Feels Good Man

June 29th, 2010Blog3 comments

A few things that are making me feel good these days:

I’m seeing more and more Asian names at the top of the production food chain. No joke. Many of my meetings these days are occurring with Asian American executives, development people, or agents in the room. And we aren’t discussing the next Karate Kid movie or the Chan Clan reboot. I’m not sure when or how this happened, but it’s happening.

Back in college there was a lot of discussion about the lack of Asian American representation in the media. That’s what lead us to this, which is amazingly, still going strong. Now, you know I’m a populist and I’m for the entire human race as a whole, but it’s nice to see more Asian American representation where there was admittedly very little before. It lets us get our own story straight.

Have things changed? Not completely — we’ve definitely got a way to go — but I feel like they are in process in a positive way.

Good stuff on the iPad front: We’ve talked about GoodReader and the Netflix App and other such things before, but there are some other great developments in the app world for everyone’s favorite magical device.

Pulse — have you seen this thing, man? It lets you visually browse Uncrate, Sartorialist, GearPatrol, etc., all at once. Huge time saver, because instead of having to load up every site individually, it can show you all of them in a visual grid at the same time. Now that’s what I’m talkin about!

You might’ve also read that Hulu Plus is coming out soon too. The service is still rolling out, but the iPad/iPhone client is available now.

In the last few days I’ve read twelve one-hour pilots and watched the actual filmed episodes on the same portable screen. TV the iPad’s killer app, and Hulu brings us a step closer to its future. Sure, it’s becoming a paid service, but hopefully you get what you pay for.

Finally there’s Instapaper, which lets you cache and store webpages to read later on. This is genius for saving time. You drop the “Read Later” button onto your web browser, hitting it whenever you see a page you want to Read Later. Then when you’re in a more comfortable place in the time/space continuum, you can fire up the Instapaper iPad app and read all of those saved pages from the comfort of your couch. Magic.

Plus: More Year Zero and even Cowboy news coming down the pipe soon. Yessssss!

Feels good? Uh-huh: