Hello Wiley. This truck may be red white and blue, but it leaves me feeling green with nausea. How much Iraqi oil needs to be "freed" to feed this behemoth? -Pam Nelson (Lincoln NE)
Thursday, July 31, 2003
The "Freedom" Truck!
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the new 2003 Ford Durrrrrrr.
Hello Wiley. This truck may be red white and blue, but it leaves me feeling green with nausea. How much Iraqi oil needs to be "freed" to feed this behemoth? -Pam Nelson (Lincoln NE)
Hello Wiley. This truck may be red white and blue, but it leaves me feeling green with nausea. How much Iraqi oil needs to be "freed" to feed this behemoth? -Pam Nelson (Lincoln NE)
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Laura Splan
Laura Splan makes very cool medical/craft themed art and was recently featured in the recent Illegal Art Exhibit in SF.
Found Via BoingBoing
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Monday, July 28, 2003
The fresh fragrance of rotting meat.
Corpse flower: Amorphophallus titanum at jetcityorange.com
-- Amorphophallus titanum is also known as Titan Arum, corpse flower or Devil's Tongue.
-- The plant is native to the tropical rainforests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
-- The goal of botanical gardens and university greenhouses is to study Amorphophallus titanum in cultivated settings because they are becoming scarce in the wild. The plants have been heavily harvested for food and medicine and, because of their phallic appearance, also are valued by some as aphrodisiacs or cures for impotence.
Thanks, Tamara!
-- Amorphophallus titanum is also known as Titan Arum, corpse flower or Devil's Tongue.
-- The plant is native to the tropical rainforests of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
-- The goal of botanical gardens and university greenhouses is to study Amorphophallus titanum in cultivated settings because they are becoming scarce in the wild. The plants have been heavily harvested for food and medicine and, because of their phallic appearance, also are valued by some as aphrodisiacs or cures for impotence.
Thanks, Tamara!
Apple Newton eMate 300
My new toy, the Apple Newton eMate 300. For about 80 dollars on Ebay, you have a pda/laptop that can be equipped with Wi-Fi, and has tons of free software available and a huge, loyal user-base who continually write drivers for new hardware.
Newt Links:
Wi-Fi PCMCIA card driver stack
Wireless networking setup
IrDA stack for communicating with newer cellphones
Raissa, a Newton RSS aggregator
Newton Blogging Software
Newton Faq
Newton software out the wazoo (including web browsers, email apps, instant message apps, games etc.)
Saturday, July 26, 2003
More good cartoons from Seth
Seth says:
I'm also a fan of http://www.billanderik.com/ Check out the flash cartoons. Oh, and, though they aren't local, have you seen these: http://www.heavengallery.com/fenslerfilms/
I'm also a fan of http://www.billanderik.com/ Check out the flash cartoons. Oh, and, though they aren't local, have you seen these: http://www.heavengallery.com/fenslerfilms/
Creased Comics
Hot christ-a-knifin', the Creased Comics website is finally up and has a little content. Go check out why Brad Neely is the funniest and fucking weirdest undiscovered cartoonist in Austin.
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Panspermia: Spreading Life Through the Universe
Nice recap (with links) of panspermia theory on space.com. A good read if you aren't familiar with the idea, but a bit brief.
About 25 years ago, two British astronomers, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramsinghe, proposed that comets might be the Johnny Appleseeds of life, carrying vital spores from star system to star system, an idea that is known today as panspermia. If the tail of such a life-loaded comet were to brush the Earth, it might pass some of its frozen microorganisms into the atmosphere where they could descend to our planet's surface. The two astronomers ventured that this might account for the start of life on Earth.
Link
About 25 years ago, two British astronomers, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramsinghe, proposed that comets might be the Johnny Appleseeds of life, carrying vital spores from star system to star system, an idea that is known today as panspermia. If the tail of such a life-loaded comet were to brush the Earth, it might pass some of its frozen microorganisms into the atmosphere where they could descend to our planet's surface. The two astronomers ventured that this might account for the start of life on Earth.
Link
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
kozyndan poster bonanza
Eureka! Today our mailbox was filled with really excellent looking goodies from Kozy and Dan! Really lovely new prints are available in all manner of size and media and all transform a wall from a bleak reminder of the imposing and artless physicality of your home into a glowing and artful celebration of life... and bunnies.
