Where did all the indie pics go?

Where did all the indie pics go?

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AT&T would now like your index fingers, too...

So don't be frightened when in about 15 more minutes, should you visit a Turner-connected site, you come across some annoyingly effective AT&T ads.

Why does it matter enough for me to take the time to post something about Turner (the people who bring you CNN, TBS, TNT, Adult Swim, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera) selling a "Netblock" to AT&T?

Because it is pretty significant evidence of the Internet's monstrously effective equalizing ability. You--the user of the Internet and bearer of invisible money--have, in part, forced many a big business to change their gotcha!-strategies to make you spend said invisible money.

Turner used to gamble your eyeballs on TV advertisement slots, but YOU watch what you feel like watching when you feel like watching it on your computer a lot more often now. And that's become a big enough problem that AT&T and Turner (one of the largest [monopolizers][j/k! ...wink.] in the media game) think it's worth it to gamble your eyeballs on...drumroll...

YOUR COMPUTER!!!

Yes. You are being stalked. And actually, this is what helps/hurts/excuses the lack of browner visibility in places like television--where advertising is EVERYTHING. literally. and in film, where demographics are EVERYTHING. literally....and blah blah blah blah.

BUT!

Nothing matters if your eyeballs aren't there. And ANYBODY can have an audience on the IN'NANET! You know what that means? Advertising or not--underrepresented storytelling for everybody!!!!!!

MWAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA!

(lols--don't mind me...i'm silly...)

The one to watch will be TY from B-More. Duh.

MTV to preem Real World D.C. come December 30th.




So...


Confession.


Uh. I haven't watched Real World since, like, um...idk...7th grade?


BUT, it's coming home! Gotta watch. And the extra perk will be the urrrea cat (or at least, just a few stones away) Ty[rell] from Bawdimor. D.C.'s just racking up in reality points, ain't we?




(image from BaltimoreSun.com)

They SO heard me and the bestie talking in public...

Check this theater the LA Times covered.



Pretty chic-chic pricewise, but they let you do dinner while you watch the movie.



jealousy=envy (sort of)

4 days and counting!!

GET EXCITED.

Dec 25th I'm all...

GRITS.

GRIT.

GLITTER.

The appetizer taste of bytwenty8's re-launch.

Jan 1st we're going beta.

This will be the place where Black cine gets its due. All Black & Brown. All the time. TV & Film. And someday stage.

classical film theory?

eat said {heart} out.

227 & Sesame Street's Alaina Reed Hall-Amini dead at 63

Really????

5 days and counting!!

GET EXCITED.

Dec 25th I'm all...

GRITS.

GRIT.

GLITTER.

The appetizer taste of bytwenty8's re-launch.

Jan 1st we're going beta.

This will be the place where Black cine gets its due. All Black & Brown. All the time. TV & Film. And someday stage.

classical film theory?

eat said {heart} out.

2009, you just won't quit.

E! Online: Brittany Murphy in Pictures

1977-2009

Free issue while Cameron and 'Avatar' stack coins...

Here's a preview of 'Losers', set to premiere in April 2010 and also featuring the lovely Zoe Saldana as well as [YAY!] Idris Elba (Daddy's Girls, Obsessed, American Gangster).

Saldana will not perform the function of FOX News' 10-ft. CGI [imperial] dream girl, however, she will be the kick-butte belle, Aisha, of Andy Diggle's 1980s comic gone big-screen.

The Losers are a CIA Special Forces Unit tired of "witnessing one too many covert atrocities."

They dead themselves in a helicopter "accident" in order to return to the U.S. and subvert the CIA's domestic operations "one heist at a time."

Columbus Short (Stomp the Yard), soon to appear in 'Sex and the City 2' will pop up in 'Losers' too. You can check him out now, though, in 'Armored' alongside Laurence Fishburne (CSI and the world...).

Oh. And Andy Diggle doesn't mind you downloading a free issue of 'The Losers' from DC Comics.

Get excited.

'Losers' is directed by Sylvain White. Set to premiere April 9, 2010.

Warner Bros.

GO MO'!

Another THR jam. Key in at 2:30.

THR gets Quentin Tarantino's Top 10 of 2009

Fair enough.

Newsweek: The Munchkins 70 Years Later

(and a few TBS marathons later, too.)

When FOX News says they like a movie...

you should probably run for cover.

Check The Phenomenon, Politics and Art of 'Avatar' .

After I heard the basic story behind 'Avatar', though, I must say...I'm not surprised FOX News is half-behindedly endorsing it. Cuz it's really like...Zoe Saldana as a blue Pocahontas (the Na'vi people in the movie are supposed to be, like, "noble savages") but in Second Life, if it were 1492 in the future.

<*eyeroll>

So Pinkington basically suggests that the "meta-politics" of James Cameron's flick will resonate with lovers of the GreatWhiteHope trope--those who secretly or openly believe in the saving grace of a single-handed white person to tame the savages and save the white, or capitalist beneficiaries of the world.

Pinkington won't exactly own up to his accusations about how he expects "the left" to identify with 'Avatar', so instead he chalks up his admissions to "i report, you decide."

So allow me to translate:

Empire is going to think [and by that, i mean they already think] this is a great idea >> planetary imperialism.

So does art really imitate life?

just saying...just sayin.

6 days and counting!!

GET EXCITED.

Dec 25th I'm all...

GRITS.

GRIT.

GLITTER.

The appetizer taste of bytwenty8's re-launch.

Jan 1st we're going beta.

This will be the place where Black cine gets its due. All Black & Brown. All the time. TV & Film. And someday stage.

classical film theory?

eat said {heart} out.