The facts of the shooting of US Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen other people in a Tuscon, Arizona grocery store are simply horrifying by any account: A man enters a store armed with a gun, targets the Representative, shoots her in the head and begins a seemingly random mass killing spree that results in [...]
The rumblings are out there: 2011 is the year of TV Everywhere. We’re cutting the cord, watching movies on Netflix, rejecting pre-packaged entertainment deals – therefore, the future, at least for us web content advocates, is here. Yet every time I hear the “TV Everywhere” chorus, I wonder who made this “the moment”. Because it [...]
I’m always looking at Twitter in that way one looks at a melon baller in the back of the kitchen utensils drawer–kind of like, what else can I do with this thing? It makes the cutest perfect circular balls out of melons and it is awfully fun. And every once in a while when there’s [...]
The fact that CBS greenlit Sh*t My Dad Says, a sitcom based on a Twitter based meme is notable for a few reasons. First, in terms of the Hollywood machine, I believe this is a first – taking a fictional character from the social media world and creating a series around it. Second, I think [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Twitter
LinkedIn
Facebook