February 2012
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Don't gimme no bammer weed.: maddierose: A... →
maddierose:
A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips. Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on. Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge. Apodyopis - The act of mentally…
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“Women are more open to being taught than men. There are no girl-wonders,...”
– Allison Anders, BOMB Magazine
This is really, really important and I don’t think we talk about it enough. The entire interview is fascinating.
(via feministfilm)
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More Businesses Call Delaware Home than People
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According to the Delaware Division of Corporations’s 2010 Annual Report, over 909,000 businesses are incorporated in Delaware (as of the end of 2010). An estimated 907,135 people reside in the state.
Over half of US publicly-traded companies and 60% of the Fortune 500 are incorporated in the state. Here’s more on Delaware corporate law.
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January 2012
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Why Ryan Seacrest (For real!) is the future of... →
Seacrest is also passionate about finding ways to build his burgeoning media business on all platforms, from old-school media such as radio to the web and its various social platforms, including Twitter. “We’re seeing platform, technology, and content all converging, and it’s happening quickly,” he says. “It’s exciting to me. There’s an appetite for more...
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Buy Kids' Legos, But Throw Away The Instructions... →
“At the most basic level, Legos – the classic, old-fashioned kind – are about possibility and creative thinking-in-action: the idea that the only limitations on what you can create are the boundaries of your mind (and, perhaps, the number of Lego bricks at your disposal).”
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7 Ways to Follow 'The Hunger Games' Movie on... →
The release of the first Hunger Games film, based on of the wildly successful book trilogy, is less than two months away, but the powers that be are teasing fans with various marketing gems via social media sites. The latest installment — which was released this week — is…
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WatchLast night, I attended the #TransmediaNYC meetup where Steve Coulson of Campfire presented the storytelling techniques surrounding HBO’s Game of Thrones launch last year. Lots of great takeaways, especially on world building. More on the Storycode event here. #Inspired.
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THR's 2012 Digital Power 50 →
Currently studying the “How it gets out there” players in this game.
The Top Brands on Twitter in 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC] →
As longtime Twitter addicts know, there’s little that people love to tweet about more than Twitter itself. HootSuite, maker of its eponymous social media aggregation tool, offered some evidence of that when it compiled a list of top 15 brands on Twitter. The result: Twitter itself topped the …
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In Hollywood’s Clubby Culture, a Disney Marketer’s... →
“It’s a clubby, inbred culture that still operates on instinct over research and an almost religious adherence to this-is-how-we-do-it tenets.” - Peter Sealey, a former Columbia Pictures marketing chief on Hollywood marketers.
December 2011
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Edward Burns and the Socialization of Indie Cinema →
“Twitter has fundamentally changed the way I make films,” film director, actor, writer and producer Edward Burns told me. At first blush, that might seem like an audacious statement, but in an era when full productions can get funded on Kickstarter and feature-length films are shot on consumer DS…
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“A man who is the master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a...”
– Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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H&M launches collection inspired by "The Girl with... →
The “Dragon Tattoo” Collection is a collaboration between the film’s costume designer, Trish Summerville and H&M. Collection launches tomorrow.
WatchTeaser for doc in production. #VERGEFilm
Meet Shakerleg and our midnight muse.
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“Maximize revenue.
Maximize career.
Change the world.”
– Peter Broderick, President, Paradigm Consulting
On the top goal-setting categories for filmmakers. Also my 2012.
Movie review: 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' →
“Ramsay and her equally unflinching star, the mesmerizing Tilda Swinton, present a troubling, challenging examination of what Ramsay, speaking at Cannes, called “one of the last taboo subjects: You’re meant to instantly love your baby from the moment he’s born, but what if you don’t?” And what if that baby grows into someone terrifying?”