July 2010
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Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah, and the Short Pants →
NewsCorp, where every day is April 1st.
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Fred's Tumblr Scraps: "Positioning" MTV. 1987. →
Positioning MTV: Music Television
Throughout most of the 80s, our original, in-house, MTV creative team had established all the original vocabulary (written and visual) for the channel. In April 1983, Alan and I resigned and set up Fred/Alan as the media’s first “branding” consultancy and advertising agency. Bob Pittman was a smart and shrewd competitor; he signed us right back up. MTV...
June 2010
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Watchmy latest project: the season 2 promo campaign for MAN SHOPS GLOBE
“Indifference is a sin on your wedding night and in marketing.”
– Peter Liguori, COO, Discovery Communications
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“More people watched the series finales of Mr. Belvedere and ALF than the number...”
– Chris Cantwell (via mikehudack: bliptv)
All that proves is that there are more idiots than intellectuals.
You realize this is comparison is wildly unbalanced, right? It completely disregards differences in cable distribution & penetration between 1990 and today, the quantity of national cable...
“There’s no money in poetry, but then again, there’s no poetry in money either.”
– Caterina Fake
via marsbot
Crowley -- a 33-year-old who's always in a... →
Now you need a publicist and a stylist.
May 2010
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Downloadable LOST labels for all your Dharma... →
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Watch EPIC.
Nike’s new World Cup ad.
(via moderation:kerelcooper:idlewyld)
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WatchSizzle Alert: Sarah Silverman sits down with LOST executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.
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Hammer to Nail: Monthly VOD Report →
Filmmaker & journalist Michael Tully has launched a monthly report on the films being distributed on “the ever expanding list of Video On Demand channels.” Been hoping someone would do this for some time. Thanks MT!
Next step is for film critics to start writing about them.
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“‘Carlos’ is everything ‘Che’ wanted to be and much, much...”
– Todd McCarthy, indieWIRE
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“How food best enjoyed in tiny bars in Spain, or even Chelsea, is suited to an...”
– FEAST: Bar Artisanal Insta-Overhauled Into Bar Artisanal Restaurant & Tapas
Ha! So true about Chelsea. Maybe it’s time to rename the nabe. Chelsita? Little Madrid? BCN West?
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The Men Who Made ABC’s ‘Lost’ Last →
I know I’ve said this already, but I’m really gonna miss these guys.
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WatchTeaser for JJ Abrams’ new movie, Super 8 (via makingofmovies)
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IFC Launches 'Midnight' Genre Label →
Very smart, considering alt horror is one of the more interesting & viable independent genres right now.
“Television has domesticated other disruptive technologies. Ten years ago digital...”
– via economist.com (via tootwo) (via mikehudack)
April 2010
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“This can’t be any more wrong. foursquare is a whiskey shop.”
– dens, on the NYC Startup Drink List.
I was thinking Nascars, but that’s probably more dodgeball.
(via caro: mikomercer)
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“I think it may be particularly well suited to a spot among my liquor bottles.”
– keanesian, on her purchase of John Carney’s head.
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What Do TV Directors Do? →
Now you know. (via atencio: Kottke)
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Happy Birthday to Me, and →
Eliot Ness (well, posthumously)
Dick Sargent (also)
Jayne Mansfield (same)
Dudley Moore (ditto)
Tim Curry
Paloma Picasso
Al Unser, Jr.
Valerie Plame
Suge Knight
Ashley Judd
Jessie James
James Franco
Kate Hudson
Hayden Christensen
Maria Sharapova
High school friend Zoe A
My former coworker Johnny Z
and fellow TV geek Emil
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Guess the Fake TV pilots →
Okay armchair development execs, which of these series would you greenlight?
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March 2010
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Inadvertent Tumblr Meet-up!
Working next to Chris today.
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“Technology and social media have created a ‘moment of transformation for...”
– Jason Klarman, General Manager of Oxygen, via ADWEEK: ‘Watercooler’ Chats Spread to the Home.
I don’t agree that it’s a DVR killer, but it can be a momentary social media killer. If I can’t be home to watch a show at the appointed time — LOST, for example —...
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Foursquare jokes in different magazines
sharingtime:
In The New Yorker: a drawing of two women in yoga class. One woman to the other, “You haven’t checked into Nirvana in a while.”
In Playboy: a drawing of a couple sitting in bed. The woman says to the man, “You haven’t checked into my pussy in a while.”
In Guns & Ammo: a drawing of two men in full hunting gear with guns in the woods. One man says to the other, “Have you heard...
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“No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck...”
– J.D. Shapiro, BATTLEFIELD EARTH screenwriter
via Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Apologizes for Battlefield Earth; Blames His Penis for the ‘Suckiest Movie Ever’, one of the best-titled /Film posts ever
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“People who work in the television business who say they don’t own a...”
– Damon Lindelof is mah jam
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“A Heart in New York” - Art...
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“During a busy festival like SXSW, with so many competing movies, parties, and...”
– Eugene Hernandez: 5 HOT TOPICS AT #SXSW
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Watch“The photos or the documentation preserve the memory but erase the feeling of living the moment. You recollect the image and it takes it out of your brain.”
bbhsxsw:
Michel Gondry on the loss of emotional memory. A reality check for the digital natives.
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WatchMartin Scorese + Steve Buscemi + Michael Pitt + HBO + Prohibition + Atlantic City = BOARDWALK EMPIRE. Can’t Wait.
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AD AGE: How Jeff Bridges Voice-overs Imperiled... →
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February 2010
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Fast Company: Most Innovative Film & TV Companies:... →
The fastest-growing programming group of 2009 in revenue, Rainbow outpaced Viacom, Disney, Time Warner, and Discovery. The company (a division of Cablevision) owns and operates AMC, the Sundance Channel, IFC, IFC Films, and WE tv. BREAKING BAD and MAD MEN have reinvented the AMC brand. Rainbow has also rescued the independent-film biz with multiple releases on big and small screens and a...
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WatchBE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR gets some special man love from Joe McHale on THE SOUP. Awesome.
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5 Ways LOST Changed TV →