Category: Entertainment

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Big Head Todd and the Monsters Gives Away their latest album

Big Head Todd and the Monsters is giving away their latest album, All The Love You Need.  For me it arrived in the mail and was made possible locally by KBCO in Boulder and Crocs.  They are also making the album available for free download.
This is the way to market music in the digital area.

According to a press release on their website, they are distributing 500,000 copies through radio stations.  KBCO, their hometown radio station, made 75,000 available.  Other radio stations participating include KGSR (Austin, TX), KPRI (San Diego), KTBG (Kansas City).

In Denver, Big Head Todd is using this distribution to help promote their concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on June 7.  This makes sense.  Most of the time, an artist does not make money on their albums, but makes their money on concerts.

I think this is cool.  KBCO is a cool and progressive radio station and Big Head Todd and the Monsters are a progressive band thinking out of the box.  This is the beginning of the downfall of the record labels.

It began with Radiohead and now continues with Big Head Todd and the Monsters.  Let’s keep it coming.

Thanks Big Head Todd and the Monsters, KBCO, and Crocs!

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Lost In Translation Whisper Revealed

Spoiler Alert:  For those of you who don’t want to know what Bill Murray says, don’t read on or watch the video.
Someone has taken the time to digitally enhance the sound from the end of “Lost in Translation” where Bill Murray whispers to Scarlett Johansson.

Here listen:

The whisper is, “I have to be leaving. But I won’t let that come between us ok?” “Ok.”

This is a great movie.  It was intriguing when you didn’t know, but it is a lot more intriguing that you know.  What happens in the future?

That is what is great about good movies.  They leave you hanging at the end, guessing what happens in the future.

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Saturday Night Live Christmas Special

I am watching the Saturday Night Live Christmas Special on NBC and the broadcasts are different between the high definition broadcast and the standard definition broadcast.
It is pretty weird that they would do this. Why????

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Last day for laid-off ‘Leno’ workers

Last day for laid-off ‘Leno’ workers – Entertainment News, TV News, Media – Variety
The writer’s strike is beginning to take its tool on other workers who work in the media industry.  Leno’s staff has been laid-off with no guarantee of returning to work.

This is showing how stupid strikes are and how other people, good, hard-working people, are negatively affected by them.

While I agree with the Union’s perspective that they need to be fairly compensated for their work that is digitally delivered.  Their disagreement with producer’s are having a negative affect on other professions.  These are professions that make a lot less than they do.

To make matters worse, Leno promised them more than he should have, promising that they didn’t need to go look for other jobs.  Well the employees should have had a better sense to believe that, Leno should have known better.

Let’s end this strike.  No one is winning it.

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Effects of Writer’s and Stagehand Strike Beginning to Show

We’re Struck Dumb – washingtonpost.com
This is a great article by Robin Givhan the Washington Post talking about the writers strike affecting broadcast media and the stagehand strike affecting Broadway.

According to the article:

In a complicated, multilayered world, we need simplistic, linear storytelling, jokes that call out for a rimshot and one-liners that require no sense of irony or familiarity with world events. There is a place for silliness that splashes across the surface and provides easy, painless amusement. And there is something cozy and reassuring about entertainment that can be summed up in a tiny, simple word: fun.

We are losing our outlet to just sit and re-charge our brains. No sitting down and laughing to Jon Stewart or Leno, I need my new episodes of the Office, and it would be nice to go to Broadway and have a sing-a-long to Abba at Mama Mia. No wait a minute. See what the strikes are doing to my brain?

The good thing is that I now have alternatives compared to previous strikes. Video podcasts/netcasts are plenty and there is great content out there. If this strike goes on, I may not go back to watching all the shows before. I will just watch for free the shows the independent content producers are developing.

We need to get the producers together with the respective writers or stagehand union and settle this thing. Otherwise there won’t be an industry to come back to and the television networks will roll-out endless garbage like American Gladiator.  Wait, they are already doing that.

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EPIC, Evolving Personalised Information Construct

EPIC (Evolving Personalised Information Construct) is an interesting video looking at the future of media. I am not sure when it was first developed, but I think that it has been several years.
There are two versions. One is set in 2014 and the updated version is set in 2015.

It is amazing how close some of the predictions have and are coming true. The merging of media, search, and data; the fight over copyright; and how we will be getting our news and information in the future. Continue reading “EPIC, Evolving Personalised Information Construct”

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net@nite Coming Back

Yeah!  net@nite is coming back.
Thanks Amber and Leo for bringing this netcast back.  It is a wonderful to listen to you and Amber talk about their favorite web picks.

I don’t mind that it is not going to be live because I never was able to listen to it live.

Thanks and I look forward to it coming back. net@nite is one of my favorite netcasts.