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Dan Harmon Poops, HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?
"When I was a kid, sometimes I’d run home to Mommy with a bloody nose and say, “Mom, my friends beat me up,” and my Mom would say “well then they’re not worth having as friends, are they?” At the time, I figured she was just trying to put a postive spin on having birthed an unpopular pussy. But this is, after all, the same lady that bought me my first typewriter. Then later, a Commodore 64. And later, a 300 baud modem for it. Through which I met new friends that did like me much, much more.

I’m 39, now. The friends my Mom warned me about are bigger now, and older, bloodying my nose with old world numbers, and old world tactics, like, oh, I don’t know, sending out press releases to TV Guide at 7pm on a Friday.

But my Commodore 64 is mobile now, like yours, and the modems are invisible, and the internet is the air all around us.  And the good friends, the real friends, are finding each other, and connecting with each other, and my Mom is turning out to be more right than ever."
web  online  support  frienship  technology  popularity  television  2012  internet  cv  creativity  power  bullies  community  danharmon  from delicious
13 days ago by robertogreco
Right versus pragmatic – Marco.org
"They never tried that. They just kept posting more signs, because they were convinced that they were right.

This pattern is common. We often try to fight problems by yelling at them instead of accepting the reality of what people do, from controversial national legislation to passive-aggressive office signs. Such efforts usually fail, often with a lot of collateral damage, much like Prohibition and the ongoing “war” on “drugs”.

And, more recently (and with much less human damage), media piracy.

Big media publishers think they’re right to keep fighting piracy at any cost because they think it’s costing them a lot of potential sales.

It is, but not as many as they think, and not for the reasons they think…

Relying solely on yelling about what’s right isn’t a pragmatic approach for the media industry to take. And it’s not working."
tv  television  embargo  prohibition  rightandwrong  beingright  pragmatism  behavior  2012  marcoarment  oatmeal  gameofthrones  psychology  piracy  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
"Scooby-Doo is a cartoon about kids looking for truth.

Michael Ryan recently wrote a really interesting article that suggested the decision to keep real monsters off of Scooby-Doo was originally done in order to appease parents who wanted something that was just scary enough to keep a kid's attention without being so scary that they wouldn't actually get "excited." They wanted to have the fun of monsters without the consequences of having to deal with nightmares…the televised equivalent of a Nerf Dracula, taking something that was supposed to be scary and blunting it down until the the big reveal at the end of every episode, which would show kids that the monsters they were scared of were just normal dudes.

…whether or not it was the intent of the creators, what they ended up with was something that went far beyond that idea.

Because that's the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren't monsters, they're liars."
scooby-do  secularhumanism  humanism  skepticism  askingquestions  reason  curiosity  thinking  fear  tv  television  parenting  children  criticalthinking  belief  truth  cartoons  rationality  2011  glvo  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Non-places: introduction to an ... - Marc Augé - Google Books
"As an increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports, hotels, on motor-ways, or in front of TV and computer screens, Auge investigates the profound alteration that has resulted from this invasion of non-places."
non-places  nonplaces  marcaugé  books  supermarkets  hotels  airports  toread  anthropology  motorways  tv  television  screens  ageofscreens  1995 
november 2011 by robertogreco
The Mavenist: Augmented Identity
Another great back and forth from Frank and Rob. This line sums it up for me: <br />
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"Where does the identifiable part of an identity reside?"
identity  2011  frankchimero  robgiampietro  jeanarp  art  artists  sherryturkle  stewartbrand  donaldbrown  universals  humans  human  humanuniversals  collectivism  manet  muppets  danielbejar  googlegängers  google  search  internet  northbynorthwest  carygrant  film  tv  television  omarlittle  michaelkwilliams  thewire  jacknicholson  theshining  simpsons  marcelduchamp  jimhenson  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Very Deep in America by Lorrie Moore | The New York Review of Books
"“Rooting is in our blood,” Janet Malcolm has written, and when traveling around this country one would be hard-pressed not to notice that sports stadiums have become to the United States what opera houses are to Germany. Every community has one, even ones without much money. Friday Night Lights, whose final season has just come to a close, is a weekly hour-long dramatic series (forty-three minutes without commercials) whose focus is a high school football team and its place in a particular Texas town by the fictional name of Dillon—inspired by the real-life town of Odessa."
tv  fridaynightlights  lorriemore  television  2011  books  film  texas  sports  americanfootball  football  us  culture  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Hulu in the Classroom: Building Literacy
""I've never understood our classroom commitment to "the book," but, I've really never understood our classroom commitment to "the chapter book."

What skills are learned from reading a book which are not learned from watching a film? I'm not saying books are "bad," just asking, "why are they 'better'?"

And why is longer 'better'?

[Short stories discussion]

But then I thought, why do we start with text on a page. I thought back to discovering books of those Twilight Zonestories after years of watching the show, and how much I loved "reading" them (or really, listening to them via audiobook, but I think that's the same).

And I thought that, as part of our effort to make kids want to read, want to write, we must first get them interested in stories, in wanting to know stories, and in how stories are told, and why.

And one great way to do that is to use short fiction in another medium - the short fiction of Hulu and other free sources of video - film and television."
irasocol  classideas  shortstories  reading  writing  hulu  youtube  film  learning  stories  storytelling  narrative  dialogue  2011  lists  video  tv  television  twiliightzone  huma8  literature  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Real Japan pilot on Vimeo
"Real Japan is a pilot demo for an upcoming documentary series about Japan, and the Japanese people.<br />
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Anyone who knows Japan even a little will have visited Tokyo, or the temples in Kyoto, but what about the rest of the country? They very rarely get a mention, but we think it's the people and places off the regular route where Japan's real treasures are to be found.<br />
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For the pilot, we went to Shodoshima, a small island in the Inland Sea in central Japan, to visit a 200-year-old kabuki theatre, traditional soy-sauce and noodle factories, and Xerom, where they make minute, cutting-edge components for your camera or smartphone. And we stayed with the delightful Sasaki family, who have farmed on the island for generations.<br />
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The plan is to travel across Japan to meet more wonderful, ordinary people all over the country, and learn about their work and their everyday lives…"
japan  television  documentary  travel  culture  work  life  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
You’ve got the sickness, I’ve got the medicine « Snarkmarket
"These two blockquotes, curated by Andrew Simone and Alan Jacobs respectively, arrived in my RSS reader within moments of each other. I liked Jacobs’s adjective, which applies to Simone’s selection, too: “Kierkegaardian.”"
boredom  jimrossignol  timcarmody  alanjacobs  andrewsimone  walkerpercy  tv  television  2010  kierkegaard  idleness  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
TV Forecast for iPhone and iPod Touch
"TV Forecast keeps all of your favorite TV shows together in one place: on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

