October 2011
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RIP: A Remix Manifesto
“RIP: A Remix Manifesto” is a documentary that confronts the very issue that we’ve been discussing in this weeks class - REMIX.
Although the filmmaker uses the mashup artist, Girl Talk, as one of his leading examples, the film spends much of the time challenging copyright laws, the definition of art, and intellectual property.
Although some of you may have seen this, I...
Red vs Blue - Bungie Halo Remix
Red vs Blue is a episodic series that depicts two opposing teams of soldiers that are fighting a war in the middle of the Blood Gulch box canyon.
The show is a parody that uses the synchronization of pre-recorded dialogue with video that has been generated from actual gameplay from the first person shooter game series, “Halo”.
The first series premiered on April 1st, 2003 and...
September 2011
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Remix the Clips
Jimmy Fallon basically explains the concept at the beginning of the videos, but for the sake of an introduction, once a week, Fallon has his band drummer, Questlove, take videos from the Internet and remix them. Beyond the fact that some of these videos are absolutely hilarious, it’s incredibly impressive how Questlove takes them, supposedly on the spot, and manages to turn them into pretty catchy...
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Lady Gaga - Remix
“She’s kind of a blender. I’m not sure she’s had one original idea in her life. What’s interesting is they all go into her head, she puts it on puree, and it’s kind of a delicious idea smoothie.”
She’s arguably the biggest music star today, and everything about her is a remix. Her music, her fashion, it’s all thought of as startlingly...
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Paul Verhoeven crowd-sourcing for talent
Paul Verhoeven’s new project is called “Entertainment Experience” and is fully crowd-sourced except for financing, which has been secured. Paul Verhoeven is not sourcing for money, he is sourcing for talent. Any talent. Famous Dutch actress Kim van Kooten has written the first few minutes of the script, and everyone who wants to film them is free to do so. Anyone can try his...
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Tumblr assignment for the week 9/26
1. Share the meme that you’ll be writing about for your paper; include a video and simple description of the meme. Please don’t repeat posts. You can find memes that work and you can also find others that didn’t. In both cases please give a short description of the meme and why you find it interesting.
2. Find an interesting remix and share it.
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Kirby Ferguson stopped by class to share his...
Kid-driven Development Leads The Way In...
My most memorable video game experience as a child was being recruited by the Children’s Computer Workshop.
The once-per-week routine definitely made a kid feel cool: early release from school once a week; being shuttled by cab to the offices of the Children’s Television Workshop; being given a sneak peak at a state of the art first generation Apple Macintosh while some computer...
Collapsus Review
I was just like anyone else first time saw it, surprise and attracted by this special storytelling methods. And as I watched it, I started thinking of some doubts.
1. Why did the director made the choice of using animation, interactive fiction and documentary to tell a story like Collapsus?
To answer the 1st question, I started watch the functions of different ways of storytelling carefully...
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Treasure Hunts
Game from Childhood I Loved:
Ok, as I think I’ve clumsily explained in class a few times now, I really enjoyed these odd treasure hunts my sister would set up when we were young. She’s older by about 5 years, and every once in awhile she’d create a treasure hunt in whatever place we were living. She wouldn’t tell us she was going to do it; she’d just surprise us...
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Collapsus Review
There’s something really cool and ambitious about all this, but I just don’t know that it works for me on a practical level. I’m thrown into something with a lot of initial information, and am given little guidance about what to do with it. I don’t object to that so much, but as other people have mentioned, that initial teaser is more engaging then the set-up of the story...
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Collapsus Review
Collapsus is a great idea: get socially important information across to young audiences using a blend of fiction, documentary and gaming. The three panel layout is gorgeous, and unlike anything most of us have ever seen before (even gamers are used to having to select a menu to get to content-rich features that complement the main screen). Because it’s so new, and we don’t start off...