I'm a little afraid to take our copy of animal orgy to a framer though. I hope I can find sectional frames that will fit, this one is going over the bed.
Tangible Media Group
James Patten, Tangible interface Research Projects
Very Cool MIT MediaLab research designing computing interfaces based on physical objects. Check out the movie in the above link.
These tangible interfaces aim to let people take advantage of the skills they already have when using a computer, instead of having to develop new ones.
Tangible Media Group Homepage
Very Cool MIT MediaLab research designing computing interfaces based on physical objects. Check out the movie in the above link.
These tangible interfaces aim to let people take advantage of the skills they already have when using a computer, instead of having to develop new ones.
Tangible Media Group Homepage
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Autopsy Report
Autopsy anectdotes, including accounts of fly eggs on dead people's genitals.
Guh.. plerf... flugggh... *Blarrrfghgh*
We also had a guy that drowned in his pool. He didn't hit his head or anything, so he just fell in and didn't know how to swim. The moral here: learn to swim.
Link
Guh.. plerf... flugggh... *Blarrrfghgh*
We also had a guy that drowned in his pool. He didn't hit his head or anything, so he just fell in and didn't know how to swim. The moral here: learn to swim.
Link
Pixadex
Pixadex, an extremely slick new icon organizer. Good, simple software.
Pixadex is to icons, what Apple's iPhoto is to images. Brought to you by Panic and The Iconfactory, the team who created CandyBar, Pixadex lets you import, organize and search huge numbers of icons quickly & easily.
Link
Monday, July 21, 2003
Don Knotts Suicide Pact
From Dr. Mattt Turner (yes, I put that third 't' in there on purpose):
IT'S DON KNOTTS' BIRTHDAY TODAY!
I smell a suicide pact!
Who's in friendsters?
Do it for MR. LIMPET!
DO IT FOR THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG!
GOD!!!
thank you for your time.
IT'S DON KNOTTS' BIRTHDAY TODAY!
I smell a suicide pact!
Who's in friendsters?
Do it for MR. LIMPET!
DO IT FOR THE APPLE DUMPLING GANG!
GOD!!!
thank you for your time.
New Scientist
Nice quote from a NewScientist interview with Jonathan Kingdon this week:
I feel passionately that children should have an education that encourages them to ponder their existence on this Earth. Myths and legends are a distraction. We need to continue to ask serious questions about where we come from and where we are going. Religion once upon a time tried to do that in a very serious and earnest way in the face of very little information at all. I respect the people who invented these myths much more than the people who follow them. But we have a huge amount of information now - real concrete material. We need to formulate new visions of our meaning and ourselves. The myth-makers lived in a time when there was no information so they had to fall back on symbolic stories, and often they are wonderful stories representing deep truths. But as time goes on, like Chinese whispers they become more and more distorted.
Link:
I feel passionately that children should have an education that encourages them to ponder their existence on this Earth. Myths and legends are a distraction. We need to continue to ask serious questions about where we come from and where we are going. Religion once upon a time tried to do that in a very serious and earnest way in the face of very little information at all. I respect the people who invented these myths much more than the people who follow them. But we have a huge amount of information now - real concrete material. We need to formulate new visions of our meaning and ourselves. The myth-makers lived in a time when there was no information so they had to fall back on symbolic stories, and often they are wonderful stories representing deep truths. But as time goes on, like Chinese whispers they become more and more distorted.
Link:
Friday, July 18, 2003
Thursday, July 17, 2003
Heart found chime, break-tooth lock
It puzzles me why the simple concept "sugar feeds cancer" can be so dramatically overlooked as part of a comprehensive cancer treatment plan. We have thirteen hundred rusty canisters in the back storeroom, bent and bruised green aluminum, with flaky brown labels on them that read "Don't feed honey to baby". We keep the lights off in that room. There are also several open, stenching shafts in the alley behind the nursery. One of which is full of bloated, waterlogged teddy-bears made from fluffed factory farming waste. They have the look and feel of whipped bologna and margarine. They were originally processed with a perfume that was supposed to mask the smell, but the chemicals have broken down and the tissues are starting to decay. We can't sell any of this crap. We need a whole new marketing plan, but nobody is answering their phones. Half the accounting department has committed suicide. None of the toilets flush. The freezer in the break room is full of unlabeled , bloody packages. The president of the company is using intravenous drugs in the lobby and passing out there for hours. He's been wearing the same suit for a week and he smells like urine and insecticide.
Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False!
Wow, and to think of how full of "science" hoo-ha my poor deluded head had gotten! Pokemon clearly proves that 'evolutionism' is false! Behind me, Satan!
Creation Science Fair 2001
Honorable Mentions:
'God Made Kitty' - Sally Reister (grade 3)
'The Bible Says Creation' - Aaron Kent (grade 5)
'Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False' - Paul Sanborn (grade 4)
Thanks Seth!
Creation Science Fair 2001
Honorable Mentions:
'God Made Kitty' - Sally Reister (grade 3)
'The Bible Says Creation' - Aaron Kent (grade 5)
'Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False' - Paul Sanborn (grade 4)
Thanks Seth!
My Bloody Valentine Return to Studio to Complete Unfinished Album, Shields Scores Coppola Film
The trio of Kevin Shields, Colm O'Ciosiog and Bilinda Butcher (bassist Debbie Googe is not present at the sessions) are reportedly re-recording five songs that the band abandoned for their 1989 EP Glider. The EP, released in between 1988's Isn't Anything and the group's undisputed masterpiece, the dream-pop landmark Loveless, was originally meant to be a nine-song full-length album, but the band, as usual, was took too long to record it and eventually caved to pressure from the industry and released the four finished songs as an EP.
The remaining five unfinished songs from the sessions were shelved indefinitely as the band proceeded to work on Loveless-- and with the group's breakup soon after, 'indefinitely' seemed to turn into 'forever' for those missing tunes. Now that could all change. The box set, which is tentatively due out this winter, is said to contain the long-awaited full version of My Bloody Valentine's Glider album, fleshed out by the new recordings. There is, however, no word yet as to what else the box set might contain, or even what label may decide to release it."
Pitchfork: Daily Music News Thanks Matthew!
The remaining five unfinished songs from the sessions were shelved indefinitely as the band proceeded to work on Loveless-- and with the group's breakup soon after, 'indefinitely' seemed to turn into 'forever' for those missing tunes. Now that could all change. The box set, which is tentatively due out this winter, is said to contain the long-awaited full version of My Bloody Valentine's Glider album, fleshed out by the new recordings. There is, however, no word yet as to what else the box set might contain, or even what label may decide to release it."
Pitchfork: Daily Music News Thanks Matthew!
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Takeshi Kitano Updates "Zatoichi"
I'm against this, but I'll give it a chance. I really don't feel like you can have a Zatoichi movie without Shintaro Katsu. Plus, this trailer looks stupid. If Beat Takeshi feels he needs to remake the character, why not do a new chambara movie and leave Zatoichi alone?
Director Takeshi Kitano's 'Zatoichi' is now in post-production for a September release in Japan. Kitano stars as the cult figure Zatoichi, a blind masseur and gambler who is also a master swordsman. (The role was originated by actor Shintaro Katsu in a series of films from 1962-1989.) 'In Japan, the Zatoichi character has been virtually synonymous with the late Mr. Shintaro Katsu,' said Kitano in a prepared statement. 'From the beginning, I was aware that if I was going to play this character, I had to direct the film myself and make Zatoichi my own. The first thing I did was dye my hair blonde.' If you want a sneak preview of the film, see a trailer at http://office-kitano.co.jp/zatoichi. 'Beat' Kitano, famous for directing films like 'Brother,' 'Dolls,' and 'Violent Cop' is tackling a period piece for the first time. 'With the help of our choreographer, I consciously composed the swordfighting to have a more intense and realistic look, unlike typical period films where victims fall even though the sword doesn't come close to touching their bodies,' he said.
