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About "Gladiastronauts" by mreisel
Design by mreisel
Once every five or six Earth years, the Amorphous Longwave Intergalactic Extraterristrial Network sponsors a gigantic event and broadcast it to every single solar system (except The Milky Way). At this sensational event, dozens of astronauts whose dissapearances Earth governments have covered up as "freak training accidental demises" are pitted against one another in epic duels after duel to the death! Xenomorphs from every nook and cranny of the cosmos flock to the illustrious Space capital and witness the pounding punishment for humans polluting other galaxies and being the true space invaders. Some top-tier space celebreties even come down to take in the festivities right up against the ring side!
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A sincere thanks to the Threadless community for all the ideas and suggestions they gave us to further the alien insanity taking place inside the Astro Arena.
Oh yeah! Full of win
the time and effort put into this design can only be rewarded with a $5
This is amazing 5$
not really a fan of all the little characters, but i feel it is time you get printed
Absurdly good!
Nice work Mike!
Stunning! $5
Thanks for all of the support!
wowza 5$
Incredible. Print! $$5
super crazy awesome!
pretty cool like it in red!
It's finally up! 5$
Holy detail! This is awesome!
Incredible details!
Thanks guys! I had a great time working on this piece with Evan.
oh man this is soo good!
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A truly superior T-shirt specimen!
chaotic beauty!
Thanks everyone for appreciating the hard work Evan and I put in on this piece. It means a lot!
Holy Crap! I really like the level of detail put into this-excellent job!
So much good stuff here to look at, great style and colors to boot.
Brilliance. Awesome x 1,000,000!
Nice Concept. Well Done
All I will say is EPIC
yeah! glad you are back dude! and this is awesome!
Thanks Santo! Congrats on your well-deserved shield. It looks great there next to your name. I hope to be submitting stuff more regularly — real life got in the way and I was working on this piece. I really wanted to do the best that I could for Evan and there are a couple of minor things I would do differently, but overall I'm thrilled with the final piece. Thanks for the kind words Santo and the help with the Flash presentation!
amazing detail on this... the thought and work on this is clearly deserving of a solid 5
I would give a 10 if it was possible.
omg words can't describe how insane this design is. Well done fellas. I smell a print!
That is one awesome design!
Thanks everybody!
Absolutely amazing work!
I think the blue pops more. Sweet detail for an awesome piece.
This would make a good poster I reckon, so people could explore the details more at their leisure. I'm another fan of the blue.
The blue makes it look a bit messy - I like the red. Although if the red had a little more contrast it'd pop a bit more.
Very thoughtful into the artwork and execution. Deserves to get a go for the print. Please, give us a part two of this :-)
major eye candyyyyyyyyyy!!! $5!!!!!!
Wow, wow, WOW!
Sorry, but I need to do it one more time:
this is something i would only dreamt of doing. coz its freaking awesome!!!
Thanks everyone for the great feedback!
you deserve a 5. $$$$$!
the detail in this is amazing. I hope you make some moola off this.
this is just great!!
lots of awesome detail!!!! wow!!
Thanks everyone! Only 2 days left!
I found alien Waldo! 5$
5$ for amazing illo and because of alien Waldo!
Alien Waldo was Evan's idea. He wouldn't let it go until I put him in there. I'm glad he was so persistent!
Infinitely imaginative!
I'm not sure what it is, but that little dog cracks me up!
...along with numerous other bits and pieces in this overloaded shirt of goodness.
wow this its pretty amazing!!
What an awesome detailed design!
superb. so much going on!
very cool!
Final day! Please vote! Thanks
This is one sweet ass of a design - $5
Forgot to comment... crazy-good detail and idea guys, betcha it prints :)
Another 2.9....nothing to sneeze at! Thanks peoples and my unlimited thanks to Mike for sticking with me on this one!
2.9. I was really hoping for something over a 3, but that's pretty close. Thanks for all the votes and comments. I hope for a print, but we'll see. Thanks again!
I really don't understand voters. This should've been 3.4 or higher easily. The amount of work and the amazing detail deserved much better. Nothing to sneeze at like Evan said but I just don't get how this is a 2.9 what more do voters want?
I couldn't agree more rossmat8. I'm obviously missing something in my designs. Any advice from the community would be great, otherwise, I'll just keep trying my best. Thanks for the support rossmat8! I won't despair, it could still get printed!
I, too, agree that this was underscored; however, my take is that just bc a design is insanely detailed and a lot of work went into making it, doesn't, at all, guarantee a high score. Look at Kenny's "The Beholder" or Pakpandir's "Four Horsemen" or Julia and Will's "Eye Eyes You" - all insanely detailed, intricate, and beautiful in their own rights but none scoring higher than a 3.01.
All that said, I do think this is a great design; just with a score attached that we've seen happen time and time again.
great points David. Thanks for the support!
Thanks Ross, and David knows things.
I don't really care about the score per say, if it gets printed it'll be a thing of the past! lol.
I agree Frickin, give me the print over the score!
I was just thinking about this design today, there is so much awesome to behold, hope it prints!
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RE: Help me
Hello Mr. Bosch,
I tried your code on Mathematica running on a 486 under
Microsoft windows, and on a DEC VAX RISC machine.
Both were running v. 2.1, and both came up with
the same answer. The output graph is available
as /dist/bramsey/bosch.ps (mma graph from the DEC)
and /dist/bramsey/bosch.ma (mma notebook from
the Windows ver)
these are available by anonymous ftp from ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov
I did have to modify your code however. The line:
produced an error on the DEC VAX since the output from the previous
entry was in rule format. I made the folowing changes:
rule = NDSolve ........
and then, Plot[Evaluate[v[t]/.rule],{t,0,10},PlotPoints->100];
Using the definition for "rule" above
The full notebook is in /dist/bramsey/bosch.ma.
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I'm running this reasonably successfully with the Uno, and have got motion activated sleep example from the library working. (I had to put a lot of the code in the cpp file into my actual sketch, though).
BUT the device is not ultra-low power. It draws about 0.35mA, regardless of whether it's awake or asleep. This is far more than the datasheet says. I can't see anything in the datasheet that allows you to put it into a lower power consumption mode.
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Trends, threats and opportunities in the film industry
"In the 1950s… 80 per cent of the audience was lost. Studios tried many ways to win back this audience, including new technologies such as Cinerama, but none of these worked. What did work was to view the entire business as basically an intellectual properties business where they optimised on as many platforms as possible. That's the business today."
– Ed Epstein
Strategy is something that this blog has in the past accused the film industry of lacking, particularly when it comes to issues of development (over-leveraging risk with expensive tentpoles) and distribution (a lack of progressive thinking when it comes to day-and-date openings across platforms). This piece takes a look at how, in some areas, there are kernels of hope for the industry, as well as some specific areas that are ripe for improvement.