Collapsus Review
Collapsus is an innovative, multi-layered experience with the future of our energy sources at its core. As we search for new ways to power our world, the dark world of Collapsus unfortunately doesn’t seem too far out of the realm of possibility. While I was engaged, I was also a bit confused at times with the flow of the experience, especially as to how the narrative merges with the...
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DigDug and The Oregon Trail
The first video game I remember playing was digdug back when I was a little kid, my dad loaded it on an old computer via 5 1/4” floppy .
Another game that stands out is: The Oregon Trail
http://youtu.be/29UIyhSrF6I
-j.carey
Collapsus
Interacting with Collapsus was a first time experience for me, I don´t remember being exposed to a product of the kind that involved both film and interactive applications. I will say that I found fascinating the ability to stop the film in order to get extra information that will allow you to understand better what was happening. I like this idea as it´s the spectator who, in some degree,...
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Collapsus Review
Collapsus is an incredibly innovative experience. As a website, the design is nearly pristine. Minus a few instances during which the video player stopped, the interface works quite well. However, you’ll have to get used to keeping your hand off the mouse, as if the cursor moves too far to the left or right, you’re ripped out of the video and tossed into another element of the site. This is...
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Storytelling without bounds - slides
Storytelling without Bounds
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French Creative Stage Play
French Creative Stage Play: This is not an usual normal stage play you have ever seen. It is also a Stage Play mixed new technical factors in the performance. It helps telling stories so well and even give the designers inspiration. The stage is no longer just a stage anymore, the stage itself become a big screen. - Jie
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Hollywood downloads a post-DVD future →
The movie studio business model is poised for its biggest shift in years as Hollywood turns to Internet delivery as the only way to boost home entertainment revenues.
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Rob Bliss Urban Experiments
Meet Rob Bliss…
Rob Bliss is a Multi-Platform Account Executive at Wood TV8, a television station located in Grand Rapids, MI. Being only 22 years old, he has somehow managed to execute some of the most innovative interactive events that have ever been seen in Grand Rapids, Michigan and even the country.
The thing that I find interesting about what this guy has done, is that it...
WatchThis is Burberry’s holographic runway show which surprised every audience in an amazing way. It mixed traditional runway and high technical lighting setup to make the stage more like in a dream. It is worth to see how people now combine different technical and give new life to traditional cultures. - Jie
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Nintendo Power Pad
As a child I was mildly obsessed with the new interactive forms of video games that Nintendo was creating. The Nintendo power glove and power pad games were a couple of the devices that I remember spending countless hours playing with a group of friends in the basement of either my house or a friends place. I’m sure we were forced to play on the bottom level of the house since no parent...
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Splatterball
When I was younger I used to love this computer game called Splatterball. It was the first online RPG (role-playing game) I’d ever tried and it was absolutely addicting. It was basically paintball on the computer.
I used to love computer games when I was younger, but what this one introduced me to was the ability to share the experience with other players – real people. Of course, the game came...
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Clue
When I was a kid, this was definitely one of my favorite games. I suppose it was partly because Clue went outside the standard board game format- you could go in any direction you wanted, play however you wanted to play, and really just explore the world of the game. At least that’s how it felt when I was 8.
There have been many incarnations, including themed versions (Harry Potter,...
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"Walking Dead" Chat to Follow Each New Episode →
“AMC has announced a live half-hour interactive chat show called “Talking Dead,” which will air after the encore presentation of each episode starting with the Oct. 16 premiere.
Omnipresent TV personality and zombie fan Chris Hardwick will host the show, which will feature actors, producers and fans. Viewers will be invited to call in with questions and comments.”
More...
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American Cinematographer, November 1972
American Cinematographer Sports cinematography has come a long way since 1972, when Mark Spitz gamely allowed a Bell & Howell Filmo in a Plexiglas housing to be gaffer-taped to his back while he practiced his famous butterfly for the XX Olympiad in Munich. This photo appeared in our Nov. ’72 issue, which presented a detailed report of all the camera technology involved in the games that year. ...
