Music video edition, thoughts on twitter, the inevitable fall of the social network, and Varney
I finished editing the music video for "Girl With Half Moon Eyes" this weekend. It took me nearly 18 hours to go through the hours of footage that was taken and place it in a @5 minutes form. I'll be launching the music video on Wednesday. It will be released on Tuesday for those on my mailing list (hint hint). There was so much beautiful footage I am thinking about posting the outtakes as well at some point. For being the first thing I ever directed since I was 13 years old I don't think I did that bad of a job.
Are you on Twitter? it's as common these days as those that are on Facebook. Twitter is such a weird phenomena. I don't know how the company will have a marketing scheme (or Facebook for that matter) without a subscription/ad base form of revenue. You remember the .com bust? then followed by the real estate bust? I predict a social networking bust. Myspace will be the first to fall. Once you see them fold the rest of them will go along with them. Loudtwitter has already crashed and it's doubtful it will come back up.
Anyways, Twitter, it's starting to remind me that it's the new BIG BROTHER. We have always been afraid some outside force, like the government, watching over us but we are slowly turning into our worse fears. Whenever there are people taking pictures and tagging them on networking sites in real time it's akin to having a ten-fold amount of paparazzi photographers in every place on the planet. Where will it take us? How fast will information flow between us all? Will we ultimately have neural-feeds directly into our brain? When one of us feels pain we all do? When one of us needs help we all help them? What if there is a network worm or virus that attacks this brain network? Will people suddenly fall left and right with mass seizures? (for those that don't know what Twitter is here is a primer on it)
The new VNV Nation album "Of Faith, Power and Glory" is decent if you like their previous albums you will love it.
I have been reading "Varney the Vampire" . I really enjoy reading it. It's a penny dreadful novel published in book form in 1847. It is of epic length: the original edition runs to 868 double columned pages divided into 220 chapters. It has a distinctly suspenseful style, using vivid imagery to describe the horrifying exploits of Varney. It came out 50 years before Bram Stoker's Dracula. Which now makes Bram Stoker's writing a lot less original. For a sampling of Varney here is the full text of it. Although the book form from Amazon is nice because it uses the original typeface.
Are you on Twitter? it's as common these days as those that are on Facebook. Twitter is such a weird phenomena. I don't know how the company will have a marketing scheme (or Facebook for that matter) without a subscription/ad base form of revenue. You remember the .com bust? then followed by the real estate bust? I predict a social networking bust. Myspace will be the first to fall. Once you see them fold the rest of them will go along with them. Loudtwitter has already crashed and it's doubtful it will come back up.
Anyways, Twitter, it's starting to remind me that it's the new BIG BROTHER. We have always been afraid some outside force, like the government, watching over us but we are slowly turning into our worse fears. Whenever there are people taking pictures and tagging them on networking sites in real time it's akin to having a ten-fold amount of paparazzi photographers in every place on the planet. Where will it take us? How fast will information flow between us all? Will we ultimately have neural-feeds directly into our brain? When one of us feels pain we all do? When one of us needs help we all help them? What if there is a network worm or virus that attacks this brain network? Will people suddenly fall left and right with mass seizures? (for those that don't know what Twitter is here is a primer on it)
The new VNV Nation album "Of Faith, Power and Glory" is decent if you like their previous albums you will love it.
I have been reading "Varney the Vampire" . I really enjoy reading it. It's a penny dreadful novel published in book form in 1847. It is of epic length: the original edition runs to 868 double columned pages divided into 220 chapters. It has a distinctly suspenseful style, using vivid imagery to describe the horrifying exploits of Varney. It came out 50 years before Bram Stoker's Dracula. Which now makes Bram Stoker's writing a lot less original. For a sampling of Varney here is the full text of it. Although the book form from Amazon is nice because it uses the original typeface.