Technology & MSG

We’re big on big televisions here in the United States. They’re supposedly better for watching sports, cartoons, sitcoms, movies, and everything else. At least that’s what the home electronics folks would have us believe. I’m a movie guy, and I’m not so sure.
Having watched a bunch of movies on big widescreen televisions, I’ve noticed that [...]

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After staying up entirely too last on a school night, I have a few thoughts about the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. I have to ignore the sets for the most part, since I’d be drooling all over the keys for the duration.

NPH. Is there anything he can’t do?
What an entrance by Steve Martin and Alec [...]

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When you’re stuck inside for long periods of time, your mind wanders.
I find myself yelling at the television while watching the most amusing sitcoms. The “no, you can’t do that!” is definitely me, sitting on the edge of the couch with my head in my hands. During the majority of the “Nothing good ever happens [...]

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I’ve been rediscovering things all weekend.
After a recommendation of a New York pal, I was looking at a “nifty fifty” lens for my camera. He said (and I’m paraphrasing slightly) that it changed his world. After taking a few unlit shots with a friends D80 on Friday evening and seeing how bloody crisp and fast [...]

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I had no idea that Travis Pastrana intended to set a new record on New Year’s Eve by driving his Subaru off the Long Beach pier, so we didn’t tune in to ESPN to watch him. But he did it. He’s got a television show on MTV called Nitro Circus. Produced by Johnny Knoxville, it’s [...]

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Instead of risking life and limb by venturing outside on Black Friday, I opted to re-watch the first season of House. A fantastic invention, television series on DVD.
There are multiple aerial shots of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital — which is actually Princeton’s student center — throughout the season, normally used during openings and transitions. Though taken [...]

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I’m a big fan of educational programming. I think it’d be really difficult to write educational materials that are enlightening to both kids and parents, which actually promoting learning. I especially like the ones that have pop culture references.
Just like Mathnet was a parody of Dragnet whose characters taught mathematical concepts to Square One viewers, [...]

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A friend loaned me the first season of Damages several weeks ago, but it sat untouched on the TV table until this weekend when I watched the entire thing. It’s not that I didn’t have other things to do, but that it was that interesting. Posit, a legal drama circling around attorneys that doesn’t take [...]

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When most people say they’re going to tape a show, they really mean DVR. Not me. It means I’m going to whip out a previously used VHS cassette, pop it into the VCR, and program the thing to record.
I was the youngest person at a business meeting today, but I suspect the only one who [...]

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There’s something really neat about Inside the Actors Studio. That’s what I think every time I see it. I don’t feel compelled to watch it, but I enjoy it when I happen to catch it on. Host James Lipton sticks to the script in most cases, not letting the guests wander too far. I feel [...]

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Why pay $1 for Red Box when you can stream movies for free on Hulu? Sure it isn’t as good a selection at Blockbuster or Red Box and the quality isn’t the same as a DVD, but you can’t beat the price. The best part is that it’s legit. NBC Universal and News Corp. teamed [...]

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Why hasn’t Doogie Howser, M.D. been made into a movie yet? With all of the other television shows that the studios have been making these days instead of coming up with new material, why not? It could be dubbed “The Later Years” (paying homage to Fred Savage) and depict Dr. Howser handling a few cases [...]

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