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Follow the “Shutter Island” Press Junket Live

Charlie McSpadden — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:00:24 +0000

recess’ film editor Charlie McSpadden is attending the two-day press junket for Martin Scorcese’s new thriller Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film will screen in New York City tonight at 6:30PM and the press conference will take place tomorrow at 1PM in Le Parker Meridian hotel. Participating talent will include Scorcese and DiCaprio as well as Sir Ben Kingsley, author Dennis Lehane, screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis and producers Mike Medavoy and Brad Fisher.

Follow the action on Twitter and feel free to send in questions for the stars.

Why I’ll be fluttering soon

Ade Sawyer — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:11:38 +0000

So today I came across this video on Slate.com by way of Twitter:

Obviously, everybody’s been talking about Twitter lately. People love it, hate it, are thoroughly confused by it, etc. If you think about it, all those different reactions make sense, seeing as Twitter is really just an aggregated thought stream. That is, a stream of a bunch of different people’s thoughts all thrown together in chronological order. I figure, people’s normal thoughts cause all those reactions (see the comments on any Chronicle article), so why shouldn’t a thought stream?

For a while I didn’t really get it either, and I’ll admit I still don’t get it completely. But if it’s really just a collection of human thoughts, the fact is, none of us ever really stands a chance of “getting” it any more that we “get” the other ~6 billion people on the earth. But we do it anyway because somewhere in the mix we get the satisfaction of interacting with other people, even if it’s just by way of electrons.

Many people will say that it takes a level of self-importance that borders on narcissism to think that people want to follow your thoughts and opinions (and yes, I get the irony of saying that as a blogger/columnist…blolumnist…I like it). But on the other hand, it’s a pretty organic system, and it doesn’t really matter what your assumptions are about yourself, because only other people can confirm them. Which is why I have 11 followers, while Rainn Wilson (Dwight from “The Office,” who I follow) has over 340k followers (a little cultish, no?) and thousands of people were disappointed this week to find out that Christopher Walken’s twitter feed was a fake.

At the end of the day, Twitter just gives people what they want: People…in bite-sized portions of 140 characters or less. And whenever somebody finds another effective way to distribute people to people, their product will take off too. It won’t matter whether it’s Flutter or Shttr (<

On a related note, shameless self-promotion here.

Chris Carrabba: Duke Fan?

Andrew Hibbard — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:30:59 +0000

Dashboard Confessional plays Page Auditorium tonight at 8 p.m. And according to front man Chris Carrabba’s Twitter, it should be an exciting night for the seeming Duke fan. Two of the singer’s last five tweets have been about the Blue Devils–the last one coming the night of Duke’s loss to Villanova. Is Carrabba actually a Duke fan or has tonight’s performance just piqued his interest in K’s squad? Hopefully, we’ll find out tonight.

Pharrell

Andrew Hibbard — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:00:22 +0000

(Via qoolquest) In a stunning example of why Twitter is the dumbest thing ever (but a little bit amazing), we present this video. Found on ?uestlove’s Twitter, Pharrell Williams shows he will do anything to get some McDonald’s in Paris.

DSG Presidential Debate on Twitter

Naureen Khan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:29:34 +0000

The DSG Presidential Debate will begin in t-minus 2 minutes. Visit our twitter account to stay up to date on how candidates Kousha Navidar, Awa Nur, Mike Lefevre and Chelsea Goldstein perform.