If you don’t like reading words, you’ll love this description:
Started shooting a new short today. Here is some extra footage.
While I find it difficult to quickly and effectively explain, I am super duper pumped for Google Wave. The concept boils down to one idea: “What if email was invented now, with today’s technology?” without the baggage of being a 40-year-old tech, which it is. It excites me for a huge number of uses, cheif among them film production, business, and schoolwork
Y’ALL READY FO’ DIS?!?!
above is the announcement video/in depth presentation and demo at this year’s Google developer’s conference, I/O. Enjoy/O. ha. get it?
So the time has come to make me a nice big announcement. Starting at the end of this month, and working right through Summer ‘09, mkpmedia and I will be heavy into production on our first webseries, a 5-part comedic show called “School Daze”. Visit the site, makingschooldaze.blogspot.com, to stay up to date and follow along our unpredictable journeys through this.
This is going to be a real test of, well, everything - workflow, technology, creative and technical skill, business, marketing - I’m hoping all goes well and we can really learn a lot of lessons through this, and be in stronger and more confident place when we start our future slate of content.
Enjoy,
-Kashif
Ben Burtt's Awesome 30 min. Presentation on the Sound of Wall•E
Video of Ben Burtt - sound designer of the lightsaber, Darth Vader, and Indiana Jones giving a 30 minute presentation at Pixar on how he crafted the sounds of Wall•E. Includes a great Q&A session as well.
WIRED: Perez Hilton is rich and getting richer
I read about this in this month’s WIRED, but was too busy to type out what David Cho already has:
The profile is pretty interesting, this guy is obviously doing something right:
Ads on his homepage fetch up to $54,000 a day, and his overhead is minimal—his only employee is his sister Barby, who fields emails and corrects typos. Which means he’s pulling down millions a year. The site now averages 198 million pageviews a month, according to the Web ratings service Quantcast. Nielsen Online estimates that while visitors to TMZ.com, one of his main competitors, stay only 15 minutes, those on Hilton’s site linger for 45 minutes
