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Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Season 2 of NAWLZ now launched!

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Unicorn & Rainbow Happiness | Cornify - People's Choice Award SXSW

I'm sending this to every kid I know - lol

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Wolfram|Alpha - Technical Achievement award SXSW

Making the World's Knowledge Computable

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing... More about Wolfram|Alpha »

well-deserved & there's an app

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Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations wins Amusement SXSW

Category: Amusement

Humor, memes and all the stuff that is weird for the sake of weird.
http://sxsw.com/interactive/webawards/winners

This could also be filed under time lost/time well-spent

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U by Kotex* – Help change the way people think about periods and feminine care.

Time to stop all the weirdness about periods, don’t you think? Progress is where it’s at. Every video watched, every comment made and every question asked helps change unhealthy attitudes and Break the Cycle*.

THE CHALLENGE

79% of women think tampon and pad ads have nothing to do with real periods.
Do you agree? Watch the “I heart tampon ads” video and tell us what you think.
Let’s get 25,000 views and get more people talking about how advertising treats women’s issues.

THE WIN

We'll add a city to the Girls For A Change 'Change Your World' Training Tour.
One more stop means more girls get empowered. Let's make it happen!

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Kotex launches social networking site for gals & girls - great idea - demystify your period with some very funny ads!

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I'M HERE – A LOVE STORY IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD

If you haven't watched Spike Jonze's just released movie, 'I'm Here,' you should. And not just because it's a lovely film that again shows that he can make films with more heart than most other directors today. We should also all be watching to see what this film does online as the decision to release it on the web bypasses all those questions of distribution and the number & location of cinema screens. Game changer?

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

20 incredible infographics, interactives and data visualizations.

smart, well-designed data visualizations I have time for

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http://zenfilms.typepad.com/zen_films/2010/03/one-transmedia-tool-to-rule-them-all-.html

Transmedia Storyteller is a freemium service being developed by Robert Pratten, Alexey Ossikine a couple of other bright sparks moonlighting from their day jobs who'd perfer not to be named :) Robert is best known for his work and articles on transmedia, audience-building and new business models for independent content creators. You can find examples of his writing at Culture Hacker, Indie Slate Magazine and his own site Zen Films. You may also know that he directed and produced two feature films. But you may not know that before Zen Films.. back before the first Internet bubble burst.. Robert was an internationally recognized marketing consultant in the telecoms world specializing in Intelligent Networks and value-added products and services. He's worked with leading companies in this area such as Ericsson, Virgin Media, Lucent, TelMex and many others all across Europe, South America and the USA. The changing nature of the entertainment and publishing world has presented many problems but Transmedia Storyteller is a tool that's going to deliver new opportunities.

Transmedia storytelling tracking/management tool Very interesting - thanks Tom Himpe!

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GM previews augmented-reality windshield

oh boy - oh I think I like this

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Branded Entertainment: Philips Launches Teaser for “Parallel Lines” - PSFK

Branded Entertainment: Philips Launches Teaser for “Parallel Lines”

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March 3, 2010

Branded Entertainment: Philips Launches Teaser for "Parallel Lines"

Philips and DDB will release a series of five thematically-linked short films online in April, as a follow-up to its award-winning interactive film Carousel.  The teaser trailer, Parallel Lines, launched on the Philips Cinema website and respective Facebook page on Friday, prior to the series’ April 8th official launch date.

Parallel Lines brings together the talents of five filmmakers from RSA (Ridley Scott Associates) to develop five short films in the genres of their choice, including drama, action, animation, science fiction and thriller.

While the campaign’s thematic hook is under wraps until the series’ launch, the  short films will again strive to capture the cinematic experience that Philips’ flatscreen Cinema 21:9 TV set allows a viewer to enjoy.  The shorts are expected to capture an eye-catching technical bent to showcase picture and sound quality.

What makes Philips’ upcoming launch noteworthy is that it marks the third consecutive year the brand makes long-form entertainment the centerpiece of a campaign. Gary Raucher, Philips’ vice-president and head of integrated marketing communications,  states:

“We never talk about specific sales result.  But I can say all of our campaigns have measurable objectives and those objectives are tracked. We were very happy with the impact of last year and we have high expectations for this year as well.”

Parallel Lines promises to, at the very least, serve as another compelling form of branded entertainment.  Ideally, the April 8th launch will also serve as a strong follow-up to the interactive – and engaging – experience of last year’s Carousel campaign, in which the online frozen-framed loop video also integrated additional content, and user controls, to ultimately offer visitors the feeling that they were practically IN the movie – an experience that the Cinema 21:9 promises to approximate.

