R-News came to BlueTie last month and filmed a short segment highlighting our next-generation web advertising model called Featuretisements™. I think it turned out well!

As a bonus, I learned how to create a ‘poster frame’ (the starting splash page on the video) with ActionScript 3.

Video © 2008 Time Warner Cable and R-News.

Am I missing something? I just rented a movie from Apple’s iTunes for the first time. And I don’t get it. The movie (a one gigabyte download) was delivered at 4″ x 9″ and I could barely make out the details at the “actual size” setting. If I toggled it to “full screen” on my little 20″ monitor it was all blown out and pixelated and practically unviewable. Are Apple movie rentals really only produced for the iPhone and video iPod? That seems nutty. Even with today’s gas prices, it’s cheaper to take a simple detour to BlockBuster and rip a high quality version with HandBrake.

Sarah Silverman is still a hottie even when pixelated…but I probably won’t be renting movies from Apple again. Seriously, I don’t understand why people would pay BlockBuster prices for such low quality video.

“Smoking Laws” is the first feature film from my friend, writer, & director, Matthew Ehlers. And it’s my film debut—I play an extra. In case you missed me in the trailer, see the screen shot below. Damn, I really am convincing in this role. Of course I first want to thank The Academy, but I especially want to thank Matt, for “discovering” me—none of this would have been possible without Matt’s unshakable faith in my God-given talents. I owe you one, brother.