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I recently took part in a panel discussion covering the technology of podcasting, hosted by the Rochester Audio Visual Association. John Vincent and I were representing The Mad Dog Movies Podcast, and I also pulled from my experience managing The Animation Workshop Podcast. Paul Tracy, president of RAVA, recorded the event and has posted it […]
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Today I hold in my hands a book by Albert Halstead. It’s a monograph Al wrote as a critical analysis of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and I did the cover artwork and design. “Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey – How Patterns, Archetypes and Style Inform a Narrative,” treats the film as a work of […]
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There’s a couple ways of thinking about Twitter. One is that it’s a waste of time, a bunch of people writing about what they ate for breakfast. Yes, there’s some of that. But you can also use the service to monitor news and network for jobs. I use Twitter as a sort of link blog. […]
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Up until now, iTunes has made it difficult for independent filmmakers to sell their work through their service. They want to deal with big studios or distributors, not a million little guys who require a million little checks once a month. The alternative has been to give away iPod friendly files in podcast feeds, but […]
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I’d like to know more about selling shorts on iTunes, but I’ll need to do some research. (To give something away in iTunes, you simply put it in a podcast feed.) Basically, I know how to give away content, but not how to sell it. That’s one of the topics discussed in a recent Mad […]
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This Frequently Asked Questions list was originally posted on the Creature Corner/ CHUD message boards. It aims to answer questions about the latest wave of horror movies from Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea. Note: The Creature-Corner links are now directed to back-up pages at Archive.org. Some of the pictures may be missing, but the text […]
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It’s time for an update on what I’ve been listening to. I started using Mypodder when I got bored with Itunes, but then I overloaded Mypodder. Now I’ve divided my feeds between the two aggregators, with Mypodder for my favorites and Itunes for video downloads and audio ones that update infrequently. Aside from using Mypodder […]
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Here’s a collection of film related links for the Rochester, NY area. I’ll be updating this periodically.
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Over at the NY Times website, there’s an incredible demonstration of box office trends. It’s an interactive flash graph of every(?) movie from 1986 through 2007. Rollover the peaks and valleys to see how much cash each movie made. If you move the slider at the bottom, you can go back all the way to […]
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NOTE: I’ve updated this post a couple times. See my latest notes at the bottom. I’m often asked how to optimize videos for websites like Youtube or Myspace. The eternal struggle is between quality and file size. My first uploads were Windows Media (WMV) files. Lately, I’ve been using Quicktime. My edit program of choice […]