Link
Director Takeshi Kitano's 'Zatoichi' is now in post-production for a September release in Japan. Kitano stars as the cult figure Zatoichi, a blind masseur and gambler who is also a master swordsman. (The role was originated by actor Shintaro Katsu in a series of films from 1962-1989.) 'In Japan, the Zatoichi character has been virtually synonymous with the late Mr. Shintaro Katsu,' said Kitano in a prepared statement. 'From the beginning, I was aware that if I was going to play this character, I had to direct the film myself and make Zatoichi my own. The first thing I did was dye my hair blonde.' If you want a sneak preview of the film, see a trailer at http://office-kitano.co.jp/zatoichi. 'Beat' Kitano, famous for directing films like 'Brother,' 'Dolls,' and 'Violent Cop' is tackling a period piece for the first time. 'With the help of our choreographer, I consciously composed the swordfighting to have a more intense and realistic look, unlike typical period films where victims fall even though the sword doesn't come close to touching their bodies,' he said.
Link
Shatner horse semen suit dismissed - The Washington Times: United Press International
VERSAILLES, Ky., July 13 (UPI) -- A lawsuit filed against actor William Shatner over frozen horse semen has been dismissed.
Link
Link
Apple Movie Store?
Gee, do you think so?
Bloomberg.com:Research: July 14, 2003 17:59 EDT -- Apple Computer Inc., maker of the iMac personal computer, may start to sell movies online after the success of its iTunes music technology, Berliner Zeitung said, citing Pascal Cagni, the company's Vice President, Europe.
Bloomberg.com:Research: July 14, 2003 17:59 EDT -- Apple Computer Inc., maker of the iMac personal computer, may start to sell movies online after the success of its iTunes music technology, Berliner Zeitung said, citing Pascal Cagni, the company's Vice President, Europe.
"Stimulate my vomition centres, please."
Vomiting is a complex reflex act common not only to people but also to lower animals possessing an alimentary tract and is basically a protective mechanism to eliminate toxic or irritating substances from the body.
Rats reputedly do not vomit. Cattle and horses vomit rarely - this is usually an ominous sign and most frequently a result of acute gastric distension. Carnivores such as dogs and cats vomit frequently, often in response to such trivial stimuli as finding themselves on a clean carpet. Humans fall between these extremes, and interestingly, rare individuals have been identified that seem to be incapable of vomiting due to congenital abnormalities in the vomition centres of the brainstem.
Link
Monday, July 14, 2003
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Saturday, July 12, 2003
Friday, July 11, 2003
ZOMBO
ZOMBO.com
This is the future of the internet. You can do anything at zombo.com... or so I'm told.
(turn up your volume.)
This is the future of the internet. You can do anything at zombo.com... or so I'm told.
(turn up your volume.)
Tetra Vaal
The Embassy Visual Effects Inc.- Tetra Vaal
Fake commercial/industrial video about a police robot for use in third world countries. Very, very nice.
Found via Xeni at boingboing
note: this site has sucky overdone coding that sometimes bounces you to the index when you try to follow this link. if this happens, try copying and pasting the link: http://www.theembassyvfx.com/tetra.html)
Fake commercial/industrial video about a police robot for use in third world countries. Very, very nice.
Found via Xeni at boingboing
note: this site has sucky overdone coding that sometimes bounces you to the index when you try to follow this link. if this happens, try copying and pasting the link: http://www.theembassyvfx.com/tetra.html)
It's raining victims
Mogwai: Hunted by a Freak
Great video for Mogwai's "Hunted by a Freak", that perfectly illustrates the essence of the day.
Great video for Mogwai's "Hunted by a Freak", that perfectly illustrates the essence of the day.
Painful Gas, Asthma, SimCity 4, Hey- grab your nose
Today I feel like I crawled out of one of the less reputable gutters in town. I'm unshaven, in flip-flops and jeans that don't fit quite right. My hair is a greasy, dandruff-y mess. Last night Tamara had a weird asthma attack and neither of us got a full night's sleep. Today I limped into work with crampy guts from this horrible, asparagus-tasting poo-inducing dieter's tea I've been foolishly experimenting with, and now I'm trying my best to juggle our first wave of SimCity 4 support questions. Ugh. Support. My only 'saleable' skill in the real world (graphics? hah! people don't pay for that). I had at one time vowed never to pleasantly cluck at another disgruntled computer abuser through a phone for money, but in this economy it's either that or something worse that I don't even want to imagine. At least this is a Mac company. And to top it off, last night someone asked me to grab the bridge of my nose for them. I'm praying for a meteor strike.
