I ask you

I ask you, how is porn surviving in the digital world? When you can get porn for free, why would anyone buy porn anymore? Did the porn industry take a blow (no pun intended) from piracy and peer-to-peer exchange?

6-2-06

I answer myself: porn survives because of its low production costs (minimal settings, wardrobe) and consistent following.

Porn is the alternative comics of the movie industry. 

6-3-07

Updates:

An article appears which question whether the internet is killing the porn industry. How timely!

Globe Cinema

5-28-07
Chompy and I watched Pirates of the Carribean in Globe Cinema at Gateway Mall. It's the cinema with the Lazy-Boys and all the popcorn/drinks you can consume.

It was a much better experience than IMAX in SM Mall of Asia.

We reserved the 11am screening, and I was nervous because the Chomps takes her time waking up during the weekend. And she's coming from San Mateo.

Imagine my embarassment when I overslept. We entered the movie 15 minutes late (she arrived on time). She took my tardiness quite well: I am bound to make up for it by treating her to HPatOofP this July.

Blecch.

In the course of the 3-hr movie, I waited hand and foot to serve her popcorn and soda, while she soaked up Capt. Jack Sparrow in the reclined Lazy Boy. The only time she stood up was to go the rest room, after all the soda she drank. Revenge.

This is contrast to IMAX, which just seemed to be a close-up of a regular theater. And SM somehow eliminated the combo snacks and served only P80 popcorn and P40 drinks. Which sucks.

We'll definitely try Globe Cinema again, before they raise prices due to inflation. After all, we're paying what Americans pay for their movies ($7), and we're getting premium treatment for it. Although I didn't expect having to fetch the food all the way from the lounge. 

Economic bubbles are good?

Slate.com pointed out the benefits of economic bubbles, namely the creation of infrastructure and the bargain prices of post-bubble assets. We directly benefit from the internet bubble: the laying of undersea telecom cables allowed the expansion of call center business here in the Philippines.

So what benefit happened during the comic book bubble of the 90's?

The infrastructure laid out was the proliferation of the comic book store, which allowed independent titles to flourish. However, I can't see the positive side of the bubble. Comic book stores are closing everywhere in the US. Publishers closed shop, but there was no bargain sale purchases which allowed sustainable growth afterwards.
I first thought its still too early to detect the positive fallout, but the internet burst happen later and we already perceive the benefits.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik was originally a British cyberpunk band?!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigue_Sigue_Sputnik

But…But…Sigue is a Tagalog word!

Local gangs just lost their street cred.

I made it to Scans Daily?!

Scans Daily began as a slash - i.e. homoeroticism - community. Liking slash certainly isn't a requirement to membership, but what *is* required is acceptance of it. All sorts of comic book content is eagerly welcomed, but we do require that you not make disparaging remarks about the people who brought you this community.

I read Scans Daily regularly for selected pages of the latest comic books.

Imagine my surprise of getting mentioned there for my Gaiman-Moore strip.

Galores!

Link: http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/3423967.html#cutid1