Given our initial contention, It was refreshing to discover this gem of an illustration (see top image) from none other than Walt Disney himself that was recently recovered from the archives, according to Harvard Business Review, showing "a central film asset that in very precise ways infuses value into and is in turn supported by an array of related entertainment assets"; all that's missing is the strategic goal. Such forethought, of complementary assets combining to drive value, is arguably a symptom of the much-ballyhoed "synergy" and convergence the industry has undergone over the past ten to fifteen years; here was Walt writing about in 1957. The HBR article contends that it is not just synergy that is important, but in identifying those areas where you possess "unique synergy". Disney's current state, with Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm as content production houses, is an impressive pursuit of such a unique synergy, helped in no small part by having the impressive Bob Iger at the helm. The recent announcement of a Han Solo origin story, with the pair behind 21 Jump Street attached to direct, would have been to music to many a filmgoer's ears. Unfortunately, the danger of undue risk from arranging a surfeit of tentpole releases remains, and is unlikely to be challenged while films such as Tomorrowland tank and Jurassic World soar. A brilliant piece on the evolution of the summer blockbuster, featured in the Financial Times recently, can be found here.
The film industry in China is a subject we last wrote about around a year ago. It's a booming scene out there (last year China added as many screens as there are in all of France), which despite a quota on foreign film has proved enormously profitable to Hollywood. And while some films have had to seek opaque deals that ensure the inclusion of Chinese settings and talent in order to get the thumbs up for exhibition in China – e.g. the latest iteration of Transformers – others pay scant attention to such cultural pandering, and meet with similar success. In June, the Financial Times wrote that Furious 7 had no Chinese elements, but still managed to break "all-time box-office records since its release in China in April, taking in almost $390m". Importantly, the figure beat the US's taking of $348m. China is due to be the largest movie market in the world in less than three years. As we have written before, part of this is due to the cultural interest in moviegoing; people will see pretty much anything in China while the experience is still new and tantalising. While good for revenues, it does imply that content produced will be increasingly skewed – at least for a while – to lowest common denominator viewing that titillates rather than stimulates. The sheer volume of takings for such fare is ominous; of the fastest films ever to reach $1bn globally at the box office, three are from this year. China has played no small role in this development.
However, all is not as rosy as it could be. Traditional players in the industry are wary of new entrants. Domestic companies Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, YoukuTudou and Leshi have either partnered with studios for exclusive distribution deals over online platforms – irking the exhibitors – or simply investing in developing their own studios and content production. The FT writes, "[c]ollectively, these internet firms co-produced or directly invested in 15 films in 2014, which earned more than Rmb6bn ($965m) at the box office last year – a fifth of total receipts… Industry participants worry that these internet giants may soon seek to cut them out of the equation altogether".
How to respond to such disruption? Well, they might for a start take a step up in their customer engagement management, from developing more complex segmentation to encouraging retention, whether it be to a particular studio or a particular cinema. At a simple level, this might mean things like not revealing the twists of films in the trailer. At a more complex level, it might involve working with social networks, perhaps even some of the very ones otherwise considered as competitors, listed above, to gain Big Data insights that can better inform messaging, targeting and identification of high-value users. Earlier this year, Deloitte worked with Facebook to produce a piece of thought leadership that looked to do just that, helping telcos with what was defined as "moment-based", dynamic segmentation, with initial work and hypothesis from Deloitte and their Mobile Consumer Survey correlated against Facebook's data trove. Using different messages over innovative channels, for example on WeChat, would also likely prove fruitful. Luxury brands, long the laggards in digital strategy, have recently been making headway in customer engagement via such methods. Looking further ahead, they might also consider how their "unique synergy" will be positioned for future consumer trends. The Internet of Things is set to fundamentally change the way we go about our lives, including the relationship businesses have with their customers. How will it impact movie-going and people's relationship with the cinema? For all the global talk on the impact of such devices, the film industry has yet to develop any coherent thinking on it. One bright area is the subject we mentioned at the beginning of our article; collapsing release windows. Paramount announced earlier this month they have reached an agreement with two prominent US exhibitor chains, Cineplex and AMC, to "reduce the period of time that movies play exclusively in theaters" to just 17 days for two specific films, according to The Wrap. It's not clear what financial (or otherwise) incentives the theater chains received for such a deal.
So while the threat of disruption is ever-present – as it is for so many industries around the world right now – there are ample opportunities for studios and exhibitors to up their game, through better targeting, better communication, better distribution deals, and, just maybe, better product.
Hollywood & China – "To fight monsters we created monsters"
"The film market in China is like an experimental supermarket – with more and more racks but only one product… The viewers don't care what they see as long as it's a film. They'll watch whatever is put in front of them."
– Zhang Xiaobei, CCTV
LA is "a favourite place for Chinese businessmen to do business", according to the objective opinion of China's general counsel to Los Angeles. And that was back in 2011, before China extended its annual quota of foreign films allowed to be exhibited on the mainland. We've written before about the relationship between Hollywood and China, which in the two years since we wrote that piece has only deepened. It's little wonder; EY has predicted China will be the largest film market in the world by 2020. Revenue is being squeezed in the film industry as millennials hang out on their smartphones and games consoles. When they do pay for movies, it's more likely to be streamed rather than owned. Worse, that stream may be hosted by someone like Netflix, whose burgeoning clout makes negotiations for license fees increasingly difficult. So China provides a timely cash cow; an antidote to Western media fragmentation and fatigue. But at what cost?
China's economic rise to superpower status has logically meant a rise in its viability as a place to invest in. From infrastructure, where cinemas screens have been springing up at the unbelievable rate of seven a day (as of May this year), to co-productions between Hollywood and homegrown Chinese outfits. These collaborations have resulted in overt references to China in storylines, such as that seen in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The Karate Kid and the Kung Fu Panda franchise, or the additional scenes filmed for Iron Man 3. This also includes the more recent Transformers: Age of Extinction, which saw not only a large part of the film take place in Hong Kong, but also included local talent and featured a mind-boggling amount of inappropriate product placement from Sino brands. The few production companies in China are also expanding, looking beyond more traditional propaganda fare, as well as to foreign markets, as is the case with China Film Group.
But the film industry in China is not quite as rosy as it appears. Interestingly, there have been few efforts at US talent getting involved in Chinese productions. This may be partly due to the mess that was The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale, which was reportedly little more than a propaganda piece. And from a content point of view, caution has been the watchword for studios; The producers of World War Z removed a discussion over whether the zombie apocalypse started in China; Chinese villains were edited out of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Men in Black 3. Is that really necessary? And while scripts are edited to appear more appealing to China, so are balance sheets. For while Transformers 4 is now China's highest-grossing movie of all time, according to The Hollywood Reporter, what THR don't mention was the way the gross is measured. For, says Julie Makinen, a China correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, box office revenue is arbitrarily inflated. She elaborates,
"I think everyone agrees there's some fudging that goes on… It's fairly common to go into a theater, say, 'Hi, I'd like to buy a ticket for Transformers,' and they say, 'Great,' and they print out your ticket for a local romantic comedy. So I'm pretty sure the 20 bucks I just handed over is being counted in someone else's basket. Things like that happen; a lot of statistics in China are suspect."
Moviegoers aren't being particularly discriminating yet because the act of going to the cinema as an event or experience is still a relatively new phenomenon for many. Product placement, which we referred to earlier, while an opportunity for some synergy between film and brands, risks being too commercial and overt if done without context. A recent article in the Financial Times said such promotions in Transformers 4 quickly "start flying faster than bullets from an Autobot's wrist-mounted Gatling gun". Apart from bringing viewers out of the fictional narrative into reality, creating a disappointing experience, inappropriate product placement can also cause ire between businesses. (We've written several times over the years about product placement, here.) Such an occurrence took place at the end of July when a tourism group in China sued Paramount Pictures for failing to show a logo of the park that the company had paid to be prominently displayed in the movie. The implementation of co-productions between the two countries evidently needs work too. Scenes added exclusively for a Chinese version of Iron Man 3 added little except some questionable product placement as well as the dubious plotline of Tony Stark heading to China, of all places, for medical convalescence. Lastly, the current quota of films to be exhibited in China means that many good-quality US films fail to be seen in the country. Much like bans on US games consoles and the Android app store, Google Play, the result of this has been an explosion of home-grown imitators. In this case, films in China are made that precisely mimic the formula and set-up of popular American franchises like The Hangover, which was never seen by Chinese audiences, thus the extent of emulation isn't evident. Assuming that eventually the quota will be entirely relaxed, this type of tactic can only ever be a short-term measure.
One of the greatest opportunities the film industry in China has is in part due to one of its greatest weaknesses. Because of historically protracted release windows, and a narrow selection of films making it to cinemas, piracy has been rampant. Indeed, infringement has been widespread enough that the industry has had seemingly no choice but to innovate. We reported back in April how China has relaxed its embargo on foreign games consoles, and, more to the point, how Tencent, in partnership with Warner Bros., were making the latest 300 film available to rent, while the film was still in cinemas in the US. Such forward-thinking is welcome. As well as offsetting any losses from piracy, it also hopefully points the way to a more open business environment in China, at least for TMT companies. Such innovative thinking will need to be extended, however, to the structure of China's film industry itself, which is reportedly a vertically integrated engine driven almost entirely at the whim of the state.
Just as China's tastes have held increasing sway over the production of art and wine in recent years, so with film. The middling global box office performance of Pacific Rim found salvation in Asia, and that was all the justification needed for a franchise to be developed. There is certainly much to be gained from investment and co-productions in China's films industry, especially while it is still relatively nascent, not least of which are the financial returns. How such relationships impact the content itself is another matter. Hopefully some of the approaches China is taking with regard to multi-platform releases might even trickle over to Western markets. Studios should also be wary about putting all their eggs in one basket; CNBC reports that growth in ticket sales for Hollywood films in mainland China hit a five-year low in 2013. Only three US movies made the top ten highest-grossing films in China last year, down from seven in 2012. One reason for the slowdown is a lack of variety. And yet don't expect the blockbuster formula to change anytime soon; as much as it was born in the USA, it is also what audiences in the worldwide market love to gobble up. (Michael Bay's films – expertly dissected in the above video – prove that point no end, and it has been particularly driven home recently as Bay himself as well as sometime employee Megan Fox have expressed nonchalance about any negative press from critics, knowing their products make millions despite nasty reviews. Specifically, actress Fox told naysayers to "F*ck off".) There is a certain amount of momentum behind the two industries' relationship with one another, but recent productions have shown that future projects should perhaps be treated with a little more caution, particularly as Chinese audiences tastes mature. Last month the film historian Neal Gabler was quoted in the Financial Times, in a point that usefully sums up this piece,
"The overseas market has changed the DNA of American movies… The bigger-faster-louder aesthetic is very deeply embedded in the American psyche. No one else can do it. It's one of the reason they export so well. It's so much a part of who we are. But we have been victims of our own success. It's a Catch-22. The things that make our movies so popular overseas are now larger than the American market can support by itself."
UPDATE (30/8/14): The production side of the industry continues to evolve, as China's largest video website Youku Tudou demonstrated on Friday when it promised to produce 8 films for cinema release and 9 to premiere on the internet. Chairman and Chief Exec Victor Koo pointed out to the Financial Times that there was a gap in the market left by Hollywood, "The US film industry is highly developed. It tends to be either blockbusters or franchise films. But in China you're talking about small to mid to large budgets…". The logistics of creating a film for online release – more than likely to be consumed on a smartphone – must consider important limiting factors such as, according to Heyi Film chief exec Allen Zhu, smartphones in China running films get "very hot after 20 mins". Youku Tudou's plans may seem ambitious – particularly given it reported a $26m loss for the second quarter – but when 18 screens are erected in China every day (last year more cinema screens were added in China than the total in France), it seems a risk some are willing to take.
The "Jaws" of death? – Rethinking film industry strategy
This past week, Zeitgeist had the pleasure of enjoying a new adaptation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing". This adaptation was not performed at the theatre but at the cinema. It was not directed by Kenneth Branagh or any other luminary of the legitimate stage, but rather by the quiet, modest, nerdy Joss Whedon, who until a few years ago was best known to millions as the brains behind the cult TV series phenomenon "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (full disclosure: Zeitgeist worked on the show in his days of youth). Whedon was picked to direct a film released last year that can, without much difficulty, be seen as the apotheosis of the Hollywood film industry; "The Avengers". A mise-en-abyme of a concept, involving disparate characters, some of whom already have their own fully-fledged franchises, coming together to form another vehicle for future iterations. "The Avengers" became the third-highest grossing film of all time, and it is a thoroughly enjoyable romp. Moreover, to go from directing on such a broad canvas to shooting a film mostly with friends in one's own home – as with "Much Ado…" – displays an impressive range of creative ingenuity.
