The inexorable march to a Facebook-controlled world

Facebook just launched Places, an exact ripoff of Foursquare. I’m not impressed with their vision — it seems as if they had insight into a future paradigm, realized it, and now don’t know where things are going, so they wait until other…

Sound mixer hell

“But we are shooting on the RED camera. It is 4K.” — hilarious!
Thanks to Mark for finding spot-on, very funny depiction of low budget filmmaking and its deluded filmmakers (nobody I know made it, someone was asking me that.) I am happy to count myself among that demographic, but I try not to…

The wonderful production of “Wonderful”: Part Three

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How did we let it get to this?

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1mi up and all is well

“I think it’s because it’s a mile up”
- overheard cell phone conversation in Denver airport

Even in Brooklyn, even in a park surrounded by trees, I feel the city. It’s not entirely physical, though the musty air contributes. It is more a…

The who reality?

Virtual reality is the new reality, or so says my friend. She has been on about 13 dates since joining OK Cupid, which was about two weeks ago. And she blogs about them with such wit and scandal that you wish you could be a fly on the wall.