Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: movies

  • Media Consumption Boundaries

    What boundaries do you have for media consumption in your life? We’ve heard a lot about “screen time” in the past few years, as both Apple and Google / Android have added built-in tools for tracking screentime. But what comprises your “media consumption” or “media diet” within your weekly screentime? The channels you watch and…

  • The Orbital Perspective: Inspired by Chris Hadfield, Ed Robertson, the Wexford Gleeks and Rod Murray

    Thanks to a recommendation from my Canadian friend and fellow educator Rod Murray (@mrmuzzdog), this morning I started my day with an inspiring, co-created song by Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield), Ed Robertson (@edrobertson,) and the Wexford Gleeks (@wpa_to) recorded together when Commander Hadfield was orbiting our planet as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station in…

  • Restrict Plex Shared Movie Library to Include Just G, PG, PG-13 Films

    Do you know about Plex? My short definition of Plex is “a robust platform for digitally sharing movies you convert from DVD, download or purchase with others on a variety of screens.” The English WikiPedia article for Plex (software) explains it is composed of two parts: the “Plex Media Server” and “Plex Apps.” As home media software goes, it’s…

  • Interview with Author & Screenswriter Rene Gutteridge

    Last night I had the opportunity to interview author and screenwriter Rene Gutteridge as part of a new webinar series for the Oklahoma City-based Writer’s Conference “Write Well, Sell Well.” The conference is just around the corner, October 23-24, 2015. Rene has published 25 books to date. The screenplay adaptation of one of her books, Skid, won…

  • Les Miserables 2012: A Powerful Film That Will Make You Weep

    This weekend I was blessed with an opportunity to see the 2012 movie and musical, Les Miserables. It was incredible. I read Les Mis in high school, and it was the first off-Broadway musical my wife and I saw in Lubbock, Texas, in the early 2000s. It’s an incredibly moving and powerful tale, but this…

  • Back to the Future Opening Scene: Marty McFly Experiences Amplifier Power [VIDEO]

    For tomorrow’s opening keynote address at the “Ridiculous Innovation Conference” for Kansas City Public Schools, I have been wanting to use a video clip of the opening scene from the 1985 classic movie, “Back to the Future.” If you recall, hero Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) cranks up the power to an oversize speaker’s amplifiers…

  • Why We Cancelled Our Hulu Plus Subscription

    Today we cancelled our family trial subscription to Hulu Plus. Last week I shared my excitement at being able to use the free Hulu Plus iPad app and “mirror” from an iPad2 on Apple TV to watch TV programs on our television. In the end, however, the regular ADVERTISING in Hulu Plus (along with the…

  • Awesome Brickfilm

    This is a guest post by my 13 year old son, Alexander. So I don’t normally write things up but but dad asked me to share this. I love building and playing with legos. It is always fun to build fancy ships but the lego minifigure is also one of the best tools to make stopmotion films…

  • The Changing Face of Home Media Consumption

    Media access and media consumption behaviors are changing in our homes. A few weeks ago, I received an email (via Flickr) from the Interactive Project Coordinator of the National Building Museum‘s “House and Home” exhibition. She was asking for permission to use and license the photo, “Laptops at Home,” which I took in June 2009…

  • Digital Storytelling and Writing with the Story Arc and Freytag’s pyramid

    Many good stories, whether we read them in books, hear other people tell them, or watch them in movies use the “story arc” or “dramatic structure.” This is a photo I snapped last week in Holland, Michigan, of a story arc drawing a teacher was using. Freytag’s pyramid is a five part model also referred…