FEATURES:
Detailed previous and upcoming episode information.
Full episode listing.
Notifications to remind you when a TV show is about to air.
Count down the seconds: rotate to landscape to reveal an upcoming episode countdown.
Email an upcoming episode reminder to yourself or to a friend.
Adjust an episode's air time to your time zone.

[iPad: http://bigbucketsoftware.com/tvforecast/ipad/ ]
[via: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/7504978939/tv-forecast-hd ]
iphone  ios  applications  ipad  tv  television  calendar  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Case of The Traveling Text Message - Michele Tepper - Interactions Everywhere
"Last year, the BBC and Masterpiece Mystery aired a new adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories called Sherlock. It’s available now on Netflix Watch Instantly, so if you haven’t seen it yet, go check it out.<br />
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But I’m not here to talk about how fantastic the concept and the writing are, or how much I love the performances, or even how anxiously I’m awaiting the next series. I want to argue that the thing that makes this series really groundbreaking is something very subtle: the way director Paul McGuigan handles titles…<br />
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…instead of cutting to the character’s screen, Sherlock takes over the viewer’s screen.<br />
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But none of that takes away from the achievement, which screenwriter John August calls “the one to beat.” I fully expect the text messaging style McGuigan brought us in Sherlock to become part of the visual narrative vernacular, coming soon to a screen near you."
design  writing  television  ui  text  userinterface  narrative  film  tv  2011  sherlock  timcarmody  screens  computers  mobile  phones  storytelling  perspective  filmmaking  classideas  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Kevin Slavin – Reality Is Plenty, Thanks. « Mobile Monday Amsterdam
"Kevin Slavin closes the final Mobile Monday Amsterdam with an improvised talk about why reality is plenty. And closing the row of bare feet speakers at the event."
culture  history  games  psychology  mobile  kevinslavin  ar  augmentedreality  reality  2011  momoamsterdam  tv  television  jeanpiaget  extramission  immersion  mimesis  replication  uncannyvalley  information  tamagotchi  perception  senses  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Test card - Wikipedia
"A test card, also known as a test pattern in North America, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast (often at startup and closedown). Used since the earliest TV broadcasts, test cards were originally physical cards at which a television camera was pointed, and such cards are still often used for calibration, alignment, and matching of cameras and camcorders. Test patterns used for calibrating or troubleshooting the downstream signal path are these days generated by test signal generators, which do not depend on the correct configuration (and presence) of a camera. Digitally generated cards allow vendors, viewers and television stations to adjust their equipment for optimal functionality."
technology  history  television  images  tv  testcards  testpatterns  color  patterns  glvo  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero's EduTube
"A few television videos for your enjoyment and education."
frankchimero  youtube  video  classideas  television  documentary  jamesburke  cosmos  carlsagan  waysofseeing  johnberger  alaindebotton  stewartbrand  howbuildingslearn  curatorialteaching  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Guernica / The Straight Dope — Bill Moyers interviews David Simon, April 2011
"David Simon would be happy to find out that The Wire was hyperbolic and ridiculous, and that the “American Century” is still to come. But he's not betting on it. An excerpt from Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, forthcoming from The New Press."<br />
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"I am very cynical about institutions and their willingness to address themselves to reform. I am not cynical when it comes to individuals and people. And I think the reason The Wire is watchable, even tolerable, to viewers is that it has great affection for individuals. It’s not misanthropic in any way. It has great affection for those people, particularly when they stand up on their hind legs and say, “I will not lie anymore. I am actually going to fight for what I perceive to be some shard of truth.”"
davidsimon  billmoyers  toread  interviews  thewire  tv  television  politics  drugs  cities  baltimore  2011  government  policy  society  economics  journalism  statistics  progress  crime  lawenforcement  criminology  urban  urbanism  laissezfaire  markets  marketfundamentalism  decriminalization  underclass  class  race  incarceration  institutions  cynicism  reform  change  individualism  people  human  humancondition  humans  democracy  control  corruption  mexico  us  ideology  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Our full interview with William Gibson | Reading | Independent Weekly [via: via: http://twitter.com/ballardian/status/60530562850492416 ]
"MySpace & Facebook just looked overstructured & Disneylanded…<br />
When a friend of mine joined Twitter, I thought, "Oh, this sounds dreadful,"…join[ed] it for a laugh, so I could make fun of it later. To my great surprise, I found it nicely understructured. & very fast…<br />
I also find it effortless—that may be because the way I use it is largely content-free, but it's actually been a very nice experience. I would miss it if it disappeared; I would miss the company of people I've gotten used to having around in a virtual way.<br />
What I'd miss most about Twitter is its astonishing power as an aggregator of novelty. It does in a few hours what one hundred professionally produced magazines could scarcely do in a month, skimming the world's weirdest, most wonderful things & depositing it on your desktop to be snacked on.<br />
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Having boasted for years at watching less television than any NA male my age, I may unfortunately have found my television."
twitter  williamgibson  interviews  2010  zerohistory  sciencefiction  scifi  facebook  myspace  aggregator  television  tv  unstructured  novelty  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR
"Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control & mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That's the moment you realize you're separated from so much. That's your moment of understanding that you'll miss most of the music, dancing, books & films that there have ever been & ever will be, & right now, there's something being performed somewhere in the world that you're not seeing that you would love.

