A Total Disruption: Ondi Timoner’s Portal for Innovators 

(Source: Kickstarter

“A TOTAL DISRUPTION, has multiple series about innovators and entrepreneurs who are using technology to transform our lives. The channel is an invitation to participate in our up-coming documentary of the same name. A TOTAL DISRUPTION the feature will pull the camera up to look at this tectonic revolution and how it is transforming our lives, economy, and where we’re headed from here through the eyes of the innovators heading this change.”

From the Panel to the Frame: Style and Scott Pilgrim by Drew Morton

How does style link the Scott Pilgrim comics, film, and video game? This visual essay, composed by Dr. Drew Morton (Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Texas A&M University-Texarkana), analyzes how Bryan Lee O’Malley’s books were formally interpreted by director Edgar Wright and game designer Paul Robertson.

Star Wars Uncut: fan-made crowdsourced remake of Star Wars! (Source: Starwarsuncut.com)

Star Wars Uncut is a crazy fan mashup remake of the original Star Wars movies. It is the brainchild of Casey Pugh, a developer dedicated to creating interactive experiences on the web. In 2009, Casey was inspired to use the Internet and an ever-ready pool of passionate Star Wars fans to crowdsource the classic film Star Wars IV: A New Hope. This pet project turned into a labor of love and creativity on a large scale. Nearly a thousand fans came together to participate and the resulting movie is equal parts fun, kooky, and dearly nostalgic.

Click below to watch Star Wars IV Episode fan film 

(via fastcompany)

The Writer Behind “Dark Night” and “Man of Steel” On Multitasking, Meditation, And Using Your Good Ideas. 
David S. Goyer, the writer behind “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Man of Steel,” “Call of Duty: Black Ops” and the new Starz series “Da Vinci’s Demons,” credits a rigorous schedule and daily meditation with his multitasking successes.
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, conceived of the helicopter and developed a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics (among many other things), making him one of the most famous figures in history. And yet we know surprisingly little about the Renaissance Man—all of which makes him ideal fodder for historical fiction.
Da Vinci is just the kind of superhuman figure that David S. Goyer relishes. The screenwriter who crafted the Dark Knight movies (he cowrote that trilogy with director Christopher Nolan) and Man of Steel (the upcoming reboot of the Superman mythology, directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Nolan) has created Da Vinci’s Demons, a new series debuting this week on Starz.
Goyer is no slouch himself. The last TV show he created was the one-season ABC series FlashForward; he has directed movies, including Blade: Trinity and Zig Zag; he’s written two novels and he developed the story for the wildly successful videogames Call of Duty: Black Ops Iand II.
In a tightly scheduled 15 minutes, Co.Create asked the master multitasker how he manages it all and how he balances the expectations of die-hard fans with his own creative vision. Naturally, we couldn’t help squeezing in a question or two about the much-awaited Man of Steel.
Stick to a rigorous schedule- unless Zack Snyder calls.
If you have a good idea, don’t save it. Use it.
Help a director out.
Find the hole in the history.
Embrace Reinvention.
Here’s the full story.

(via fastcompany)

The Writer Behind “Dark Night” and “Man of Steel” On Multitasking, Meditation, And Using Your Good Ideas.

David S. Goyer, the writer behind “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Man of Steel,” “Call of Duty: Black Ops” and the new Starz series “Da Vinci’s Demons,” credits a rigorous schedule and daily meditation with his multitasking successes.

Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, conceived of the helicopter and developed a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics (among many other things), making him one of the most famous figures in history. And yet we know surprisingly little about the Renaissance Man—all of which makes him ideal fodder for historical fiction.

Da Vinci is just the kind of superhuman figure that David S. Goyer relishes. The screenwriter who crafted the Dark Knight movies (he cowrote that trilogy with director Christopher Nolan) and Man of Steel (the upcoming reboot of the Superman mythology, directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Nolan) has created Da Vinci’s Demons, a new series debuting this week on Starz.

