London Screenwriters Festival, sequences & me
The London Screenwriters Festival may well be the biggest and best conference for screenwriters on Earth right now. There used to be a plethora of L.A.-based writerfests - I've been…
The Death Of Guy Fawkes
The Death Of Guy Fawkes Guy Fawkes, 1605, plotted to blow up Parliament - his reasons were religious or something - he was Catholic - or Protestant - malcontent –…
I Ask Inga von Staden: What IS Transmedia?
The term “transmedia” seems to have originated in 1991 with Marsha Kinder, the critical studies dynamo of USC’s cinema school. When I was at USC, cinema students were divided into…
Escape From L.A., Pt. 2
(this article originally appeared at screenwriting website Twelvepoint.com, Jan. 2010) - Read Part 1 of "Escape From L.A." - And so, with growing dread, I came to understand that this…
Escape From L.A., Pt. 1
‘(Los Angeles) is a country coming down from its trip. We are 91 days from the end of this decade, and there's gonna be a lot of refugees. They'll be…
The V&A’s Decode, Dreaming The Future Of Digital Media
(originally printed in Videography magazine, Feb. 2010) London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, generally acknowledged as the world’s largest institution of decorative arts and design, was founded by Queen Victoria in…
General Officers Of The Great War by John Singer Sargent
Some Officers Of The Great War
My notes on a John Singer Sargent painting at the National Portrait Gallery, "General Officers Of the Great War": These men are sated, satisfied, tried and true, censured and cinched,…
Netflix Yes; LOVEFiLM nO
It was a no-brainer to put Netflix in my 2005 list, "10 Things I Love About The Film Industry".Netflix really has been revolutionary. By making virtually any DVD available on…