It's sad, but it's also ... great, really. Imagine if you'd seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings & books and movies you're "supposed to see."…That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze…can [be] gobble[d up]…in one lifetime…

If "well-read" means "not missing anything," then nobody has a chance. If "well-read" means "making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully," then yes, we can all be well-read…"
culture  books  history  future  npr  music  films  cantkeepup  needfrequentremindersofthis  content  flow  control  culling  curation  curating  lindaholmes  rogerebert  humans  life  lifetime  reading  listening  watching  hearing  literature  science  fiction  nonfiction  beingwell-read  takethatedhirsch  culturalliteracy  beauty  insignificance  love  happiness  wisdom  thesumofhumanproduction  numbers  tv  television  art  cv  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com
"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."
debroy  language  science  ted  languageacquisition  learning  infants  children  childhood  environment  visualization  video  mit  neuroscience  social  spacetimeworms  naturenurture  speech  words  memorymachines  memory  lifelogging  tracking  audio  recording  classideas  patternrecognition  patterns  vocabulary  media  television  tv  socialmedia  eventstucture  conversation  semanticanalysis  wordscapes  communication  communicationdynamics  engagement  data  socialgraph  contentgraph  coviewing  behavior  socialstructures  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Television Tropes & Idioms [TVtropes]
What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction.<br />
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Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.<br />
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The wiki is called "TV Tropes" because TV is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media. Tropes transcend television. They reflect life. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere…<br />
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Click on "Troperville" in the menu on the upper left of any page to find the places where the troper community gather to talk about things."
writing  tv  culture  wiki  reference  tvstropes  via:frankchimero  television  intertextuality  clichés  tropes  media  film  fiction  literature  idioms  classideas  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
How Modern Life Is Like a Zombie Onslaught - NYTimes.com
"Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It’s always a numbers game. And it’s more repetitive than complex. In other words, zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting 400 work e-mails on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork, or following Twitter gossip out of obligation, or performing tedious tasks in which the only true risk is being consumed by the avalanche. The principal downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principal downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do.<br />
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The Internet reminds of us this every day."
infooverload  flow  internet  web  online  modernlife  cv  tv  television  twitter  email  paperwork  feeds  2010  chuckklosterman  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Kevin Slavin on Lift 11: Geneva - live streaming video powered by Livestream
Quotes transcribed by David Smith: "things we write but can no longer read"; "three problems … opacity, inscrutability … The third one is darker and a little bit harder to describe — I don't even know what to call it yet"; flash crash; dark pools; 60% of all movies rented on Netflix are rented because Netflix recommended them; 70% of current Wall St trades are algorithms trying to be invisible or other algorithms trying to find the invisible algorithms"
kevinslavin  technology  algorithms  evolution  wallstreet  cities  darkpools  netflix  trading  finance  invisibilealgorithms  financialservices  realestate  nyc  manhattan  songs  film  television  tv  opacity  inscrutability  elevators  lift11  roomba  robots  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Paris Review – My Rayannes, Emma Straub
"All teenage girls are at least half-lesbian, always admiring their friends’ still-shifting bodies, their superior wardrobes, their make-up application expertise, their better luck with the opposite sex. Teenage girls curl up together like newborn puppies, painting one another’s toes as if they were licking one another’s ears. If you sit long enough in any Starbucks, or loiter outside any high school, you will see girls climbing onto one another’s laps, kissing on the lips. They aren’t hitting on each other, not precisely, though they are in a constant state of arousal that borders on the insane. No other love is like the love of a teenage girl, all passion and fire and endless devotion—at least for a week."
television  angelachase  mysocalledlife  girls  adolescence  tv  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Closing Keynote: Vernacular Video on Vimeo
brucesterling  media  mediaenvironment  vimeo  video  vernacularvideo  future  futurism  andreaallen  online  vimeofestival  saffo'slaw  paulsaffo  futureofvideo  marytylermoore  dickvandykeshow  onlinevideo  expressivematurity  tv  television  history  audience  internet  webvideo  berg  berglondon  levmanovich  caseyreas  reas  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
IFC's "Portlandia": Regional Comedy at Its Best - Newsweek
"The Pacific Northwest: the most tragically idealistic place on earth, where everything must have a greater good, even if it makes your life hell. It’s with a bit of that mentality—and a lot of love—that Fred Armisen (of SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (of now-defunct Portland rock band Sleater-Kinney) introduce America to the absurdity of Portland, Ore.: one of the most educated, environmentally-friendly and, of course, whitest cities around, where flannel will always be in fashion, and guerrilla knitting is the sport of choice. With impeccable accuracy, their new comedy series, Portlandia—which premieres on IFC this week —makes humor out of all the quirks that make Portland, well, Portland: a ragingly-feminist independent bookstore, an organic farm where “free love” is harvested, a fair-trade restaurant where each animal on the menu has a name and bio. “I like to describe Portland as a city with a lot of self-esteem, filled with people with a lot of self-doubt,” says Brownstein…"
portland  humor  tv  television  cascadia  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Los 80
"Los 80 es una serie de televisión chilena, producida por Canal 13 con motivo del proyecto para la celebración del Bicentenario del país.<br />
La serie, protagonizada por Daniel Muñoz y Tamara Acosta, narra la historia de la familia Herrera, una familia de clase media que vive en Santiago de Chile. La trama se sitúa entre los años 1982 y 1984, en pleno régimen militar, y gira en torno a los diversos eventos históricos de los años 80, principalmente la gran crisis económica de ese año.<br />
