The TED talks are invaluable to giving access to the worlds of the creative and innovative. This talk and slide show by Shea Hembrey is nothing short of inspiring to any artist…and he was 100 of them! What does this mean? You’ll have to check it out.
Read more...One of the better Summer interviews out there, talking about The Cape, fans, a meme about her, and LARPing.
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Science Fiction (SF and SF/F – Science Fiction and Fantasy) on television has never been an easy sell. If you look at the history of the medium, you find few SF/F entries among those series that had a good run. Mostly it’s a road littered with what-might-have-been-if-onlies.
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I found an interesting link today: “Sarah Connor Chronicles to Continue Late 2010”. Needless to say, for a TSCC fan, it’s intriguing.
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This past television season has seen an amazing shift in the entertainment viewing landscape. Due to a ripening of a variety of media, we have finally entered the nirvana of on-demand entertainment. The question is: how to monetize it?
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It’s been interesting to watch this year’s round of Poll-ballot-stuffing a/k/a which bubble show should be saved surveys. Every season, the passionate fans of a series band together and do their level best to flood sites with just as many votes as possible.
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Every year, the Watch With Kristen section of the E! web site features an S.O.S. (Save One Show, formerly Save Our Show) election for netizens to vote on a “bubble” show they’d like their network to save. Well, the preliminary round is finished, and the five shows remaining are:
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The time has come to stop depending on the statistical few to have the same tastes as the variety of viewers across the country. When they are picking from half-a-dozen choices, that might have had some merit, but when picking from about 1,000 choices, those 5,000 Nielsen families seem woefully under-representative. With just a new twist with available technology, there can be upwards of 200,000,000 votes as to what is worthy of being on the air and what isn’t. Whether watched live on DTV, or a week later off your laptop’s hard-drive, you can tell the powers that be that you are watching.
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It’s been interesting reading what so many entertainment reporters have been saying about the most recent ceremony that Hollywood puts on to hand out awards to its own. I never forget that the purpose of the show is no different than what happens in school auditoriums at the end of their year. It’s just that with the people being entertainers and all, they like to do things up just a bit better.
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