Mad Men Fan Art
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Everyone here knows my great love for the Emmy-winning show Mad Men, which results in my following of their marketing-type activities like Mad Men Twitterers and the like. I stumbled upon an illustrator who shares my passion for the 1960's advertising ...
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N Came and Went, But What Did it Mean?
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008I've lauded Stephen King's N. as the best web series I'd seen in a long time, but it ended with an awkward "okay, that's done now." Now what? As a fan, what am I supposed to do? Buy the book? ...
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Mad Men Twitter Accounts Suspended!
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008AMC enacted their copyright and had Twitter suspend the accounts associated with their Mad Men characters. There are a lot of bloggers up-in-arms about this, as bloggers can be (read: "The DMCA sucks!" "Burn copyrights!" "Anarchy!"). Bloggers, who tend ...
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1962, Meet 2008: Mad Men Characters are Twittering
Monday, August 25th, 2008One of my favorite shows on TV, AMC's Mad Men is getting bigger audiences in season 2, and treating them to an expanded look into the lives of the [fictional] ad world of 1962. The tone is pitch-perfect, the characters ...
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Holy Applebox! ‘Mad Men’ Cast the Next NBA Dream Team?
Friday, August 8th, 2008I've heard of actors having to deal with height differences on set, but this is ridiculous. According to a rolling promo window on the Hulu home page, the cast of Mad Men are a bunch of giants. Imagine ...
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SNLers Get in “Line”
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008The tsunami of online content can be overwhelming, so I am especially aware of online series catches and holds my attention. Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis of SNL and other recognizable comedians team up in The Line, from Crackle.com. I had heard ...
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TNT Went All-In on Lucky Chance and Busted
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008[Originally written for TubeFilter.tv.] Half advertisement, half action series, TNT’s new short-form series Lucky Chance is a high-speed romp through a what feels like a student film inspired by the fast editing style, one-liner quipping actors, and outlandish mobsters in Guy ...
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Get Your Watchmen Fix for Free on iTunes
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008I swear that I'm not a big comic book fan (not that there's anything wrong with that), but after stumbling onto the Watchmen movie trailer, I also found a new Watchmen animated comic video series debuting on iTunes. The series takes ...
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Can Magazines Solve Online Video Distribution Woes?
Monday, July 21st, 2008You might call it expensive, archaic, or lame, but the TV development process does deliver something that online video does not: a semi-accurate prediction of viewership. Sponsors are still tepid about dipped big money into online video, for fear ...
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The Best Cinematography Online: The West Side
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Webby-award winning online drama The West Side is simply the best-shot series online. Shot in a self-proclaimed "urban cowboy" genre, it's purely black-and-white and features gorgeous shot after gorgeous shot. I spoke last week about tone, and The West Side ...
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