Sadly for shareholders and studio executives' career aspirations, not every film is as sure-fire a hit as "The Avengers", try though as they might (and do) to replicate the same mercurial ingredients that lead to success. Marvel, which originally conceived of the myriad characters surrounding The Avengers mythology, was bought in 2009 by Disney for $4bn. Disney for all intents and purposes have a steady strategic head on their shareholders. They parted ways with the quixotic Weinstein brothers while welcoming Pixar back into the fold. They were one of the first to concede the inevitability of closed platforms release windows – something Zeitgeist has written about in the past – they are debuting a game-changing platform, Infinity, which might revolutionise the way children interact with the plethora of memorable characters the studio have dreamt up over the years. However, such sound business strategy could not save them from the uber-flop that was 2012's "John Carter", which lost the studio $200m. This summer, the rationale for their biggest release has been built on what appears to be sound logic; taking the on- and off-screen talent behind their massively successful "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, and bringing them together again for another reboot in the form of "The Lone Ranger". The New York Times said the film "descends into nerve-racking incoherence"; it has severely underperformed at the box office, after a budget of $250m. Sony's "After Earth" similarly underperformed, suddenly throwing Will Smith's bullet-proof reputation for producing hits into jeopardy.
These summer films – "tentpoles" to use the terminology bandied about in Los Angeles – are where the money is made (or not) for studios. As an industry over the past ten years, Zeitgeist has watched as these tentpoles have become more concentrated, more risk-averse and therefore less original, more expensive and more likely either to produce either stratospheric results or spectacular failures. Paramount is an interesting example of a studio that has made itself leaner recently, releasing far fewer films, and relying on franchises to keep the ship afloat. Edtorial Director of Variety Peter Bart seems to think there's a point when avoiding risk leads to courting entropy. It's an evolution that has escaped few, yet is was still notable when, last month, famed directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas spoke out publicly against the way the industry seemed to be headed. Indeed, the atmosphere at studios in Hollywood seems to mimic that of a pre-2008 financial sector; leveraging ever more collateral against assets with significant – and unsustainable – levels of risk. The financial sector uses arcane algorithms and has a large number of Wharton grads whose aim should be to preserve stability and profit. Yet even with all this analysis, they failed to see the gigantic readjustment that was imminent. In the film industry, Relativity Media's reputation for rigorous predictive models on what will make a film successful is rare enough to have earned it a feature in Vanity Fair. So what hope is there the film industry will change its tune before it is too late? Spielberg pontificates,
"There's eventually going to be a big meltdown. There's going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen of these mega-budgeted movies go crashing into the ground and that's going to change the paradigm again."
Instead of correcting course as failures at the box office failed to abate, studios have dug in harder. Said Lucas,
"They're going for gold, but that isn't going to work forever. And as a result they're getting narrower and narrower in their focus. People are going to get tired of it. They're not going to know how to do anything else."
Such artistic ennui in audiences is admittedly sclerotic in its visibility at the moment. "Man of Steel", another attempt at rebooting a franchise – coming only seven years after the last attempt – is performing admirably, with a position still firmly in the top ten at the US box office after four weeks of release, with over $275m taken domestically. It's interesting to note that audiences have been happy to embrace the new version so quickly after the last franchise launch failed; though actor James Franco finds it contentious, the same has been true with the "Spider-Man" franchise relaunch.
Part of the problem in the industry, some say, is to do with those at the top running the various film studios. In "Curse of the Mogul", written by lecturers at Columbia University, the authors contend that since 2005 the industry as a whole has underperformed versus the S&P stock index, yet such stocks are still eminently attractive to investors. The reason, the authors say, is that those running the businesses frame the notion of success differently. They argue that it takes a very special type of person (i.e. them) to be able to manage not only different media and the different audiences they reach and the different trends that come out of that, but more importantly (in their eyes) to be able to manage the talent. They asked to be judged on Academy Awards rather than bottom lines. The most striking thing in the book – which Zeitgeist is still reading – is the continual pursuit by said mogul of strategic synergies. This M&A activity excites shareholders but has historically led to minimal returns (think Vivendi or AOL Time Warner), often because what was presented as operational or content-based synergy is actually nothing of the sort. It's a point Richard Rumelt makes in his excellent book, "Good Strategy / Bad Strategy". Some companies are beginning to get the idea. Viacom seemed an outlier in 2006 when it divested CBS. Lately, News Corporation has followed a similar tack, albeit under duress after suffering from scandalous revelations about hacking in its news division. A recent article in The Economist states,
"Most shareholders now see that television networks, newspapers, film studios, music labels and other sundry assets add little value by sharing a parent. Their proximity can even hinder performance by distracting management… they have become more assertive and less likely to believe the moguls' flannel about 'synergies'."
So in some ways it was of little surprise that Sony came under the microscope recently as well, part of this larger trend of scrutiny. The company has experienced dark times of late, with shares having plunged 85% over the past 13 years. The departure of Howard Stringer in 2012 coincided with an annual loss of some $6.4bn. Now headed up by Kazuo Hirai, the company has undoubtedly become more focused, with much more being made of their mobile division. Losses have been stemmed, but the company is still floundering, with an annual loss reported in May of $4.6bn. It was only a couple of weeks later that hedge-fun billionaire Dan Loeb – instrumental in getting Marissa Meyer to lead Yahoo – upped his ownership stake in Sony, calling on it to divest its entertainment division in a letter to CEO Hirai. Part of the issue with Sony is a cultural one, where Japan's ways of working differ strongly from the West's. This is covered in some detail in a profile with Stringer featured in The New Yorker. In a speech he gave last year, Stringer said, "Japan is a harmonious society which cherishes its social values, including full employment. That leads to conflicts in a world where shareholder value calls for ever greater efficiency". But Sony's film division – which includes the James Bond franchise – is performing well; in the year to March 2013 Sony's film and music businesses produced $905m of operating income, compared with combined losses of $1.9 billion in mobile phones, according to The Economist. It ended 2012 first place among the other film studios in market share. Sony is the last studio to consistently deliver hits across genres, reports The New York Times in an excellent article. The article quotes an anonymous Sony exeuctive, "We may not look like the rest of Hollywood, but that doesn't mean this isn't a painstakingly thought-through strategy and a profitable one". Sadly the strategy behind films like 'After Earth' begin to look flimsy when one glances at the box office results. While Hirai and the Sony board concede that have met to discuss the possibility of honouring Mr. Loeb's suggestion – offering 15-20% of it as an IPO rather than selling it off in full – Mr. Hirai also commented in an interview with CNBC, "We definitely want to make sure we can continue a successful business in the entertainment space. That is for me, first and foremost, the top priority". In mid-June Loeb sent a second letter, advocating the IPO proposal and saying "Our research has confirmed media reports depicting Entertainment as lacking the discipline an accountability that exist at many of its competitors". The question is whether selling off its entertainment assets would remove any synergies with other divisions, thus making the divisions left over less profitable, or whether such synergies even existed in the first place. For Loeb, the "most valuable untapped synergies" are still in the studio and music divisions yet after decades as one company they still remain untapped. That point won't make for pleasant reading at Sony HQ.