Dentro de sus principales méritos está la representación de la época, apelando a la nostalgia de los televidentes. La participación de la selección chilena en la copa mundial de fútbol de 1982 es recordada, al igual que las grandes inundaciones que provocaron el desborde del río Mapocho. Lugares, objetos, alimentos, vestimentas, diálogos y hasta automóviles han sido recreados para ambientar la historia, mezclada con videos históricos…"
chile  tv  television  2010  2009  2008  2011  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Crisis Of The Public Intellectual - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
"Much of what we're discussing is how academia has, to some extent by its own actions, been cleaved away from public life. I hesitate to speak on television about the Civil War, because there are people who've made this the work of their life--actual experts--who should be speaking. But I also recoil at the notion of a host looking at me and saying, "John Brown--good guy or bad, guy? Go." I imagine those experts feel the same way.<br />
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As in all things, I don't write this to offer a definitive answer. My sense is that the reluctance among people like me--and people smarter than me--to engage, is as problematic as the form itself."
academia  ta-nehisicoates  intellectualism  intellectualpursuit  elitism  snobbery  ivorytower  public  media  conversation  2010  television  tv  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
I Want My Twitter TV! | Fast Company
""Turns out, not everyone wants to use Twitter on television the same way," Sladden says. "Revenge of the liberal-arts majors" might be the best way to describe the method that the media team uses to help partners figure out how best to use Twitter. "Robin will lead a design-oriented brainstorm session to try to tease out in their own words what that relationship will be and what that creative potential is," Sladden says. "It's anthropology, learning their tribal language. It's better when it's native to you, but you can crack the code if you listen, ask good questions, and care enough to understand.""
cloesladden  robinsloan  rosshoffman  twitter  media  tv  television  2010  fastcompany  socialmedia  entertainment  convergence  newliberalarts  liberalarts  anthropology  listening  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
"TV Channels, Self-Control and Happiness" by Christine Benesch, Bruno S. Frey et al.
"Standard economic theory suggests that more choice is usually better. We address this claim and investigate whether people can cope with the increasing number of television programs and watch the amount of TV they find optimal for themselves or whether they are prone to over-consumption. We find that heavy TV viewers do not benefit but instead report lower life satisfaction with access to more TV channels. This finding suggests that an identifiable group of individuals experiences a self-control problem when it comes to TV viewing." [Is this because we are innately less happy with choice or because we have become conditioned to have little choice in some areas and then when faced with choice we become unhappy?]
choice  happiness  self-control  satisfaction  tv  television  economics  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Edward Copeland on Film: When a Cartoon Aimed to Be Art
"In honor of the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney’s Fantasia, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz watched and discussed the film with his daughter, Hannah, age 13. The format was somewhat less than ideal — an old VHS cassette that hadn’t been touched in more than a decade — but it was enough to jog dad’s memory. However, the authors did not expect that peculiarities of the format would complicate the project; more on that in a moment."
film  waltdisney  fantasia  conversation  art  edwardcopeland  mattzollerseitzhistory  tv  television  disney  culture  miyazaki  parenting  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Economics of Seinfeld
"Seinfeld ran for nine seasons on NBC and became famous as a “show about nothing.” Basically, the show allows viewers to follow the antics of Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer as they move through their daily lives, often encountering interesting people or dealing with special circumstances. It is the simplicity of Seinfeld that makes it so appropriate for use in economics courses. Using these clips (as well as clips from other television shows or movies) makes economic concepts come alive, making them more real for students. Ultimately, students will start seeing economics everywhere – in other TV shows, in popular music, and most importantly, in their own lives."
economics  humor  seinfeld  business  education  teaching  reference  lessons  television  tv  classideas  via:lukeneff  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Four things about Mr. Snuffleupagus
"1. full name is Aloysius Snuffleupagus; 2. For > 14 years, Big Bird was only character on Sesame Street who could see Snuffy…he was BB's imaginary friend; 3. Some of the grownups on show came to believe Big Bird about existence of Snuffleupagus & he was revealed to them in Nov 1985 [video]; 4. Snuffy's reveal came about because of some high-profile sexual abuse cases: "In an interview on a Canadian telethon hosted by Bob McGrath, Snuffy's performer, Martin P. Robinson, revealed Snuffy was finally introduced to the main human cast mainly due to a string of high profile & sometimes graphic stories of pedophilia & sexual abuse of children that had been aired on shows such as 60 Minutes & 20/20. The writers felt that by having the adults refuse to believe Big Bird despite the fact that he was telling the truth, they were scaring children into thinking that their parents would not believe them if they had been sexually abused & they would just be better off remaining silent.""
snuffleupagus  sesamestreet  pedophilia  sexualabuse  children  television  tv  imaginaryfriends  trust  belief  kottke  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Downtime | The New Republic [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/1198551446/half-a-dozen-or-so-seven-year-old-boys-crammed]
"…half a dozen or so seven-year-old boys crammed into my apartment, and discovered, to my dismay, not that they couldn’t all get along—that was to be expected—but that they had no stomach for their own fighting. Every time an argument would break out about the choice of game or the distribution of lightsabers, a boy would run up to me. At first I thought I was being asked to adjudicate, but before I could figure out how to get out of doing so, I discovered that wasn’t what the boys wanted. They wanted me to turn on the television. If I turned on the television, they wouldn’t have to play anymore, and then they wouldn’t fight. I imagined legions of exhausted babysitters and mothers settling disputes in this way, and my son and his friends drawing the obvious conclusion: that group play is dangerous because conflict is intolerable, and that electronic entertainment is a good way to avoid both."
conflict  play  television  tv  children  parenting  groups  groupplay  disputes  avoidance  conflictaversion  compromise  tcsnmy  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
The Evolution of Classroom Technology - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
