Archives for the 'Eventness' Category
The Perils of the Pause Button
Note: This is the second of two related posts. #1 was about the brilliant new Alfonso Cuarón film, “Children of Men,” and this one is about the eventness of seeing stories — films, plays, TV shows — with other people.
In an earlier post on this blog, I talked about how the infinite plenitude of On [...]
Go See “Children of Men” in the Theater
Note: This is the first of two related posts. #1 is about a brilliant film, and #2 is about the eventness of seeing film with other people.
Last night, my dad and I went to see a late screening of “Children of Men,” the new Alfonso Cuarón film that has been compared to “Blade Runner.”
We walked [...]
Borat, Eventness & the Nature of Community
As a media professional, it’s difficult for me to stay ignorant about movies, TV shows and the like, try though I might to have an undiluted audience experience. Most of the time, information simply leaks in, and by the time I do get around to seeing something — particularly on the big screen — [...]
Why does “on demand” feel so… demanding?
Having the best of the media world at my fingertips via cable VOD, TiVo, DVD, the internet and the metric ton of videotapes still lying around my garage can be a drag.
A couple nights back I cleared out the episodes of “House” piling up in my TiVo because they had ceased to be a special [...]
WSJ on Verizon’s Ultrawide bandwidth FiOS rollout
In a post from Sunday night I suggested learning everything you can about Verizon’s FiOS and AT&T’s Project Lightspeed. These are the two game-changing, bigger piped, ultrawideband internet connections (up to 50 megabits in Verizon’s case, although that gets pricey).
The Wall Street Journal just made getting information about FiOS a lot easier. A subscription is [...]
