Media

Playing Catch-Up

Posted by Adron on Oct 11, 2009 in Media, Reviews | 0 comments

Originally Posted to Blogger – Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Weird Mail. B-Day Concert. New Gig.

Here’s another round of random bloggings:

. Pro Evo – I got this book today in the mail called ProEvo: Pro Evolution – Guideline for an Age of Joy. I’ve never heard of it, didn’t order, don’t know where it came from, other than it was plastic wrapped with an insert that mentioned the mysterious “Foundation”.

Googling the book, and it’s author, Tomotom Stiflung, only led me to a string of other blogs of people who had received the book under similar circumstances. It can be found on Amazon (see the link above) for a penny (!) and no real information. The actual website for the book is extremely vague – and in German, I think. I translated it in BabelFish, but it was not informative in any way.

Random Blogging

Posted by Adron on Oct 11, 2009 in Media, Reviews | 2 comments

Originally Posted to Blogger – Thursday, September 28, 2006

Here’s a few random-ish observations – a bloggin’ catch-all.

. Heroes – I was super excited to see the premiere of Heroes on NBC this past Monday. Advance word was really positive, and the premise sounded like a cousin to J. Michael Straczynski’s turbulent but often brilliant comic maxi-series Rising Stars. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very thrilled with the pilot. There’s some intriguing ideas happening in it, but it struck me as NBC’s attempt at a Lost styled fanta-drama (that’s a new word, folks, feel free to use it, but credit me).

The show kicked off with a cheeseball text scroll giving an outline for the series, and proceeded along a bumpy path of neat moments and heavy-handed attempts at faux-enigmatic cliff hangers.

Adventures in Videotaping

Posted by Adron on Oct 11, 2009 in Business, Media | 3 comments

Originally Posted to Blogger – Thursday, August 03, 2006

For every fifty days I spend sitting on my ass in the office glued to the computer screen futzing with pixels and endless lines of code, I get the out of the ordinary, kinda wacky day. If you’ve read my entry about the porn store excursion, you have an idea how wacky.

Our titular character, Cornbread, next to the trailer and in front of a storage shed destroyed by our recent midwest storms.

One of my goals with our Interactive (ie web) department at Emmis has been to move us into the realm of video. We haven’t had much opportunity to do this before, lacking equipment and training and budgets and those sorts of things. Fortunately, in another department we have a talented guy named Jim who has some pretty excellent video production skills and has also been pushing to do some film work in house. We joined forces to work on a project tentatively titled “Cornbread’s Big Pointfest Adventure”.

You’re Beautiful, Kelly Clarkson

Posted by Adron on Oct 11, 2009 in Media | 2 comments

Originally Posted to Blogger – Wednesday, August 02, 2006

I heard recently that Kelly Clarkson had signed an endorsement deal with Vitamin Water, but the company was refusing to pay her or use her services until she dropped 10-15 pounds. The flavored water-ish distributor has a health-oriented image to maintain, (you know, that’s why they aligned themselves with rapstar 50 Cent – feuding with other rappers and getting shot 9 times just screams healthy) so a “fat” Clarkson was unsuitable for their campaign.

Beyond her considerable singing abilities, I admire Kelly for being a “real” girl in an industry of finger-gagging waifs and no-talent plastic drama queens. She’s girl-next-door pretty, goofy and fun in interviews, and has never lost that beautiful junk-in-the-trunk.

Bush renews fight against gay marriage

Posted by Adron on Oct 11, 2009 in Media, Reviews | 4 comments

From MySpace blog: Monday, June 05, 2006

President Bush and Senate conservatives are working to push through a constitutional amendment designed to ban same-sex marriage. The amendment has a slim chance of passage, lacking enough supporters to raise the required 2/3 vote. It serves as an opportunity for Bush’s followers to strengthen their anti-gay (oh, is that too strong a term?) stance to draw support for upcoming elections.

The majority of Democrats and many Moderate Republicans oppose the amendment, citing it as pandering to the religious right, clearly bigoted or simply unnecessary.

I Aim to Misbehave

Posted by Adron on Oct 11, 2009 in Life & Times, Media, Reviews | 2 comments

From MySpace Blog: Thursday, May 25, 2006

I’ve not been an active blogger for a little bit, so here’s some random catching up:

. I went to Mexico recently, on a business trip. Stayed at a fancy 5 star all inclusive resort. Went to meetings, had a sports massage, did a little swimming, drank tequila and hung with my Emmis Interactive peeps from all over the nation. Good times. Special note: when you don’t want to return from Mexico looking like a lobster, look to Neutrogena SPF 45 spray on sunblock. It’s like Colt 45 for your skin – works every time!