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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I should say first that I have NOT seen Paranormal Activity, chiefly because, well…I’m a scaredy-cat and probably wouldn’t sleep for days afterwards. BUT, that never stopped me from a big picture analysis. Of course the hype everyone is hanging on to right now is the parallel between Paranormal and Blair Witch. And I get [...]
Chances are, you’ve been sucked in once or twice, most likely by Facebook. Farmville, Mafia Wars ring a bell? And there are lots more. As someone who didn’t really play video games as a child, and seldom played casual games before the smartphone revolution (in my head), the concept of social gaming as a real [...]
I was struck by this article in today’s New York Times about 20×200 New York gallery owner Jen Bekman’s online venture. As the piece points out, the world of “high art” may be the last holdout in the broad world of art/media/design/film shift into the online space. It must appear profitable if investors are willing [...]
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