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My post on the six-hour scene dovetails nicely with this speech by Clay Shirky, which argues that we’re living in an era that’s wrestling with a cognitive surplus: So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project–every page, every edit, every talk […]

foot clutter: the tendency for people’s feet to get stacked up unnaturally when combining single shots together to form a group shot. Example: This is from the promo materials in development for the web pilot. Each character needs to be in its own layer, so they can stack up for animated graphics.

Here’s a useful bookmark: click it and it will generate a first name and last name from the U.S. Census data. Refresh to try again. So far, I’ve ended up with Michael Nickle, Sandra Gray, Jeffrey Silva and Tricia Lenz. Those might not be names for my theoretical deep-sea cowboy, but for That Guy in […]

What the heck is a two-handed comedy? Google turns up lots of two-handed comedies, but no one explains what that means. — jb I don’t know if Variety invented it, but it shows up in their slanguage dictionary: two-hander — a play or movie with two characters; ” ‘Love Letters’ has been one of the […]