In the World of Interesting
The Best Documentaries of the Decade
I vote for Man on Wire. Fantastic.
Another lovely piece of Stars Wars fandom. Probably not the same cinematic experience of the Hunt for Gollum, but probably much more charming. Yes, I did just manage to use Gollum, Star Wars, Lovely and Charming in the same sentence.
Star Wars: Uncut Trailer from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.
Core Principles of Transmedia Storytelling
"We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness."
"As the historian Clay McShane argues, these views were intensified by a deep sense of male insecurity brought about by the mass-production system, the deskilling of manufacturing, and the shift of men into less “manly” white-collar work. Men also felt threatened by increasing education and employment for women. These factors redoubled male efforts to wall off the space outside the home as their own. Men traveled to that domain. Women did not."
The average American consumes 34GB of content and 100,000 words per day. And we wonder why most things we make are quickly forgotten.