Tonight I’m heading out to Hillsdale, Michigan (if I were to hold up my hand and show you where Hillsdale is, I’d be pointing at that soft part of your palm where your thumb muscles meet your wrist and pinky muscles) to finish shooting the horror movie that my friend Matt is shooting. An[...]
Archive for July, 2009
I love Netflix, but…
I think Netflix has a really good user interface. I even sang its praises in a short paper I wrote for my Fundamentals of Human Behavior class last spring. They take the elements of what is fun about picking out a video from a video store and transfer it to an online portal. I especially [...][...]
July 16th, 2009 - 8:31 pm § in Blog, Film and Media
Whip It Trailer: Outsider Becomes Hero, Again
Got my first look at the Whip It trailer today! I’m excited, as this is just the kind of movie I would enjoy seeing even if it hadn’t been filmed in my hometown of Ann Arbor. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cA2ngjW0YQ&hl=en&fs=1&] Looks like it’ll be another on[...]
July 9th, 2009 - 3:18 pm § in Blog
Sympathy for Reluctant Adopters
According to Wikipedia, the term Luddite refers to “[the] social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanized looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work[...]
July 8th, 2009 - 10:18 pm § in Blog
The Blogger's Dilemma
Let me give you a little bit of background: I’m a writer. Before the introduction of the Internet into my family’s house, I was a writer. When I was in first grade, I wanted to be “a author/illustrator.” I have a formal writing education, too. In high school, I attended Inter[...]