There's something entirely pointless about reviewing movies after opening night in the Summer of 2009.

Even as showbusiness falls apart, the summer schedule is glutted with a little bit of everything from Sandra Bullock vehicles to trainwreck movies inspired mostly a lust for nostalgia (I'm looking at youGI Joe). To last more than that first weekend it takes something special, or something with enough marketing inertia to carry it past poor word of mouth.

In that environment it doesn't look good forYear One. The Jack Black and Michael Cera caveman buddy comedy manages to deliver exactly what it promises, the two actors stuck in their usual places inside of world of dick jokes and hastily assembled biblical references (not that there's anything wrong with that).

BlogRyan RichardsonJune 20, 2009Year One, comedy, good, movie, movie reviewComment

It's Comcastic

BlogRyan RichardsonJune 16, 2009comcast, consumer issues, digital transition, televisionComment

The Trouble with Papers

A few months ago, when I was still working in the newspaper industry, they crowded the editorial staff of CNC South into a little room in Marshfield to talk about how the financial picture was shaping up. I honestly didn’t pay much attention, I was rather busy attempting a circulate a petition demanding that we be treated to some kind of pizza while we sat in that room and heard about how this latest Internet push would fix all of our fiscal woes.

BlogRyan RichardsonJune 10, 2009Gatehouse, complaining, media industry, newspapersComment

The Terribly Awful, No Good, Very Bad Browser

Since losing my job I've come to tend the Internet like other people comb a Zen garden, carefully reading over links and shuffling around my bookmarks. Fed up with Firefox, the geeks go-to engine for getting around online I decided to try out Google Chrome.

I know, it's a few months late and in truth I started with Chrome as soon as it was available to the public to see if Google could do with browsers what it did with search.

The short answer is no.

Fake it until you make it...

I have some 25,000 images sitting on an external hard drive whirring away next to my computer. There's a soft blue light flowing forth from the front panel of the drive that lets me know that everything is all right, at least mechanically because aesthetically it's a nightmarish morass.

Not having to pay for film, or pay for development is both a blessing and a curse. It's certainly informed the way I approach photography, which bears more relationship to a strategic bombing campaign than an actual photoshoot.

BlogRyan RichardsonApril 16, 2009arts, blog, digital photographyComment