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 varied [...]
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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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Future Predictions
13 November 2009 | 1 Comment
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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Futurist Musings on The Fly
11 August 2009 | 0 Comments
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 [...]
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