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Comment Welcome to the long tail (Score 2) 256

I say, welcome to the long tail, enabled by technology. In the past few days I've listened to songs whose performances span more than a half century, and whose compositions span ~350 years.

New artists are now in competition with hundreds of years of music. And they're now competing in a space where most people are renting their music, where people don't have their childhood libraries already purchased; new music competes with old music for money via stream nums.

Comment Welcome to the long tail (Score 0) 101

I say, welcome to the long tail, enabled by technology. In the past few days I've listened to songs whose performances span more than a half century, and whose compositions span ~350 years. New artists are now in competition with hundreds of years of music. And they're now competing in a space where most people are renting their music, where people don't have their childhood libraries already purchased (and thus would bias toward purchasing new music); new music competes with old music for money via stream numbers.

Comment Re:Why not just use Herbert's screenplay? (Score 1) 589

According to Herbert his screenplay was "awful".

"I did a screenplay and it was awful. It was too long. It lacked the proper visual metaphors. I was too close to the book to be able to see it as a film. David didn't have that problem. Working on this film with David has taught me one great deal about taking the printed word, a screenplay, and making it into a film."

Right near the end of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rTvjJxUebA&feature=related

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Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" 325

Peace Corps Online writes "An expedition called Project Kaisei has departed bound for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a huge 'island' of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean estimated to be the size of Alaska (some estimates place it at ten times that size). The expedition will study the impact of the waste on marine life, and research methods to clean up the vast human-created mess in the Pacific. The BBC quotes Ryan Yerkey, the project's chief of operations: 'Every piece of trash that is left on a beach or ends up in our rivers or estuaries and washes out to the sea is an addition to the problem, so we need people to be the solution.' The garbage patch occupies a large and relatively stationary region of the North Pacific Ocean bound by the North Pacific Gyre, a remote area commonly referred to as the horse latitudes. The rotational pattern created by the North Pacific Gyre draws in waste material from across the North Pacific Ocean, including the coastal waters off North America and Japan. As material is captured in the currents, wind-driven surface currents gradually move floating debris toward the center, trapping it in the region. 'You are talking about quite a bit of marine debris but it's not a solid mass,' says Yerkey. 'Twenty years from now we can't be harvesting the ocean for trash. We need to get it out but we need to also have people make those changes in their lives to stop the problem from growing and hopefully reverse the course.'"

Comment Re:Enough Shakey Cam! (Score 1) 461

The problem with shaky cam is that it is trying to give the impression of a camera and/or cameraman inside the action. But that's not what I want. I want to be in the action. Not through the proxy of a camera. My eyes and brain have the ability to compensate for a good amount of shaking. When I see shaky cam it pulls me out of the movie, because I am painfully aware that this is not what it would look like were I in the action.

I understand that by not giving something the eye can focus on they are attempting to replicate the confusion and frenzy that take place in battle, but I think there are better ways to convey these.

Also, when they had the unsteady camera filming the conversation between Kirk and Pike in the bar that was way too much. Unless I'm drunk over at the next table and can't sit upright for the life of me I don't expect to be bobbing about.

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