Just had to share some reviews of Paris Hilton’s success as an actress in The Hottie and the Nottie:

“It’s not like Paris Hilton to rise above her material, but The Hottie and the Nottie sinks so low that all she has to do is stand upright.” — Sam Adams, LOS ANGELES TIMES”

Great actors make the craft look easy. In this Paris Hilton comedy, acting looks very, very difficult.” — Kyle Smith, NEW YORK POST

“This pea-brained vanity production…” — Nell Minow, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“This tasteless train wreck …” — Jeannette Catsoulis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Imagine the worst movie you’ve ever seen. Got it? Now try to think of something worse. That something is this movie.” — Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD

On a possible score of 100, the film gets 6. For more reviews, had over to Defective Yeti.

It is amazing to see how display technology is evolving. Not too long ago, tubes were the standard way of showing moving pictures. Then came the LCD/Plasma revolution. Screens are getting both bigger (42″ seems the new standard for TVs, while it was 22″ not so long before) and smaller (just see the new 2″ iPod nano or pinable video). Now you can have a film on any wall — or in any pocket.

Electronic paper seems to be coming closer to production. One day I guess we will have animated cereal boxes…

Holographic storytelling

A new, holographic technology allows to display images in thin air. While the quality is still not quite there yet, this is certainly a very exciting technology:

It will be very interesting to see if this technology requires a different format for telling stories.

Interactive

Now imagine if you could combine these two technologies – holographic movies and interactivity, and a whole new world of storytelling evolves. I imagine some sort of combination between a film storyline and computer games.

The future is certainly looking interesting.