Author Archives: Nicholas J. Robinson

The Drunken Philosopher gave a lengthy reply to my short article last week. It is front page worthy, so am pasting it in here. My one thought before I do – What happens when Apple is the new king of content? Do we want them to have the lock? Lets get some heavy competition going. […]

Here is my latest film, Sunrise. It’s a 3 minute short shot here in Santa Monica. I’ll post the script if anyone wants to read it. Andrea, the male lead, will be on ‘Til Death’ this Thursday so be sure to check him out there as well. It was shot during morning magic hour (Around […]

There was a great article in Mondays Variety about the success of Borat and it’s limited engagment opener, written by Gabriel Snyder and Ian Mohr. Without knowing it or directly saying it, the article is outstanding evidence for my death/rebirth of the Industry claims. Allow me to paraphrase what the article said: Borat opened in […]

Before the decline in movie theaters we will see the death of DVD. This will be happening in the next year or so as broadband gets faster, cheaper and more prevalent. Currently people are hesitant about legally downloading films, similar to when legal music downloading first started. The transition to digital distribution is a vital […]

Just think about that sum of money for a moment. One point six five BILLION DOLLARS. Why didn’t I make YouTube instead? I’m sad now. Everyone had this damn idea. Sure there are a lot of important things to talk about after this huge purchase by Google – The impact on internet video, the future […]

Here is a new short film I made today called STEAM. Check it out, comment what you think.

Check out my new short film, called Burn. I shot this at the end of the school year on a DVX100a. It was supposed to be a 15 minute short but due to graduation and some other things it never got finished. I decided to edit something together with what I had, and this is […]