Pinboard (matthewmcvickar) https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/public/ recent bookmarks from matthewmcvickar Lizzy Goodman: Kim Gordon Sounds Off (ELLE) 2013-04-25T18:00:09+00:00 http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/celebrities/kim-gordon-sonic-youth-profile matthewmcvickarmusic feminism culture indie https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:25cc677203c0/ 2012: A Banner Year for Indie Games 2013-01-13T05:21:31+00:00 http://twntytwlv.com/ matthewmcvickar videogames internet indie https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:7301dc292ead/ Carles: How Indie Finally OFFICIALLY Died: The Broken Indie Machine. (Hipster Runoff) 2012-11-26T07:02:20+00:00 http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2012/10/how-indie-finally-officially-died-broken-indie-machine.html matthewmcvickarMaybe the indie experiment only existed to create Grimes, the ultimate internet content producer who makes content directly aimed at internet viewers. She is the best example of ‘not being a band/musician’, but instead a ‘playing by the rules’ content generation machine that resonates with humans wasting time on the internet.]]> indie music content internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b5c0112e460c/ Steven Hyden: Lena Dunham, Lana Del Rey, LCD Soundsystem, and the end of indie exceptionalism. (Grantland) 2012-11-26T06:35:34+00:00 http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8650019/lena-dunham-lana-del-rey-lcd-soundsystem-end-indie-exceptionalism-comedy matthewmcvickar…the notion of indie exceptionalism (and its white, urban, and upper-class trappings) was repeatedly questioned this year, almost always by the very people who benefit from it. Indie-ness in 2012's pop culture has been depicted as an outmoded cliché, an indulgence for the rich and deluded, a jokey lyrical reference, a house of cards, and/or a pile of cool clothes for pop stars and corporations to try on and discard.]]> indie hipster culture youth youngadult adolescence music film review https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:b17ad5d6875b/ Keith Calder: vhxtv: We’re very proud to announce that VHX is powering the worldwide release of Indie Game: The Movie on June 12 2012-05-28T02:38:09+00:00 http://keithcalder.com/post/23740184800/indie-game-the-movie-vhx matthewmcvickarBut this is it. This is where we start. Crowd-funded on Kickstarter; self-released on iTunes, Steam, and VHX. Our Edison is Steve Jobs, our Chaplin is Louis CK, our multiplex is VHX, and our Warner Brothers is Kickstarter. I hope you can be our Hitchcock, our Curtiz, our Méliès, or our Griffith.]]> video movies film indie business https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:5a77c0c5dd30/ Jonathan Coulton: Megaupload 2012-03-08T13:14:52+00:00 http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/ matthewmcvickarMake good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.
So I have a lot of trouble with the idea that the federal government is directing resources toward an ultimately ineffective game of piracy whack-a-mole (with some unknown amount of collateral damage to law-abiding citizens), when we are not even sure that piracy is a problem.
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