christopher caen

@pmarca well they can't be that serious about it because I happen to know they turned down the best person at building communities through events on the planet! You know, the guy who built a little community called...Java.

When one thing becomes abundant and cheap, another thing becomes scarce and valuable.

One of the things you will never be able to explain about the 70s is the total willingness to put complete nightmare fuel on disguised as children's show...it was awesome! mediapost.com/publications/a…

One of my favorite shows that got killed before it ended (Counterpart is at the top of the list). Funny you mention GOT, which I couldn’t get into because after Badlands it just seemed so boring! GOT is all. I don’t like this person so I will spend the next eleven episodes plotting and planning. Badlands was I don’t like you so…insane fight sequence! Also…The Widow…

AMC spent almost $100 million making Season 3 of this show. Two full film crews. 300 people on set every day. Then they cancelled it. The show is Into the Badlands. It ran on AMC (the network that made Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead) from 2015 to 2019. It's a martial arts show set in a post-apocalyptic America 500 years from now, where swords have replaced guns and warlords rule the land. Daniel Wu, an American-born martial arts champion, starred in it and produced it. Wu told Den of Geek the show ran two separate film units at the same time. One for action, one for dialogue. 150 people on each. Each episode cost $6 to $7 million to make, which is roughly Game of Thrones money for a cable show almost nobody ended up watching. The fight choreographer was Master Dee Dee Ku. His teacher was Yuen Woo-ping, the man who did the fights in The Matrix and Kill Bill. Ku himself worked on Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Iron Monkey. He put the cast through a six-week boot camp, six hours a day, learning kung fu, weapons, and wire work. Stephen Fung, who directed the Chinese film Tai Chi Zero, ran the whole action unit. They used real wires for the flying scenes instead of computer effects, which is how old Hong Kong movies did it. The premiere pulled 8.2 million viewers in November 2015, the third-biggest cable show launch ever at that time. AMC had it airing right after The Walking Dead, which at its peak was drawing 14 million people a week. When The Walking Dead went off the air between seasons, Badlands lost half its audience. By the Season 3 finale, it was under 1 million viewers per episode. AMC had also stopped promoting the show after Season 1. Cable TV runs on ad money, and that needs big regular audiences. At $6 million per episode, the numbers just weren't adding up. The creators, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, moved on. A few years later they created Wednesday for Netflix, with Tim Burton directing. It's now the most-watched English-language series in Netflix's history, at 252 million views. Same writers making the same kind of dark genre TV, but on a platform that could actually find the audience without needing a Walking Dead to drag people in.

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Your job is to pick the worst possible actor to play James bond. Go!

@ikmultimedia I assume this is coming to AmpliTube next week, yes?!

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Who’s the loudest band you’ve ever seen live?

The evil geniuses at Parachute Bakery in the @Ferry_Building have a wagyu pastrami croissant…it’s everything you think that means and more

What do you think @KNBR @KrukowKuiper

I will point out @SFGiants that my dad does play first base and has a beautiful glove sweep to pull out those errant throws. Mind you, he passed away 30 years ago but..still may be your best option #HerbOnFirst

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Show @Atmonez some love!

@orthodox_punk @TheCinesthetic So good

The cancellation of which TV show are you still frustrated about?

@TheCinesthetic Counterpart

Wrote this years ago...little did I know! theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

@politico wrote about this years ago...little did I know! theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Democrats risk a historic upset in California dlvr.it/TRpzNK

So, funny story...wrote about this years ago! theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

@minordissent @Techniacus If you like that you will also like @Atmonez

why is my feed full of slop and never @Techniacus art

@OneRSAC was the big event in cyber this week, but meanwhile out in the trenches, this was going down. One of the biggest questions we get about Xilos, our cybersecurity and governance platform, was why we decided to move to a fully behavioral solution and get away from identity and credentials. This is why

@BedulenkoMax I don’t know why but every time I see that diesel punk image I just love that lonely little tram trudging across the bridge

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Yes it’s that time of year again…already?