Microfunding For Art Comes of Age – Part 1

The Dirty M**** Word 12 February 2010 | 0 Comments

DIY filmmakers have always inherently understood the idea of microfunding, because in some sense or another, raising a few hundred or thousand from friends and family IS essentially the same idea. And now, with social media providing the kind of community reach that would have been impossible even ten years ago, this model has become [...]

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The Future: Where Books & Video Merge

Convergences Worth Noting 12 January 2010 | 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Knock-Knock. It’s 2010. With 5 Imperatives for Filmmakers

Future Predictions, Old School Film in The New World 30 December 2009 | 3 Comments

I hate rules. I’ve never been able to follow them. And I find the tyranny of web lists obnoxious. BUT, somehow one cannot deny that in an era of such chaos as we are experiencing in the media arts especially, this kind of list may…possibly… have some value. There, I said it! This is my [...]

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Zoe Beloff & The Art of Dream-telling

storytelling 14 December 2009 | 1 Comment

This is an amateur movie made by a member of the The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in 1947. Strange, you may think, as it seemed to me when I first watched this one of several films created by members of this Society as a way to analyze their dreams.
Initially, The Lion Dream struck me as [...]

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Crowdsourcing For Auteurs: The Purefold Irony

Convergences Worth Noting 27 November 2009 | 7 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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Transmedia Illustrated

Future Predictions 19 November 2009 | 1 Comment

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 | 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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Emotions + Algorithms = Stories

Social Media and Art 12 November 2009 | 1 Comment

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 | 3 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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