I recognize how controversial the very idea may seem to book purists. And honestly, I myself dread the thought of reading Don Quixote on my iPhone with a link to a dramatization of the titular literary legend. Whose vision of the oft and uniquely conjured hero do we engage? My first thought as a dedicated [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
This is the moment when everything changes. Here and now. This IS the future. Technology and social media has suddenly shifted the ground we filmmakers have been standing on for years. We can sit around and lament the loss of a golden era…or we can figure out how to reinvent film and media art in [...]
