Amazing Fact about Movie Theater Popcorn
According to today's New York Times, popcorn purchased in a movie theater has a 5,000% markup. In Straight to DVD, an Op-Ed piece by Robert W. Cort.
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According to today's New York Times, popcorn purchased in a movie theater has a 5,000% markup. In Straight to DVD, an Op-Ed piece by Robert W. Cort.
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program is streaming (with chat) their thesis presentations, 20 minutes each including Q&A, May 2-5, 9am-6pm our time, all NINETY-SEVEN of them.
"Students have been encouraged to undertake projects that bring together the conceptual and design issues that they have engaged in during their two years of study at ITP. Projects will include installation based work, digital video and audio pieces, interactive 3D, games and educational applications, to name only a few."
Excellent snapshots from our comrades in NYC.
While I’ve always been a dedicated advocate of constructionism and of cyberspace, I left the NetPublics symposium fearing that if Karl Rove had attended, he’d conclude that America’s best and brightest were obsessed with living in fantasy worlds of elves and orcs, and ornamenting the urban landscape with colored LEDs. And I fear he’d be quite happy.
In the summer of 1972, Ann Arbor was glutted with Quaaludes. ‘Ludes (Rorer 714s) were readily available for under a dollar. Many friends had bottles of 500. As a young undergrad, it was a very happy summer - skinny dipping in the Huron River, dancing and making lots of love, and group showers. As smart people in a smart community, we not only had fun but could rationalize why it was good as well. It was also the summer of an unsuccessful Vietnam War rally in DC and of Watergate. A couple years later, rumors circulated that then-Attorney General John Mitchell had incentivized several drug companies to have drugs like Quaaludes “fall off trucks” in campus communities that summer. Nixon won the election that fall.
In the middle of the dot-com bubble, SF MOMA held a “future of new media” panel consisting of a conversation between Director David Ross and Germany-based ZKM Director Peter Weibel on a rare US visit. It was one giant hug-fest in its optimism about the promise of the Internet. Near the end, an older fellow near the back of the packed auditorium exclaimed “The Internet is already a toilet.” He went on to describe what we know now as spam, netporn, phishing, etc. He was practically lynched. We were all smart people (verifiably so since everyone was profiting well) and had unbounding confidence that our net-topia was just around the corner.
The NetPublics symposium was bold and timely, and a great group of people. I'm grateful to have attended. But my 2¢: we need to be very careful and clear-minded right now about large-scale, real world consequences.