http://www.johnmenick.com Art, film, prose, and politics Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:11:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.johnmenick.com/2008/11/scott-kirsner-technology-film-industry http://www.johnmenick.com/2008/11/scott-kirsner-technology-film-industry#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:38:06 +0000 John Menick http://www.johnmenick.com/?p=220 http://www.johnmenick.com/2008/11/scott-kirsner-technology-film-industry/feed 0 http://www.johnmenick.com/2007/09/mario-garcia-torres-interview http://www.johnmenick.com/2007/09/mario-garcia-torres-interview#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:42:28 +0000 John Menick http://www.johnmenick.com/2007/09/mario-garcia-torres-interview http://www.johnmenick.com/2007/09/mario-garcia-torres-interview/feed 0 http://www.johnmenick.com/2007/01/wired-magazine-nasas-lost-apollo-11-videos http://www.johnmenick.com/2007/01/wired-magazine-nasas-lost-apollo-11-videos#comments Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:47:06 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2007/01/10/wired-magazine-nasas-lost-apollo-11-videos The Apollo 11 moon landing was one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind. And engineering a video setup that could capture the event and beam it back to Earth so that half a billion people could watch it -- that was pretty impressive, too. But the version of the footage that the world saw on TV was muddied and degraded. Luckily, a pristine version of the raw footage was recorded onto 14 inch magnetic tape reels and sent to NASA for safekeeping. One snag -- NASA now has no idea where that tape is.]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2007/01/wired-magazine-nasas-lost-apollo-11-videos/feed 0 http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/12/its-a-wonderful-life-anti-consumerist-subversive-communist-propaganda http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/12/its-a-wonderful-life-anti-consumerist-subversive-communist-propaganda#comments Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:01:44 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/12/24/its-a-wonderful-life-anti-consumerist-subversive-communist-propaganda sez the FBI. I usually don't like re-blogging Boing Boing posts, but heck, it's too good a story to pass up. Happy holidays.]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/12/its-a-wonderful-life-anti-consumerist-subversive-communist-propaganda/feed 0 http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/10/serge-daney-on-catastrophe http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/10/serge-daney-on-catastrophe#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:13:10 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/10/26/serge-daney-on-catastrophe rough translation from Serge Daney in English:]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/10/serge-daney-on-catastrophe/feed 0 http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/09/british-film-institute-gets-a-video-download-service http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/09/british-film-institute-gets-a-video-download-service#comments Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:50:03 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/09/08/british-film-institute-gets-a-video-download-service Apple and Amazon will open their video download services this month, but the British Film Institute has done something better. The BBC reports:]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/09/british-film-institute-gets-a-video-download-service/feed 0 http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/06/the-hitchcocktruffaut-tapes http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/06/the-hitchcocktruffaut-tapes#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:22:02 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/06/20/the-hitchcocktruffaut-tapes I had heard the Hitchcock-Truffaut tapes in streaming RealPlayer format a few years ago when they were posted on the RFI site.]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/06/the-hitchcocktruffaut-tapes/feed 0 http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/05/future-cities http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/05/future-cities#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 02:33:43 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/05/23/future-cities reviewing the exhibition "Future City" at the Barbican, London, Jonathan Glancey chooses to look at the effect visionary filmmakers have had on how we view the architecture of the future.]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/05/future-cities/feed 0