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"We debate at least once a month whether we should just move to Toronto."
To be sure, Vancouver is not alone. New York, London and Singapore have long been popular with foreign investors, driving up the cost of living for locals. But while those cities are global financial hubs and have many bankers with big compensation, Vancouver's economy relies more on tourism and a cyclical resources industry.
Vancouver home prices worry businesses as they seek to hire staff
When discussing Vancouver real estate, a comparison to a handful of major world cities always happens. The problem with this comparison is that places like New York and London have a vibrant cultural and historical spirit.
Vancouver is a soulless wasteland.
Watch: "Baker's Best - 40 Years of The Fourth Doctor"
"The registry will help ensure that these films will be preserved for all time."
"Keywords are for organizational purposes. Descriptions are for describing. Both are useful"
At the current stage of technology development, we are largely limited to adding Content Metadata manually. If we want people described; if we want the scene described; or the action described, we need to add Keywords or Notes to achieve that. I don’t expect that to be the case in the future.
Advances in Content Recognition
"Visual storytelling is seldom purely visual."
The result is nice case study in visual storytelling. It also indicates how even a pure instance needs non-visual elements to be understood.
Visual storytelling: Is that all?
Watch: "The Beast of Turin" Trailer
"Take a stand, loudly and proudly. Be activists. Unless you prefer a world of choke points and control by others, this is part of your job."
Powerful governments and corporations are leading the attack against these core values, usually in the guise of protecting us or giving us more convenience. But these powerful entities are also creating a host of choke points. And the result is a locking down of computing and communications: a system of control by others over what we say and do online — a betrayal of the Internet’s decentralized promise.
When Journalists Must Not Be Objective
"The United States government is teaming up with computer scientists to do something about it."
“Everything was built with performance, not security, in mind,” Dr. Shrobe said. “We left it to programmers to incorporate security into every line of code they wrote. One little mistake is all it takes for the bad guy to get in.”
Reinventing the Internet to Make It Safer
I’d say that the “one little mistake” people could make is trusting ANY government to make the internet “safer”.
"The audience is disappearing—and it won’t be coming back."
Hollywood is a “hedgehog,” good now at only one thing (making tentpoles), and no longer a “fox,” fluid and adept at many things. We have reached a point where we should accept the death of the Hollywood film for adults. Hollywood is a one-horse town.
Ten Really Bad Things in Film Biz 2014
UPDATE: Mr Hope decided 10 Bad Things wasn’t enough…
30 Really Bad Things In FilmBiz 2014
Watch: "Drunken Master 2"
Cantonese audio but who cares. Just watch Jackie Chan move.
Released in North America as The Legend of Drunken Master.
Watch: "Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy" by Tony Zhou
Tony Zhou;
The 9 Principles of Action Comedy
1. Start with a DISADVANTAGE
2. Use the ENVIRONMENT
3. Be CLEAR in your shots
4. Action & Reaction in the SAME frame
5. Do as many TAKES as necessary
6. Let the audience feel the RHYTHM
7. In editing, TWO good hits = ONE great hit
8. PAIN is humanizing
9. Earn your FINISH
Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Jackie Chan, Buster Keaton and Gene Kelly are the three masters of physical action in film. No one else even comes close. You don’t edit a good action scene; you film it.
"Although the sample size is small, these results indicate that not everything in Hollywood is immune to change"
10. The Studios Might Just Learn to Innovate. Warners and Turner have had their incubators for some time now, helping to give rise to platforms like Reelhouse. Now Disney is also in the soup. Incubators and accelerators might teach a few folks some new tricks, although it has also been said that such ploys are just attempts at employee retention as some of the big BizDev guns would flee the ship if they didn’t have sparkly new toys to play with.
Ten Really Good Things in Film Biz 2014
“As Van Halen’s creative direction became uncertain in the early 1980s, it became increasingly apparent that we would have to take the steps necessary to remove Roth from power”
“Unlike some of the others we still think the reason people go to the movies is to see movies.”
But what really has the exhibition industry unnerved are two statistics released in the spring by the Motion Picture Association of America. Last year, despite a glut of extravagant action movies, the number of frequent moviegoers ages 18 to 24 dropped 17 percent, compared to a year earlier; the 12-to-17 age bracket dropped 13 percent.
To Lure Young, Movie Theaters Shake, Smell and Spritz
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