The Age of Entertainment Curation Is Now

Future Predictions 2 February 2010 | 1 Comment

No one can argue that some of the most socially and even politically transformative ideas to come out of the technology boom of the last ten years were a) social media and b) the attendant proliferation of user generated content. There was MySpace, then YouTube, then Facebook, Twitter followed by every other niched and slightly [...]

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Is It Time to Re-define Independent Film?

Old School Film in The New World 7 January 2010 | 2 Comments

One of the interesting results of the proliferation of web video has been that whatever special distinction independent filmmakers felt they had is kind of over. The truth is, right now, in January 2010 most of the visual storytelling–series, one-off videos and even features you’ll find on content sites (outside of the Netflix and Hulus [...]

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Crowdsourcing For Auteurs: The Purefold Irony

Convergences Worth Noting 27 November 2009 | 8 Comments

As with most people who attended the enormously exciting Futures of Entertainment 4, I found there was a massive amount of information to unpack both during and after the conference. Perhaps because my perspective is that of a creator/artist who is navigating the rapidly shifting rules of storytelling in an era of transmedia, the questions [...]

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