Budgeting Special Effects

by kartooner on November 28, 2006

KCRW’s The Busi­ness hosted by Claude Brodesser-Akner is both a radio show and pod­cast deal­ing with the inner work­ings of the busi­ness of Hol­ly­wood. Claude’s inter­views with direc­tors, screen­writ­ers, adver­tis­ing exec­u­tives and actors/actresses are often fas­ci­nat­ing, if not enlight­en­ing, espe­cially if (…)

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Rolling with Cars

by kartooner on November 21, 2006

After releas­ing Find­ing Nemo — one of my all-time favorites, right up there with Toy Story — Pixar announced that they were work­ing on a film about cars. When I first heard the news I think I might’ve been read­ing an issue of Wired (…)

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A review of ReviewMe

by kartooner on November 11, 2006

The fol­low­ing is a spon­sored post, paid for by ReviewMe and it’s adver­tis­ers, a new ser­vice that rewards blog­gers (in mon­e­tary form) for reviews. I first read about ReviewMe on Techcrunch in an arti­cle that basi­cally stated — matter-of-factly — that it (…)

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Dead Like Who?

by kartooner on November 9, 2006

It just so hap­pens that the major­ity of tele­vi­sion shows that I hap­pen to embrace are typ­i­cally well– writ­ten, witty and intel­li­gent. You can say that most of what’s on TV rarely includes one of these attrib­utes let alone all three (…)

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