TV

Cultivate Connoisseurship

08.11.2010 Art

Do you feel like you’re always behind with EVERYTHING? Do you find that you can never get through your list of tasks, and worse than that, all of those other things in life keep nagging at you? Do you feel like you’re under pressure because your TiVO or DVR is full of recorded shows that [...]

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3DTV Takes Over? Not Quite Yet

07.07.2010 Future

Sometimes I see press releases and pronouncements that make such ridiculous claims that I have to stop and think about what they’re saying. This one claims that by 2013 that a full 86% of Plasma TVs will be 3D versions. On closer thought, they may be right, but it probably doesn’t mean what you might [...]

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Movies and TV Lied To Us About Life (And Still Do)

04.19.2010 Art

Did you know that, from 1930 through 1968, first movies and then TV were under strict moral regulations about what could and couldn’t be shown? The regulations were known as the Hays code. The code, which was very detailed, had three main principles: No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of [...]

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Living In A Sci-fi Future – Movies, TV, and the Theater

04.08.2010 Art

I loved Avatar. It was a hell of a lot of fun. But I’m not running out to buy a 3D TV. And I’m not going out to see every new 3D movie. I remember one of the worst movies I ever saw was also in 3D – The Treasure of the Four Crowns – [...]

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