Trouble for Campaigns?
A recent study showed that one in three voters are opting out of watching live TV, which is forcing campaigns to alter their media plans, reliant on reaching the electorate through the 30-second spot. But far from assuring the end of the reign of the dominant form of political advertising, changing habits seem to be only escalating an arms race on the airwaves.
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Judge Sets Schedule in Case Over Google’s Digital...
Google’s plan to build a huge digital library remained stalled on Thursday when a federal judge set a proposed schedule for a lawsuit against the giant search company that could take the case to trial next year.
But Google and the publisher and author groups who are suing it all said they would continue to negotiate on an agreement.
“The bottom line is, we’re making good progress toward a...
Interactive International Arts Festival - "Art...
Art Prize is an interactive international arts festival that takes place in Grand Rapids, Michigan every fall from mid-September through mid-October.
The festival was designed to transform Grand Rapids into a citywide gallery for all forms of art. Almost 200 venues throughout the city hold space for artist to display their work. There is no panel of judges, only the public can decide who the...
WatchOnline show mixing with different of art technical
This is a online show which presented by 4 young talented people located in different places around the world AT THE SAME TIME! The mixer is in New York. And the cartoon drawer was in his studio based in Beijing, the piano player was in his bed, the rapper was in his own house far away from other people. They played the visual and sound arts...
Appraise It Yourself: The Roadshow Video Game
Love stories surrounding old objects? The Antiques Roadshow on PBS travels the country highlighting the history of and appraising art, toys, furniture and miscellaneous treasures passed down through generations or found on a whim. Pulling together past, present and future, the Roadshow team is on the multimedia bandwagon, offering an ‘Appraisal Game’ for audiences to play at home. ...
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Tumblr assignment for the week 9/19
This week’s assignment for the group tumblr is
1. Share a game from your childhood and why you loved it. Share the experience of playing it and explain what parts were your favorite. Bonus points if you can find images or video of people playing the game.
2. Checkout http://collapsus.com and write a short review of the experience.
**Please remember to write your name next to your post so that...
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Overview of class: Introduction to Transmedia
Tommy Pallotta joined us via skype for a convo about Collapsus and his upcoming projects. For Tommy it is all about experimentation and the desire to create an emotional connection with the work.
Introduction to Transmedia
What is transmedia
- pervasive storytelling
- opportunity to tell stories beyond a single medium
- the audience is ready but storytellers aren't
- silent film era
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Pottermore
Everything about Pottermore is enough to send a nerd like me into fits of giggles. The early hints about its emergence, hidden messages, owl links appearing on different webpages, the mysterious countdown clock- all leading to the 7 day Magical Quill Challenge for early registration. Sadly I missed the owl on this one (nerd humor) and last month my twitter feed was filled with so much...
Youtube DJ →
David Kraftsow is a programmer from Brooklyn who offers a couple of interesting youtube ideas on his page. Most of all the http://yooouuutuuube.com/ is quite fun, where you can put in any youtube or vimeo video and it remixes it on different ways… Or also 4’33” where he takes random youtube clips playing to John Cage silent 4’33” orchestration!
-Christoph
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5 Second Films →
5 Second Films shows how seriously it takes contemporary ADD by telling strange, extreme, and often funny stories in, well, 5 seconds. Here’s a link to some of the better “films;” it’s amazing how satisfying some of them are. It could be a nice little exercise to boil the plot of your film down to a 5 second blur.
Here’s a link to the content...
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Francis Ford Coppola Edits Twixt On The Fly
While at San Diego Comic Con promoting his upcoming film, Twixt, Francis Ford Coppola revealed his unusual editing technique based on audience participation. No official plans have been announced, but back in July, Coppola said he’ll take the film on a 30-city tour for a month. At each screening, there will be live music and Coppola will edit the film on his iPad according to the audience’s...
Mobile Gaming Stats - infographic
