Ethan Tussey
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Braintrust Stretched to Capacity
Thank you for starting out week on Pixar. I really appreciated your piece and was wondering if this is an example of a highly effective working relationship that gets stretched when too much is demanded. With Pixar leadership now overseeing much of Disney ... -
Travis thank you for your
Travis thank you for your comments on this 30 for 30 documentary. What I find so interesting about this incident is how it is one of the enduring narratives that frame understanding (particularly US understanding) about the Winter Olympics. The Jamaican b ... -
From one global sports controversy to the next
Markus, thank you very much for this post as it transitions us from the end of the Sochi games as a site of global sports/controversy to Brazil as the next site. As the Winter Olympics come to a close I wonder if we have learned anything about how these e ... -
Chuck your piece reminds us
Chuck your piece reminds us of the role professional teams play as part of a city and as an engine of urban development. I found it interesting that the justification for the move that the Braves offered was a map of Braves ticket holders showing the domi ... -
Transparency through Targeting
Thank you for highlighting the history of data collection. I often argue that social networking services that seem new and invasive are merely manifestations of systems and human behaviors that have been present for some time but rarely cataloged. In some ... -
Niche vs Mass, Online vs Intl Coproductions
One of the things that is so interesting about this example is collision between our assumptions about online niche targeting and mass targeting in the cinematic space. International coproductions are often designed to have mass appeal in order to attract ... -
Re: Beyond Flow
More in Control or Just Revealing Control
Sharon, thanks for the Lego Game of Thrones clip and comments. Somewhere there is an executive from the Lego video game franchise that has seen this clip and is trying to figure out a way to create a video game version of the show that is functional despi ... -
Is it an artistic statement?
Reading your interesting post, I kept thinking of Pee Wee Herman and the 1960s Batman as famous examples of children's programs celebrated and read transgressively by adults. In both those previous examples there was some claim to high art (for Batma ... -
Is Stuart Escaping?
I have a weird relationship to this show in that I don't hate it but I find it really hacky and easy. It is obsessed with making fun of these characters in the ways you described and the way Henry Jenkins describes in the beginning of Textual Poacher ... -
What about New Technology?
Your clip and note made me think about how important the medium is to this message. As you point out this was the 1980s the beginning of the era of video tape. I wonder if there was a desire to take advantage of the new medium by creating content that cou ...