I’m very excited to point everyone to this new Kickstarter, months in the making, to try and help us provide hundreds of free copies of “Billy Bishop Goes to War” in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War I. The lack of a commercial quality, physical DVD for “Billy Bishop” has been something that’s […]
Billy Bishop Goes to War – a Gift for our Veterans
November 6th, 2014 · 1 Comment
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Dropping Film Knowledge like a Clumsy Librarian (somewhere in the 700 section…)
June 5th, 2014 · No Comments
Hi all! People seem to be liking the film industry / history writing I’ve been doing over at Quora, so if you’re one of the folks mad I don’t have more time for long-form industry ramblings these days, there might be something there to scratch your itch? Here’s a list of every Quora I’ve answered […]
Tags: filmmaking · media ramblings · shameless self promotion
Happy… 2013…
December 4th, 2013 · No Comments
Hey everyone, Sorry there hasn’t been much updated on this front. Tonnes of interesting developments to chat about in the ever-crazy media world – and not enough hours in the day. As I race pell-mell towards the end of the year, I really do want to make getting this space into some kind of shape […]
Tags: media ramblings · shameless self promotion
Crowdfinancing For Film
February 26th, 2012 · 5 Comments
Kickstarter raising millions for creative projects, prospective donors lining up with their wallets out, does the age of “Crowd Financing” shepard in an exciting new era of film financing? Actually I think there’s some potential troubles there worth talking about. To the shiny new videoblog thing!
Tags: filmmaking · Video BlogFox
Welcome to VideoBlogFox
February 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments
I’ve been talking a lot on Twitter about trying to find a new format to talk about issues in film and television and it’s finally time to share this “very-much-still-a-work-in-progress” experiment called Video BlogFox! Episode Fun Fact : Yes, I absolutely shaved and put that shirt on specifically to resemble my cartoon avatar as much […]
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Hide “0 Comments” link in WordPress when using the Disqus Plugin
June 8th, 2011 · 88 Comments
“Google Fail” posts usually have absolutely nothing to do with what I normally blog about, but are attempts to fill gaps in the mighty collective internet knowledgebase. They are triggered by rare cases where Google has failed me in my search to find some piece of information, or easy instruction on how to do something, […]
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Comics and the Digital Ecosystem
June 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments
Hey all – I’ve been working on a bold Blogfox experiment for this month, which I was hoping to roll out this week – but that’s been back-burnered for a few days… so I’ve given myself ten minutes to jot down a couple of things I *have* to get down regarding “ye olde funnybooks” before […]
Tags: A series of tubes · electronic entertainment · funnybooks · media ramblings · welcome to the future
Adventures in Universe Building (aka The “My Little Pony†Posts): Part II – Allegorical and Campaign Universes
March 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments
Now that I’ve, hopefully, made a passable argument that dynamic and varied story engines were not a strength of 1980s kids television – let’s look at a different, but related, aspect of those shows (and kind of the underlying point of this whole series of posts) – The Universes they were set in.