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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rosenthal, founder of Power to the Pixel, an organization that devises new models of film distribution, says the reason many indie directors are turning to the web is that it allows them to better engage with their audiences. "The whole film business has no connection with their audience," she says. "And with any business you have to know your consumer. The Internet has become a free distribution machine, so what can you sell that makes money? Things you can't copy. They need to be things that are based around your audience. Directors cuts, merchandise, 35mm prints of your film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Indie Directors Give Movies Away Free Online | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

...Hutchins' success, there are critics who downplay the significance of their "pioneering" work. When serving as vice president of the Science Fiction Writers of America two years ago, author Howard Hendrix, in a blog, dubbed these authors "webscabs" who are turning the role of writer into a "pixel-stained Technopeasant wretch." (Hendrix later admitted, in a "debate" with Sigler in Sept. 2007 in San Franciscio, that his comments were "incendiary," but also said, "In the long run, what you may end up with is a vast digital slush pile" and "a mass of novels written by 15-year-olds.") Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Podcasting Your Novel: Publishing's Next Wave? | 1/31/2009 | See Source »

...Because product specifications - like pixel count - disproportionately sway our decisions as shoppers, even when our own experiences tell us they don't matter. That holds true for a range of things we buy, from cell phones to potato chips, as demonstrated by a series of studies to be published in the April issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. "Specifications can be very misleading, even if marketers are honest," says Christopher Hsee, a professor of behavioral sciences and marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who ran the experiments with researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. "Consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swaying Shoppers: The Power of Product Specs | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...effect is to turn the entire 31-story exterior into a watery pixel field of color, blooms of orange, fuschia and reds near the base giving way to clouds of blue closer to the sky, with the occasional panel of yellow or red appearing wherever it may. At night a lighting system adds blue, yellow and white in varying combinations. Nouvel has called his building, which houses a local water company, "a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure." That would be one way to look at it. As just about everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jean Nouvel Wins Architecture Honor | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

...fourth and final creation of Lancôme's Pout-à-Porter fashion-lipstick series. The first of the collection, a dazzling red by designer Behnaz Sarafpour, sold out before it even hit stores. Two more wildly successful shades later, up-and-comer Thakoon Panichgul takes his shot with Pixel Pink, a sheer raspberry, in stores this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News + Notes | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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