In stark contrast to the rollicking and genuine experience of the Kevin Smith launch at the State Theatre in Sydney last night, was the club launch of Yahoo!7’s new online interactive drama: PS Trixi. The new property, a multi-platform drama with an Internet pivot point, is officially launched on August 28th but you can see … Read moreAustralia's 1st Online Drama!, again
I was lucky to have the opportunity to not only see the special launch of Kevin Smith’s Clerks II in Australia last night 9 days before it hits the cinemas, but…wait for it…I was at the Q&A session with Kevin Smith — the first time he has ever been to Australia!!! OMG! It was an … Read moreKevin Smith Snookers everyone with MySpace Rewards
Great news from Jeremy Nathan of DV8 films about digital cinema. Digitmart a Montréal-based non-profit organization established in April 2005 by founding Chair Daniel Langlois. Digimart operates an annual digital cinema market that provides business and networking opportunities for the global film industry. Digimart is an innovative forum for the dissemination of film and the promotion of … Read moreInternational Digital Cinema Blog & Event
I have to confess I’m moonlighting in another world. I’ve started working in the virtual world Second Life as an “embedded journalist”. SLATE Magazine (Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine) is a new Second Life magazine that covers the arts in SL. There are 14 authors in the collective so far and we’re a … Read moreWriting About Virtual Words (My Second [Life] Job)
ARGs have had characters calling ‘players’ (people?) for some years now. In the last couple of years we’ve seen this technique being used by film and TV producers. Rather than provide unique narrative content, however, they have a more economic function: motivating you to watch the TV show or film. Well, September last year I … Read moreGeez, Veronica Mars and Samuel L Jackson Keep Calling Me
Asi Sharabi has started doing a very helpful: a trends analysis of YouTube.
Monique has posted about a very interesting upcoming event: Cross-Media horizons after the World Cup being held in Cologne on the 25th August. 10:00 ? 10:10 Introduction Dr. Bettina Horster, eco; Wilfried Runde, Deutsche Welle/INCCOM-Project Host: Jochen Spangenberg/Wilfried Runde, Deutsche Welle 10:15 – 10:25 Cross-Media and EC policies Barbara Gessler, Representative of the European commission … Read moreWorld Cup Integrated Marketing Discussion
The ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge is being held in August 9-12 this year. Artists will be given the opportunity to pitch their ideas live on stage to thousands of audience members, once they get through the game that has been planned for them. C5 Quest for Success … Read moreLocative Arts, Corporate Pitching & Go-Carts
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…
As a nice followup to my recent post on SL marketing (an initiation rite that all SLers do!) Wagner James Au reports that there will be followup to the great article on Avatar-based Marketing with a panel discussion in this Friday in Second Life!: Moderated by Ansible Berkman (the indefatigable host and caretaker of Second Life’s … Read moreMarketing Panel in Second Life