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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

Rise of the pop-culture tribes

June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A weird combination of Chris Sims awarding winning comic-blog-stylings and an interesting interview on Jazz FM got me thinking about the concept of tribalisim today, and how the future may be ruled by distinct groups with unique languages, customs, and idioms – based on how much they loved “Alf”.

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Tags: media ramblings · Uncategorized · welcome to the future

Defending Publishers (aka Several reasons self-publishing sucks)

June 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Almost a week ago, D.J. Coffman announced that he’s putting his (really fun) Hero by Night on hiatus due to late payments by Platinum Studios. His post immediately reignited the eternal argument about the importance of creators rights in comics (see, pretty much any post from this site two weeks ago). And while I agree […]

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Tags: electronic entertainment · funnybooks · personal

Talent Lab 2008 – Applications Available

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Since the recent TokyoPop contract debate has completely super-charged my pagerank, I’m starting to get a number of enquiries at this site about the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab. Yes, Sandra Cunningham and I will be co-producing this program again this year which is a real honour. I legitimately think this is one […]

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Tags: filmmaking · Toronto International Film Festival