July 2010
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Jul 20th
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Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah, and the Short Pants →
NewsCorp, where every day is April 1st.
Jul 14th
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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...
Jul 13th
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June 2010
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my latest project: the season 2 promo campaign for MAN SHOPS GLOBE
Jun 30th
“Indifference is a sin on your wedding night and in marketing.”
– Peter Liguori, COO, Discovery Communications
Jun 22nd
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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...
Jun 11th
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“There’s no money in poetry, but then again, there’s no poetry in money either.”
– Caterina Fake via marsbot
Jun 7th
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Crowley -- a 33-year-old who's always in a... →
Now you need a publicist and a stylist.
Jun 4th
May 2010
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Downloadable LOST labels for all your Dharma... →
May 23rd
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EPIC. Nike’s new World Cup ad. (via moderation:kerelcooper:idlewyld)
May 21st
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Sizzle Alert: Sarah Silverman sits down with LOST executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.
May 20th
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May 20th
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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.
May 20th
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“‘Carlos’ is everything ‘Che’ wanted to be and much, much...”
– Todd McCarthy, indieWIRE
May 20th
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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? 
May 18th
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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.
May 16th
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May 14th
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Teaser for JJ Abrams’ new movie, Super 8 (via makingofmovies)
May 12th
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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.
May 11th
“Television has domesticated other disruptive technologies. Ten years ago digital...”
– via economist.com (via tootwo) (via mikehudack)
May 3rd
April 2010
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Apr 28th
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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)
Apr 28th
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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.  
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 20th
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What Do TV Directors Do? →
Now you know. (via atencio: Kottke)
Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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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
Apr 19th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Guess the Fake TV pilots →
Okay armchair development execs, which of these series would you greenlight?
Apr 15th
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Apr 7th
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March 2010
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Inadvertent Tumblr Meet-up!
Working next to Chris today.
Mar 30th
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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 —...
Mar 29th
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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...
Mar 29th
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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
Mar 28th
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Mar 28th
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Mar 27th
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“People who work in the television business who say they don’t own a...”
– Damon Lindelof is mah jam
Mar 27th
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Listen“A Heart in New York” - Art...
Mar 21st
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“During a busy festival like SXSW, with so many competing movies, parties, and...”
– Eugene Hernandez: 5 HOT TOPICS AT #SXSW
Mar 17th
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“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.
Mar 17th
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Martin Scorese + Steve Buscemi + Michael Pitt + HBO + Prohibition + Atlantic City = BOARDWALK EMPIRE.  Can’t Wait.
Mar 16th
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AD AGE: How Jeff Bridges Voice-overs Imperiled... →
Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
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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...
Feb 22nd
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BE GOOD JOHNNY WEIR gets some special man love from Joe McHale on THE SOUP.  Awesome.
Feb 9th
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5 Ways LOST Changed TV →
Feb 2nd
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