March 2011
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The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed.
Schindler’s List is about 600 who don’t.
— Stanley Kubrick
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“Editing is the transformation of chance into destiny.”
– Jean Luc Godard
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some movies (1988) leave you wanting to see the play (1987): “Talk Radio”.
a good serial is like a good cookie: small enough you think you can eat just one, but so delicious you gotta have “just one more”.
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“The challenge for an insurgent is not to try to battle the incumbent for the...”
– Seths Godin
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digital video now makes up one quarter of the entire home video market in the United States, according to NPD Group.
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“the Net is the new TV and the new radio, because it has subsumed both.”
– Doc Searls
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“Much of what we consider modern is really whatever moves us toward real time...”
– Kevin Kelly
protective stones and a grimy heartbeat, slow to surrender, steady from end to end, is “Biutiful” (2011).
a Cracker Jack and jazz daydream, “The Legend of 1900” (1998) oscillates from scene to scene, like the rocking metronome of the sea.
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“People only consider paying for online content when doing so is as easy as not paying.” - Dave Pell
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“It seems almost poetic. And that should be a clue. Whenever you see poetry, you...”
– Horace Dediu
(via Zulu Kane)
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Traditional media distributors will be cut out of the food chain; today it’s books, tomorrow it will be movies. Writer To Go is following developments.