6 articles from 2009
How to Design the Internet Experience Without Becoming the Advertisers' Bitch
27 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT
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Rembrandt painted The Night Watch between 1640 and 1642. It was commissioned by 16 members of a civic militia guard company who paid 100 guilders each.But while the Rembrandt is famous, the same guard company commissioned seven other artists to paint their portraits around the same period. This made the artist nothing more than a commodity.And it makes Rembrandt's work one of the most famous early examples of sponsored content.
This was on my mind last week as I attended a conference on media convergence organized by The Economist. Executives, marketers, and designers discussed subjects including social media, 2.0, and well, the sponsorship of content. Here are some highlights.
Craig Newmark, chairman of Craigslist, said, "Trust is the new black." Not surprisingly, personalization is his take on 2.0. He also said Leonard Cohen is his rabbi.
Bonita Coleman Stewart of Google sort of said the same thing--everything's going local. For marketers it's about quantitative measurement,
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- Graham Button
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How to Design the Internet Experience Without Becoming the Advertisers' Bitch
27 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT
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Rembrandt painted The Night Watch between 1640 and 1642. It was commissioned by 16 members of a civic militia guard company who paid 100 guilders each.But while the Rembrandt is famous, the same guard company commissioned seven other artists to paint their portraits around the same period. This made the artist nothing more than a commodity.And it makes Rembrandt's work one of the most famous early examples of sponsored content.
This was on my mind last week as I attended a conference on media convergence organized by The Economist. Executives, marketers, and designers discussed subjects including social media, 2.0, and well, the sponsorship of content. Here are some highlights.
Craig Newmark, chairman of Craigslist, said, "Trust is the new black." Not surprisingly, personalization is his take on 2.0. He also said Leonard Cohen is his rabbi.
Bonita Coleman Stewart of Google sort of said the same thing--everything's going local. For marketers it's about quantitative measurement,
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- Graham Button
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The Auteurs Daily: New York, New York
23 October 2009 1:21 PM, PDT
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"My favorite film of the last two years, Hong Sang-soo's Bam gua nat (Night and Day), is getting a one-week run at Anthology Film Archives, starting this Friday," announces Dan Sallitt, and for more raves (well, mostly), you can turn to Richard Brody (New Yorker), Scott Foundas (Voice), Andrew Schenker (L) and Keith Uhlich (Time Out New York). Update, 10/23: More from Jeannette Catsoulis (New York Times), Michael Joshua Rowin (Reverse Shot) and S James Snyder (Artforum).
This is just one of several extraordinary runs going on in NYC over the next while, starting this evening at Film Forum, where, with what the Voice's J Hoberman calls the "cine-essay-cum-illustrated-lecture Rembrandt's J'accuse," Peter Greenaway "uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy - which is to say, he successfully turns The Night Watch into a Peter Greenaway film." More from Manohla Dargis (New York Times), David Fear (Tony), Nicolas Rapold
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Peter Greenaway's canvas swells, with "present-tense live cinema," set to music
22 October 2009 10:40 AM, PDT
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As a big fan of cinema as pure image-sound experience, I'm thrilled that visual master Peter Greenaway squandered a puff-piece opportunity with New York Magazine to harsh on our ever-diminishing ability to appreciate films this way. He's just released a documentary called Rembrandt's J'Accuse. It's an analysis of Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch and tasks itself with locating and explaining the painting's hidden meanings, calling attention to our own visual illiteracy in the process. Something tells me that Greenaway's "essay-like" approach to documentary will be more visually lyrical than the wildest dream sequences of garden variety directors. Also great to
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- Shannon Coulter
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DVD Round Up, Sept. 29, 2009: ‘Deadgirl,’ ‘Nightwatching,’ ‘Next Day Air’
29 September 2009 9:29 AM, PDT
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Chicago – Horror, action, drama, and comedy - HollywoodChicago.com’s DVD Round-Up has it all. Where else can you read about the latest from internationally acclaimed auteur Peter Greenaway and the newest Mos Def comedy in one column? These are the recently released titles that you might have missed when you last updated your Netflix queue. See if any of them grab you enough to deal with “Very Long Wait”.
All four titles - “Deadgirl,” “Next Day Air,” “Nightwatching,” and “Triangle” - were released on September 15th, 2009.
“Deadgirl”
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Synopsis: “Daringly original and genre-busting, Deadgirl is an odyssey into the soul of our alienated youth that takes the conventions of the horror and coming-of-age movies and turns them on their heads.
When high school misfits Rickie and Jt decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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[DVD Review] Nightwatching
25 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT
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A biopic is a tricky thing to master. Too often it becomes difficult to choose a proper focus, with filmmakers alternately making the mistake of either casting their net too wide or not wide enough. It's impossible to encompass the life of a person -- especially one who has accomplished a lot -- in a single feature-length film. Yet at the same time, it seems wrong and unjust to attempt to reduce a human being to a montage of episodic clips.
With that out of the way, it seems fair to say that Nightwatching actually handles this predicament rather deftly. A fictionalized depiction of a conspiracy theory being (perhaps) unwittingly immortalized in Rembrandt's most famous painting, "The Night Watch," the film succeeds in that it largely focuses on a lesser-known part of a well-known person's life, and it doesn't attempt to tell us too much, but only just enough.
Rembrandt (Martin Freeman) is a young,
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- Inna Mkrtycheva
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