Disney | Focus
Fox | Fox Searchlight
MGM | Miramax
Paramount | Sony
Universal | WB
This idea was passed along by a professional studio geek who decided not to take credit… but an invisible hat tip.
Feel the Flash pain. But for anyone looking for trailers, Apple’s QT-driven site is a click away.
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
http://news.portalit.net/fullnews_new-ipad-fails-high-sales-expectations_2314.html
To expect all major websites to be on HTTP5 already is a little pie in the sky.
Anyways, to be somewhat more accurate:
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/07/wednesday-527315-ipads-and-counting/
If studios are not ready for iPad quite yet, I am pretty sure this will happen very soon. Good post!
Let me say this as a guy who uses his iPod at least 10 hours a day, and who thinks the iPad looks awesome. I hate how arrogant Apple is being about Flash. It’s so flipping annoying that they would demand that the entire internet change their format to fit Apple’s new toy rather than to simply allow Flash on their precious machines. I understand the complaints about power consumption and all of that, but isn’t that a choice they should let the devices’ owners make, rather than deciding for them? Isn’t that exactly the same level of arrogance that Apple users have always claimed of Microsoft? That’s why I’m going to hold off and maybe choose the HP Slate when it comes out, which (hopefully) allows me more control of my user experience.
@Me
The HP Slate specs were leaked.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/hp-slate-to-cost-549-have-1-6ghz-atom-z530-5-hour-battery/
It will get a vendor estimated 5 hour battery life vs. iPads 10+ confirmed by users.
You could also try a JooJoo, which according to Engadget’s review, can get 5 hours, but only 2.5 if you use Flash.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-review/
No Flash is a choice Apple has to make, and this is the whole point, because if they put it on iPhone,iPod & iPad, they have to support and explain to all buyers why the battery gets sucked it dry fast. That’s the short term, but the long term is a near doubling the number of charging cycles in a shorter time frame, cutting the life of a sealed battery in half. Since Apple is replacing the whole iPad on battery malfunction, this was not a small decision. So if iPad can last 3-5 years with single battery with no Flash, but only 1-3 with Flash, which would consumers really be happier with?
It wouldn’t surprise me if with Mac OS X 10.7 they stopped shipping Flash with the OS.
Apple is all about arrogance. I love ’em but fuck ’em.
Even if we assume the worst about Apple, forcing software on a $500 piece of luxury tech is not exactly monopolistic. It’s kind of like complaining about the OS in your Benz.
I don’t want to fight about it, but I will say… with 3G and even more so if they ad the front-facing camera, the iPad is a business tool that will help transform what I can do with my business.
I have already been able to use the iPhone – which I never use for mail or phone – to expand a lot of how I work. Receiving mail on a constant basis away from a laptop or desktop has also meant having my blackberry with me at all times. These aren’t toys to me.
What the iPad represents – and even more so as they improve some functionality – is a real work space that can duplicate 80% of my online work without squinting and making due, without waiting for a boot up, without being fearful that the battery will die after 30 minutes of intense use, with speakers I can actually hear if I don’t have earphones with me, etc…
I can write, I can edit others, I can edit images, I can post, I can copy and paste as needed. I suspect/hope that Movable Type and WordPress will redesign to make uploading images without a pop-up an option soon.
And with this tool, developers will surely start doing more serious business apps made for specific companies, many of which will be adaptable.
The world, simply, is different on a bigger screen.
I have been carrying around the smallest laptops for a long time and wouldn’t want any of these mini-laptops. To me, THAT is the middle technology. This is a tool that will make my life easier than ever… at least, once I get that 3G version.
“It wouldn’t surprise me if with Mac OS X 10.7 they stopped shipping Flash with the OS.”
Apple’s never shipped Flash as part of their OS — it’s always been somebody you download separately when you go to a Flash site for the first time.
Looks like the iPad will get appreciably better when the new iPhone OS comes out (this fall).
iPad and iPhone will most definitely not be supporting Flash in 4.0 of their OS. In fact, Adobe CS compilers won’t even be allowed (but will be curious how they enforce it) Here’s the difference in the just released developer program license kit…
before:
3.3.1