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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Nov. 19th -good stuff

Little Loud's Bow Street Runner - award winner for Channel 4 series:

http://www.littleloud.com/work/bsr/

Flashforward's ARG Mosaic site (nods to World without Oil):

http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward/mosaiccollective


Saturday, November 14, 2009

Jeff Gomez' 8 defining characteristics of transmedia storytelling

  1. Content is originated by one or a very few visionaries
  2. Cross-media rollout is planned early in the life of the franchise
  3. Content is distributed to three or more media platforms
  4. Content is unique, adheres to platform-specific strengths, and is not repurposed from one platform to the next
  5. Content is based on a single vision for the story world
  6. Concerted effort is made to avoid fractures and schisms
  7. Effort is vertical across company, third parties and licensees
  8. Rollout features audience participatory elements, including:
    - Web portal
    - Social networking
    - Story-guided user-generated content
http://www.fantrust.com/2007/10/06/jeff-gomez’s-“8-defining-characteristics-of-transmedia-production”/

Monday, November 9, 2009

even more good stuff

Sally Potter's Rage (interactive online feature)

http://www.babelgum.com/rage

CSI's creator, Anthony Zuiker's Level 26 DigiNovel trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6mIQOem-CI

more good stuff

TinMan interactive trailer - gorgeous environment & simple interface:

http://www.syfy.com/tinman/

Asylum 626 - Dorito's Hotel 626 follow-up:

http://www.asylum626.com/

Samsung's 'Follow Your Instinct' interactive Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=HoOCiaxIZF4

David Lynch's Interview Project:

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com/www/#/all-episodes/054-glenys

Good stuff (some past)

HBO's Imagine:

http://www.hboimagine.com

Dark Knight ARG campaign:

http://www.whysoserious.com/

Bigspaceship's Voyeur:

http://archive.bigspaceship.com/hbovoyeur/

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Nov. 8th -good stuff

Jonathan Harris (We Feel Fine/Whale Hunt) posts a series of vignettes on the current state of digital media now:

http://number27.org/worldbuilding.html

Harvard Business - six social media trends for 2010:

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/11/six_social_media_trends.html

Interactive shoe website - 574 clips - marketing campaign:

http://www.574clips.com/?shoeid=43

Adidas interactive installation in New Zealand - designed by Terabyte:

http://www.terabyte.co.nz/our-work/adidas.aspx

Tali Krakowsky on 'Building Fiction: the Architecture of Experience Design'

http://www.architechweb.com/ArticleDetails/tabid/254/ArticleID/6507/Default.aspx

Monday, November 2, 2009

Oct 30


MIT's Android + Arduino:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~bonifaz/amarino/

MIT's Teardrop Paper Computing:

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/paper_computing/index.html

MIT's Tilt Sensing Quilt:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~plusea/?project=1

MIT's Electronic Popables:

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/popables/index.html

MIT's Interactive Wallpaper:

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/living_wall/index.html


Oct 26

classical music / 1000 phone mash-up:

http://mashable.com/2009/10/23/1000-phones-ad-video/

Samsung's new interactive video 'Follow your Instinct":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=HoOCiaxIZF4

The Good - Interactive Think Tank:

http://www.thegood.com/

Red Bull Soap Box Racer:

http://www.redbullsoapboxracer.com/

Jason Rohrer's Gravitation - indie game:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/gravitation/

Machinarium - indie game:

http://machinarium.net/demo/


Oct 22

Joshua Hoffline horror photography:

http://www.joshuahoffine.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=19&p=0&a=0&at=0

Nokia's create your own widget:

http://www.onlineasithappens.nokia.com/gallery

MIT convergence culture & Glee

http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2009/10/performing_with_glee.php

Adalberto Abbate - very cool artist & interface:

http://www.adalbertoabbate.com/

Enclosure, area studies & virtual worlds - anthropology:

http://savageminds.org/2009/10/13/enclosure-area-studies-and-virtual-worlds/

new green campaign:

http://www.shockingbarack.com/

Respect - new social activism campaign:

http://theloudspeakersite.com/

Build, Share, Download fonts:

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Club Nokia Digital Timeline:

http://www.rga.com/award/club_nokia.html

Beyond the Fold - future of newspaper:

http://www.beyondthefold.net/About.html

Sally Potter's new feature - episode 1 online:

http://www.babelgum.com/rage

Carla Raguseo - Twitter fiction:

http://carlaraguseo.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/twitter-fiction/

Oct 16


The Decembrists Hazard of Love visualization video:

http://vimeo.com/7032750

Layer's augmented reality app:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/14/layar-brings-augmented-reality-browser-to-the-iphone-screenshots/

RFID visualizations:

http://vimeo.com/7022707

Foursquare - locative game:

http://foursquare.com/

iPhone opens in-app purchasing:

http://mashable.com/2009/10/15/free-in-app-purchases/

Youtube to screen Taxi Driver Tweet mash-up:

http://mashable.com/2009/10/16/youtube-taxi-driver-twitter/

creative search aggregator - excellent:

http://creativesear.ch/

Oct 14

Tate Unilever Series - Miroslaw Balka interactive environment:

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unilevermiroslawbalka/explore/

Aaron Koblin's lovely data viz:

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/

The Impossible Project - polaroid project:

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

Neil Gaiman + twitter = interactive storytelling:

http://mashable.com/2009/10/13/neil-gaiman-twitter-audiobook/

Oct 11

Sony Soundville - Iceland installation video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRTHMEf0wY

Skittles interweb:

http://www.skittles.com/default.htm
US Cellular Shadow Puppets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTtP-eg1ek

US Cellular Fish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3O-dMD4-U8&feature=related

Blink - Networked Performance:

http://turbulence.org/blog/2009/10/07/blink-by-hc-gilje-bergen/

Responsive/interactive clothing:

http://captain-electric.net/

Expense report generator:

http://expenseasteak.com/index.php/submit


Oct 8-9

Kara Walker's gorgeous animated video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipd7ZjFcoo8

Royal Deluxe's 'Rendezvous in Berlin':

http://vimeo.com/6896134

Royal Deluxe's Little Girl Giant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc

Berlin Reunion:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/the_berlin_reunion.html

Goths at the Beach video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJXM3v23Ew

Oct 8

Gorgeous Bontrust paper stop animation video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqxHyV64G7s

Julian Perratta's beautiful video (AR aesthetics):

http://www.julianperretta.com/ride_my_star/

Michael Epstein's locative storytelling - 'terratives':

http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/06/04/storytelling-with-locative-media-michael-epsteins-take-on-terratives/#more-517

Call Cutta in a Box - interactive performance:

http://www.rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/project_2766.html

Boston AR tour:

http://www.untravelmedia.com/tours/1/the_greatest_neighborhood_this_side_of_heaven/

Janine Rewell - beautiful design aesthetic:

http://www.janinerewell.com/dollhouse.html


Oct 7-8

clever remix of Kravitz' Let Love Rule:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvkdtX52Mo

Beautiful creepy video:

http://vimeo.com/channels/hd#6798661

Battle for Milkquarious - 22 min rock opera promo video

http://www.milkquarious.com/#/rock-opera

Placebo video - beautiful:

http://theneverendingwhy.placeboworld.co.uk/

Volkswagon 'Theory of Fun' stair video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-EaT0WHaf0

Gorgeous video - Ink:

http://vimeo.com/6794856

Oct 4 - 7

Interactive entertainment experience designers:

http://www.thesanchoplan.com/blackpage.html

Enrico Ascoli's Donato Sansone Videogioco video - gorgeous stop animation:

http://vimeo.com/6605263

Generator Land - create & share:

http://www.generatorland.com/

Google Android's augmented reality app - wikitude:

http://mashable.com/2009/10/02/wikitude/

Kseniya's Simonova's Sand Animation - beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo

Improv Everywhere 'No Pants Subway Ride' 2009:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9La40WwO-lU

Vanessa Vobis - very cool artist:

http://vanessavobis.com/

Trevor Paglen's 'Hidden Planes & Unmarked Geographic' dynamic essay:

http://vectors.usc.edu/issues/4/trevorpaglen/




Sept 30 - Oct. 4

Ubik's Voxel video:

http://vimeo.com/4649345

Why So Serious: 360 Alternate Reality Experience - brilliant Dark Knight integrated campaign:

http://www.alternaterealitybranding.com/whysoserious_viral09/

Visualization Showcase - Media Art as Social Process:

http://vis.mediaartresearch.at/webarchive/public/view/mid:6

Visualization Showcase: taxonomies for New Media Art:

http://vis.mediaartresearch.at/webarchive/public/view/mid:6

Mapping the Archive - 30 Years of Ars Electronica Visualization:

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/09/mapping_the_archive_30_years_of_ars_electronica.html

HBO Imagine - follow-up to Voyeur:

http://www.hboimagine.com/

Responsive Sculpture - interactive website - very playful!:

http://minivegas.co.uk/#/work/interactive/





Sept 29-30

A Swarm of Angels - remixing cinema participative feature film:

http://aswarmofangels.blip.tv/

Fred Viola's jpeg collage video "The Sad Song":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRqjZtr6JaE

Diplome Camille - gorgeous augmented reality book:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbz0kNAP6oA

Sour/ Hibo no neiro - awesome Japanese video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw

Ahrrrr augmented reality from Georgia Tech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cix3Ws2sOsU

Light writing tool - very cool:

http://www.aissalogerot.com/projects/halo/

Steve Scott's gorgeous Exos video - I adore this:

http://vimeo.com/4865046

Sept 29-30

Dorito's follow-up to Hotel 626 (really fun):

http://www.asylum626.com/

My Space release of Nightmare on Elm Street trailer:

http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/nightmare-on-elm-street-remake-trailer/

CNN iPhone app review (worth noting):

http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/cnn-iphone-app/

Broken Saints website - hybrid animated comic:

http://www.brokensaints.com/
http://bs.brokensaints.com/website.htm

NAWLZ - awesome online graphic novel:

http://www.nawlz.com/

Tali Krakowsky on spatial narrative:

http://creativity-online.com/news/on-conversations/136612

Alex McDowell on 5D Immersive Design:

http://www.awn.com/articles/production/alex-mcdowell-talks-5d-conference-and-immersive-design



Sept 26-28

Twitter Mosaic:

http://sxoop.com/twitter/

Real Time Twitter Trends:

http://trendsmap.com/

Twitter haiku generator:

http://twyric.com/

Satellite & User Generated Maps:

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/

NYC augmented city game:

http://phantomcity.org/