Archive for the 'Web' Category
How to get a MacBook Pro and an iPod for the price of a dinner date
1 Comment Published by Ryan April 10th, 2006 in Consumerism, Web, Career.After a feature I wrote for DVguru made it onto the front page of digg, Slashdot, and tech.memeorandum over the weekend (and got linked to by over 250 web sites), the last thing I should do is write a post on my own site about computers. I’m a filmmaker, not a nerd/geek/other-derogatory-techie-term, right?
Whatever. […]
Some like it raw
4 Comments Published by Ryan October 4th, 2005 in Health, Dalliance, Reading, Web, Film.There’s a problem with sex in the movies: there’s not enough. Crotchety old people complain about nudity a lot, which is amusing–do these people not shower?–but if anything, sex is drastically underrepresented on film. Here at No Film School, I declare that we do not see enough cellulite on celluloid. Well, not […]
On Beck, 112, Clipse, peaches and cream, onions, and men’s grooming products
1 Comment Published by Ryan September 28th, 2005 in Web, Music.The best satire is able to parody something BEFORE it actually happens out in the real world. Beck’s hilarious pastiche Midnight Vultures, released in 1999, fit this bill perfectly. It was one of the few albums I owned at the time that was actually acceptable to crank up in your vehicle, if you […]
On-demand publishing is cool. That is, if you find that sort of thing cool, or even remotely interesting
0 Comments Published by Ryan August 8th, 2005 in Web.So I just found out about Lulu.com, which is a publishing website, primarily for books. Basically you can get distribution for a book you’ve written without having a publisher–they print and ship books on-demand (it’s kind of like what mp3.com was for music, back when it was useful). What a great idea–you could […]
