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Synthesizing Schizophrenia or Who Is Billy the Kid?

A Review of I'm Not There

February 2, 2010 | Leave a comment
Last night, I finally watched I’m Not There, the rather sur­real take on Bob Dylan, with 6 dif­fer­ent actors por­tray­ing him. It was sur­pris­ingly good. Sur­real and con­fus­ing, but good. First of all, I didn’t real­ize that none of the char­ac­ters play Bob Dylan, per se–they all play ASPECTS of him, a Woody Guthrie-idolizing kid, a super­star unable to [...]
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Owning Digital Media

or Hoarding the Bits

November 20, 2009 | 2 Comments
Today, I was read­ing an explo­ration of solu­tions to the prob­lem of infinetly repro­ducible con­tent, and hap­pened onto an inter­est­ing paragraph. Tycho, the author writes: I said, a few weeks ago of the whole DRM issue, that I thought “we needed to get away from the whole ‘own­ing bits’ metaphor for con­tent dis­tri­b­u­tion.” The whole DRM thing [...]
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

February 6, 2008 | Leave a comment
I just fin­ished watch­ing Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. This is a shot-for-shot remake of the orig­i­nal, filmed over 6 years, by 3 teenagers. Who started when they were 12. It’s phe­nom­e­nal. Seri­ously. I was really suprised. Here’s some rea­sons why it’s brilliant: 1. it’s actu­ally done. If you owned a cam­corder in the 80s, you prob­a­bly started [...]
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Finding Raiders The Adaptation

February 6, 2008 | Leave a comment
Just to follow-up on my pre­vi­ous post about Raiders of The Lost Ark: The Adap­ta­tion, you can find it on bit­tor­rent sites here and there. Do a bit of search­ing; you’re good with the google, I’m sure.
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