I Have Experienced an Upgrade

The Future Mrs. Mad Pulp Bastard

Courtesy of Warren Ellis here.

If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

There, I've said it.

If you need me I'll be in hell.

Trying Some New Gadgetry....

I'm Not The Only One Who's Grumpy...

Courtesy Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin.

ENIGMA : Webseries Concept

The spy network of the future is only a phone call away.
(c) 2009 by Bill Cunningham and Mad Pulp Media

This is what happens...

When those crazy Canuck friends of mine get ahold of the Squirrelizer.

Thank goodness it's not The Moosifier!

H/T to Obrien...

I Am Now Authorized

So behave!

WWIII Propaganda Posters

If we are to keep things competitive for the small companies in this new digital world by supporting net neutrality then we need to start the propaganda machine right away.

And who better to emulate than those brave folks who fought for our freedom those many years ago (and right now)?

From a tip at Boing Boing, I present Mr. Moore's Propaganda Posters.

It's Friday Okay?!!!

How long before all of these start showing up around the internet?

Pulp Legionnaires: Alert!

As I told you in the first Electrogram. Build your network of web portals through one interface and track all stats not only from those portals, but all of the embedded players around the web.

(It has a few bugs, but this is a significant step forward in putting sophisticated marketing tools in your hands so you can make money with your media)

Track who's watching. When they are watching. Where they are watching.

If you know your audience and where they hang out you can tailor your content to them. You can maximize your particular audience, and minimize waste.

Oh and FYI - this is the sort of thing we go over in the Electrogram. This, free links (when I find them) and behind-the-scenes stuff of what's happening with New Pulp Media. There's more, but you have to sign up to find out.

No Explanation Required: Filipino Superheroine Super Gee

Well, actually maybe there is some explanation required. Go here.

Found via Video 48.

And Bikini Machines

(NSFW - seriously - NSFW)

2008 Sez: "Eff You Theatrical Distribution!!!"

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Think Small

From Scott Kirsner's Cinematech:

A lot of times when I've written about some interesting little Internet experiment that has generated $50,000 or $100,000 for the creative person behind it, someone will e-mail me to ask, "Yeah, OK, but how does that support the media industry? A movie studio can't pay its security guards for a week on that kind of money."

Good point.

I'm very confident about digital media's ability to support individual creators, doing the kind of work they want to do, often on tightly-constrained budgets. (Constraints = inventiveness, right?)

I'm less confident that it will support the same gargantuan, diversified companies that raked in the big bucks in the days when there were only four TV networks, six movies released every weekend, a dozen important records issued on Tuesday.

Good.

For too long we've had the homogenized voice of "The Media" telling us what is what in terms of entertainment. That is, what they need for it to look and sound like so they can distribute it.

Ugh.

No more. There's a lot of stuff on the web that I absolutely loathe, but I'm not their audience... and that's okay because the way things are shaking out they don't need me. They can go along and do things they want to do, and I can do things I want to do...

and we can both profit from it.

Before, that couldn't happen. The media had to fit a wide market in order to be successful. You had so many costs associated with DVDs, books, video, audio and so forth that you had to make it palatable for a wide variety of folks. The digitization of the whole process has cut costs to the bone. Put the opportunity to say something unique, controversial or eclectic into the hands of the everyday person. Add to that the opportunity to get paid for it, and you have a whole new way of thinking about media - small.

And while that's going to lead to a lot of crap, it's also going to lead to a lot of unique, talented voices being able to say something that rings true to you.

And the studios are just going to have to deal.

Make that : Deal along a variety of media fronts.

The Keene Act and You (circa 1977)

An exceptional way to "inform" viewers of the world in which they are about to explore in the world of WATCHMEN. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons crafted a dense book about superheroes and the real-world implications of people walking around dispensing justice while wearing their pajamas...

But how do you communicate all that within the 100+ minute timeframe of a motion picture? Answer: you don't.

You walk hand-in-hand with your marketing dept. and create material for the DVD that you can release prior to the movie. You craft an entirely separate revenue stream by taking a portion of the book and producing an animated story from it.

The folks at Warners didn't just look at the movie and say, "How do we sell this MOVIE?" They looked at every part of the buffalo that is the Watchmen PROPERTY and said, "How do we pull people into this WORLD, and make sure that fans will be satisfied and people will be able to further explore the implications of this STORY?"

I always said that I didn't think you would ever be able to film WATCHMEN as a movie. I always saw it as a mini-series for HBO...

But I was thinking linearly. I wasn't embracing the internet (Al Gore hadn't invented it yet) and its myriad, non-linear ways of telling story. The folks at WB have crafted a multi-course meal of story here. You can opt out of the main course (the movie) and still receive satisfying chunks of content.

Bravo.

Prisoner Free on the Web

In a move that could only elicit the response of, "Well it's about damn time!" AMC is streaming episodes of the classic 60's television series THE PRISONER starring Patrick McGoohan.

Go. Watch. Here.



"I am not a number. I am a free internet!"

Those Little Rascals

H/t to Fred Ray for pointing this out.