Category: Digital Culture

Kill Bill

I just saw my favorite movie of the year thus far: Kill Bill. I’m not sure that it’s the best movie of the year, but it may be the most well crafted. Tarantino once again shows that he can not only make violence look like the most beautiful thing in the world, but he can do so with pinache and verve. His choices for music, as always, are just perfect for any given scene. Uma Thurman gives an outstanding performance as The Bride, and unfortunately I think the subtlety of her work in this film will be vastly overshadowed by people commenting on the bloodshed. Plus, it has David Carradine in it.

For anyone who enjoys the aesthetic of violence at all, or likes the Tarantino aesthetic, this film is his return to greatness.

Digital Culture

Fuck the DMCA

Ok…this is insanity on top of insanity.

Please, someone…for all that is decent and fair in this country…kill the DMCA.

Story about someone getting sued for pointing at the SHIFT key.

Slashdot article on same.

Digital Culture

And there was power.

And there was much rejoicing.

Digital Culture

Can I move to the UK?

Cause it seems like they might just get it there. Here’s a link to the speech given by Ashley Highfield, Director of BBC New Media & Technology, and here are 5 things you will NEVER hear an American Media leader say:

1. “At the simplest level — audiences will want to organize and re-order content the way they want it”
2. “We should create more programmes that come with the meta-data, the tags in the programme that allow it to be chopped up and consumed piece meal by the viewer. ”
3. “Traditionally we have always thought that TV was about lying back relaxing and at best, half hearted interaction. In fact, recent trials again in Hull proved otherwise — audiences want a lot more than this. They want to create their own content either from scratch, or perhaps using tools and support that a broadcaster can provide”
4. “Downloading and sharing this video is the final piece of the jigsaw and will create a killer combination that I believe could undermine the existing models of pay-TV. ”
5. “We are exploring legitimate peer-to-peer models to get our users to share our content, on our behalf, amongst themselves, transparently.”

Digital Culture

The end times have started…

Post author By griffey
Post date October 8, 2003
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…and there is NOTHING online more postmodern than this.

arnold

Digital Culture

We’re not dead…

…yet. Betsy is having trouble with blogger uploading her posts, and my laptop power supply died.

🙁

Sad tech times in the sandlin-griffey household.

Digital Culture

It's 8:30 am….

…and already I'm jealous of someone. Erik Demaine just won a MacArthur grant. He's 22. Oh, and already a PhD. Gah. That's just freaking amazing. Check out the other winners here.

Digital Culture