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Stuff I learned this week – #10/11

Michael Marshall Smith weighs in on things that “should” be free.
I like the fact that Charlie Brooker dislikes some of the same stuff about Macs as me.
“The Clock” looks like a thing to see in NYC.
Jeff Jarvis still has interesting thoughts about identities.
Super 8 is the film I will be looking forward to all summer.
Google Earth allows for surrealist art.
Disney made a cartoon about menstruation.
You can have fun with personal ads.
I’d like a copy of “Creationary”, please.

Peter Stawowy wehrt sich gegen die Zwei-Leser-Gesellschaft.
Ich mag diesen wütendenen aber irgendwie zutreffenden Kommentar zum Atomunfall in Japan.

Stuff I learned this week – #9/11

Hollywood is rotten and it’s partly our fault.
Oscars are for stat-nerds.
They are also given out by a mysterious academy,
and it ain’t that bad to lose (via F5).
The Tron Lebowski is coming.
The product placement whore of the year is Apple.
Even established journalists can learn to deal with the change of the times.
Mark Mayerson doesn’t believe in unfair comparisons (and has a good point).

Volker Zastrow kann diverse Aspekte der Guttenberg-Affäre zwar lang aber auch sehr überlegt abwägen.
De Maiziere kann wieder gehen. Hier kommt Carlos-Theodore de Bienmontaña.

Stuff I learned this week – #7/11

Tim Smith watches us watching There Will Be Blood.
2011’s release schedule sets the record for most sequels.
Why Gnomeo and Juliet has hideous protagonists.
There are six giant blind spots in every movie alien’s invasion strategy.
There are four stages of “getting” Twitter (and I’m not sure, which stage I’m on).
John Swansburg hates his iPad and gets a lot of sympathy.
Matt Zoller Seitz takes a look at revisionist fiction.
“Walk like an Egyptian” stands in a line of ad-hoc protest songs.
Has Language Log already found the correction of the year?
3D-Videomapped living is kinda cool.

Laut Michael Reufsteck ist es Top, dass der Thommy geht.
Schnell reagierende Werbeagenturen sind Gold wert.

Stuff I learned this Week – #5/11

Clyde DeSouza thinks the 3D in Tron Legacy is the best use of the medium so far.
Tron is pretty much Star Wars.
There is an awesome making of for The Social Network, where they actually show people working.
Black Swan‘s visual effects are subtle but more than you think.
They called it “Faking Movie” in 1929.
John Lasseter thinks, we’re dumb motherfuckers (says “The Onion”).
Thomas F. Wilson answers questions in song.
James Franco teaches a class about himself.
Gas companies rebel against Gasland
Mark Zuckerberg has a sense of humour.
Musicians have to rethink the way they will earn money in the future, says OK Go’s Damian Kulash.
I would like to race virtual cars.

Harald Martenstein hat Skandale satt.
Ich hoffe, ich bin selbst ein Blogger mit normal großem Ego.

Stuff I learned this week – #4/11

Roger Ebert thinks he has proof that 3D is dead.
Kristin Thompson is somewhat more analytic about it.
It’s time to watch out for holography.
Julian Assange is indeed a paranoid creep.
Kevin Smith, on the other hand, is a rascal.
I will keep up to date about The Hobbit by watching “Hobbit in 5”.
Vivek Wadhwa doesn’t buy the Quora Hype.
The time has come to fight the Foot.

Lukas Heinser hat kluge Gedanken über Gott.
Die Ted Williams Story ist noch nicht zuende.
Nilz N Burger hat einen schönen persönlichen Nachruf auf Bernd Eichinger verfasst.
Es ist treffend, Hubert Burda als Keeper of the Flame zu bezeichnen.
Katrin Schuster schreibt – wie immer treffend – über Lager.

Stuff I learned this week – #3/11

Kristin Thompson considers the
possible failure of 3D
George Lucas
apparently believes the
world will end in 2012.
There will finally be
an “Idol” programme for songwriters.
Bryce believes everything
will be reinvented.
Vin Diesel on
helium is still awesome.
Ricky
Gervais rocks.

Die
Bundesliga wird 3D.
Ich wäre nicht auf Laue
Pupse gekommen, aber bin der gleichen Meinung.

Stuff I learned this week (and last) – #1/11

Tron: Legacy was cut in 2D first.
The notion that mainstream movies might become more intelligent (or that the definition of “intelligent” is going downhill) sparks linguistic debate.
Kristin Thompson sees the media cheating when comparing video games to movies.
NASA has named 2012 the most unrealistic SF-movie of all time.
The future will be.
Dan North considers Enter the Void a case for Build Your Own Review.
Neil Gaiman is now happily married to Amanda Palmer. Congratulations!
iPads will rule Prog.
Google can talk to dogs.

Wolf Biermann hätte das neue epd medien gemocht.
Die Unglaublichkeit von Monika Piel wurde von Marcel Weiss treffend seziert.
In einem bemerkenswerten Interview glaubt James Cameron unter anderem, dass Hollywood ein bisschen tot ist.
Nicht nur in der aktuellen epd Film wird mal wieder über die Zukunft des Kinos in Deutschland diskutiert.

Stuff I learned this week – #49/10

Batman hates Wikileaks,
Emily Bell thinks journalists are among those challenged by Wikileaks.
“One has to be cautious of anything that is very very powerful.”
Anonymous has a core group who coordinates the attacks.
Warren Ellis also thinks that we have overtaken science fiction.
3D will probably hardly be considered at the Oscars.
There are films designed to put you to sleep.
Time has a Top 10 for everything.
Serialization in comics sometimes leads to desparate measures.
Changing your profile picture to a cartoon really helps.

Johannes Richardt denkt, der “Wetten, dass …?”-Vorfall war ein Unfall, kein Politikum.
Jörg Wittkewitz findet, wir sollten die Deutungshoheit nicht anderen überlassen.

Stuff I learned this week – #48/10

We don’t have enough late sequels yet.
Some nifty stuff was shortlisted for the short film Oscars
Hitchcock would have had a website.
There is more in store for Social Media Movie Marketing.
Jon Favreau has actually thought a lot about how he can make his films appeal to both niche and mainstream audiences.
Disney Princesses are not dead.
Politicians still haven’t understand the web.
The Wikileaks-kerfuffle could be a result of oversharing.
There’s still undiscovered music around.

Wie so oft, war die ganze Hysterie vermutlich unangebracht
So funktioniert Twitter nicht.

Stuff I learned this week – #46/10

The best season of the film year, Awards Season has officially begun.
“Die Zeit” thinks differently about the iPad.
Carey Mulligan will star in Baz Luhrmann’s The great Gatsby and Jason Solomons takes credit.
A Man in Britain made excellent use of a paper’s front page.
Hollywood has a Superhero Marketing Headache.
Amazon ventures into the production business.
The makers of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 had good reasons for passing on 3-D (but are still going to convert part 2).
I can’t believe it’s not live action. (via Geekologie)
Cowboys and Aliens goes together like Chocolate and Bananas.

Christian Jakubetz kann auch unter verschwörerisch klingenden Überschriften viele kluge Dinge aufschreiben