Archive for the 'Film' Category

Irish Blog Awards 2006 - The Movie

Monday, March 13th, 2006

I shot a bunch of video on Saturday night at the blog awards and I think I caught most of the winners getting their awards. I missed the photo blog awards (sorry Donnacha) because I ran out of space and had to rejig the camera. Anyway I’ve posted it onto youtube for your edification.

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Idea Park: USB Movies for Travellers

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Another idea I want to unburden here, please feel free to make millions of dollars, send me a postcard if you do.

Entertainment distributed on USB keys for use by travellers

Loaded by a vending machine that takes credit cards. The vending machine in turn loaded over a broadband connection every few days. The content could injected into the USB key (which could be sold as part of the package) with the content embedded in a player program. The player program is designed to timeout with the timeout being set to around 48 hours. After that you can discard the data and use the key as normal. Next time just reload the same key with a different set of movies/shows.

A nice little hook up with the airlines and they enable your USB port on your seat for a fee in coach, for free in business class and boom a whole launchpad market right at your fingertips.

Go on, make me proud…

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Cringely riffs on Apple’s strategy for video

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Robert Cringely posits a fascinating strategy for Apple based around distributing rental video using the SOL Blockbuster chain as a distributor.

Robert is always value for money.

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Crash (2004)

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

I went to see Crash tonight. I love it when a movie drags great raggedly strings of emotion out of you and Crash had me hunched up in my seat on several occasions. It’s a film full of moral ambiguity with only the viewer having the god like vision that allows him to give meaning to the seemingly random violence, anger, pain and frustration of the protagonists. It plays with your own view of stereotypes and sucks you in, only to give a big smack upside the head just when you thought the god view was all you needed to feel comfortable.

Ace, King, Check it Out!

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The Ultimate Film

Monday, September 5th, 2005

I watched Channel 4′s The Ultimate Film over the weekend. the top ten was a bit of a shocker for somebody like myself who considers themselves to be a bit of a film buff. Check out number 10, The Seventh Veil, number 9, The Wicked Lady and number 6, The Best Years of our lives. All were produced between 1945 and 1947 and shot the lights out on modern main stream top billers such like Harry Potter, Grease and Jaws.

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