An oldie but goodie from the mid-1990s, now digitized. The Nicky Fake Show is a student video I was a part of as part of the (now-defunct) Arizona State University (ASU) Center for Academic Precocity (CAP) Videology summer course for junior high and high school students. As the title suggests, it’s a parody of talk [...]

Ubiqui.tv is a prototype online video travel guide for the Boxee platform.  Ubiqui.tv was created by Joel Leimer, Oskar Von Hauske, Timothy Haynes, and myself as our group project for the ITP class Designing The Future of Television with Richard Ting.

Here are some juicy stats and research results I found while doing my homework for Designing The Future of TV: 13.4 million Americans watch some form of mobile video each month, and of those 13.4 million people, each watched an average of 3.5 hours of mobile video per month.  By comparison, the average American watches [...]

My team for Designing the Future of Television was inspired by the buzz around a potential Hulu iPhone App. There were reports that it was “coming soon” back in April, but still no app yet. There are some hurdles to the app’s release, such as the need for sign-off from Apple and AT&T. Also, according [...]

I’ve recently seen this ad on TV and YouTube: The ad was made by Americans Against Food Taxes, an interest group that includes some big agro-businesses and industrial fast food producers who are opposed to a proposed tax on soft drinks and juice drinks, in other words, beverages that contain high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). [...]