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Is Crowdsourcing The Future Of Film?

February 8, 2012Erik Kain

Filmmakers for the indie science fiction film Iron Sky utilized crowdsourcing to create and fund the picture. Alex Knapp captions the above trailer for the yet-to-be-released film Iron Sky: What makes Iron Sky particularly cool, in my opinion, is that despite its goofy, B-movie premise, the production values look to be top notch. And tons of […]

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Arts & Entertainment, Berlin, byline=E.D. Kain, Crowdsourcing, Facebook, Film, Forbes, Iron Sky, Lifestyle, Nazi, Nazism, Social Media, Tech, Twitter, Video

Could the New Netflix Exclusive Series ‘Lilyhammer’ Give New Life to Online Television?

January 3, 2012Erik Kain

is launching its own exclusive series, Lilyhammer, on February 6th. has made some pretty glaring blunders over the past year or so, but launching their own television shows will hopefully not be one of them. Lilyhammer is the story of a mobster (played by Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt) who enters the witness protection program and […]

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byline=E.D. Kain, Internet television, Lilyhammer, Lilyhammer Trailer, Netflix, Norway, Online Television, Sopranos, Steven Van Zandt, Streaming media, Tech, Television, Television program, Trailers, Video

The Steve Jobs Action Figure Walks Into the Uncanny Valley but Will Anyone Buy Him?

January 3, 2012Erik Kain

The closer human replicas get to the human face the greater the sense of revulsion we feel toward the replica. Or so the theory of the Uncanny Valley, first proposed by Japanese roboticist Masihiro Mori, goes. Masihiro Mori’s original theory proposed that the closer robots got to human beings, the greater our sense of revulsion […]

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Action figure, Angelina Jolie, animation, Apple, Beowulf, byline=E.D. Kain, Gear, Masihiro Mori, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Jobs, Tech, Techonomy, Uncanny Valley, Video

Peter Jackson’s ‘Hobbit’ Won’t Save 3D Movies and That’s a Good Thing

December 21, 2011Erik Kain

The prequel to Peter ‘s ‘Lord of the Rings’ film adaptation, ‘The Hobbit,’ hits screens next December. Will it be in time to save 3D? The long-awaited trailer to Peter ‘s second shot at adapting J.R.R. Tolkien’s work to the silver screen hit the internet today and it made waves. This is no surprise. Anticipation […]

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3D film, Arts & Entertainment, Avatar, Bilbo Baggins, byline=E.D. Kain, Douglas Trumbull, Hobbit, Hollywood, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Cameron, Lifestyle, Peter Jackson, Roger Ebert, Tech, The Hobbit, Time Warner, Video, YouTube

Harmony Korine’s Weird, Racist Ad for Fashion Designer Proenza Schouler

October 19, 2011Erik Kain

This short-film ad spot for designer Proenza Schouler is probably the most racist, disturbing, and bizarre thing I’ve seen in a long time. Designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough took a trip through the southwest and came up with their fall line of clothing inspired, apparently, by Native Americans they had seen on the road. Then […]

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