"A graphic history of classroom technology, from the writing slate to the electronic tablet."
history  classroom  evolution  timeline  interactive  visual  technology  ict  edtech  teaching  learning  education  ipad  olpc  xo  interactivewhiteboard  pencils  calculators  cd-rom  scantrons  iclickers  filmstrips  liquidpaper  tv  television  mimeograph  overheadprojectors  projectors  radio  radios  stereoscopes  chalkboards  slates  ferule  horn-books  magiclanterns  languagelabs  readingaccellerators  reading  writing  smartboards  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
alien california - a gallery on Flickr
"i have some vague ideas about how a lot of science fiction tv shows are based in southern california, so location shooting for "alien" planets often features california landscapes.<br />
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maybe eventually i'll elaborate on this."
classideas  california  brittagustafson  photography  fiction  space  sciencefiction  scifi  galleries  landscape  socal  tv  television  tcsnmy  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed
"The entire 80s cyberpunk Max Headroom TV series is available today on DVD, and one of the pleasures of rewatching the series is discovering how many things it got right about the future."
1980s  cyberpunk  future  futurism  io9  maxheadroom  television  tv  predictions  technology  journalism  sciencefiction  media  scifi  punk  1988  1987  annaleenewitz  ratings  instant-ratings  4chan  piratevideo  mediahacking  security  2010  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Stowe Boyd - Creativity Increased By Multitasking
"I love stories that debunk conventional wisdom, especially cobwebby corporate wish fulfillment. In this case, a wholesale frontal assault on creativity training: Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman, Forget Brainstorming ...[long quote]... Bronson & Merryman do go on to make some concrete recommendations & observations:
stoweboyd  multitasking  creativity  howwework  process  tv  television  suggestions  suggestionboxes  markrunco 
july 2010 by robertogreco
The Sopranos, “Bust Out” | TV | A Very Special Episode | The A.V. Club [via: http://twitter.com/tcarmody/status/18604653636]
Just one of the many great bits: "The Sopranos was a significant achievement in television history on a number of fronts: It helped establish HBO as a cultural force; it made the literary qualities of symbolism and thematic development more acceptable in television dramas; and perhaps most influentially, The Sopranos showed that Americans would cheer an anti-hero more readily on TV than they would in the movies, where “unsympathetic” protagonists are usually the box-office kiss of death. Why? Because on television, writers have the luxury of time. Episode by episode and hour by hour, we get to know TV characters more intimately, so that we come to understand and even embrace their contradictions. One of the main reasons The Sopranos became such a phenomenon was that no matter how awful Tony Soprano could be—and how ferocious James Gandolfini’s performance—viewers genuinely enjoyed spending time in his company."
journey  jamesgandolfini  thesopranos  tv  television  writing 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Lara Logan, You Suck -- RollingStone.com
"If I'm hearing Logan correctly, what Hastings is supposed to have done in that situation is interrupt these drunken assholes & say, "Excuse me, fellas, I know we're all having fun & all, but you're saying things that may not be in your best interest! As a reporter, it is my duty to inform you that you may end up looking like insubordinate douche bags in front of two million Rolling Stone readers if you don't shut your mouths this very instant!"...
afghanistan  matttaibbi  media  journalism  politics  propaganda  television  rollingstone  military  ethics  iraq  us  2010  laralogan 
july 2010 by robertogreco
US-Slovenia draws most ESPN households for soccer - World Soccer - Yahoo! Sports
"The U.S.-Slovenia game drew a high rating of 8.5 in San Diego, where it began at 7 a.m. San Diego had the largest rating at 11.5 for the U.S.’s 1-1 draw against England on June 12 on ABC. Washington, D.C., was second for the U.S.-Slovenia match at 6.4, followed by Miami (6.2), West Palm Beach (5.9) and San Francisco (5.7). The match also set a record for unique viewers for any event on ESPN3.com at 798,911 for live and on-demand."
sports  tv  television  soccer  football  us  sandiego  markets 
june 2010 by robertogreco
MAGIC MOLLY - Unrealistic shit
"Aspiring artists talk the way tenth graders compose Facebook profiles. “I’m really into lilies right now. And hermaphrodites.”
art  bravo  tv  television  realitytv 
june 2010 by robertogreco
The Pleasures of Imagination - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"So while reality has its special allure, the imaginative techniques of books, plays, movies, and television have their own power. The good thing is that we do not have to choose. We can get the best of both worlds by taking an event that people know is real and using the techniques of the imagination to transform it into an experience that is more interesting and powerful than the normal perception of reality could ever be. The best example of this is an art form that has been invented in my lifetime, one that is addictively powerful, as shown by the success of shows such as The Real World, Survivor, The Amazing Race, and Fear Factor. What could be better than reality television?"
psychology  culture  imagination  creativity  games  fun  fiction  fantasy  consciousness  brain  art  entertainment  emotion  play  empathy  escape  videogames  narrative  via:lukeneff  film  tv  television  reality  realitytv  storytelling  leisure  english  mind  writing  pleasure  behavior  science  paulbloom  humans 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Change the Conversation on Teaching - Bridging Differences - Education Week
"Reading NYT Mag pieces on medicine is always intriguing. Education & medicine are often compared—in ways that remind me how little our frame for considering teaching is realistic. The other night I heard several very good "educators" on C-SPAN answering questions from the Labor & Education Committee of Senate. Both the AFT's Randi Weingarten & Michigan State's Deborah Ball were sharp, clear, & convincing. But...
deborahmeier  teaching  complexity  howwework  multitasking  time  doctors  lawyers  professions  tcsnmy  classsize  reflection  looping  cv  education  schools  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  policy  administration  management  media  tv  television  politics  2010 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Lost and Heroes: In Defense of Arrogance - Tuned In - TIME.com
"its original sin was in trying to objection-proof itself, & thereby setting a ceiling on how great it could ever be. Heroes was its own thing, but by starting from position of satisfying fans better & quicker than its serial competition, it started from a position of timidity.
storytelling  risk  possibility  tcsnmy  tv  heroes  lost  quality  timidity  risktaking  success  failure  television 
may 2010 by robertogreco
090820_wallace_asp.mov (video/quicktime Object)
Interview with David Foster Wallace from 2003

