new york 04.07

The Lucas-Warren New York trip was a lot of fun.
I thought I’d post a few links for you here.

List of Restaurants we thoroughly enjoyed:

Nyonya
Lever House
Fleur de Sel
Le Zie

Click here for photos.
More info on the condo, click here.
More info on the new condos being built across the street, click here.

capture vs. create

The old way: “create a world in which…”
The new way: “capture a world in which…”
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this concept of blending scripted episodic television with zero footprint production. Meeting with some people here in New York in May to figure out what it all means. Exciting stuff.

new york city

We’re having an amazing time in New York. The kids (Hannah & Jax) were on Good Morning America this morning around 8:55 AM. We talked with Diane Sawyer after the show (see picture below).

top video content websites of 2006

As mentioned in Cynopsis Digital, here are the top sites adults used to view video content online in 2006, from Piper Jaffray. The numbers represent the percentage of respondents who said they viewed video on these sites:

YouTube 43.5%
TV Network Sites 41%
Google Video 26.5%
MSN Video 24.5%
Yahoo! Video 22%
MySpace 16.5%
AOL 13.5%
Other 17.5%

fsi update

FSI picked up 5 more awards from the Aurora Awards yesterday. FSI won in the categories of Issue Awareness, Writing, Directing, Cinematography and Editing. FSI has won a total of 12 awards and was an official selection for the World of Comedy Film Festival in Toronto this year. Plans are underway to send the film to all financial legislative committees nationwide.

Many of you have seen the recent headlines about the subprime mortgage market and foreclosures that could easily affect the entire housing market, which makes up 16% of the Gross Domestic Product. Fraud has been the under-reported story in these headlines, and we’ll all start hearing more and more about how the consequences of greed and criminal activity in terms of “little ol’ mortgage fraud” will affect us all.

Hopefully this film will continue to educate law makers, law enforcers and industry professionals for years to come – or until we focus on the next film.

– Kristi Kennelly, Interthinx™

videos removed by copyright owners

Videos removed at the request of copyright owners accounted for only nine percent of the total videos on YouTube while removed videos accounted for only six percent of total video views on the site, according to a study released by online tracking firm Vidmeter.com. The report studied clips and usage from December 2005 to March 2007, concentrating on the 6,725 most-viewed clips. Vidmeter tracks video downloads from Addicting Clips, Break, Brightcove, Daily Motion, Google, Grouper, iFilm, Metacafe, MySpace, Revver, Veoh, vSocial, Yahoo and YouTube.