Goyer is no slouch himself. The last TV show he created was the one-season ABC series FlashForward; he has directed movies, including Blade: Trinity and Zig Zag; he’s written two novels and he developed the story for the wildly successful videogames Call of Duty: Black Ops Iand II.

In a tightly scheduled 15 minutes, Co.Create asked the master multitasker how he manages it all and how he balances the expectations of die-hard fans with his own creative vision. Naturally, we couldn’t help squeezing in a question or two about the much-awaited Man of Steel.

  • Stick to a rigorous schedule- unless Zack Snyder calls.
  • If you have a good idea, don’t save it. Use it.
  • Help a director out.
  • Find the hole in the history.
  • Embrace Reinvention.

Here’s the full story.

The Peanut Gallery
Peanut Gallery is a Chrome Experiment that lets you add intertitles to old film clips using your voice, then share those clips with your friends. It uses your computer’s microphone and the Web Speech API in Google Chrome to turn speech into text.
www.peanutgalleryfilms.com 

The Peanut Gallery

Peanut Gallery is a Chrome Experiment that lets you add intertitles to old film clips using your voice, then share those clips with your friends. It uses your computer’s microphone and the Web Speech API in Google Chrome to turn speech into text.

www.peanutgalleryfilms.com 

“How Webcomics Work”

An excerpt from the comic strip documentary Stripped by Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder. Animation and music by Doctor Octoroc (doctoroctoroc.com). Editing by Ben Waters.

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Future Cinema is a live events company that specialise in creating living, breathing experiences of the cinema.

Conceived in 2005 by Fabien Riggall, Founder and Director of Future Shorts, Future Cinema aim to bring the concept of ‘experience’ back to the cinema-going world.

Specialising in bringing events to life through a unique fusion of film, improvised performances, detailed design and interactive multimedia, Future Cinema create wholly immersive worlds that stretch the audience’s imagination and challenge their expectations.

Creators of the acclaimed Secret Cinema, which brings mystery movies to extraordinary locations around London and the UK, Future Cinema have been hailed for bringing a sense of spectacle back in an age of multiplexes.

Future Cinema run multiple events around the UK as well as producing events for brand partners and 3rd parties.

The Cosmonaut, a transmedia crowdfunded project - May 14th 2013

A Sci-Fi movie that takes place during the space race. Over 400.000€ achieved through crowdfunding. It will be distributed through the Internet for free at the same time as DVD, TV and cinema.

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Find your way to Oz: a Chrome experiment inspired by Disney’s Oz The Great and Powerful

Find Your Way to Oz is an interactive journey inspired by Sam Raimi’s latest feature film, Oz The Great and Powerful.

Built using advanced web technologies, this Chrome Experiment will take you through a dusty Kansas circus to the vibrant land of Oz. 

Find your way to Oz 

CLOUDS Interactive Documentary | James George, Jonathan Minard

CLOUDS have captured interviews with over 30 new media artists, curators, designers, and critics, using a new 3D cinema format called RGBD. CLOUDS presents a generative portrait of this digital arts community in a videogame-like environment. The artists inhabit a shared space with their code-based creations, allowing you to follow your curiosity through a network of stories.

What does it feel like to think with code? How can emerging technologies enable us to actualize our dreams? How has online sharing transformed the way artists collaborate?

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Surfing the Digital Tsunami: Ways Forward for the Entertainment Business

Wendy Bernfeld,  founder of Rights Stuff, at The Cross-Media Forum 2012 

Wendy looks at evolving business models, the new role of producers, changes in distribution and the demands and tasks of the sales middle man.

Unlock the 007 in you! You have 70 seconds

Coke Zero challenged unsuspecting train passengers to unlock the 007 in them for their chance to win exclusive tickets for the new James Bond movie SKYFALL. 
However, the tickets weren’t free. People had to go the extra mile and unlock their inner 007 in less than 70 seconds to win.

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