I had wanted to be a movie critic at one point in my life but I had two main problems. 1- I discovered that I enjoy almost any movie for one reason or another. 2- I was incapable of giving a movie a terrible review If I had to. Then I hit another snag when the internet really kicked into gear. It allowed reviews to be as common as ... well lets face it reviews are very common in every aspect. Reviews on Amazon, reviews on IMDB, reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, reviews on Ebay, reviews on cnet. I'm hard headed and I'm sure that you have noticed reviews on this very site under the name "commentary". I feel it necessary to offer my own twist to the "review" pool that I believe will become more and more apparent as time goes on. But above all I always wanted to make films, plan films, and make people laugh, scratch their head or just walk away with some good dinner conversation. Which brings me to Youtube.

After years of avoiding Youtube  I finally decided to utilize an account  I had made when I was exploring it years ago. I had always questioned why someone (the higher production amateur videos out there) would spend so much time, put in their blood sweat and tears, others peoples blood sweat and tears- and an obviously more than significant amount of money in something that they would just throw out there for free...

I've been wrong about many things in my life. I was certainly wrong - thinking this would be the "it" gift of Christmas 2010 - two months later, after seeing stacks of these things before Christmas and dreams of consumer accessible neuroscience combined with a space-aged Mattel toy that would end up at college parties, and reverse engineered for other purposes in amateur laboratories - I haven't seen one anywhere (only online).

THE MINDFLEX GAME - The internet demonstrations and YouTube videos are amazing. Even in the most basic of functionality as far as neuroscience toys are concerned this devices begs to be used in some sort of Beer Pong of the Future. I foresaw drunk people sitting around in a circle taking shots bringing themselves to the brink of an aneurysm controlling and contorting a ping-pong ball through an interchangeable maze of varying difficulty with a mind reading device firmly placed on head - it gave me hope for a feasible William Gibson-esque future...

AMC, ABC and other networks limit audiences by denying streaming services; loose money due to consumer choice

V the series on ABC, and The Walking Dead on AMC.
Good programs .. but I'm no longer a viewer. I will find something else to watch on a different network that embraces the reality that content should  be readily available and consumer controlled. Consumer controlled content, - a process that has audiences dropping cable companies and traditional network TV in favor of online services such as Hulu and Netflix and on some other demographic levels watching hours of Youtube. Some Youtube channels are now rivaling network TV with fun content, increasing production values, millions of viewers and easily accessible public statistics. Netflix isn't perfect they still don't include close captioning for those with disabilities but it allows people to better budget their time and streamline their media intake. Hulu includes adverts, though minimal, we all watch adverts on the internet, right? Hulu is clever enough to understand that given a choice consumers will choose which adverts they want to watch more of, and tailor it to the overall experience  then harvest the statistics I'd imagine. Data I'm sure companies would sell their soul to get if they just understood the value of better designing commercials that work...

Dear Santa,

Please bring me:

A RED ONE Camera System or
or CANON XL2
or CANON XL1
SONY PD150 or SONY PD170 -
CANON GL2

and an $8,000 credit limit in a local camera store for filters and accessories - and a $10,000 Lowes gift card if its not too much trouble, and world peace ..... yeah that too.

                           Thank you in advance,
                                                   Little Tommy P

 

Something tells me by the time that I can afford a RED ONE  I'll be able to film my shots with a wristwatch because the feature of telling time will be obsolete by then ( a stab at the fact that no one uses a phone to talk anymore, just text and update Facebook and play mp3's.). Scott Pilgrim was a awesome thing to get for the holidays though...

How I wish I would have had enough time to write something to invite together all of the artists  in this area to partake in this event along side me.

It just happened I was caught off guard because this was an early Christmas gift from my love who knew that I was a fan of his acting and was interested in exploring his work as a live performer , author, and director.

What movies to take for him to sign? It was a frenzy through my house (not in a fanboy way, but in a poorly decisive way) at the end of a very busy day that ended in a totally overkill and cartoonishly ridiculous pile of DVDs. In my haste during the course of the day I figured I would choose/weed through the pile on the way to the theater.  Decided to purchase two of his books - " Oak-Mot " and "Rat Catching" which I cherished for their simplistically minimalist yet dreamlike surreal nature. Little did I know what was in store when the "real performance" began that is to say a complete performance in the form a larger than life "slide show" of  eight of his books, punctuated and read with conviction by his animated persona.

Slideshow and reading of 8 books:
He broke from the under the stage jumped up and raised his arms like the ring leader of a mad circus...