Another problem is the changing nature of media consumption habits. Not only are we watching films in different ways over different platforms, we are also doing much else besides, from playing video games, which have successfully transitioned beyond the nerdy clique of yesteryear, to general mobile use and second screening. This transition – and with it a realisation that competition is not likely to come from across regional boarders but from startup platforms – is largely being ignored by the French as they insist on trade talks with the US that centre on the preservation of l'exception culturelle. Such trends are evident in business dealings. The Financial Times this weekend detailed Google's significant foray into developing content, setting up YouTube Space LA. The project gives free soundstage space to artists who are likely to guarantee eyeballs on YouTube, and lead to advertising revenue for the platform. From the stellar success of the first season of "House of Cards", to DreamWorks Animation's original content partnership announced last month, Netflix has become the bête noire for traditional content producers as it shakes up traditional models. We have written before about the IHS Screen Digest data from earlier this year, showing worrying trends for the industry; as predicted, audiences are beginning to favour access over ownership, preferring to rent rather than own, which means less profit for the studio. As much due to a decline in revenue from other platforms as growth in of itself, cinemas are expected to be the major area of profit going forward to 2016 (see above chart). We've written before about the power cinema still has. Spielberg and Lucas pick up on this;
"You're going to end up with fewer theaters, bigger theaters with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies will cost 50 bucks or 100 or 150 bucks, like what Broadway costs today, or a football game. It'll be an expensive thing… [Films] will sit in the theaters for a year, like a Broadway show does. That will be called the 'movie' business."
In a conversation over Twitter, (excerpts of which are featured above), Cameron Saunders, MD of 20th Century Fox UK told Zeitgeist that "major changes were afoot". Such potential disruption is by no means unique to the film industry, and should come as a surprise to one. Zeitgeist recently went to see Columbia faculty member Rita McGrath speak at a Harvard Business Review event. In her latest book, "The End of Competitive Advantage", McGrath discounts the old management consultant attempts at providing sustainable competitive advantages to business. Her assertion is that any advantage is transient, that incumbency and success often lead to entropy, unless there is constant innovation to build on that success. Such a verdict of entropy could well be applied to the film industry. The model has worked well for decades, despite predictions of doom at the advent of television, the VCR, the DVD, et cetera ad nauseum. But fundamental behavioural shifts are now at play, and the way we devise strategies for what content people want to see and how they wish to see it need to be readdressed, quickly. Otherwise all this deliberation will eventually become much ado about nothing.
UPDATE (15/4/13): Of course, context is everything. The New York Times published an interesting article today saying investing in Hollywood is less risky than investing in Silicon Valley, though the returns in the latter are likely to be greater. Neither are seen as reliable.
This issue isn't going away. We write again about it, here.
On movie release windows – I love the sound of breaking glass
It's fair to say that in the past ten years, the pace of technology has evolved at an ever-increasing rate. The way in which devices have changed, and with it our use of them, was humourously summed up in the above cartoon from The New Yorker. Digital trends have affected the way we communicate, the way we consume media, and indeed the way we consume goods and services, i.e. shop.
So it is a little surprising to many – your humble correspondent included – that we still have to put up with a film being released in one country one day, and in another months later. That we still have to wait a certain number of months for a film to amble its way from the cinema screens to our home, whether on Blu-ray / DVD or on VOD. It's interesting to note that vertical integration isn't a key issue; Disney recently launched the second subscription video on demand (SVOD) service in Europe, with a library of constantly refreshed titles that can be viewed on platforms ranging from TVs to Xbox to iPads. Indeed, Disney's CEO Bob Iger announced way back in 2005 in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that he foresaw a day of collapsed release windows, when a film came out the same day at the cinema as it was available to watch in the home:
We'd be better off as a company and an industry if we compressed that window. We could spend less money pushing the box office and get to the next window sooner where a movie has more perceived value to the consumer because it's more fresh.
So there is money to be saved in such an exercise. Yet seven years later, such a situation is still mostly a fantasy for major films. Studios have undoubtedly dipped their toe in the water, and some moderate success has been seen on the indie scene, specifically with recent films like Margin Call, Melancholia and Arbitrage. The former film was released simultaneously in the cinema and on VOD (seemingly only in the US, however), eventually recording strong results, months after its initial release at Sundance Film Festival. Again, what is the justification for such a change in platform release timings? Not meeting consumer desires and addressing piracy, but simple cost savings. Variety reports:
"We're a star-driven culture, and on a crowded (VOD) menu, what are you going to be drawn to?" posits WME Global head Graham Taylor, who adds that with marketing budgets skyrocketing, the ability to use a single campaign across closely spaced bows on multiple platforms is an important cost savings.
The whole situation is quite frustrating for any fan of film or television. It is a frustration shared by Frederic Filloux, co-author of the excellent blog Monday Note, which Zeitgeist strongly recommends to anyone with an interest in insightful thoughts and reasoning on media industry goings-on.
Their most recent post also happened to detail the author's frustrations with such seemingly arbitrary release windows. One of the most pertinent charts displays the achingly slow rate of change in platform release changes, that is so at odds with the pace of change in other media (above). The content of the post has rational recommendations, which at first glance seem eminently appropriate and overdue for implementation. Some of the recommendations though fail to account for the fact that the film industry and its machinations are often governed by winds of irrationality.
To summarise, Filloux recommends a global day-and date, shorter, more flexible window of time between cinema and home release. There are a number of obstacles to these ideas though. Firstly, exhibitors must be placated. They hold such a sway over studios that they cannot easily be ignored. Bob Iger, in the interview mentioned earlier, mentions exhibitors as being a key obstacle. Think about it, why on earth would a cinema want their film to be available in the comfort of their audience's home any sooner than it already is? It wants to enforce scarcity, so that when the film's marketing machine is at its height, the cinema is the only place you can see it. As already mentioned, indie films have had some success with multi-platform releases, but even these have met with consternation from exhibitors, as a recent example in Canada shows. The consternation becomes outright war for larger films. Zetigeist reported when, in 2010, many exhibitors refused to show Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland when the studio, Disney, flirted with releasing the film to home release less than four months after its theatrical debut. After much back and forth, exhibitors eventually relented, and the film went on to gross over a billion dollars at the global box office. Exhibitors are not going to be convinced about flat release windows anytime soon. They are perhaps the largest roadblock to such a move, and the largest point of advocating a return to vertical integration of production, distribution and exhibition that was the case until the Paramount Decree in 1948.
Moreover, while the argument about having flexible, shifting window releases depending upon a film's success is logical, it does not acknowledge the existence of sleeper hits, films which do not open to huge returns but gradually accrue it over months of release (as illustrated by Margin Call, mentioned earlier). It would also be hard to define when a movie "succeeds" or "bombs". You could use box office as a figure, but would this be without context, as a ratio of the film's budget, or against its current peers? Using box office fails to take awards – principally Oscar – coverage into consideration, which invariably adds its own box office bump to a movie when it is nominated or wins.
