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Mainstream music is just starting to catch up. AKA: Yeezus

4 days ago on The Classics: 'The Downward Spiral' 2 recommends

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politics and sponsors aren’t a factor. It’s pretty simple.

5 days ago on On The Verge: Khoi Vinh talks iOS 7, The Guardian's Spencer Ackerman talks PRISM 1 reply 8 recommends

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One of the rare useful classes in film school was “Culture and the Moving Image” where we talked about this very idea. Less films are being produced by the major studio system than ever. Hollywood used to make tons of movies, (most terrible, but some truly great). Now they put all their money into something that the maximum amount of people will deem satisfactory. It’s too risky to do anything that isn’t a sequeal to a successful film, a remake of a successful film, or an adaptation of a successful book. They need a built-in audience. While blockbusters are a nice way of seeing the latest advances in Computer Graphics, the plot will never be anything more than just adequate.

TV is in a golden age; something that would have been presumptuous to say five years ago, but now it’s just fact.

Take this scene from the latest season of Mad Men where Betty jokes about raping a 15 year old girl. WTF?! As shocking as it is, it’s also steeped in subtext. The viewer ponders about its meaning long after the show is over.
This post-pondering is becoming extremely rare in our current homogenized Fast and the Furian landscape. It’s just too risky.

6 days ago on Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry 1 recommend

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We were all thinking it.

9 days ago on Apple debuts iOS 7, OS X Mavericks, and new Macs: everything you need to know 3 replies 6 recommends

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If im listening to the audiobook, is that not cool? I’ve already read it before.

15 days ago on 'Cat's Cradle' by Kurt Vonnegut: discussion, Chapters 1 through 29 2 replies 1 recommend

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I dont know, I have a hard time building IKEA furniture.

26 days ago on A 3D-printed gun can still explode, but making an AK-47 is easier than you think 3 recommends