6: The New Version of Hollywood →
I recently joined Moisés Chiullan on his new podcast Screen Time to talk about the current and future state of the film business. I think it went pretty well on the whole.
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Traditional Indies vs Truly Free Film →
This post by Ted Hope is by far the best thinking I’ve seen on the huge current changes in the world of independent filmmaking.
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Approachably Reclusive: I Hate Snark →
A wonderful argument against snark from science-fiction author John Barnes.
