Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. | | | | | | | | | | | “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
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| | rantnrave:// DISNEY CEO BOB IGER said yesterday: “The biggest thing that we’re trying to do now is figure out what technology’s role is in distributing the great content that we have... It’s one thing to be as fortunate as we are to have Disney, ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, ‘Star Wars’ and Lucasfilm, but in today’s world, it’s almost not enough to have all that stuff unless you have access to your consumer.” Is distribution finally king? To many, Disney has become the poster child for poor licensing decisions in the digital era. Four years ago, the company sold exclusive digital rights to nearly the entire Disney catalog through the end of the decade. As a result, critics argue, Disney can do little to adapt to the OTT and D2C era – and enabled Netflix to build its own digital empire. But by focusing on Disney’s inflexibilities, this narrative overlooks the nuances of the company’s digital content strategy. Not only is Disney's future bright, it's closer than ever to fulfilling Walt's own vision for the storied 'House of Mouse'. Time to revisit our REDEF MediaOriginal: "Disney as a Service (DaaS): Why Disney is Closer than Ever to Walt’s 60 Year Old Vision"... Shoutout to pal CHELSEA HANDLER for shouting us out and making me laugh... I don't feel psychological healthy, but this says I am... R.I.P. ROD TEMPERTON. A musical genius who had a major impact on pop music. Please spend some time to learn more about him: Must listen... Re-run: RECODE's PETER KAFKA and I discuss club promoting, REDEF, heart surgery, social media, life and more... Congrats to BOB MOCZYDLOWSKY on joining TECHSTARS MUSIC as Managing Director... Hey sneakerheadz, are you watching SNEAKERHEADZ on NETFLIX?... Interesting point from BALTIMORE SUN media critic DAVID ZURAWIK on CNN RELIABLE SOURCES: The political satire that SNL has led for years is still fantastic but less exceptional given the current political media landscape... Happy Birthday to MO KOYFMAN, SALAR KAMANGAR, JEREMY DE BONET and JAY BOUCHER. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| How did a substance that falls from the air, springs from the earth and comes out of your tap become a hyperactive multibillion-dollar business? | | |
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| The latest quarterly TV viewing figures from Nielsen are in, giving us now 5-and-a-half years’ worth of quarterly data on Americans’ traditional TV viewing habits. It’s well established at this point that youth as a whole are watching less traditional TV. Does this latest study, covering Q2 2016, have anything new to offer by way of trends? Let’s take a look. | | |
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| To be human is to earn the right to share in the wealth generated by productive social institutions. | | |
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| Filmmaker Douglas Trumbull has invented a super-immersive film format and projection technology in hopes of improving the cinematic experience. Now he needs to get the industry to pay attention. | | |
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| In a nationally televised commercial that premiered last month, an empty search box sitting against a stark white background slowly morphs, becoming taller and skinnier. As Redbone croons "Come and get your love," the lines take shape and the outline of a phone emerges. | | |
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| When Paul Hadweh decided to make his own course dedicated to exploring Palestine, he was approved, then denied, then reinstated after a frenzy of international backlash. | | |
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| We're in a golden age for content, everyone agrees. There are so many amazing shows being made and funding is coming from so many deep pockets - Netflix, Amazon, and over-the-top startups, as well as the usual network and cable channels - that everyone comes out a winner. | | |
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| Facebook’s CEO got what he wanted on his first trip to Africa. Nigeria got even more. | | |
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| Executives at the outdoor apparel company are sick and tired of Big Food's greenwashing. | | |
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| Five years ago today, Steve Jobs passed away -- just one day after Apple introduced Siri on the new iPhone 4s. While the pundit press immediately dreamed of a rapid collapse of Apple in his absence, instead the company Jobs cofounded spiraled upward to become the largest and most profitable ever. Why were they all so very wrong? | | |
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| Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting. | | |
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| Jason Flom leads a double life. In one, he discovers artists like Katy Perry and Lorde. In the other, he helps free people from prison. | | |
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| Bruce Springsteen goes deep on the revelations in his new memoir 'Born to Run' - from his childhood trauma to the future of E Street. | | |
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| In treating the nation’s founders as holy relics, America forgets they were revolutionaries and risk-takers. | | |
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| Call Bill Belichick what you want, but these accounts of his uncompromising life -- from prodigy to professional ballbuster -- reveal why history might one day call him the greatest. | | |
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| Google went wrong in the past by abandoning their horizontal business model; are they repeating their mistake, or does the future give them no choice? | | |
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| Gary Matthews Sr. and sons are pushing to bring more color back to the game. | | |
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| The internet looks a lot scarier under the hood. | | |
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| Pro tennis player Maria Sharapova addresses her recent suspension and the ruling that will allow her to return to competition soon. | | |
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| Columbia Journalism Review |
| On a Monday night in September, 2,000 people gathered at a theater off Times Square to watch five political journalists sit on a stage and talk about polls. The occasion was a live taping of the FiveThiryEight Elections Podcast, an almost unimaginably nerdy event for which attendees paid up to $100 per ticket. | | |
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| During an especially violent clash with a rival club, I began to wonder how long I’d last. | | |
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| The use of design patent protection is certainly not a new tactic, as brands have been utilizing such protection for decades. However, it seems that many have begun to rely significantly on this form of protection, which extends to the “new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture,” only in relatively recent years. | | |
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