[via: http://twitter.com/ddmeyer/status/12414500316 ]

[See also: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/823228/ ]
writing  humor  suicide  davidfosterwallace  us  irony  interviews  infinitejest  depression  religion  worship  hopelessness  life  ideology  america  television  tv  humility  sincerity  happiness  self-advancement  worry  selflessness  complexity  paradox  cv  stereotypes  generalizations  2003  politics  genx  generationx  resentment  pop-psychology  reading  boredom  society  filetype:mov  media:video 
april 2010 by robertogreco
David Mamet's Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit | Movieline
"THE JOB OF THE DRAMATIST IS TO MAKE THE AUDIENCE WONDER WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. NOT TO EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT JUST HAPPENED, OR TO*SUGGEST* TO THEM WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
advice  writing  tv  television  screenwriting  storytelling  filmmaking  film  fiction  drama  creativity  davidmamet  howto  teaching  information  leading  leadership  tcsnmy 
march 2010 by robertogreco
YouTube - Treme Trailer #2
"Trailer for HBO's "Treme", a post-Hurricane Katrina-themed drama that chronicles the rebuilding of New Orleans through the eyes of local musicians."
hbo  tv  davidsimon  treme  television 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Daring Fireball Linked List: Hulu May Come to iPad as Paid Subscription Service
"This sort of nonsense gets to the bottom of what’s wrong with these entertainment executives’ outlook on the world. They want to define everything by arbitrary device types — this is a “TV”, that is a “computer”, this other thing is a “mobile device” — and then sell/distribute the same content to different device types separately and with no spillage. But it’s all bullshit in the digital world. It’s all just ones and zeroes and pixels. To these TV executives it makes sense to block Boxee from supporting Hulu because Boxee is for “TVs” and Hulu is only intended for “computers”. Now they’re stuck trying to figure out which arbitrary slot the iPad fits into."
hulu  boxee  ipad  computers  daringfireball  johngruber  tv  television  content  entertainment  2010  mobiledevices 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Subtraction.com: Pulling Over and Asking for Directions
"“Lost” brings to mind at least a few television series that also followed ambitious narrative arcs, like “The X-Files,” “Heroes,” “Battlestar Galactica” and even “The Sopranos.” One thing I learned from these kinds of shows, to my disappointment, is that they never really deliver on what they repeatedly promise."
tv  television  lost  2010  khoivinh  criticism 
february 2010 by robertogreco
hello typepad: Real Fans Watch
"Sippey put to rest forever the debate about spoilers sometime in 2008 with the simple declaration "Real fans watch."
davidjacobs  realtime  twitter  criticism  tv  television  spoilers  blogging 
february 2010 by robertogreco
collision detection: TV watching and education "almost perfectly inversely correlated", says Hunch
"How much TV do you watch? What’s the highest level of educational level you’ve attained?
tv  hunch  education  television  data  statistics  correlation 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Videos: Mental Poverty, Collaboration, “Recession Skills 101″ at Beyond School
"Seth Godin on Curiosity:
religion  curiosity  clayburell  sethgodin  learning  television  tv  schooling  unschooling  deschooling  fear 
december 2009 by robertogreco
David Galbraith’s Blog » Blog Archive » The top 10 things that defined ‘the noughties’, by category.
"The next decade is going to suck, but it might produce some great art.
davidgalbraith  lists  culture  2000s  art  society  architecture  design  tv  television  film  music  food  cupcakes  celebrity  books  reading  stevejobs  flickr  vimeo  internet  web  thewire  errolmorris  thefogofwar  damienhirst  globalwarming  collapse  finance  sustainability  growth  via:blackbeltjones 
december 2009 by robertogreco
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF - David Simon interview with Vice Magazine
"A lot of the people who came to write for The Wire were not from a traditional TV-writing background.
davidsimon  thewire  outsiders  writing  television  crossdisciplinary  crosspollination  transdisciplinary  journalism  via:russelldavies 
december 2009 by robertogreco
PBS | Ombudsman | Lehrer's Rules
"# Do nothing I cannot defend.
jimlehrer  journalism  advice  newspapers  television  news  writing  howto  media  criticism  ethics  code  pbs  rules  anonymity 
december 2009 by robertogreco
The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
"We began this analysis of corporate life by exploring a theoretical construct (the Gervais Principle) through the character arcs of Michael and Ryan in The Office. The construct and examples provide a broad-strokes treatment of the why of the power dynamics among sociopaths, the clueless and losers. This helps us understand how the world works, but not how to work it. So let me introduce you to the main skill required here, mastery over the four major languages spoken in organizations, among sociopaths, losers and the clueless. I’ll call the four languages Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk. Here’s a picture of who speaks what to whom. Let’s use it to figure out how to make friends and influence people, Office style."
theoffice  politics  culture  economics  psychology  capitalism  humor  management  satire  work  business  sociology  people  dilbert  television  tv  life  society  language  communication  power  cv  leadership  administration 
november 2009 by robertogreco
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
"Hugh MacLeod’s cartoon is a pitch-perfect symbol of an unorthodox school of management based on the axiom that organizations don’t suffer pathologies; they are intrinsically pathological constructs. Idealized organizations are not perfect. They are perfectly pathological. So while most most management literature is about striving relentlessly towards an ideal by executing organization theories completely, this school, which I’ll call the Whyte school, would recommend that you do the bare minimum organizing to prevent chaos, and then stop. Let a natural, if declawed, individualist Darwinism operate beyond that point. The result is the MacLeod hierarchy. It may be horrible, but like democracy, it is the best you can do. The “sociopath” layer comprises the Darwinian/Protestant Ethic will-to-power types who drive an organization to function despite itself..."
theoffice  politics  culture  economics  psychology  capitalism  humor  management  satire  work  business  sociology  people  dilbert  television  tv  life  power  society  cv  leadership  administration 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Love in the time of Twitter « Snarkmarket
"there’s a rea­son why he called it the “Happy Days” era: the past he’s describ­ing isn’t really the past, but a 70s-era TV ver­sion of the past. Not even the past’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion of itself! For that, you’d have to see On the Water­front...It’s mem­ory as ide­ol­ogy, cre­ated...to sur­rep­ti­tiously win argu­ments about the present, espe­cially about social morés & gen­er­a­tional change. & the Happy Days era — the real one...reflected in the TV show like a fun­house mir­ror — was dri­ven by tech­no­log­i­cal & social change, too!"
