Comments on: distractions http://creativitymachine.net/2005/05/13/distractions/ A personal research blog about vernacular creativity and technology by Jean Burgess. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:19:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jean http://creativitymachine.net/2005/05/13/distractions/#comment-373 Jean Wed, 18 May 2005 05:42:05 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2005/05/13/distractions/#comment-373 geez, it's a small world. That's one of my regular reads, that blog is - and yeah, I heard about that movie, thanks for the reminder. I seem to recall there's a really interesting issue there in that it was virtually a zero-budget film made from old home video, but there is so much environmental media in it (TV, music) that the licensing fees required to get it actually distributed are ginormous. Getting rid of barriers to 'production' is one thing but the barriers to reaching a public are quite another... geez, it’s a small world. That’s one of my regular reads, that blog is - and yeah, I heard about that movie, thanks for the reminder. I seem to recall there’s a really interesting issue there in that it was virtually a zero-budget film made from old home video, but there is so much environmental media in it (TV, music) that the licensing fees required to get it actually distributed are ginormous. Getting rid of barriers to ‘production’ is one thing but the barriers to reaching a public are quite another…

]]> By: laura http://creativitymachine.net/2005/05/13/distractions/#comment-372 laura Wed, 18 May 2005 05:24:41 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2005/05/13/distractions/#comment-372 Jean, not really relevant to the subject of this post, but I thought you might like to know (if you don't already & I think you might) but there is an auto/bio/doco/ on release in the USA called "Tarnation" which the filmmaker made on iMovie. I read about it on a blog, here's the link: http://chutry.wordherders.net/archives/004133.html cheers. Jean,
not really relevant to the subject of this post, but I thought you might like to know (if you don’t already & I think you might) but there is an auto/bio/doco/ on release in the USA called “Tarnation” which the filmmaker made on iMovie. I read about it on a blog, here’s the link:
http://chutry.wordherders.net/archives/004133.html

cheers.

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