Extended thoughts on Jar Jar 2 (a.k.a. Mudflap and Skids from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) over at Ronebreak.
Archive for June, 2009
On the “Black” Robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 24th, 2009
UPDATE 4: Apparently the controversial twins, Skids and Mudflap, will not be back for Transformers 3. UPDATE 3: Julie White, a.k.a. Shia LaBoeuf’s mom in the movie, adds in her two cents over at New York Mag, saying she doesn’t think it was intentional and that it tested well with “the kids.” Also, she noticed [...]
Cable Is Hot Right Now
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 22nd, 2009
Head over to Ronebreak.com, a hot new site about culture, for my post about cable TV this summer! (Click the photo or this link)
Paging Cooper and Seacrest: Coming Out = $$$
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 22nd, 2009
I’m late with this I’m sorry! First Neil Patrick Harris — it took all my might not to type “Doogie Howser”…drat stupid childhood memories! — then Clay Aiken, Adam Lambert, now Wanda Sykes is officially on the list of people whose careers were better post-closet. Not like Wanda hasn’t always been the shizz. Because she [...]
Music Video Remakes: The Video!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 20th, 2009
I’ve created a short YouTube in conjunction with my paper on music video remakes and their fair use. Check it out! For my written take on this, see my previous post. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJAfYwzPAg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1]
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Tags: copyright, Digital Culture/Industry, fame, fans, hollywood, meme, Web Series/Online Video, youtube 
No Comments »If a Social Network Dies…
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 17th, 2009
…does anybody care? I fell hard for the social networking craze. I joined so many sites I lost track of most of them. Two or three years ago, each site promised to serve a new community, or niche market, and was trumpeted by the media as a novel, near miraculous invention. Every site was based [...]
Music Video Remakes: Fair Use (!) and History
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 11th, 2009
So the following post is a truncated version of a paper I’ve written and plan to submit to conferences and publications soon. For an unrevised draft of the paper, click here. For a playful YouTube video I made on this topic, click here. For non-academics and makers of YouTube and other online video the headline [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: fame, fans, hollywood, meme, new media, Web Series/Online Video, youtube 3 Comments »Lonely Men: An American Encounters Sorrentino
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 6th, 2009
In honor of Il Divo opening in Philadelphia at one of the Ritz theatres… Paolo Sorrentino, Italian auteur, stylishly depicts man’s existential crisis Cinema loves impenetrable men. Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, a film forever collecting critical largess, proves this. So do other protagonists in other evidently great films, including Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, Marlon [...]
Fame (1980), Fame (2009), and Fame!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 3rd, 2009
UPDATE (2/12): Click here for a post with comments from Barry Miller, who played Ralph Darcy in the original film. He very much dislikes the remake! UPDATE (9/27): Opening weekend box office numbers are soft at around $10 million (estimated). The LATimes also reports Fame‘s CinemaScore numbers are low (B-) signaling it won’t get good [...]
Apple Ads: Innovating Past the Competition
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 1st, 2009
Why is Apple the only major company doing exciting and sleek video ads for publishing websites? They’ve been great on the New York Times’ website (the PC vs. Mac ads), and today I just saw this ad on New York Magazine‘s site for the Shuffle. Apple’s ads are intrusive. They take up a lot of [...]
