The next X|Media|Lab is part of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) and will be be held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) August 11-13th. X|Media|Lab features an elite international network of the worlds outstanding digital media practitioners, innovators, and power-brokers. Mentors for this Lab include: the VP of Business Development from Current … Read moreThe next X|Media|Lab is coming up
Andrew McKenzie, a cross-media researcher who is specifically looking at how narrative changes on mobiles (posted about before here), has finally (hehe) changed his site to a blog: Vector TV. Now we call all share in his insights. Yay Andrew! I look forward to reading it.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences have started an Emmy for Outstanding Original Programming Created for Non-Traditional Delviery Platforms. Entries for this award must be original material made-for-broadband or made-for-mobile. These platforms include video blogs, website programs including journalistic reporting, event coverage or event analysis, mobisodes (short episodics created for mobile devices), video-on-demand … Read moreNew Mobisode Emmys honouring "cross media" approach
This is very cool. iPerG (Intergrated Project on Pervasive Gaming) have put out a secret invite to watch a test cross-media game over the web. Epidemic Menace is the first prototype by the IPerG Crossmedia group. Wohoo! On July 6th and 7th there is a game event on campus Birlinghoven in Sankt Augustin where we … Read moreiPerG "crossmedia game" YOU can be a part of, NOW!
I just clicked the send button on the email that delivered the ARGs and Academia section I wrote for the IGDA ARG SIG whitepaper. *sigh* and *yay*
I haven’t been blogging about the projects I work on or projects I follow intimately. For some I cannot until they are in the public domain and others I just, dunno, haven’t. Well, that is silly. There is a project I’m involved in, a thriller film, that will be inviting a lot of participation in … Read moreA glimpse into what I do behind doors…
Thanks for this heads up from fellow mentor at LAMP, David Jensen of Zeetools, for this little gem. Telemundo (NBC Universal owned) launched a VOD mystery series for Central and South American audiences, Barbara Luna, that had the first episode on television. Let me explain. What they did was have the stars of the show … Read moreHispanic Cross-Media: Barbara Luna
Jim Meskauskas puts forward a wonderfully sensible critique of the way marketers are approaching ‘integrated marketing’: What most clients, agencies and media companies/publishers don’t seem to understand is that integration is not really a media opportunity; it is a creative strategy. Yes, ladies and gentleman. Integration is not really possible in media. Media companies with … Read moreIntegration isn't Media
This month on empyre there is a discussion about ‘liquid narrative’. If you can wade through the rhetoric, there is actually some good comments being made. The topic of June at the – empyre – mailing list will be Liquid Narratives. The concept of ‘liquid narrative’ is interesting in that it allows to think about … Read more'Liquid Narrative' discussion
The Da Vinci Code opening weekend raked in $77million, “the second biggest opening weekend ever among adult-geared pictures behind The Passion of the Christ” (source: Box Office Mojo). The $125 million film is of course an adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel that sold between 40-60 million copies worldwide, depending on what article you read. The … Read moreCracking the Polymorphic Code