Anyway, I'm done griping for the week.
So, on the animation track, I just realized that I'm going to be unable to use Adobe Premier forstop motion like I expected. Premier is a limping dinosaur for regular video editing, but it has a very advanced stop-motion capture feature that Final Cut doesn't have. I may have found a replacement in iStopMotion from Boinx. Nice, simple, elegant. And it lets you use voice commands to take camera steps without having to leave your "set". I can't wait to start playing with it.
Anyway, I'm done griping for the week.
So, on the animation track, I just realized that I'm going to be unable to use Adobe Premier forstop motion like I expected. Premier is a limping dinosaur for regular video editing, but it has a very advanced stop-motion capture feature that Final Cut doesn't have. I may have found a replacement in iStopMotion from Boinx. Nice, simple, elegant. And it lets you use voice commands to take camera steps without having to leave your "set". I can't wait to start playing with it.
Thursday, July 10, 2003
WSJ.com - To Have and to Hold: The Key To Wife Carrying Is Upside Down
VAIKE-MAARJA, Estonia -- Take it from a world champion: The best way for a man to carry a woman is to dangle her upside down over his back, with her thighs squeezing his neck and her arms around his torso.
'That way, your arms are free to help with balance. It's more stable. There's less shifting of the weight,' says Margo Uusorg. He has just carried Egle Soll, her pigtails flapping against his back, around a 278-yard oval track that includes a 3-foot-deep water trough and two hurdles of wooden logs. In just over one minute, they won the Estonian championship here, and qualified for this coming weekend's Wife Carrying World Championship in Sonkajarvi, Finland, where Mr. Uusorg is a heavy favorite to win his third world crown.
Link Thanks Chris!
'That way, your arms are free to help with balance. It's more stable. There's less shifting of the weight,' says Margo Uusorg. He has just carried Egle Soll, her pigtails flapping against his back, around a 278-yard oval track that includes a 3-foot-deep water trough and two hurdles of wooden logs. In just over one minute, they won the Estonian championship here, and qualified for this coming weekend's Wife Carrying World Championship in Sonkajarvi, Finland, where Mr. Uusorg is a heavy favorite to win his third world crown.
Link Thanks Chris!
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
NEWS.com.au | Coke boycott over assassinations (July 4, 2003)
NEWS.com.au
| Australian Coke boycott over assassinations (July 4, 2003): Coca-Cola's main Latin-American bottler, Panamco, is being sued by Columbian food and beverage union Sinaltrainal for financing right-wing paramilitaries alleged to have murdered and intimidated union leaders.
| Australian Coke boycott over assassinations (July 4, 2003): Coca-Cola's main Latin-American bottler, Panamco, is being sued by Columbian food and beverage union Sinaltrainal for financing right-wing paramilitaries alleged to have murdered and intimidated union leaders.
Tuesday, July 08, 2003
The Official Ninja Webpage: REAL Ultimate Power!!!!
Hi, this site is all about ninjas, REAL NINJAS. This site is awesome. My name is Robert and I can't stop thinking about ninjas. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.
Link Found Via BoingBoing Guestblogger Mark Laidlaw
Link Found Via BoingBoing Guestblogger Mark Laidlaw
Glass Eyes
Van Dykes Taxidermy Supply: Glass Eyes
Please excuse the Land of the Dead as it blogs solely for its own purposes for a brief period of time. It's more convenient than emailing URL's to myself.
Please excuse the Land of the Dead as it blogs solely for its own purposes for a brief period of time. It's more convenient than emailing URL's to myself.
Stop Motion WorkShop
Stop Motion WorkShop: As I write this Work-Shop page introduction in the New Millenium .... the so-called Super Information Age ....you may be amazed to know that HOW-TO instructions, books or information on the Stop Motion Animation Art & Craft are almost NON-EXISTENT. There are informational resources about Cel / Drawn animation and in just a few short years, the bookstores and libraries are overflowing with books & instructions about computer-digital animation & special effects. The internet search engines have many Stop Motion listings, but most of them seem to be about nostalgia & history (which we should should know about) and a few studios, individuals, or hobbyists that do some Stop Motion.
