Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts

8.15.2009

Re-Vlog :: DIY DAYS PHL - Nina Paley - Nina Sings The Blues

SITA SINGS THE BLUES Distribution Project Report ?If it?s free, how do you make money?? 5 months after the Creative Commons Share Alike release of her animated musical feature Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley presents the first round of hard data from the project. Contrary to MPAA propaganda, the more the audience freely shares the film, the more they purchase DVDs, theater admissions, and merchandise; witness the $$ numbers that prove it. Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 30 international awards including the Annecy Grand Crystal, The IFFLA Grand Jury Prize, and a Gotham Award. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to Copyleft her film, and join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. www.sitasingstheblues.com

8.04.2009

Health Care Debate in a Nutshell



Tut-tut.

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5.29.2009

How to Negotiate a Deal



Oh-so-true-to-life.


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1.24.2009

Sundance Panels :: Panic Button - Part 2



Lighting the fire behind indie films.

Empowering film makers.

Revenue goals inflate.

Geocentricity.

Long-tail.

Quality emotional content.

Distribution ideas.

Don't worry too much about theatrical release.

Long-term thinking is important: the library.

The pink elephant: "Let's go to the movies" = "Let's donate to this film for its DVD release."

80% of sustainability is in economic politics as yet unready to support indie film.

It all has to do with numbers, there are two kinds of films: either spend multi-millions or hardly anything; films made by the rich or the young.

How the Internets change everything. "The Secret" as example.

Go to your core audience.

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1.09.2009

Art & commerce :: copyright & criminality


Lawrence Lessig says the outdated copyright laws have turned our kids into criminals.

Dude's a hero.


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12.20.2008

My Pal / Colleague Paul Plays Drums in a Band

Last Words


They are very good in my humble estimation.

Please check them out @ MySpace.

Over on Facebook, Paul writes:

Anyone know someone with too much money and not enough deductions that might be interested in helping me get out of this lifestyle? If you do, call me.


He also writes:

I am looking for a way to help people pay more attention to the little details in life.


Can anyone help him?


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12.06.2008

Deepak Chopra on Seesmic :: Meditation

Meditation

This is an ongoing conversation on meditation started by Deepak Chopra @ Seesmic.

Chopra's giving it away over there and yet, I'm guessing he's doing as well or better in his making a living having given it.


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11.23.2008

Villanelle For Our Time – Leonard Cohen



Not 'commerce' but rather, 'commonwealth'.

Oh.

Yeah.

I get it now.

Testing Blip.FM blog publication. Already integrated into Twitter, I like being able to embed a song in the blog. Let's see...


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10.24.2008

On Actors as Craftsmen

Re: John Cleese (part 2): Obama, Biden & Fox NewsSensitivity to the truth.


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8.27.2008

Haskell Wexler's "Who Needs Sleep?"



Must research where I can get my hands on this film.

Ah-ha! One may order the DVD HERE.

Current job "City Island" has been darned civilized, I'm guessing primarily due to the producers' and director's inherent humanity, and less so, budgetary concerns, since by our contract after 14 hours the crew goes into triple time.

[Film's web site]
[Haskell Wexler's Blog]

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8.02.2008

Ezra Miller :: Clown


Ezra Miller :: Clown
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan
"City Island" Flickr group page. I wish my colleagues would come out of the closet and play with us there.

Rebecca? Where's that darned portrait of me n' Raymond in our robes? Get that shite up, yo!

Copped this image from Raymond De Felitta's blog to upload here so show them (in part) how a City Island Flickr account could benefit them.

Photo by Cecelia B (I think). Her Mum and Da are so proud.

Folks will be able to easily blog this image if they wish.

Easily touched and shared.

Come play with us over @ Flickr.

POST NOTE: Here's a link to someone who knows Cecelia B: CLICK ME!.

[Social Object Lesson]

I don't know the copyright status of the enclosed, pilfered image. Were the image hosted @ Flickr, that would be obvious. I lean toward setting these things free to the blogosphere.

Lovely portrait, no?

Forgot the City Island Vlog Link Love



Director's Blog.

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Bwah-hahahaha. "City Island" Blooper



Yes, we're getting really good tracks.

Yes indeed.

Many compromises and imperfections, but...it's all there (mostly).

Tired but satisfied.

Greek in proportion.

:)


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7.19.2008

Social Objects 101



If you're interested in marketing, this is a 'must-listen' interview.

[source]



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4.09.2008

Signs of the Times :: The Economy Sux


.:. Faux Press .:.

Yeah.

Remember when neraly every car in NYC featured hand-written signs taped to a rear window that said things like, "Don't bother. Everything's been stolen already," or, "Sorry, nothing left."

People react to having been violated by making signs.

Signs of the times. 


Good Goody Good Will


Good Goody Good Will
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan
Goody consumer relations sent me four packs of Twin Beads baubles in response to my fan frustration phone call. I'm on a quest to bring their practical product to the attention of the purchasing public. Clean up your cable messes. :)




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4.03.2008

Don't Argue


Don't Argue
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan
Economic theory.


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3.26.2008

Re-vlogging Lawrence Lessig :: THE Idea for the 21st Century



Okay. I tend toward hyperbole, but this is honestly one of the best ideas toward action and change I've heard lately.

Unsurprisingly, this comes from the same fellow who gave us one of the best ideas of the 20th Century: the Creative Commons.

Listen.

Then listen again.

[Lessig's Blog]
[Lessig RSS Feed]
[Quicktime version]

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2.26.2008

Lessig's Not Running



[source]

It's the correct decision, so the disappointment was fleeting.

The netroots discourse begins.

Heard the word 'netroots' - as in 'netroots movement' - for the first time yesterday in an KUOW's "The Conversation" podcast that asks a distinguished panel to address the nature of freedom on the web.

"What is Freedom on the Web?"

In context of the legal censure of wikileaks.

[KUOW source]
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DIGRESSION: Whistleblowing without fear of reprisal - and further - with reward - will be an essential not-yet-culturally-supported tool in combating the corruption Lessig has vowed to fight. How may culture support that behavior?





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Re-Vlog :: Lessig's 10 minutes to announce two ideas


Announcing exploratory work to launch the Change Congress movement, and exploring the idea of Lessig running for Congress.