justin nathanson

RIP Corey Haim

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:30:16 -0500

mDistribute

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:56:05 -0500

I am trying a new service today, its called mDistribute. It’s taking me about a day to sign up and upload +/- 10 short films.

mDistribute allows you to license your content of most any type or length, non-exclusively, to “hundreds of content aggregators in the mobile and web industries”.

For a fee, that seems fair, and if you learn how to price your stuff right you can make some decent cash. Or so we’re gonna find out!

also

HULU has the UK episodes of the office. A must see.

“Hot Tub Time Machine” : Cannot wait for this...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:13:00 -0500

“Hot Tub Time Machine” : Cannot wait for this movie - I have heard from people who have seen advance copies who say it is a knockout.

Are green screens saving or ruining film and tv? There are...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:12:00 -0500

Are green screens saving or ruining film and tv? There are million$ of reasons to shoot on a backlot as opposed to closing off a NYC street, (and if done well, can be artful). Is not film & TV one big recreation? So why do some still have a knee-jerk reaction to this “fakery”? Why does this technology seem extremely cool yet seriously disappointing all at the same time? As this one dude puts it:

“The Chariot Scene in “Ben-Hur” took a month to film, using 15,000 extras and an 18 acre set. It lasted onscreen for maybe 10 minutes. Now, they can do 95% of that in post production. Is it better that we have the technology? Maybe. But “Ben-Hur” still owns our sorry asses.”

Take a look at this video above. You think your mind was blown - wait until those actors find out that the world isn’t really green.

Box Office Results

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:32:36 -0500

Ive been noticing something for some time now - that when tv, radio or even web newscasters blurb about the movies, they summarize the box office as the lead in, and sometimes, (most of time for tv & radio) they will leave it there.

I wish we (they) could come up with a different barometer.

Why is this important for the public to know, as the first and sometimes only thing they hear about the movies? There is nothing wrong with learning what the box office gross is, but I feel like this statistic, alone, perpetuates the message that movies are made for the money.

The majority of the movie going audience are the ones hearing this, day in, day out, and it doesnt do much for film as an art form.

This happens in other creative industries too, but not as much - music albums arent created by executives (save for boy bands, and girl groups. and maybe Milli Vanilli) Seriously, though - many of your studio films are a carcophany of ‘ideas’ from young suits with dollar signs (and other ‘stats’) as their driving force. This trickles down to everyone, to what the writers are expected to write http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/you-dont-make-me-feel/screenwriting/2009/12/06/ to what the audience, in general, expects.

Filmmaking is an art form, first. I think. Well, it should be anyway. There must be some other way to reference how well a movie is doing, if someone is going to just say one thing about it. It would at least be a lesson on what is important in life, in general. So we can evolve.

Maybe then we will begin to see more films that are transformative.

Because real, human transformation, is priceless.

Heres the pilot to a great web video series “Chad...

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:07:01 -0500

Heres the pilot to a great web video series “Chad Vader”

Stop babies and puppies

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:57:51 -0500

Stop babies and puppies

i want

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:18:02 -0500

i want

To buy this DVD see below

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:47:33 -0500

To buy this DVD see below

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:42:00 -0500

Video

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:07:00 -0500

i dunno….i just think vintage cinema interviews are rad....

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:01:00 -0500

i dunno….i just think vintage cinema interviews are rad. its the Hitch. (On his best behavior). Cool.

This is an awesome organization - please help!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:30:09 -0400

This is an awesome organization - please help!

F Greed

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:59:45 -0400

Edward R. Murrow: “Who owns the patent on this vaccine?”
Jonas Salk: “Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

You had it right, J. Salk. F Greed.

“How the Rich are Destroying the Earth” Bringing to...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:16:00 -0400

“How the Rich are Destroying the Earth”

Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world’s wealthy feel in the face of global warming, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem facing our world.

In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the following observations: First, that the planet’s ecological situation is growing ever worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second, despite environmentalists’ emphasis that “we’re all in the same boat,” the world’s economic elites—who continue to benefit by plundering the environment—have access to “lifeboats” that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.

Societies have not been able to effectively combat the expanding ecological crisis because it is intimately linked to the social crisis in which the ruling form of capitalism has been organized to impede democratic initiatives. This link explains the failure to make progress against the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays an essential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on disrupting the power of the world’s elite.

We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don’t see them as the two sides of the same disaster—a disaster that comes from a system piloted by a dominant social strata that has no drive other than greed, no ideal other than conservatism, no dream other than technology. But Kempf also calls for measured optimism: “Despite the scale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and—faced with the sinister prospects the oligarchs promote—the desire to remake the world is being reborn.”

15 of the Greenest Building in the World

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:33:19 -0400

15 of the Greenest Building in the World

How can you absolutely not LOVE this. Umm, let he who is without...

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:34:15 -0400

How can you absolutely not LOVE this.

Umm, let he who is without sin cast the first wiki!?

Conservative Bible Project - rewriting the Bible, eliminating liberal bias. hee. (from the Huffington Post)

Another great example of South Carolina's excellent Government!

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:31:00 -0400

Another great example of South Carolina's excellent Government!:

I’m so proud. sniff.

"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality..."

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:41:00 -0400

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

(part one of..) One of my favorite pieces of music by one of my...

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:37:00 -0400

(part one of..) One of my favorite pieces of music by one of my favorite musicians of all time. (See playlist link below for entire concert)

The iconic, rare & limitless Mr. Keith Jarrett. Get you some.

The Köln Concert. Recorded at The Opera Köln, West Germany, January 24, 1975

Zen in the Art of Jazz - article

Koln Concert Playlist

Go see Jarrett in concert. It will change you.