Saturday, July 05, 2003
Friday, July 04, 2003
Happy 4th. Just another holiday. I never stopped to think for a moment that it was supposed to be about anything other than hot dogs and fireworks. I like fireworks. I would have audblogged but no one had anything funny to say.
KoKoRo: Voice Translator
KoKoRo: Very tiny voice translator. Dynamic voice recognition and translation Japannese into English and English to Japanese instantaneously when user speak to this device
Thursday, July 03, 2003
The Blog This! bookmarklet
Now that the "Blog This!" Bookmarklet seems to be working in Safari, I am teetering on the edge of total-blog-lazyness. It's far too easy to blog everything mildly interesting or stupid that surfaces in my browser, without really editorializing. I'm considering tossing the evil little thing.
I picked up an eMate 300 on eBay yesterday, and I'm currently snooping for wireless pcmcia cards for it. Gadget fetishism is a disease, I'm well aware, but it passes the time.
I can't properly phrase my disgust.
Can box office success transfer to voting booth? | csmonitor.com: "Even if Schwarzenegger isn't well-versed in all the minutiae of governing, some experts say it doesn't necessarily matter. 'The reality of today's politics is that if you have a kind of [Ronald] Reagan or [George W. ] Bush leadership style, you don't really need to know a lot about governing,' says Berkeley's Cain. 'You read your script and pose and let the experienced people run the state.'"
From Schwarzenegger's insipid website:
A picture is worth a thousand words. And if the words you like to hear are "I'll be back!", "Hasta la Vista, Baby" and "Crom!", then you'll love our Schwarzenegger.com Acting Photo Gallery, highlighting great moments from Arnold's films and acting career.
New Scientist: She-Male Chimeras created in Lab.
I think it's funny that NewScientist chose to use porn lingo to describe something that could have been given any number of slightly more scientific monikers...
New Scientist: "The revelation of experiments in which human embryos with both female and male cells were created has been condemned as 'flawed' and 'revolting' by both fertility scientists and anti-abortion groups." US researcher Norbert Gleicher and colleagues took cells from three-day-old human male embryos and added them to female embryos, creating what is called a chimera. Gleicher, who unveiled the work at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology's annual conference in Madrid, says the experiments were to test a theoretical alternative to gene therapy.
New Scientist: "The revelation of experiments in which human embryos with both female and male cells were created has been condemned as 'flawed' and 'revolting' by both fertility scientists and anti-abortion groups." US researcher Norbert Gleicher and colleagues took cells from three-day-old human male embryos and added them to female embryos, creating what is called a chimera. Gleicher, who unveiled the work at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology's annual conference in Madrid, says the experiments were to test a theoretical alternative to gene therapy.
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Reuters AlertNet - Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists
From Melba Lee:
Hi there!
You are keen on the gargantuan sea creatures, right?
Here's a recent one, if you haven't seen it already. Couldn't find a picture though.
Reuters AlertNet - Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists Thanks Melba!
Hi there!
You are keen on the gargantuan sea creatures, right?
Here's a recent one, if you haven't seen it already. Couldn't find a picture though.
Reuters AlertNet - Giant sea creature baffles Chilean scientists Thanks Melba!
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Culture War? You're Soaking in it!
From the Moscow Times:
Here are Bush's exact words, quoted by Haaretz: "God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
Link Thanks Jen!
Here are Bush's exact words, quoted by Haaretz: "God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me, I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them."
Link Thanks Jen!
Blockbuster mentality killed movie creativity: Delaware Online
Writer Frank Pierson (Cool Hand Luke) Laments about the state of the movie industry and talks about the salad days of the late 60's and 70's..
...As the huge debt created by mergers was added to the rising costs of making little but blockbusters, the risks of making a film forced the businessmen to be risk-averse, to play to the least critical audience: teen-age boys with disposable income. The problem is how to keep this average moviegoer -- male, 16 to 25, high school education at best, doesn't read books, gets his news from the 11 o'clock news if he bothers at all, never heard of Mussolini and thinks Korea is another part of downtown L.A. This pimply, oversexed slob with the attention span of a chicken -- how do we keep him awake and interested while staying awake and interested ourselves?
Link Found Via Plastic
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