A Post About “Avatar”

December 21, 2009

by Tim Hwang

While I agree that the captioning for James Cameron’s new flick “Avatar” could have settled for something more awesome than Papyrus as its font (especially considering they shelled out the money for a linguist to create a totally new language and a new camera just to film the damn thing), Keith Hopper rightly points out that there are way, way worse things it could have been.

He is right.

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Broseph Stalin is Tim Hwang. Planned/Founded ROFLCon, Titans of Small Town, Information Superhighway, and XORCon. Co-host on the Tim and Diana Show. Working on a book on the mechanics of web culture and memes online. Also a regional expert on the Land Before Time series and the vintages of Keurig coffee. Currently a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society with my righteous bro Yochai Benkler.

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