The recommendation for simultaneous worldwide release is also a valid point. Zeitgeist has written before on the ridiculous prices pirated films go for in markets that have no access to the official product. To their credit, studios are moving further toward a "day and date" system. However, doing so exclusively would be dangerous. Releasing some films market by market allows the studio to gauge audience reaction, and if necessary tinker with the marketing or the film itself. Staggering release dates is also necessary for cultural events, such as the World Cup, which may be more relevant to some countries than others.
It is the last point made in the article, that of making TV shows "universally available from the day when they are aired on TV" that Zeitgeist could not agree more with. Apart from audience frustration – and recent technological development such as DVR show how the opportunity can shape viewer habits – such a move would also surely divert people from resorting to illegal downloading.
To conclude, while there are caveats and significant roadbumps to be addressed, and some progress has been made over the years, the film industry has a long way to go in a short time if it wants to catch up with consumer habits. Flat release windows should be an inevitability, and a priority. Moreover, they should not be seen purely as cost-saving measure, but as an important way of keeping an increasingly technologically and globally savvy customer base happy.
TechDisrupt :: The future of content, digitally
If Content is King, then last week saw the gentry discussing how best to serve their master. The other day Zeitgeist watched a fascinating roundtable from the TechDisrupt conference, where talking heads with varied interests discussed how content would be created, distributed and consumed in the future. The below are some of the more pertinent and interesting things we managed to peel from the chat.
Sarah Chubb, president of Condé Nast Digital, noted that Apple was lending a helping hand to the sales of the publishing empire's magazines. Since the launch of the iPad (recently revealed to have sold 2m units in 59 days), Chubb states that the device has played a significant role in boosting sales. Regarding the iPhone / iPad split, she says 60% of GQ readers are accessing the publication through their iPad, 40% through the iPhone. For Vanity Fair, fully 90% is from the iPad, which is incredible after such a recent release and given that the iPad was only released outside the US in the last week or so. In related news, it was announced today that The Financial Times "iPad app has registered three times more downloads in its first two weeks since launch, than its iPhone app managed".
Fred Davis, founding partner of Code Advisors, ruminating on how people perceive content now, makes the declaration, "It's not about owning, it's about accessing". This is crucial. This is 'I want my MTV' for the next generation. As we have moved away from purchasing tangible goods like CDs – and to an increasing extent DVDs and books – the pleasure of owning content dissapates. People, however, still want to be able to use that content, and use it immediately. This is where, helpfully, cloud computing comes in. Perhaps this new type of demand makes the iTunes model – when compared to Spotify et al. – antiquated. Buying a track on iTunes is about owning content. It can be bought quickly and easily over your phone via a Wifi or 3G signal, but once purchased, the song is on your phone, it is not kept in the cloud somewhere for you to access at any time from any device. It is not easily shareable.
John Hagel of Deloitte talks of companies of the future having to make a choice between what they want to excel at: product development or customer relationships. In other words, product profitability or audience profitability. Is the company's USP going to be "Come to us because we know your product" or "Come to us because we know you"? Zeitgeist ponders whether a company, GE for example, might not be able to manage both.
The IPTV service Boxee recently signed a deal with Google to make use of its Android OS, linking with Google TV. In related news, units that the OS operates on outsold iPhone for the first time this quarter. The CEO of Boxee, Avner Ronen, was also one of the speakers present at the conference. Taking an optimistic stance, Ronen stated that one of the benefits of increased fragmentation and availability of content was that, in a free market mindset, the more content published, the more competitive the environment and thus the better the content.
Of course, piracy is an enormous factor, and Davis pointed out that there is still a problem with people not equating downloading a song illegally off of Limewire with shoplifting from WalMart. Perhaps it is now too late for any efforts at education in this matter, as the MPAA seem to have singularly failed to educate the public. Chubb countered that people were now willing to pay for things in mobile that they wouldn't normally pay for otherwise. This dovetails with the idea of paying not for the content itself, but for the instant access to it. The film industry, in particular, has combatted the threat of piracy in other ways. Now that international box office accounts for some 65% of a film's total gross earnings, release windows are being narrowed for simultaneous releases. "Iron Man 2" was released at the end of April here in London, a full week before the US launch. The world premiere was supposed to have taken place in Leicester Square, but sometimes even savvy film execs come up short, especially against volcanic ash.
Ultimately, the way we interpret ownership is undergoing significant change. What we used to be possessive of, with the arrival of the mp3 we suddenly felt inclined to share. Increasingly we do not have need of the physical product, merely the ability to use it when we wish. This might easily be linked to the continuing vogue for ephemeral clothing that is besetting the fashion industry, where cheap clothing is made to be worn once then tossed aside like New York Times stock. Zeitgeist thought it fascinating to watch these people prognosticate on the future of content; they may all be completely wrong, of course, but then that's the interesting thing about the future, isn't it?
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Hi Diana
When I saw your query I thought that I would have a go at putting
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producing a Wolfram Demonstration from it (since I am getting addicted
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Download the source code for it and you are basically done apart from
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WHAT: Wheelchair Challenge – 25th Anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act
WHERE: Lakeland City Hall located at 228 South Massachusetts Avenue
WHEN: Monday, October 5th at 8:15 a.m.
WHO: Lakeland City Commission
WHY: To bring awareness to the struggles that those with disabilities face doing everyday activities
LAKELAND, FL (October 2, 2015) - The City of Lakeland is proclaiming October 5th as Disability History and Awareness Day in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 . Mayor Howard Wiggs, Interim City Manager Tony Delgado and commissioners will be using wheelchairs to access City Hall and make their way to the 9 a.m. City Commission meeting. This will give them the opportunity to experience what many of our citizens do everyday. Please share and invite friends to the proclamation being given during the City Commission meeting or stop by to cheer them on as they do their best in this "wheelchair challenge". During the photo opportunity, Interim City Manager Tony Delgado will share with the media, upcoming plans to make the City Commission Chambers ADA compliant. Eddie Hall (pictured with Tony Delgado) will also speak on the importance of the ADA during the event.
35th ANNUAL LAKE MORTON SWAN ROUNDUP OCTOBER 6th
LAKELAND, FL (September 14, 2015) -- The City of Lakeland Parks Division will be on Lake Morton at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 6th for the 35th Annual Swan Roundup. Parks & Recreation employees will be carefully gathering the swans to get them ready for their annual veterinary check-up. The swans will be confined in large holding pens on the south side of the lake for their annual wellness examinations that will start Wednesday morning, October 7th at 7:30 a.m. with Patricia Mattson, DVM. The Annual Swan Round-Up allows the City's Parks and Recreation Department to closely monitor the health and vitality of Lakeland's swan population.
