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Canadian producer Brad Fox blogs on visual media, and living in the digital wild west

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Entries from June 2008

Confidential to Disney / Pixar PR & Marketing – A Proposed Deal Regarding WALL-E…

June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Presumably your corporate fiefdoms contain (somewhere) a vast staff who does nothing but Google your various interests all day, in order to quantify and relay “the buzz” of people with websites in lovely digest reports. I desperately cling to this belief (come on Google spider – hook a brother up). I have nothing of any […]

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Tags: filmmaking · media ramblings

Please stop e-mailing me about DJ Coffman and “Heroes by Night”

June 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Based, presumably, on the fact I referred to DJ Coffman in this post about why self-publishing isn’t a panacea, and the still wildly popular trio of posts about the TokyoPop pilot (the inciting incident, ensuing brough-ha, and third thing where Zuda gets dragged into the morass) people are seeming to take DJ’s post from yesterday […]

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Tags: copyright reform · entertainment law · filmmaking · funnybooks · people I wish I were

I’ll tell you where Matt is…

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

… he’s all over the freaking internet and still going strong. I remember Matt Harding’s 2005 “Dancing” video pretty clearly. A friend of the family was doing a world tour around the same time, so I’d often contrast his e-mails with what Matt was up to. But this… this is just awesome. It’s raising the […]

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Tags: A series of tubes · media ramblings

Copyright, more like copywrong… amirite?

June 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Thank you, well intentioned people who keep hitting my contact form, I’m well aware that a revised bill C-61 to amend Canada’s copyright legislation was tabled more than a week ago, and I’ve still yet to say “boo” about it. I don’t want to say too much on it, until I have a chance to […]

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Tags: Uncategorized

Harry Knowles does not care for “The Love Guru”

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I can’t recall the last time I read a Harry Knowles movie review. I’m not really big on review-sites in general – but I used to use AICN as a vague barometer for “genre movies” I was on the fence about seeing in theatres – a role which (for me) is now much better suited […]

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Tags: filmmaking

The game is afeet

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

A fifth severed human foot (the first left) has washed ashore in British Columbia. From the (strangely irreverent) article: (RCMP Const. Annie) Linteau said the first four feet showed no signs of foul play. Within the broader context of the article, I believe that Constable Linteau was trying to indicate that the feet were not […]

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Tags: canadiana · eh?

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June 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

More information on traditions can be found on the internet (specificially on Balloonjuice via Mightygodking, of course).

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Tags: A series of tubes

Not Happening

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I guess it’s become de rigeur to bash M. Night Shyamalan lately – but I don’t consider myself part of that bandwagon. For starters I count “Unbreakable” among my favourite films, and it was far from a critical darling. So please use that as some kind of calibration to take heed when I feel compelled […]

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