You'd think being a semi-nerd; I would have more of a grasp on the inner workings of the Internet, but I'm html/programming illiterate. As such this blog is barebones.
If you can handle a slower pace, ie. not a.d.d., try watching Rocket Science. It's a tiny film, that seems like it should follow the trend of quirk running through "indie" movies, but it manages to avoid that fate. What really struck me about it, was it conveyed the confusion and pain of being on the outside without too many extremes, cliches, and over the top situations. Even when the main character, HS kid with a stutter, kind of climaxes in rage/frustration, it feels like a natural conclusion.
So I turn 24 a month from tomorrow, that's kind of scary, and sad, and weird, and informative.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
100% Authentic Blog Post
Authentic. Authenticity.
You're going to hear these words more and more. They already describe products and services, and NEWSWEEK profiled an advertising book written about the topic. "People are looking for authentic things" "Authentic local cultures and recipes" blah blah, etc etc.
It's accurate for the swing I think the American people are on right now. We have so much media saturation, that nearly everyone knows what to say, how to say it, how to work the game when a camera is pointed at them. Almost like a play where everyone learned their lines since birth. It's becoming obvious how little it takes for people to put whatever they want, with no concern for accuracy, onto a world stage (blogs included). Media is so pervasive in everyone's lives that it's nearly the apex of staged information.
This is not to say that there was some long forgotten time when all journalists were moral people, who fact checked everything, and checked their bias at the door. I think now people are just finally demanding that buzz word, authentic.
What does it mean or should it mean? When marketing gets a hold of it, as is already occurring, its supposed to mean quality, real, unprocessed, somewhat exotic (relative to current tastes), and something to trust.
I want it to mean transparency in motivations and origin. How do we know where you're getting it, and what you did to it before it got to us. It'll will probably end up being both, though more of the former.
The singular quality of American Advertising is to make a product/service out of anything.
You're going to hear these words more and more. They already describe products and services, and NEWSWEEK profiled an advertising book written about the topic. "People are looking for authentic things" "Authentic local cultures and recipes" blah blah, etc etc.
It's accurate for the swing I think the American people are on right now. We have so much media saturation, that nearly everyone knows what to say, how to say it, how to work the game when a camera is pointed at them. Almost like a play where everyone learned their lines since birth. It's becoming obvious how little it takes for people to put whatever they want, with no concern for accuracy, onto a world stage (blogs included). Media is so pervasive in everyone's lives that it's nearly the apex of staged information.
This is not to say that there was some long forgotten time when all journalists were moral people, who fact checked everything, and checked their bias at the door. I think now people are just finally demanding that buzz word, authentic.
What does it mean or should it mean? When marketing gets a hold of it, as is already occurring, its supposed to mean quality, real, unprocessed, somewhat exotic (relative to current tastes), and something to trust.
I want it to mean transparency in motivations and origin. How do we know where you're getting it, and what you did to it before it got to us. It'll will probably end up being both, though more of the former.
The singular quality of American Advertising is to make a product/service out of anything.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Bee the movie
"Jerry Seinfeld will promote Bee Movie within Bee Movie"- Josh Shin
There certainly were far too many promotions for Bee Movie. Cross-promotional (pollinated, yuk yuk) ads for laptops, and Seinfeld's head popping up everywhere, combine this with a lot of negative press/reviews, and the bar was set low for Bee Movie.
It wasn't spectacular. But it was worth a rental. End of review...
The animation is as good as most films out these days, and some of the imagined goings'on inside a bee hive were pretty cool. There were quite a few jokes, especially in the form of back and forth zings that were funny. It all was kind of neat and clean, and small.
The biggest problem was sometimes it felt like Seinfeld suddenly remembered it was a kids movie, and pushed things to be far too simplified, instead of finding a good balance. The plot was also a little choppy; needing smoothing out. Theres no need to describe more, most animated films these days fall into the categories of somewhat enjoyable to fantastic, rarely a full blown dud in the bunch. Bee Movie meets the middle of the road mark.
It gets kudos for ending the film with a cover of one of my favorite beatle's songs, "Here comes the sun".
There certainly were far too many promotions for Bee Movie. Cross-promotional (pollinated, yuk yuk) ads for laptops, and Seinfeld's head popping up everywhere, combine this with a lot of negative press/reviews, and the bar was set low for Bee Movie.
It wasn't spectacular. But it was worth a rental. End of review...
The animation is as good as most films out these days, and some of the imagined goings'on inside a bee hive were pretty cool. There were quite a few jokes, especially in the form of back and forth zings that were funny. It all was kind of neat and clean, and small.
The biggest problem was sometimes it felt like Seinfeld suddenly remembered it was a kids movie, and pushed things to be far too simplified, instead of finding a good balance. The plot was also a little choppy; needing smoothing out. Theres no need to describe more, most animated films these days fall into the categories of somewhat enjoyable to fantastic, rarely a full blown dud in the bunch. Bee Movie meets the middle of the road mark.
It gets kudos for ending the film with a cover of one of my favorite beatle's songs, "Here comes the sun".
Sunday, March 09, 2008
I voted for John McCain
Yes... Yes I did. Out in Arizona during college, I voted him back into the senate. He gets like 80% of the vote anyway...
Why vote for someone when you don't agree with their policies, or most of them? Because he seems to like to stir up trouble. While I tend to follow a more relaxed, gradual path, like erosion or the tides, I believe we need a few people who's job is just to piss people off, to do what they feel like. I don't know how much of that guy McCain is, politickin' is an image business, but I'm not looking for him as a president. Rather on the periphery, whacking people on both sides of the aisle sometimes to get a few things done.
Since he's the de facto republican candidate, and Obama and Clinton are still so close in the race, it'll be interesting to see what McCain does over the next few months. He has no-one to fight against, though as Jon Stewart pointed out... what was his competition? A crazy eyed preacher, robot, 9/11, and boss of Sam Waterston.
Who will Eric vote for? Whoever will pay off his student loans.
Why vote for someone when you don't agree with their policies, or most of them? Because he seems to like to stir up trouble. While I tend to follow a more relaxed, gradual path, like erosion or the tides, I believe we need a few people who's job is just to piss people off, to do what they feel like. I don't know how much of that guy McCain is, politickin' is an image business, but I'm not looking for him as a president. Rather on the periphery, whacking people on both sides of the aisle sometimes to get a few things done.
Since he's the de facto republican candidate, and Obama and Clinton are still so close in the race, it'll be interesting to see what McCain does over the next few months. He has no-one to fight against, though as Jon Stewart pointed out... what was his competition? A crazy eyed preacher, robot, 9/11, and boss of Sam Waterston.
Who will Eric vote for? Whoever will pay off his student loans.
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