June 2010
Loving the left coast
mikehudack:
I spent Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco with Rafi and today in Los Angeles with Steve. Tomorrow and Friday are full of show producer meetings — and an Ikea delivery. I’m loving the left coast right now. I’ll definitely be spending more time out here… there’s so much opportunity!
And the left coast is loving the Hudack Experience.
Big days of win coming up!
worship the glitch: webseries and descriptions →
Long titles/descriptions are great for existing fans but work against potential new viewers. Cut ‘em down and pack info into the first few words.
I wrote a short description for this video:
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Aside from making an easy intro point, short descriptions ensure that the relevant data carries…
“I have three heads of studios coming into my office. They’re completely at...”
– JUNE GLOOM CONSUMES HOLLYWOOD: The Week That Studios Sought Out Agents – Deadline.com
The film industry is making features that are so creatively bankrupt right now. Signing their own death certificate.
WatchWow. Greatest video I’ve ever seen on a Tuesday!
mundy:
Automatic Reblog for Iron Maiden. Automatic Reblog because it’s really funny.
atencio:
IMMORTAL DOG!
Do you wish your dog was immortal? Now he can be! All for just $150! Are you fucking kidding me?!
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New short I directed for The Midnight Show. Written by Heather Anne...
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So... →
On a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at aNASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen.
While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer capable of remotely steering a robot, the gizmo rolling around here consisted of a...
“Original Web series are finding a niche at night… At Blip.tv, which distributes...”
– Web Series Tap Into Prime Time - WSJ.com
We believe this is important. Viewership of Web shows distributed by blip.tv peaks during prime time. Not only that, but we’re about to hit a magical number: one hundred million video views per month. We should hit that milestone this month, in June.
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Boogie Nights (1997) →
chriscantwell:
ewilcox:
I’M A STAR, I’M A STAR, I’M A STAR.
by Elizabeth Wilcox
When Boogie Nights came out, I was 14 years old, a freshman in high school. You can imagine what the 9th-grade locker-room talk about the movie was. From snatches of overheard conversations about Dirk Diggler (or, almost more often,…
I wrote an essay on Boogie Nights that’s up at A Bright Wall in a Dark...
“At Blip.tv, which manages and aggregates tens of thousands of independent online...”
– Web Series Tap Into Prime Time - WSJ.com (via mikehudack)
worship the glitch: Sticking Your Thumb In Their... →
Web series don’t spend nearly enough time on episode thumbnails. It’s extremely hard to find a single image/frame that says it all, but it’s worth the trouble. They aren’t the silver bullet, but when most shows don’t put any effort into thumbs, simply doing the work puts you ahead of the pack.
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