Tag Archives: Video

I finally broke down and got a subwoofer for the surround-sound system. Damn, what a difference: it ties the whole thing together like the final adjustment of the microscope that brings everything into focus. You don’t realize how much sound you feel rather than hear: there’s a lot of rumbling …

Yup, another look at the new Daredevil movie. . .

This short web film, S-11 Redux, an entrant in the Sundance Online Film Festival, is worth looking at on several levels. From a copyright theory standpoint, it shows the importance of making products of mass culture available for all to “sample” toward the creation of new art. On a content …

Disney's teevee remake of The Music Man.

Madonna would appear to be mellowing in her middle-age: Statement from Madonna on American Life I feel lucky to be an American citizen for many reasons – one of which is the right to express myself freely, especially in my work. I understand that there have been reports about my …

In what could signal the continuation of a trend begun by 24, the NBC mini-series Kingpin is going to be released on DVD two days before the series concludes Feb 16: The move comes as networks look to such DVD releases to earn more from series. NBC said the “Kingpin” …

Thanks to NPR for broadcasting the UN Security Council hearing on Iraq yesterday (live call-in show debating the war on NPR today starting at 1PM EST). In between meetings, I heard much of it, and man, did it bring me down – not because the rational, considered, reasonable pleading from …

First it was the colleges and universities, now the RIAA and MPAA are going after corporations in their anti-file sharing campaign: Movie studios and record labels are taking their case against illegal Internet downloads directly to corporations, where much of the offending action allegedly occurs. The Recording Industry Association of …

Ample finalists - unintentional irony - popular semi-finalist dumped.

Six indicted on pay-TV satellite transmission hacking charges: The defendants allegedly created software and hardware designed to unscramble transmission signals sent by satellite TV operators, such as DirecTV and Dish Networks, said IDC with the computer crimes section of the U.S. Attorney General’s Office for the Central District of California. …