CULTURE
Hiploitation Films and American International Pictures
American International Pictures got hip to the profit potential of the teen market early – with low-budget youth oriented films directed toward the then lucrative teenage drive-in market in the 50’s. The Baby Boomers were an enormous new demographic target – – that was being virtually ignored by television programmers (popular culture) at the time. […]
Hiploitation Films: Riot on Sunset Strip
Riot on Sunset Strip is a 1967 low-budget exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures, and filmed and released within six weeks of the actual late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots. It’s big promise was to let you meet “the hippies… the teeny-boppers in their too-tight capris… and the pot partygoers” Today the film, widely held […]
“From Hollywood comes the most exciting motion picture news of 1938”
Behind the closed doors of the famous Disney Studios in Hollywood.
Chart Test: Stages of a Photographer
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MetaDiscussion on What We’re About: Here’s an Excerpt from an Article That Rewards Reading
The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com) So what kind of medium is the web if the boundaries are so unclear, and if the fundamental question is WWIC? This is from an interview with MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey: What makes MetaFilter a success? Matt: I’d like to think it’s intense moderation and customer service. […]
Neil Postman AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH 1985
Few books I have read on the effects of technology on culture have stood the test of time as well as Amusing Ourselves to Death. “It may be true, as Charles Beard wrote, that the primary motivation of the writers of the United States Constitution was the protection of their economic interests. But it is also […]