The original swans on Lake Morton were donated by Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in 1957. As Lakeland's swan flock grew, it became paramount to give the regal birds an annual health check so the Swan Roundup began in 1980 and has continued every year since then. The swans were first cared for by veterinarian (emeritus) and original "Swanvet" W.G. Gardner. His dedication to the flock carries on with Dr. Mattson.
Dr. Mattson has 20 years of experience in veterinary medicine. She the owner of Companion Animal Hospital a full service facility that provides general medical care, preventive medical care, vaccinations, health certificates, caesarean section, diagnostic services, on-site kennel, on-site laboratory testing, flea control, dietary counseling, spay/neuter, declawing, radiology, general surgery, dentistry, emergency services, microchipping, pharmacy services and boarding.
Dr. Patricia Mattson who donates her time as Lakeland's official swan veterinarian recently shared her report on Lake Morton's swans after their last annual physical. Mattson said, "The swans are consuming too much white bread and the heavy gluten diet with very little nutritional value is taking a toll on Lakeland's swan population." She added, "Many of the swans have a calcium deficiency because they feast on bleached white bread." This is just one of the items that will be reviewed during the swans annual health checkup.
Bob Donahay, Director of Parks & Recreation said, "The Lake Morton swans are a community icon and families have been feeding them left-over bread for decades." He added, "We recently added swan feeders around the lake and we hope families will use the swan feed because it is specially formulated to include much needed nutrients that will help the swans stay healthy." The Lake Morton swan feeders are coin operated and the proceeds from the feeders is used to offset the annual cost for swan food, healthcare and upkeep. It costs about $10,000 a year to feed Lakeland's domestic swans.
POLK COUNTY, FL (October 1, 2015) – The last day to register to vote for the November 3rd municipal elections in the cities of Lakeland and Winter Haven is Monday, October 5th, and the Polk County elections office will be offering mobile voter registration services to ensure everyone has an opportunity to register before this important deadline.
Residents who have not yet registered can sign-up to vote, and voters may update their information if it's not current with the elections office. Voters may also request a mail ballot.
Our Mobile Voter Registration Teams will set up Monday, October 5th at the following locations:
9 am Harden Boulevard near Oakbridge Center
10 am South Florida Avenue near Southgate Shopping Center
11 am US Highway 98 North near Taco Bell and Panera Bread
Winter Haven
1 pm Highway 17 and State Road 544 near Home Depot
2 pm 3rd Street NW near City Hall
3 pm Cypress Gardens Boulevard near Chain of Lakes Complex
For more information, call the Elections Office at 863-534-5888.
Work is expected to take 2 weeks weather permitting. For questions please contact Troy McCain at (863) 834-3303.


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Happy Halloween!
Models: Cierra and Julia
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Happy Halloween!
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Oh wow. So eerie! especially with the smokey effect around the base
This is so beautiful! I actually did something similar but yours is so SO much more better! Love it!
This is SO fantastic!!
you mother licker no i wont be able able to sleep on christmas eve.
Erie yet beautiful at the same time!
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they remind me a bit of Weeping Angels from Doctor Who. like they're staring through your soul...
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so beautiful and creepy! I love it!
wow, this is really outstanding.
Okay..its cool, i wasnt going to sleep tonight anyway
Indeed creepy, well done by the models. And i have to say, you did an amazing work on the costumes! Its so perfect with the background
Indeed creepy, well done by the models. And i have to say, you did an amazing work on the costumes! Its so perfect with the background
creepy... they remind me of the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who, a bit.
Just amazing!
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Beautiful work. Congratulations on the DD!
beautiful! no photo manipulation here?
Not really. The only really manipulated aspect is the smoke at their feet which was added in Photoshop.
This reminds me of an episode of the second season of Doctor Who... In a creepy way.
What the? These things(?) really creep me out. But I can't stop looking. Great shot and concept.
Awesome. I get goosebumps everytime I look at it.
congrats on the DD
congrats on the DD
Eerie and beautiful!
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It's beautiful and haunting. The mist and the backdrop are nice touches to the photo because it looks like they're manifesting out of the fog. These probably make the best Halloween costumes ever if you figure out a way to rig a smoke machine inside and shoot smoke out of the bottom of the costume so it trails behind when they walk.
Congrats on the Daily Deviation! You deserve it!
Congrats on the Daily Deviation! You deserve it!
Thanks! Yeah, thats a cool idea. I've always wanted a small portable smoke machine. I'll have to find one some time.
Glad you like the idea I wish you the best of luck in finding a portable smoke machine! Keep up the awesome work!
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Jan 13 2010
Banana Walnut Bread… from Starbucks?
Yes, as random as it sounds, I made Banana Walnut Bread from a recipe card that was provided at a local Starbucks that I went to a few months ago. I thought it was interesting that they were sharing their recipes to their customers. Here's what they wrote on the recipe card:
We're making a change by using simpler recipes and taking out artificial ingredients. So your food not only tastes better, it is better. It's a start, and we think it's a good one.
We hope you'll try this recipe at home. It's just one of the delicious new treats you can enjoy when you visit us.
Your Friends at Starbucks
So, I gave in and made the recipe…. because afterall, I am a fan of Banana Walnut Bread. What I'm not a fan of is coffee, so it's rather ironic that I was even inside this Starbucks. But thanks for this awesome recipe, Starbucks! I'm definitely going to make this again.
To view or print-out this recipe, click here: Banana Walnut Bread from Starbucks
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I love banana bread, and this looks perfect, moist and with some crunch from the nuts.
# Favyon 14 Jan 2010 at 7:11 am
Wow! Pretty impresive, i will try it over the weekend…Just looking at the picture makes me hungry
# dokuzuncubuluton 14 Jan 2010 at 7:23 am
Wow… I like it.
# wasabi primeon 14 Jan 2010 at 8:00 am
Beautiful! I would think using a recipe from a well-known business is a surefire way to get a great recipe. They wouldn't put out a product that they couldn't stand 100% behind. This bread looks heavenly. Haven't had banana bread with yummy walnuts in ages — a reminder that it's definitely been too long!!
# Carol Egberton 14 Jan 2010 at 8:55 am
I'm impressed that you had buttermilk. Walnuts wait around, buttermilk gets funky.
Thanks for featuring a great standard.
I love cooking with buttermilk. Not a fan of drinking it though I love bananas and walnuts, so I know this will go over well in my house!
# thefoodaddictson 14 Jan 2010 at 9:51 am
Here's a tip I forgot to mention on the post: if you don't have buttermilk, you can very well use half-and-half. It doesn't seem to drastically make a difference to the banana walnut bread. We used half-and-half since we didn't have buttermilk, and it was still yummy.
Looks great, great sunday treat!!
