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

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Behind “The Waldo Ultimatum” (Part 1)

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

The Where’s Waldo on WordPress blog has posted the first part of a three-part interview Matt Hoos and I conducted with blogger Michael Liss last month about “Where’s Waldo” and even thought it was a three hour discussion about Waldo, he’s somehow managed to make us sound reasonably coherent.

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Tags: A series of tubes · personal

Ah man this is going to be stuck in my head all day…

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Feist teaches us about counting to a number bigger than three, but less than five…

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Tags: A series of tubes · canadiana

Plight of the Beer Commercial Husband

July 14th, 2008 · No Comments

beer commercial husband, your plight is that of blindness to her plight. your only explanation you offer when she found you pouring kitty litter into the bathtub is a sheepish grin. you impulse-bought a motorcycle when the two of you were saving for a minivan, and your solution is to get a sidecar and a […]

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Tags: congratulations · funnybooks · people I wish I were

Rocket Ace Moving Pictures: Questionable Choices in Corporate Retreats Since 2008

July 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sorry it was such a quiet few days. I have a bit of a hard time tracking to whom I’ve said what (and where), but much of the RocketAce family decended upon San Diego last week to celebrate the wedding of Chad Thompson and Jennie Reichert. We were only a handful of cast and crew […]

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Tags: congratulations · personal

C-61: Attack of the Comments Thread

July 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments

My previous post on C-61 sparked some interesting comments from Russell McOrmond (a programmer from Ottawa who raised some interesting points vis-a-vis software) and Tim Harwell (a musician from my hometown of Calgary who… just didn’t agree with a lot of what I said). Since I know many/most of you don’t read the comments – […]

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Tags: canadiana · copyright reform · electronic entertainment · entertainment law · media ramblings

Bill C-61 isn’t great for producers either.

July 3rd, 2008 · 12 Comments

Yeah, you had to know this was coming. So here’s the standard disclaimer – I make the entirety of my income off profits from the exploitation of copyrighted works. Far from being a piracy apologist, I believe content creators have the right to monetize their creations as much (or as little) as they like. I […]

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Tags: copyright reform · entertainment law · media ramblings

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