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.

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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