Influx

Miranda July is true renaissance women; an actress, musician filmmaker, artist and storyteller. Miranda is best known for an independent film she wrote and directed, released in 2005, called “Me and You and Everyone I Know.” She has now written a book of stories and is promoting it on...

Observers of the media and entertainment scene understand the tremendous power of torrent sites to wreck domestic havoc for the networks. It’s well known that 720p copies of Fox’s 24 find their way onto torrent sites 20 minutes after the show goes off the air.However, most people tend...

Influx wonders if multiple medias exist because human beings like to engage in a variety of different experiences; they like to read, listen and watch, sometimes all at once, but often independently. Print owners are betting the farm and reacting in a knee jerk way to the proliferation of online...

VH-1 is making a giant leap into the world of user-created content with its new show Acceptable TV.Each show will feature five three minute user-created shows, the viewers get the chance to vote for the winning entry.Jack Black hosts an interesting promo from the show, that we would have liked to...

The creators of the TV show Lost have started to really mess with people's minds. They have inserted messages in the audio that can only be heard when the track is played backwards. Lost fans found one audio clip that contains a hidden message. Warning: This clip sounds very creepyIt succeeded in...

Before the new series broke last night, ABC took the unusual step of explaining the show Lost to millions of uninitiated Americans. It was basically an hour-long infomercial with the two producers telling the story behind the show and why so many people care about it and its characters.Despite ABC...

Wii continues to surprise us, not just with its continued success, demand still seems to exceed supply, but it now appears to be adding some cool and interesting dimensions that are helping build and extend the unit's cultural appeal. Great products market themselves, they encourage and initiate...

The Grand Canyon is the earth's most remarkable geological formation, but for some, just glimpsing over the edge into the abyss, isn't enough.To make the most extreme, even extremer, a glass skywalk is being built that reaches out 75ft over the canyon and stands 4,000 ft above the river below.This...

"More people visit a Starbucks every week (40 million) than watch the highest rated TV show (20 million), we are a network. "Howard Schultz on Charlie Rose- January 17th, 2006On the show, Schultz suggests Starbucks will continue to push into the entertainment space, focusing on emerging artists in...

For too long we've thought about media consumption as a single act; an event that occurs independently of others. As we know from research , media multi-tasking is becoming very much the norm. Media consumption now needs to be seen as something that's fluid and organic and that responds to a...

LA Weekly is running an amazing story about the incredible number of sequels planned for release in 2007. "As for next summer's sequel orgy, both Hannibal Rising (the fourth Hannibal Lecter pic, this one a prequel) and The Hills Have Eyes II will get the foreplay started, followed by Spider-Man...

Conan O'Brien created a cultural meme for his late night show with a skit involving an FSU mascot, a manatee, dancing As a throwaway line at the end of his skit, Conan told his audience they could find more content at hotmanate.com and thought nothing of it. It wasn't until the NBC standards people...

Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 about the famous ancient battle betwen the Spartans and the Persians is coming to the big screen March 07. It looks incredible. It was shot entirely on green screen in an industrial warehouse, with the effects being added by Canada's Meteor Studios. This is the...

In an interview with NPR yesterday, Scott Kirsner of the Mercury News, stated that the days of amateur dominance on video sites like YouTube is coming to an end. While their presence may decline, it's likely that amateur videos will still continue to captivate people's imagination for some time to...

This is a seriously long list of books that have come to our attention in recent months. We probably will not get round to getting and reading 1/5th of these, but we thought the list was worth sharing. The Lonely Planet Guide to Micronations: John Ryan, George Dunford, Simon Sellars The nation...