EPIC 2014

In Year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And What is EPIC?

It’s a story about how Internet-based media wins and the other form of media has failed to exist – in the year 2014.

What I afraid is the saying about EPIC from the flash film: EPIC is merely a collection of trivia, much of it untrue, all of it narrow, shallow stand sensational. Gosh, the “traditional” media today in Taiwan is sensational enough.

I was trying to import all my CDs (purchased by me and my sister) into iTunes. When I open the jewel box of “Turth” by A-Mei (Warner Music Taiwan, 2001), I saw a bizarre image: some unknown matarial just vapirize form the cover of the booklet and crystialize on the back side of the CD. When I try to remove it, I found out that it has eatten the CD, leaving a fog-like surface.

I don’t what it is, but I think Warner Music should know it before they sell it, especially when they ask people to buy CDs instread of download music.

It’s just feel like punishment of buying music legally.

As Disney’s own teams fail to produce next generation of princes and princesses, something like this have happened: BBC: Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal.

Animation movie now is quite different than the ones in my childhood; My family have bought almost every soundtrack of Disney’s annal musical animation – until they stop producing their animation as musical. I never figure out why they stop making music animation; without being musical, animations from Disney doesn’t look like Disney anymore. I was thinking at the time they lost a key musical producer, one from the cover of soundtracks in my home.

Pixar’s animation series, however, saved Disney by release their movie under Disney’s brand. Without the movie, Disney would unable to renew facilities in their theme parks, programs in their TV channel, and their dolls in the stores; Their characters are being forgetten. Merging with the long-time partner Disney, Pixar would insure it’s unbeatable domination in computer animations in the future through Disney’s marketing. This deal would be the total invasion of Pixar characters to Mouseton; “Disney” would stop making animation one day – Pixar is Disney.

Now, you could understand my title.

BTW, The earlist computer animation ever produced was ReBoot, by Mainframe instead of Toy Story by Pixar.

Welcome to my blog (again). I re-built it with WordPress 2, with plug-ins for anti-spam (Spam Karma 2) and multi-language (Polyglot plus a small plug-in switching template). Also, I re-designed CSS base on WordPress default.

With these effort, I hope to spend more time producing content than coding.

With fireworks and celebration, the numbers become more closer than that used to be on the sci-fi fictions. Even with that, I’ve lost the faith that the world would be better to live in the future.