“GAME OVER”: Gaming & The Egyptian Revolution

Futurist Musings on The Fly 28 February 2011 | 1 Comment

Over the course of the Egyptian uprising, I began to notice a pattern in the language of the protest signs that gave me pause for thought. I figured if a sign was written in English then it was intended for the eyes of the English-speaking world. So perhaps there is a sense that the world [...]

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Microfunding For Art Comes of Age Part 2: Interview with Filmmaker Gregory Bayne

Social Media and Art,The Dirty M**** Word 18 March 2010 | 0 Comments

I met Gregory Bayne on Twitter, which is where I meet the most interesting people in my professional world these days. He recommended my blog on his site This Lovely Machine one day and I thanked him. He responded with the kind of generosity of a person who recognized and honored the fact that those [...]

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Picasso, The Original 3D Master?

Futurist Musings on The Fly 5 January 2010 | 0 Comments

After all the hoopla about the 3D in James Cameron’s Avatar, and then this week at CES with all the talk about 3D Television, I thought we might take a little walk down the modern art aisle whilst browsing for entertainment. Not as schmaltzy as Avatar, and definitely heavier than most TV programming, Picasso’s Guernica. [...]

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In the Transmedia Trenches: A Conversation with Mike Monello

storytelling 8 December 2009 | 0 Comments

At the FOE4 Conference, I was struck by something Mike Monello said on when speaking on a panel. He said something I had never thought of quite that way before: that as a Transmedia creator, one’s role becomes that of a creator/performer – not in the sense that the storyteller is acting per se, but [...]

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Transmedia Illustrated

Future Predictions 19 November 2009 | 0 Comments

This weekend is the fourth Futures of Entertainment Conference, hosted by MIT’s Convergence Culture Consortium. I’m looking forward to attending and will post during and after. (Follow my twitter feed @filmfuturist) for updates during the conference. When I found this nicely done video of Henry Jenkins (of whom I am a great fan) talking about [...]

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Words Meet Music and Image

Video Without A Cause aka Interesting Moving Pictures on the Web 17 November 2009 | 0 Comments

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NewTeeVee Live’s Crystal Ball: Predictions for Web/Video/TV

Future Predictions 13 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Extracted from the NewTeeVee Live archive of yesterday’s great 1 day conference, this video is long video but very worth worth watching if you’re curious what the folks in the new media video world think is coming next. Answers to the question: ”What’s The Next Big Thing” had experts weighing in on technologies, creative shifts, funding, [...]

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Emotions + Algorithms = Stories

Social Media and Art 12 November 2009 | 0 Comments

With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook status updates, one expects to see all manner of ideas useful and useless, swirling around these platforms and vying for our attention. so it was no surprise when Mashable ran a piece last month on Twitter Art.  The ideas tend to revolve around the age-old putting visuals-to-text using — what [...]

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Augmented Reality Pt 2: A Phone-Altered Life

Augmented Reality,Interactive Experiences 5 November 2009 | 0 Comments

Earlier this year, I watched that now very famous demo of the MIT project called “The Sixth Sense”, a future phone concept that completely altered the way we currently think of mobile phone. At the time, I remember being awed by the sheer technological genius of it, and the fact that it had been built [...]

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Henry Jenkins at Google Talks

Convergences Worth Noting 23 October 2009 | 0 Comments

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