# Vegetable Matteron 14 Jan 2010 at 10:36 am
I haven't been to Starbucks in a long time, so I missed the recipe card handout. This looks like a real winner — great job! When I was pregnant with my older son, I was addicted to their toffee bars. No wonder I gained 50 pounds during the pregnancy. He's nine, and I haven't had one since. If you see a recipe card for their bars, though, grab me one. I'd love to try making some for old time's sake. Cheers! Robin
I use milk with vinegar in it to sub for buttermilk.
I have never tried this bread in Starbucks, but now I have the recipe for it! Your pictures are stunning, and I'd love to try this!
# thefoodaddictson 14 Jan 2010 at 12:21 pm
Vegetable Matter – if I see the toffee bar recipe at Starbucks, I will definitely grab it for you.
Sophia – thanks for the tip on the substitution for buttermilk! That's always good to know because it sucks to buy a whole carton of buttermilk for a measly 2 tbsp in the recipe!
# kathyvegason 14 Jan 2010 at 1:04 pm
Stunning photography…very well done!
Hi Foodie Addicts, this is very much like my banana cupcakes……it looks delicious! I am happy to visit you.
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Just the way I like it! Add lots of walnuts! Looks fab!
# April Cavinon 14 Jan 2010 at 6:09 pm
Are they giving away their pumpkin bread recipe? I'm a fan of the banana bread, but I am addicted to the pumpkin bread!!
what a healthy loaf of bread. love the banana and walnuts!
# Peteron 14 Jan 2010 at 9:43 pm
Awesome, many thanks!!! =)
# TasteHongKongon 14 Jan 2010 at 10:14 pm
Looks moist and beautiful, not to mention that it is simple to make. This recipe has to go into my archive though I only bake occasionlly.
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# Conor @ HoldtheBeefon 15 Jan 2010 at 2:14 am
Yum. You just need to make some coffee, play some muzak and have annoying strangers sitting nearby in your living room and you need never go to Starbucks again!
# Simply Lifeon 15 Jan 2010 at 5:47 am
Wow this looks delicious and you should let Starbucks know you're now tempting people to try this!
# Natasha - 5 Star Foodieon 15 Jan 2010 at 9:02 am
Sounds like a terrific banana bread! I may have some extra bananas this weekend and would love to make it!
# Sandyon 15 Jan 2010 at 3:14 pm
I really like the banana walnut bread in the pastry section at Starbucks. Did yours come out tasting the same as the one at Starbucks?
# Simon Food Favouriteson 15 Jan 2010 at 3:33 pm
i've been keeping my eye out for a cake recipe i want to try this year and i think i've found it. sounds easy enough for me and i love bananas. i'll me keep a note of this one. thanks so much for the inspiration
# Caveman Cookingon 16 Jan 2010 at 12:22 am
This looks like the best B-nut bread I've ever seen. If it tastes half as good as it looks, it will be the best I've ever tasted, too!
Oh YES! I love their banana bread! I can't wait to make it! Thanks for sharing!
It looks very easy from the photo instructions.
# Housewife's Tale episode 44 | A housewife's Taleon 21 Jul 2010 at 2:08 am
[...] also baked some banana bread. I finally found a recipe from The Food Addicts, that was really good and was not too dense. I also added some chocolate chip in the last 20 mins [...]
# Barbaraon 07 Sep 2010 at 4:52 pm
My son hinted that I make him a Banana Walnut Loaf for his birthday which is tomorrow. I'm sure he's going to love it. Thank you so much.
# Florida Sunshineon 19 Sep 2010 at 12:47 pm
This recipe is excellent! It really does taste just like starbucks's banana walnut bread!
# Melindaon 20 Dec 2010 at 2:59 pm
Ok…so i just had to mention I and my 2 yr old son are addicted to the bread at Starbucks!! But this is the 3rd recipe I looked at that claimed it came from Starbucks….they are all different recipes by at least 1 ingredient. Whats going on??
Thanks for sharing; I never would have found this at Starbuck's myself. Simple and perfect, made it this afternoon : )
PS: Great job with the photos!
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# Jo Cruzon 09 May 2011 at 7:14 am
Sounds delish and looks even more delish! I am going to make it tomorrow for my eight year old girl. She loves the banana walnut muffin they've had there. Thanks!
# Georgia Sevignyon 17 Jun 2011 at 12:46 pm
Well it's in the oven as we speak. It was a simple quick fix. Let's hope it tastes yummy!!
This recipe is fantastic! Thanks so much for posting it!
I've made this bread 3 times this past weekend alone, my family and friends love it so much (lol) though, I did make a few changes. I didn't have any buttermilk, so I used the 2% milk that was in my fridge, and instead of regular flour, I used whole wheat flour to make it a little bit healthier. The whole wheat tastes just as good as when I made the bread with regular! I'm really impressed!
# Madisonon 27 Aug 2011 at 4:39 pm
Just made this and its delicioius!! I wish I would have left in the the oven a little longer but I was so excited to try it haha thank you for posting this!
# Phoebeon 17 Oct 2011 at 2:31 pm
I followed every step exactly but myixture is too dry. What happened??
I made this but with 1/2 cup white sugar and 1/2 cup dark brown sugar and 1 cup whole wheat and 1 cup bisquick….so everything was healthy except for the bisquick….but I heard from a friend that the bisquick gives it extra flavor/texture…and it worked!! Thanks for the recipe!
# Jessicaon 08 Dec 2011 at 7:30 am
I loved this bread. I did add a half of tsp. of pumpkin spice with mine. If gave it more of that fall taste I was looking for.
# brendaon 29 Dec 2011 at 5:24 pm
The top of it got burnt. Thanks a lot.
Hi there,
just so you know, you can use whole wheat flour for atleast half if not more, throw in the flax seed. I use another recipe that makes 2-3 loaves and it calls for 4 eggs, and I substitute flax seed for one egg, one tablespoon of flaxseed, to three tablespoons water and let sit for a few minutes. I also only half a cup sugar at most and put 3-4 bananas /loaf (bananas are naturally sweet.
Hi, I dont know why i use 1 egg it was too dry and so stick, after that i have to add 1 more egg. I don't know what problem is.
I baked this bread and it turned out awesome.Ive blogged about it too..Thanx for the recipe.
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# Jenniferon 26 Jun 2012 at 11:32 am
For some reason, my bread took longer than 60 minutes. I baked it at 325 and had to let it bake for an additional 20 minutes or so before the toothpick was clean. I'll try it again soon. Love the simpleness of the recipe!
# Swapnaon 23 Sep 2012 at 2:48 pm
Hi, I just want to know which flour u used. is it wheat flour or all purpose flour ?
Thank you
# Lisaon 09 Jan 2013 at 11:50 pm
I made this with bread flour and it wasn't bad but does not taste like the Starbucks recipe. I find the starbucks bread to be sweeter. I might add brown sugar next time.


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