I’m not much of a Brown fan. In fact, with the exception of the Da Vinci Code, he fails across the board (starting with the utter rubbish in Angels and Demons). Indeed, I am lenient as I don’t ask much except two things: wit and consistency within its own universe. Of the few Dan Brown [...]
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John Le Carre is no Ian Fleming just as George Smiley is no James Bond. Surely, both authors worked in British Intelligence during the Cold War. They both handled intelligence operations, handled agents and top secret information, set up informants and so on before they both turned to writing. Fleming writes in a rather captivating [...]
For years I’ve been preaching the removal of distributors from the distribution chain. Whether it’s books, movies or music, an artist can do better on its own. You’re a writer? Forget the publishing house, publish yourself! Musician? Distribute the music on your own, deal with a music store (Amazon, Apple) or setup your own site [...]
As mentioned in a previous post, Cracked.com is a rather famous humor site. Being a humor site, its main job is to make people laugh. Despite a plethora of subjects bordering on geek interests, the site is not an accurate encyclopedia. This is mainly because, while it does try to keep accurate, its articles are [...]
Producing movies or TV series based on comics is hell. It is hell because comics have an incredibly huge and powerful community behind them. It is hell because it comprises characters with a rich and established history, spanning across realities, universes and story lines that are quite intricate and leave little margin to intervene creatively. [...]
This is a fact that seems to be embraced and accepted by all, despite the fact that most arguments claim to give priority to quality. Starting from the fact that one creates a Facebook page (for example) aimed at clarity and accuracy, but everyone prefers one lacking any information and filled with typos and inaccuracies, [...]
Video quality is a tricky thing especially because it’s hard to asses. HD, high-definition, encompasses a multitude of standards with the declared goal of upping the general video quality. Resolution, video codecs, audio codecs, all are involved in this. Consumers are widely familiar with the formats of 1080i (192×1080 pixels, interlaced), 1080p (1920×1080 pixels, progressive) [...]