change  generations  davidbrooks  tv  television  memory  revolution  technology  society  timcarmody  snarkmarket  teens  youth  facebooks  twitter  socialnetworking 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Game Based Learning .:: Video Games, Social Media & Learning ::. - Public Pedagogy through Video Games:
"So our argument so far: today’s complex popular culture involves a characteristic form of teaching and constitutes a public pedagogy. That form of teaching involves good design (which makes meaning situated and language lucidly functional), resources, and affinity spaces. In fact, we see much popular culture today as a form of competition for schools and schooling. Much popular culture teaches 21st-century skills, like collaboration, producing and not just consuming knowledge, technology skills, innovation, design and system thinking, and so forth, while school often does not. And, further, we see no reason (other than institutional forces) why teaching in school ought not to be primarily about good design, resourcing learners, and creating efficacious affinity spaces."
education  learning  informallearning  jamespaulgee  simulations  videogames  games  gaming  schools  schooling  formal  stevenjohnson  television  tv  criticalthinking  yu-gi-oh  ageofmythology  thesims  unschooling  deschooling  collaboration  tcsnmy  edg  srg  glvo  consumption  production  content  technology  21stcenturyskills  popculture  innovation  design  systemsthinking  complexity  pedagogy 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Katie and Diane: The Wrong Questions : CJR
"While doing some recent research on the news business, I came upon this remarkable fact: Katie Couric’s annual salary is more than the entire annual budgets of NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered combined. Couric’s salary comes to an estimated $15 million a year; NPR spends $6 million a year on its morning show and $5 million on its afternoon one. NPR has seventeen foreign bureaus (which costs it another $9.4 million a year); CBS has twelve. Few figures, I think, better capture the absurd financial structure of the network news."
business  media  news  npr  reporting  cbs  journalism  television  tv  radio 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Apple Storms Hollywood «The TNL.net weblog
"The components all seem to be there and it seems to me that it won’t be long before Apple starts pushing the idea that we are all content producers (an old idea at Apple, which was at the source of their creating the iLife suite) and we can all make some money at producing that content. Having done so, Apple would not only have control of the music industry but could also assert itself in the TV and movie space."
contentcreation  itunes  apple  video  music  business  tv  television  future  iphone  applications 
september 2009 by robertogreco
The Smart Set: Town Crier - July 22, 2009
"Pop culture seems to have 2 general depictions of small towns...naive, sleepy, hamlet where nothing ever happens, populated w/ lovable eccentrics & warm-hearted folk...setup sees the return of the prodigal son or arrival of an outsider, almost always from the "big city," of which townies speak w/ disdain...protagonist will eventually fall in love w/ more wholesome type of woman & realize what he's needed all along is simpler kind of life...shows like Northern Exposure & Ed...other stereotype involves placid calm that masks swirling tempest of murder (Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt), violence, racism (Pudd'nhead Wilson), small mindedness & cowfucking (that would be Faulkner)...most accurate depiction of life in small town...Friday Night Lights...constantly in danger of being canceled...Americans love myth of small town, while reality is a little harder to come by. Small town culture is actually in decline, which maybe explains the renewed nostalgia. We are an increasingly urban species"
society  us  urbanism  sociology  smalltowns  simplicity  literature  myth  stereotypes  tv  television  fridaynightlights  northernexposure  change  nostalgia 
july 2009 by robertogreco
The decline of cooking and the rise of watching people cook
"One of the things that food/cooking shows do -- particularly the dump-and-stir programs like Rachael Ray -- is to give the viewer the impression that by watching, they have cooked a meal. (Mirror neurons, anyone?) Perhaps that's a small factor contributing to cooking's decline in the American home."
cooking  us  culture  society  tv  television  mirrornuerons  psychology  food  time 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Saffo: journal - Save that old TV - there's a message in the 'snow" [see audio version here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105339922]
"A TV antenna is a sponge for radio energy, collecting lots more than just the desired signal. Snow is the result of the TV attempting to turn stray signals into an image, signals from radio stations, emissions from power lines, transformers or appliances, or even from the electrical noise of the circuits in the TV itself...result is the strangely-calming ant-dance of black on white that we call snow. But snow has another source, a source far from this planet in both time & space. Mixed in with the noise of Earthling civilization are radio echoes of the Big Bang, the moment of the Universe's creation 13 Billion years ago...universe started out very small & very hot & has been expanding and cooling ever since. As it cools, the Big Bang's fossil radiation sheds radio energy in the same way a cake on a cooling rack gives up heat. & when those indescribably ancient radio waves run down the rabbit ears and into your analog TV, the TV's circuitry interprets it as an image & voila! - Snow."
paulsaffo  analog  tv  television  noise  whitenoise  snow  obsolescence 
june 2009 by robertogreco
As TV Changes To Digital, White Noise Fades Away : NPR [transcript is here: http://www.saffo.com/journal/entry.php?id=1052]
"A familiar sight and sound is disappearing as digital TV takes over from analog: television snow and the "white noise" that accompanies it."
analog  tv  television  noise  whitenoise  snow  obsolescence 
june 2009 by robertogreco
:: SURREAL, Películas de la Realidad ::
"En sus siete años de vida, Surreal ha tenido como objetivo fundamental la creación de un espacio de talentos asociados en cada uno de sus proyectos.
chile  tv  television  documentary  reality  cristiánleighton 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Hulu - Labs: Hulu Desktop
"Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that's optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu's entire library with just six buttons. For users without remotes, the application is keyboard and mouse-enabled. Hulu Desktop is a downloadable application and will work on PCs and Macs. It will initially launch as a beta product during which we plan to gather and incorporate user feedback to improve the service."
hulu  software  mac  osx  windows  streaming  entertainment  applications  freeware  desktop  video  television  tv  frontrow 
may 2009 by robertogreco
Vintage DHARMA ads. - a set on Flickr
"Retro DHARMA ads found in various old mags from the 70s and 80s."
lost  flickr  dharma  humor  advertising  television 
april 2009 by robertogreco
Why TV Lost
