I remember when I learned these quick tidbits that it totally changed how I watched movies. It didn’t change it in a life-altering way, but I’m more aware and conscious of these choices made by cinematographers. They are more or less “Hollywood convention” in cinematography and you will definitely see these things played out in the majority of movies or TV shows that emerge from Western cultures. If a movie or a show uses these things correctly and to their fullest potential, you often get the sense that the movie “just felt right.” That inexplicable sixth sense is nothing more than the human psyche getting tapped into and exploited via the following visual metaphors and imagery. Read more →

The hubbub surrounding Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for a cool amount of money has shown no signs of easing up over the last few days, and the following stat analysis by MarketingProfs is just opening up another round of media fodder. The usage statistics of Instagram and Facebook show that the demographics between the two services are quite different. About 52% of Instagram users are between the ages of 18 and 34 while about 51% of Facebook users are above the age of 35. Read more →

We recently passed  the one-year mark of the VoLTE demo Verizon Wireless did at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and Big Red is still on course to offload all of its voice traffic to its high-speed data network. The switch is slated for later in 2012 but over the past year Verizon’s LTE network has been plagued by a series of high-profile regional and nationwide outages. LTE outages occurred multiple times throughout 2011 and wrapped the end of the year off with three outages in December. This year was off to a good start until the other day when another nationwide outage hit Verizon’s high-speed network. Read more →

I am a big fan of The Oatmeal because his comics are entertaining and thought-provoking at times. I have yet to finish reading a comic of his without a huge grin being plastered on my face, and his most recent Game of Thrones comic was no exception. The Oatmeal (Matthew Inman) tackles the current hot topics of piracy and the Jurassic business model the entertainment industry, specifically film and television, operates with in the era of streaming video. His frustrations with all the barriers imposed on his viewing experience by HBO resulted in him justifying his use of an illegal torrent to download the first season of the hit TV show Game of Thrones. Read more →