Tweet I couldn’t think of a more perfect time to announce a new blog about the future of video and television! Within the last month, YouTube’s re-launch has changed the video landscape, Hulu and Netflix announced more original content, and the web series community has been experimenting with award shows. Hacktivision is the brainchild of Josh Braun, a [...]
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Introducing: Hacktivision
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 16th, 2012
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No Comments »To Be or Not To Be On Twitter
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 19th, 2011
Tweet Is this tweeting ad executive really Mad Men’s Don Draper? Is this “old white man” really Pierce Hawthorne from Community? How about this one? The rise of Twitter has created a marketing opportunity and identity crisis for media brands looking to do what they always say they want to do: “engage.” What Twitter does [...]
10 Things You Should Know About ‘The Social Network’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 13th, 2010
Tweet If you want a shorter, more nuanced take on the film, check out my review, which states: “The Social Network is poised to be this generation’s response to Wall Street, a timely, preachy zeitgeist story of excess and intrigue, built around a delicious antihero.The Social Network is your standard story about greed, sex and all [...]
Review: ‘The Social Network’ Gives the Web Its ‘Wall Street’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 11th, 2010
Tweet Full review at SpliceToday. Comment there! I left The Social Network typing a quick review into my Facebook app, which, soon after, my Blackberry requested I update. As my phone installed and rebooted a friend called me about an event I’d posted earlier to the site; apparently we had too many RSVPs. While preparing to [...]
Vuvuzelas for BP!: From Kickstarter to Babelgum, Cheezburger In Weeks
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 15th, 2010
Tweet Kickstarter once again proves itself to be a nimble little site! It is, apparently, Kickstarter week at my blog.
Posted in uncategorized Tags: crowdfunding, distribution, social networking, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia) 1 Comment »Kickstarter-Supported Projects Get Own Film Festival
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 12th, 2010
Tweet Matthew Lessner, director of The Woods, whose post-production efforts were partially funded by Kickstarter. Full post at WSJ. Two years ago, Matthew Lessner could not have imagined his script for a Lord of the Flies-inspired feature film would take him from the woods of Oregon to a rooftop in Brooklyn, all because of a [...]
Crowdsourcing Funding for Web Series
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 11th, 2010
Tweet UPDATE: I have updated the stats and figures below in this post here. I have a post over at Tubefilter looking at Kickstarter as a tool for funding web series and giving tips on how creators can harness the full potential of the site, partially intended to coincide with the website’s first film festival, [...]
Quarterlife Has Passed, After a Brief Second Life on Ning
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 10th, 2010
Tweet UPDATE (7/11/10): A new site, ArtByte, has started as a place for ex-QLers to go. UPDATE (6/30/10): Alas, Quarterlife is dead. A message went out recently to members, saying Ning is raising costs and the site is unsustainable: A message to all members of quarterlife: With great sadness, we must report that the three-year [...]
“Community” Needs to Do Better in Class
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 17th, 2009
Tweet Original at Splice Today, also see my thoughts on what Community‘s premiere on Facebook means for YouTube. A good test of whether a show is great is if, at the end of the episode, you cannot help but replay every scene in your mind. I get this feeling after Mad Men, True Blood and [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: hollywood, social networking, TV, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), youtube 2 Comments »The End of YouTube?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 10th, 2009
Tweet No website stays on top forever. So in the tradition of reckless speculation, in an article over at Ronebreak, I lay the case for YouTube’s demise, just for sport.
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