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 | | TELEVISION | | Picture Imperfect | | Proponents of Ultra HD/4K are still waiting for the pixel-packed format to deliver the kind of "wow" factor that excites consumers to snap up new, shiny 4K televisions in droves. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | TELEVISION | | FCC Schism and Its Impact on the Auction | | The monthly open meeting of the five FCC commissioners last week was three-hour affair of protests, exposition and verbal pugilism according to Robert's Rules of Order. A cross between "Survivor" and a Henry James novel that illustrated a deep divide at the commission over how the TV spectrum incentive auction should play out. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | ENTERPRISE | | An Innovative Museum That Lets You Play the Role of a Designer | | The tension between old and new is everywhere in the new Cooper Hewitt. Massive screens hang among the carefully restored trappings of the 19th century Carnegie Mansion. Blown up renderings of the "The Measure of Man" posters from 1969, designed by Henry Dreyfuss, hang on the wall next to a person-sized digital display that asks you to strike a pose, and an algorithm then matches your posture to an object from the permanent collection. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | FILM | | Evoking the Spirit of a Master Artist with the Look of "Mr. Turner" | | Mike Leigh's critically acclaimed new film "Mr. Turner" is a biopic of the great English landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner. "His work invites a movie," Leigh explains. "It is cinematic, and the more I looked into it, the more I realized that Turner as a character, as a personality—this conflicted, eccentric, passionate guy—ticked all the boxes for a potential character in a Mike Leigh film." | | Read More» | | |
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 | | TELEVISION | | "Mad Men" Meets "Battlestar Galactica" In SyFy's Ambitious New "Ascension" | | As the (SyFy) channel's execs have told us, if the mainstreamification of genre programming has raised the bar of success, it's also created big opportunities and one of the ways they're determined to exploit those opportunities is by focusing on the genres that other networks still don't get right. And one of those genres is the one that helped put the network on the "prestigious, serialized TV show" map back in the mid-'00s, when "Battlestar Galactica" was changing lives and inspiring "Portlandia"-style binges: Space opera. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | RADIO | | Don't Count AM/FM Radio Out Just Yet | | As part of this rah-rah, decennial pep rally for podcasting, I've been assigned to ponder the grim future of terrestrial radio. You know—AM/FM. That stuff your parents used to tune in with the old-fashioned knobs on their cars' dashboards. Antiquated call letters. Staticky Eagles songs. Brontosaurish broadcast towers rusting away on forgotten hillsides. | | Read More» | | |
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 | | PRODUCTION/POST/SOUND | | "The Hobbit": A Production Sound Perspective | | If you were a production sound mixer, what if we told you there was a job where you had to live in New Zealand and listen to dwarves, wizards, a hobbit, and other mythical creatures on headphones for a year? Oh, and Peter Jackson is directing. Would you do it? Yeah, it seems like an easy answer, and thankfully one Tony Johnson, CAS was able to say yes to. | | Read More» | | |
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