"[1] the Internet is an open platform... [2] Moore's Law, which has worked its usual magic on Internet bandwidth... [3] piracy. Users prefer it not just because it's free, but because it's more convenient." ... "After decades of running an IV drip right into their audience, people in the entertainment business had understandably come to think of them as rather passive. They thought they'd be able to dictate the way shows reached audiences. But they underestimated the force of their desire to connect with one another."
internet  web  online  paulgraham  broadcast  tv  television  technology  convergence  bittorrent  distribution  piracy  kindle  facebook  media  information  future 
march 2009 by robertogreco
This rarely kills That outright « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
"The important thing is this: the grandeur always lives at the top of the stack. Right now, it’s vested in “social media,” just as it was in blogging ten (!) years ago, in television forty years ago and in newspapers sixty years before that. What each new media technology does do is knock away one or more of the social and economic props on which the success (and ultimately, the viability) of other channels in its layer depend. With the introduction and mass adoption of anything new, those channels move further down the stack. They become less central to the production of consensus culture, more a niche proposition, almost certainly less glamorous. But if a given way of doing things offers something that no other mediating technology can - whether for reasons of exceedingly low cost, low barriers to entry, or robust simplicity - it will never disappear entirely."
adamgreenfield  print  newspapers  victorhugo  technology  media  writing  death  evolution  change  television  tv  radio  socialmedia  future  knowledge  transformation 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Handheld Learning 2008 - Steven Johnson, Author
Steven Johnson talks about Everything Bad Is Good for You adding references to technologies, games, and media that have appeared since publication of the book.
via:preoccupations  videogames  stevenjohnson  gaming  learning  culture  society  tv  television  systems  patterns  simulations  simcity  games  2008  lost  thewire  entertainment  tcsnmy  spore  attention  patience  schools  schooling  brianeno 
january 2009 by robertogreco
makezine.com: MAKE Television
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make  tv  television  video  hacking  diy  electronics 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Television and Brain Health - Prevention.com
"Reach for the remote and hone your concentration skills: Lowering the TV volume a little more each day can teach you to filter out background noise and improve focus, says University of California, San Francisco neuroscientist Michael Merzenich, PhD. Your training at home could even pay off at work by helping you block out the loudmouth in the next cubicle or fully concentrate on a meeting while ignoring noisy distractions outside."
focus  concentration  brain  noise  productivity  neuroscience  tv  television 
january 2009 by robertogreco
boxee: the open, connected, social media center for mac os x and linux
"on a laptop or connected to an HDTV, boxee gives you a true entertainment experience to enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Hulu, Netflix, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and flickr." via: http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/12/boxee-saves-the.html
mac  windows  linux  osx  opensource  appletv  video  tv  television  streaming  multimedia  freeware  onlinetoolkit  software  entertainment  media 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Avatar Episodes | Veoh Video Network
"With the Fire Nation on the brink of global domination, a young girl and her brother living on the South Pole make an amazing discovery: Enclosed within an iceberg for 100 years, a 12-year old Airbender has miraculously survived. Hungry for and adventure, the boy reveals himself as the Avatar."
glvo  srg  edg  avatar  comics  manga  animation  tv  television  anime 
december 2008 by robertogreco
The prolific John Munch
"According to IMDB and Wikipedia (here too), Richard Belzer has appeared as Detective John Munch on ten different television shows, more than any other character on television." ... "The Munch character was inspired by real-life Baltimore homicide detective Jay Landsman...who both inspired another character on The Wire (named Jay Landsman) and appears in The Wire as a police lieutenant. All three -- Munch, the fake Landsman, and the real Landsman -- appeared in a fifth season episode called Took. Oh, and Munch, like many other television characters, is a figment of an autistic kid's fertile imagination."
tv  television  fiction  thewire  homicide  kottke 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Tommy Westphall - A Multiverse Explored
tv  television  fiction  multiverse  crossover  homicide  maps  entertainment 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Roo Reynolds - Social Telly - a roundup of social viewing stuff
"I’ve been building this list for ages, but it’s finally time for a roundup of social viewing tools. Here are some examples of how the web is being used to make different sorts of conversations possible around television"
tv  television  social  newmedia  socialmedia  society  via:russelldavies  rooreynolds 
november 2008 by robertogreco
What Happy People Don’t Do - NYTimes.com
"We looked at 8 to 10 activities that happy people engage in, and for each one, the people who did the activities more — visiting others, going to church, all those things — were more happy,” Dr. [John] Robinson said. “TV was the one activity that showed a negative relationship. Unhappy people did it more, and happy people did it less.”
happiness  social  television  tv  church  religion  relationships  families  community  psychology  science  anthropology  research  behavior 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Six free Apple iPhone downloads you don't want to miss | iPhone Central | Macworld
"This week, my recommendations include both a mobile news and sports aggregator, an on-device TV guide, a satellite mapping program, a voice over IP (VoIP) calling app and an Internet radio service. My personal favorite: the sports app, SportsTap."
iphone  applications  sports  radio  pandora  fring  googleearth  tv  television  csiap 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Megamovies, TV shows as days-long movies
"Megamovies take television seriously as a medium...have dramatic arcs that last longer than single episodes or seasons...often explore themes & ideas relevant to contemporary society - there's more going on than just the plot - w/out resorting to very special episodes. Repeat viewing & close scrutiny is rewarded with deeper understanding of material & its themes...shot cinematically & utilize good actors. Plot details sprawl out over multiple episodes, with viewers sometimes having to wait weeks to fit what might have seemed a throwaway line into larger narrative puzzle. Episodes of these megamovies...are best watched in bunches, so that the parts more easily make the whole in the viewer's mind. For many, bingeing on entire seasons on DVD or downloaded via iTunes has become the preferred way to watch these shows. If stamina and non-televisual responsibilities weren't an issue, it would be preferable to watch these shows in one sitting, as one does with a movie."
tv  television  film  kottke  megamovies  thewire  lost  thesopranos  sixfeetunder  madmen  deadwood  thewestwing  writing 
october 2008 by robertogreco
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