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  • lw 12:12 pm on November 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Culture Hacker: Rebooting the Doc Experience 

    In the current issue of Filmmaker Magazine I go behind the scenes of Collapsus an interesting storytelling project from Holland.

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    Culture Hacker: Rebooting the Doc Experience

    The year is 2012 and the world is on the brink of collapse.Rolling blackouts, depleted resources, civil unrest, assassinations and political dissension have thrown the world into a state of chaos. We follow the adventures of a group of young people as they lead us into a world of conspiracy, treason and failing energy supplies. While it sounds like it could be the description of a Hollywood blockbuster, it isn’t. Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy is in fact a transmedia companion to a television documentary by Dutch broadcaster VPRO entitled Energy Risk. Collapsus takes theories and predictions from the Energy Risk documentary and transports them into a fictional story set within the not-so-distant future. Collapsus becomes a hybrid narrative that combines live action, animation, gaming mechanics and social entertainment in order to present a different perspective on the issues surrounding our struggle to transition from fossil fuels to alternative forms of energy. Tommy Pallotta, no stranger to innovative forms of storytelling (he helped to revolutionize independent animation techniques with his work on Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly), was tapped to direct Collapsus by award-winning Dutch transmedia shop Submarine.

    READ MORE

    Collapsus Walkthrough from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo.

     

  • lw 7:14 pm on May 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Google Chrome Speed Tests 

    Hats off to BBH New York and Google Creative Lab for crafting an excellent way to demonstrate the speed of chrome while at the same time providing visual candy.

    Equipment used:
    - Computer: MacBook Pro laptop with Windows installed
    - Monitor – 24″ Asus: We had to replace the standard fluorescent backlight with very large tungsten fixtures to funnel in more light to capture the screen. In addition, we flipped the monitor 180 degrees to eliminate a shadow from the driver board and set the system preferences on the computer to rotate 180 degrees. No special software was used in this process.
    - Camera: Phantom v640 High Speed Camera at 1920 x 1080, films up to 2700 fps

     

  • lw 7:55 pm on February 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    The State of the Internet 

    I often post about data viz. Here’s a nice animated vid that compares internet data across services, outlets and country.

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    234 million websites

    126 million blogs

    12.2 billion videos viewed monthly on youTube (US)

    1.4 billion email users

    1.73 billion internet users

    JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

     

  • lw 6:29 am on December 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Filtering the news and tv 

    This past week I came across two filtering / aggregation projects which were both developed within internal lab divisions – one from url shortening service Bit.ly and the other from Google.

    Bitly.tv takes the 2 billion plus links that flow through the service and filters them to find trending vids. Based upon Bit.ly’s own bitrank algorithm which measures popularity, persistence and velocity in an attempt to predict what could go viral. I would imagine Bit.ly is swimming in interesting trending data that can be monetized in a variety of ways. This marks the first of a number of filtering projects that the company plans to rollout.

    Living Stories is a collaboration between Google, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. An experiment to rethink the presentation of the news in an online environment. The effort aggregates a collection of stories surrounding a topic, presents a nice timeline view and attempts to harness a community discussion around the newsworthy topics. It’s early yet but you could see this merging at some point with google reader. I’d love the ability to trace linkage and timelines between news stories.

     

  • lw 6:44 pm on December 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    LOVELAND – I own 25 inches of Detroit! 

    Today my Loveland deed came in the mail. I’m the proud owner of 25 inches of Detroit. I’ve written about Loveland the social ownership meets collaborative art meets urban revitalization project a number of times.

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    Jerry Paffendorf (founder of Loveland) joined us back in Nov for DIY DAYS LA. Here’s his presentation.

    Checkout the other DIY DAYS VIDS

     

  • lw 5:15 am on December 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    BOOK: The Smashing Book 

    smashingbook The folks at Smashing – an amazing resource site / community for web design and developers have just released a comprehensive resource in book form.

    The Smashing Book is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. The book shares technical tips and best practices on coding, usability and optimization and explores how to create successful user interfaces and apply marketing principles to increase conversion rates. It also shows how to get the most out of typography, color and branding so that you end up with intuitive and effective Web designs. And lastly, you will also get a peek behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine.

     

  • lw 5:53 am on September 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    BAMBI KILLERS – ep12 season 1 of RADAR 

    The WBP Labs series RADAR is now embeddable. This is a personal fav from last season. We’re currently knee deep in producing Season 2 – stay tuned for more details.

     

  • lw 3:57 am on July 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Jet Pack 

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    Looking for some good fiction? Checkout Chuck Wendig, Will Hindmarch and Wood Ingham’s new venture Jet Pack. A collection of short and longer form fiction that jumps genres and is quality work. Well worth the bookmark.

     

  • lw 5:43 am on June 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Learning from the audience 

    Scott Kirsner recently wrote an interesting op-ed piece in the LA Times entitled ‘Digital technology and dollar signs’ The piece goes into some interesting uses of digital tech and how creatives are considering the consumption of their audiences / fans to inform new biz models. These are exciting times where experimentation is needed and welcome.

    The piece mentions my experiments with film, mobile and gaming. Here’s a section from the article.

    Many in Hollywood still deride the wacky, user-generated videos that occasionally turn into viral hits on YouTube, the top website for video viewing. And it’s true that one of the most-watched videos ever uploaded to the site is titled “Charlie bit my finger — again!”

    But a number of young creators — many of them working outside of Hollywood’s orbit — have been feverishly experimenting with new ways to tell stories and generate revenue. An office worker in Connecticut created the catty entertainment commentary show “What the Buck” on YouTube, and suddenly found he was making more from the site’s “partner program,” which offers creators a cut of ad revenue, than he was at his desk job, which he promptly quit. Lance Weiler accents his suspense films with cellphone and Web-based “alternate reality games” that enable players to explore the story and interact with characters after they’ve left the theater. Robert Greenwald, a Culver City-based documentarian, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars online to support his left-leaning films and Internet videos on such topics as the mortgage crisis and the war in Afghanistan. READ MORE

     

  • lw 6:06 am on June 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Interview Project 

    David Lynch is behind a new web series doc venture entitled Interview Project. IP is a spontaneous cross country trip that will travel 20,000 miles over the next 70 days and interview 121 people along the way. The interviews will be conducted with those individuals that catch the filmmakers interest, with a new interview going live on the site every 3 days.

    It’s interesting to see Absurda expanding the Lynch brand online. Davidlynch.com is a free / subscription fee model site that offers all things Lynch, from daily weather reports to frequent visits to Bob’s Big Boys for coffee and cigarettes, the site has been an early play at an online pay model for the director. Absurda has also assisted with the DIY release of Inland Empire and now appears to be experimenting with online serialized content.

    Related:

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    Back when Inland Empire came out I sat down with Eric Basstte, managing partner of Absurda to discuss the release and Absurda’s future plans.

     

  • lw 12:46 pm on February 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    History of the Internet 

    geeking out with this history of the internet. nice overview and cool animation.

     

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