The Green Hornet is back…again. The venerable crime-fighter, who is older than both Superman and Batman, returns in 2011 with a new movie adaptation starring Seth Rogen (40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked-up) as the masked vigilante. This will be another in a series of adaptations of The Green Hornet, which started as a radio [...]
This is the missing textbook to the course that everyone is taking. In it Levinson not only enumerates the various classes of new new media and their relationships with older forms, such as newspaper to blog or television to YouTube, he also, through means of germane examples from the contemporary political and social sphere, illustrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of each of these new forms, making it an excellent primer for thoughtful engagement with the unfolding culture.
I just had a chance to test out the new Gmail video and voice chat application with friends Mark Bell and Sarah Robbins from Second Life for Dummies fame. I’m not a big fan of the video chat, and in the past I have discussed many reasons why people resist the “video phone,” which mostly [...]
I remember when I first learned about the story of Harvey Milk. It was in a documentary film The Times of Harvey Milk in 1984. At the time I was painting a large canvas with my girlfriend in the basement of her home. We worked on it every evening for a week, only pausing for [...]
Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan I love this book. I mean I loved this book from the first minute I saw in the shop. Now that I have read it I am crazy for it, so I hope you do not mind this fully biased review. As a fan of the mid-Sixties pop [...]