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more info on the Parallel Lines project - launch upcoming on April 8

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Official Trailer: Parallel Lines, presented by Philips Cinema

I posted on teaser trailer a few weeks back & now the official trailer for the Philips/Ridley Scott Associates co-production, Parallel Lines is up, with five directors: Greg Fay, Johnny Hardstaff, Carl Erik Rinsch, Jake Scott and Hi-Sim.

The facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/philipscinema ran a teaser challenge last week to guess the genre of each film in the profile pic - answer:

(from top to bottom) are: Mystical horror, Sci-fi thriller, “logo” ;), Action thriller, Drama Adventure

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The Fun Theory

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Slides | Cross Media NYC

Three of the Cross Media NYC slideshows now online: Jeff Gomez on Happiness Factory; Dr. Adam Klein on the music industry; David Kruis, Metranome on Calendars

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Videos | Cross Media NYC

Cross Media NYC has posted videos of some of the presentations. Standout thinkers are Ashley Swartz (blue/green jacket) on the demise of Purefold on the final panel & Jeff Gomez makes some interesting points in his Case Study of Coca Cola's Happiness Factory

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Interview with Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment at Cross Media Conference : IpTV EVANGELIST: Blog

Interview with Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment at Cross Media Conference

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Vidar Brekke, Emerging Media Strategist at DefinedLogic and I attended the NYC Cross Media Conference in New York City, this past week.

The conference was organized to bridge the gap between different media sectors, share information and provide a forum for people to meet and network. Among notable presenters and topics covered, Vidar and I had the opportunity to talk with and interview Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment.

portrait-jeff-gomez.jpg Jeff, who is not only a compelling and easy person to talk with about technology is also a sought after expert on the emerging field of transmedia storytelling. Transmedia storytelling, the process of telling a story in pieces across multible technology platforms and a way to extend a brand and engauge the audience may also be an opportunity for Indie filmmakers and other smaller media creatives who thus far have had a hard time gaining traction with their work on-line. As Jeff said, "The Internet is not Television"

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Jeff gave a great, concise talk on Starlight Runner's work with Coca Cola on The Happiness Factory at the inaugural Cross Media NYC event on Wed. March 10, 2010. His insights on constructing an immersive engaging storyworld for a transmedia project contained the great line (paraphrasing) that transmedia projects should 'validate and celebrate' their audience. A very worthy goal.

Watch for the next Cross Media Toronto & Cross Media London events! Next time I won't have to travel :)

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Ag8: Purefold

Purefold, the open media franchise conceived by Ag8 and developed in partnership with Ridley and Tony Scott’s RSA Films and Baby Cow Productions, has come to a halt.

A combination of factors have prevented this ambitious project from gathering the required funds to get off the ground.

Purefold envisaged to break with some of the traditional components of branded content initiatives.

Set in the near future, the project relied on prototype placement (or product invention) instead of product placement as a way to integrate advertisers into storytelling.

It provided the opportunity for multiple advertisers across multiple categories to fund short form episodes.

It featured multiple loosely connected story lines, connected through a central theme “what does it mean to be human” and the subject of empathy.

It provided the audience with the opportunity to contribute in real-time to individual story lines through FriendFeed groups.

And last but not least, it used a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence to give back the productions to participating audience members and partners, and to maximize frictionless and unlimited distribution for sponsors.

Combining so many innovations proved to be a challenging recipe for most agencies and advertisers and despite advanced collaborations with several A-list brands, a lack of sufficient funding meant that Purefold was unable to move from script development stage into production stage.

Because of these evolutions, Ag8 has ceased its activities.

Ag8 would like to thank all the collaborators and supporters who have contributed along the way, whether through a tweet or blog post, thus having helped this project take shape over the past year.

If you’d like to find out more about Purefold, here are a few videos and posts worth checking out:

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MIT Futures of Entertainment
Notes on MIT Futures of Entertainment

Sadly and somehow not surprisingly, the most ambitious digital participatory storytelling project in development has ground to a halt. According to Ashley Swartz who spoke last night at Cross Media NYC, the final hurdle that could not be overcome was the inability of the unions who would have been involved in the production of content to accept the idea of working within a Creative Commons model. Likely it's going to take repeated proofs of concept and financial viability in smaller projects to overcome this resistance.

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Monday, March 8, 2010

Can a Game Save the World?

Good post on the question, can serious games save the world & an overview of recent serious games as well as the use of social media for change

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The Apples in stereo : Travellers in Space and Time

Check out this crazy promo site for The Apples in Stereo - Elijah Wood & Robert Schneider explore the electro-magnetic potential of fruit & there's more...

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The Apples in stereo : Travellers in Space and Time

Check out this crazy promo site for The Apples in Stereo - Elijah Wood & Robert Schneider explore the electro-magnetic potential of fruit & there's more...

