The Future of Web Video

Scott Kirsner (CinemaTech), who interviewed Jonathan Rothbart and I not long ago, has compiled our interview, several others, and his own insights on web video, viral media, and the economy emerging around them into a must-read ebook.

The Future of Web Video: Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers

I applaud Scott on three fronts for this: 1) Self publishing is cool. 2) Writing a book is hard. 3) There's some crazy shizzle going on right now, and it's a great time to be a filmmaker.

Damn, I talk a lot

Those of you who get the Hollywood Reporter may have seen Orphanage co-founder Jonathan Rothbart and I interviewed for their "Future of Entertainment" special issue. The article is now online, but the writer, Scott Kirsner, has a way cool blog called CinemaTech where he has posted the entire conversation.

Jon and I mouth off about visual effects, previs, filmmaking, distribution, and remix culture.

Commonwealth Club

On March 21st I participated in a panel discussion called “The Digital Revolution: What to Expect from Film’s Second Century” at The Commonwealth Club, a public affairs forum in San Francisco. You can listen to a RealAudio (sorry) stream of it here. Also on the panel was John Knoll, with whom I had the great pleasure of working on several projects during my days at ILM.

fxguide podcast

It's up! If you can't get enough of this linear stuff, check out my interview (download .mp3 link) on fxguide's awesome podcast. There's a great article that sums it up nicely as well.

I've also allowed fxguide to mirror my linear-light in AE7 workflow articles in hopes that they reach more people. ProLost is still the place to get the latest and greatest ramblings though.

Thanks very much to John Montgomery and everyone at fxguide for having me on the show. I've mentioned before that I'm a huge fan of the podcast (iTunes link), and it's an honor to be a part of it.

Maybe with all this I can finally shut up about this linear crap for a while!