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    Om Malik and iTV

    Something I think interesting with the iTV story is: as the video on the web wave turns into a tsunami, there has been a lot of talk about how it  (web video) is a new and different 'art' form. There was going to be (and I think is developing) a different sort of thing that play well on a computer screen in a little window...3 hours of Lord of the Rings in a 320 X 240 window? No thanks. Lonelygirl15 at 320 X 240 for 3 minutes? Looks good. But conversely, lonelygirl, or karate-chopping monkeys, will not look appropriate on my big ole Sony TV screen. And not just because of resolution...it's because, conceptually, the two things (LOTR and lonleygilr) are completely different. Shot and framed differently for one thing. Prodution values don't matter at 320 X 240 (or thereabouts) Intimacy value does, and interestingly, conceptual value matters. If it's a good concept, that fits the constraints of the medium of web video, it renders production values obsolete. So...if everything video gets ported to the iTV, will people start to conflate web video with say, Desperate Housewives and say "gee, this web video looks like crap...why does that persons head fill up the whole screen?"

    And the video market turns back into a market that can only be served by big media companies that can afford the glossy production, and the intimacy of the new web video is lost, and that whole new paradigm of web-only video goes away, as iTV, rather than leveling the playing field, stacks it more in favor of big money, as the computer turns into just a delivery mechanism in a chain, as opposed to a different viewing experience.

    September 13, 2006 in Film, Television | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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    Watched City of God again. Beginning to think this might be the best movie of the last five years. Seems flawless.

    Just went to the CD release party for Rumblefish's Sacramento to Seattle compilation. Done in conjunction with Umpqua bank. Paul Anthony and Rumblefish continue to break new ground with their business model based on helping companies with their "sonic branding".

    Haven't eaten at ClarkLewis since..you know. Tommy Habetz, late of The Gotham Tavern, will be opening The Pork Store at 47th and Hawthorne...I will go there ASAP.

    Best new band in Portland? Maybe The Ones

    Punk/pop rock in the tradition of The Jam. (In my opinion.)

    July 11, 2006 in Current Affairs, Film, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

    The Aviator and Daybreak

    In the last week I saw Daybreak, at the Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), and The Aviator.

    To cut right to the chase, Daybreak was great...intense, with great acting. Brooding in that particularly Swedish way...but ended, oh I don't know if UP is the right word, but ended on a hopeful note.

    Now, The Aviator...I love Martin Scorcese. But I could not generate any enthusiasm for this film whatsoever, other than the fact that it looked spectacular, (parts of the film have what looks like the old...what is it, Kodak film stock that gives everything this kind of washed out look) and Di Caprio is very good. I found Cate Blanchett to be....well, let's just say she was given the impossible task of playing someone whose mannerisms and affectations just can't be imitated, without sounding like...an imitation. She's been nominated for an Oscar and lionized in the press, so what do I know. The story of Howard Hughes is unbelievable...so to sit through a telling of his story thoroughly bored by one of the great filmmakers of all time was...disappointing.

    February 21, 2005 in Film | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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