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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Pocahontas / Avatar Trailer crossover

And of course, the reverse mashup

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Avatar/Pocahontas Mashup FINAL VERSION

Randy Szuch overlays the audio from Avatar's trailer onto the Pocahontas trailer & presto! perfect match! you knew someone had to do it

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GREY SHINES THE WORLD

Grey Group, a Japanese ad agency, produced this interactive musical -seriously whacked! put them through their paces! make them do the worm! all while singing & doing some seriously silly walks

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Nokta .

Great effects in this video - brought to me by Matt Gorbet!

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

From my pal Mihkel! this is a mash-up that's making me laugh already

'From the New York Times bestselling author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES comes the true history of our sixteenth president - Seth Grahame-Smith's ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER.'

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Ramona Falls - I Say Fever

A surreally lovely video - somewhere between fairy tale & Philip Pullman's imagining of the daemon in His Dark Materials - cudos Alex Mayhew!

"I Say Fever" - the first video from the Ramona Falls debut album Intuit. Directed by the ridiculously talented Stefan Nadelman, winner of a 2003 Sundance prize for his 22 minute film 'Terminal Bar', a prolific animator in the commericial field and the mastermind behind the Menomena Evil Bee video.

Ramona Falls is Brent Knopf's first solo venture, but he has an extensive musical resume as part of trio Menomena (an indie rock band from Portland, OR, that's snagged plaudits from such tastemakers as Pitchfork Media and the New York Times.)

Directed and Animated by Stefan Nadelman
Produced by Tourist Pictures
www.touristpictures.com

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Aero Film: "The Sandpit" - A short film by Aero Director, Sam O'Hare!

Great discussion of how Sam O'Hare made his video on Aero Film

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Beautiful New York in Miniature, Sort Of - New York - Gawker

Sam O'Hare does to Manhattan what Keith Loutit has been doing to seaside & waterfront scenes in Australia. Gorgeous.

'Here's The Sandpit, a short film/sped-up slideshow/something. An artist named Sam O'Hare took over 35,000 photos over a week last August and strung them together into a day-in-the-life movie, one that appears to be filmed on a miniature set.

It takes a second to realize that the images are actually real. There's some sorta tilt something and Adobe magic at play that you can read about here. Or you can just enjoy all the pretty, speedy New Yorkiness and quietly long for a busy summer day.

source on Gawker: http://bit.ly/ddhWd7

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Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov reunite to produce 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'

Check out this website I found at hollywoodinsider.ew.com

This promises to be a big gorey deliciously visual collaboration!

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Campaign As Play by Tali Krakowsky

Check out this website I found at creativity-online.com

New post by Tali Krakowsky on a lovely social initiative - one soccer ball, many cities, making it's way to the World Cup South Africa, one game at a time - how many will get to play with it? brilliant

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Doritos Lovers - Augmented reality

If only we all had our own helicopters then we too could unlock the AR markers hiding in our city! With Hotel 626 & Asylum 626 behind them, Doritos is definitely future directed in its marketing - I like it

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Augmented (Fashion) Reality | Open The Future | Fast Company

Check out this website I found at fastcompany.com

smart essay on future directions of AR Fashion

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Video: An English Journey Re-imagined | guardian.co.uk

Check out this website I found at guardian.co.uk

A fascinating multi-media adaptation/response to JB Priestley's English Journey with a psychogeographic orientation

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010

One Bit Increment: Home

Love this! Designer/programmers Leon Hung and Camille Orillaneda as One Bit Increment have created an experiential website 'craft meets digital' to showcase their work - lost lots of time playing in the clouds, now on the lookout for hedgehogs & potatoes

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The Raveonettes - Black / White - Sound of Color

I'm posting this earlier Raveonettes/Blind video Sound of Color again as it's just so gorgeous...

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The Raveonettes - Heart of Stone

New video from the Raveonettes, the Danish alt-rock duo- created by Blind - love it - just not tired of steampunk yet...

Blind is a conceptually driven multimedia design studio and full service production company

www.blind.com - amazing work

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deep black hole .com by rafaël rozendaal, 2010, collection of sébastien de ganay

love this too - simple... satisfying...

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the persistence of sadness .com by rafaël rozendaal, 2010

A playful collision of the virtual & the real - love the sound elements - click click click!

Rafaël Rozendaal

Born 1980 in Amsterdam.

Father Arie Rozendaal from the Netherlands.
Mother Heloisa Castello Branco from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Great grandfather Humberto Castello Branco, former president of Brazil.
Exhibited all over the world in galleries and museums,
makes installations with projections.
Makes websites as art pieces, pieces are sold with domain name,
work remains public, name of collector in title bar.
Collectors in France, UK, Spain, NL and Austria.
Lived in Amsterdam, Rio, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Portland and Berlin.
Lives and works in hotels.

source: http://www.newrafael.com/bio/

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Gullermo del Toro Comfirms 3D Talk For THE HOBBIT!!!