Conan's contract points you might not know about
“I’m Conan O’Brien, future Donkey Kong champion….”
Posted January 22, 2010 at 12:32pm
Someday, someone is going to walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.
The Smothers Brothers’ losing battle is chronicled in the new book Dangerously Funnyby David Bianculli, a meticulously researched account of how ideological divisions and skirmishes over creative control led to the show’s demise. Bianculli’s implicit argument is that CBS’s censorship limited the show’s potential. You could argue that’s the opposite of what happened. Americans are conditioned to value free speech, and when we see things such as a media blackout in Iran, we’re reminded how good we have it. But censorship is more of a creative asset to television than it is a curse. The complete freedom to create and distribute that is possible in music, film, and the visual arts doesn’t exist in television, which is why hipsters go crazy for the latest indie band or indie movie, but no one ever talks about the hot indie TV show—because there’s no such thing.
Alston, on the upside of censorship.
I love the Smother’s Brothers. This also makes a good point that you can find independent film and music artists, but there are no “indie” TV programs. I’d like to see PBS try to air independently produced shows or miniseries. I don’t even know what is out there, if anything at all.
Tumblr camera stats
We decided to organize some camera statistics from photos uploaded to Tumblr, and it revealed some interesting data:
One of the most surprising results is the dominance of photos taken with Apple’s Photo Booth application, which snaps photos from the built-in webcams in most Macs.
Entry-level SLRs are extremely popular among Tumblr photographers, especially Canon’s Digital Rebel series. The Digital Rebel XTi/400D is our most popular standalone camera. It’s a well-deserved position: the XTi is a great camera for a great price that introduced many people — myself included — to the world of high-quality photography.
Most Canon SLRs also record the Canon lens model used to take each photo:
The first and second are the new and old (respectively) “kit” lenses bundled with most Canon SLRs. The third-place lens, the 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM, is frequently sold as part of a premium bundle for a few hundred dollars more than the standard kit.
The inexpensive 50mm primes are cumulatively the most popular non-kit lenses. This is also well-deserved: these lenses provide excellent optical quality for very little money.
Many people take photos with their mobile phones. Here’s how the top modern smartphone types break down:
Beyond the expected dominance of iPhone OS and BlackBerry devices, Palm’s webOS (Pre, Pixi) isn’t very popular among Tumblr users, but Android devices are gaining popularity.
But the real surprise was Apple’s role, including Photo Booth, in overall camera brands:
The popularity of Macs and iPhones is powerful enough to make Apple almost as popular as Nikon for Tumblr photography.
![photographic-narcolepsy:
this has been on my to-blog list ever since i saw the paintings at the opening. breathtaking.
liquidnight:
Candice Tripp at the Joshua Liner Gallery
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this has been on my to-blog list ever since i saw the paintings at the opening. breathtaking.
Candice Tripp at the Joshua Liner Gallery
[via Arrested Motion]
