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

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BlogFox Braindump!

January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I don’t have a lot of insightful, funny, lengthy stuff to post, but rather a bunch of odds and ends that don’t lend themselves to lengthy discourse… hence – fear my braindump: Digital 21 gun salute for both Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban. Both spent a lot of time on islands. Both had unsucessful experiments […]

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Tags: A series of tubes · entertainment law · funnybooks · media ramblings · No. · the videogames

2008 – A year in funnybooks

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

I actually discovered the group blog The Savage Critics because of Brian Hibbs interesting column Tilting at Windmills. There are all kinds of good blogs from the “through-the-looking-glass” world of comic-book retail – but Brian has a penchant for distilling all kinds of nit-picky retail data into a comprehensible fashion. He recently posted two quick […]

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Tags: copyright reform · funnybooks

Watchmen Updates – What’s that on the Horizon?

January 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Is it a settlement? No. Not quite. Lots of good updates on Watchmen lawsuit happenings over at Film Esq. – my favourite lawblog du jour. The Coles notes is that everyone who prophesied a quick settlement after the Dec 24th order (cough, cough) may want to take a mulligan. Fox appears to be going for […]

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Tags: entertainment law · filmmaking · media ramblings

iTunes DRM Free

January 7th, 2009 · No Comments

So I get horibly sick for a few days and go and miss the, likely final, MacWorld Keynote. No offence Phil, but it just would have felt wrong without Steve anyway. Others will cover the keynote and other show highlights better elsewhere – but I just wanted to take a moment to talk about the […]

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Happy New (Glurk)!

January 7th, 2009 · No Comments

I decided to mix up festivities this year by apparently toasting in the new year with a large glass of influenza virus. In retrospect, I think I can see why “champagne” is probably the more traditional medium, as “general discomfort” really doesn’t do justice to the past few days. I have trouble reading when I’m […]

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Tags: A series of tubes · canadiana · funnybooks · personal · political windbaggery

Happy New FUTURE!

January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

I had new-years news all lined up, but I’m still ironing some kinks out of the new design (now with unnerving levels of GIANT FLOATING HEAD) – so I’ll be breif instead: Happiest of New Years to everyone who joined me here since the sites relaunch last Spring, and remember – it may not be […]

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Tags: A series of tubes · welcome to the future

the Torontoist is dead – No, wait, no it’s not.

December 31st, 2008 · No Comments

This sucks. I had pre-written a great pair of thematic “out with the old, in with the new” posts to celebrate the new year, one of which has now pretty much invalidated itself over the time I was out of town for the holidays, as it turns out the patient being eulogized isn’t actually deceased. […]

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Tags: canadiana · media ramblings

Seriously, Who’s Watching the Watchmen Lawsuit?

December 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Dear Fox, Eat All the Dicks – Daniel O’Brien Like lots of other bloggers, I was shocked to come out of my post-Christmas turkey induced coma to the news, broken by Michael Sieply in the New York Times, that Twentieth Century Fox has succeeded in at least some of their lawsuit against Warner Brothers relating […]

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