Video Of The Day – Eddie Murphy & Hot Tub
Posted on 28. Oct, 2006 by Cameron Reilly in General
Steve’s introducing me to lots of cool shit. Today it’s Eddie Murphy doing James Brown. Great stuff.
GDAY WORLD #161 – Digital Hollywood Part 2
Posted on 28. Oct, 2006 by Cameron Reilly in Podcast
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G’Day folks, just thought I’d wrap up my impressions of the last two days of Digital Hollywood from my current base in Carmel, California. The last couple of days were very different from the first as most of the folks on the panels represented the big TV networks, movie studios, music labels, mobile carriers and the big search engines. As you’ll hear in the show, I found most of the sessions to be pretty samey. The traditional companies are all saying the same things and they all sound like they were created in a Dilbert random buzzword generation engine – yeah, we’re going to re-purpose our existing content/network/users/portal to run over 3g/ipods/mobiles and we’ll monetize it by product placement/advertising/premium features and we’ll still rule the planet, everyone return to your normal seats, we are in control of your entertainment.
What I should have heard (but didn’t) was “wow this is mving pretty fast, we’re not really sure what we’re going to do, all we know is that we need to re-invent ourselves as a company from the ground up before we become mostly irrelevant”.
If you think that would be a crazy thing for a media company executive to say, go read Wired’s interview with Rupert Murdoch.
I’m going to be in Carmel (see map) for a couple of days then I’ll be heading to San Francisco for the ANZA Tech conference.
Dove Evolution ad about our concept of beauty
Posted on 27. Oct, 2006 by Cameron Reilly in General
Found this amazing video on Renee Blodgett’s blog. Just another example of how we are subtly manipulated by the media and corporate marketing.
DVD Pick Of The Week – “Weeds” Series One (2005)
Posted on 27. Oct, 2006 by Cameron Reilly in General
How come I have not heard of this show before??? My man in Carmel, Steve the Witness, forced me to watch this today and it is brilliant TV. Here’s the set-up for “Weeds“:
After her husband’s unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin (Mary-Lousie Parker) embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she’s selling — even city councilman Doug Wilson — Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her best friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes.
I got hooked on Mary-Louise Parker when she played Amy Gardner in West Wing and it’s great to see her get her own show, especially something as brilliant as this. If you haven’t checked it out, do it.