Examples of Progress – TRON Legacy

This is not a review. I grew up with TRON being a massive force of innovation in the video industry. The ideas it presented – the way it presented them… It was a fantastic movie, for its time. Many of my fellow Earthlings (that’s the Modern Earth Web Design team) and I attended one of [...]

What Fight Club Can Teach Us About Presence Media

When you’re looking for an icon to blame for the idea of rising underground movements, it’s hard to get far before you run into Fight Club. In either it’s book or movie form, the story of “Jack” and Tyler Durden, stalwartly stumbling into guerilla revolution through near-psychotic boxing matches so well the curves of social [...]

The Horrible Trap of the Successful Writer.

This post originated as a comment on Justin Kownacki’s post about Stephenie Meyer, Twilight and the Very Bleak Future of Culture. It got a bit bloated, so I thought I’d drop it here instead, because I feel the points are valid. I’m frustrated that fame as a writer is so ephemeral. Seeing the “of the [...]