Personas by Aaron Zinman is an online component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit put on by the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. The installation crawls the web and aggregates a bunch of data, which it then turns into the color/word bars that you see below. After an initial obligatory se[...]
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Share and Share Alike: Anna TV
[vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/6156231] Having acquired an iPhone not two days before I headed up north last week, I was able to catch the beautiful thunderstorm that passed over us on US23-I75 North near Flint with the phone’s video camera. One of the things I always loved about taking film prod[...]
July 24th, 2009 - 8:38 pm § in Blog, Film and Media
Horror Movie FAQ
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[...]
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[...]