Apparently, according to all the hype, the first feature film, shot entirely on mobile phones, has been created. SMS Sugarman (the site is down) is by Aryan Kaganof of Virus Films. It is a film that follows one night of a pimp (played by Kaganof) and his two prostitutes, in Johannesburg. Kaganof shot 60 hours of footage on … Read moreFirst Mobile Phone Feature Film
The Media Centre’s blog, Morph, has morphed. It has grown into a multi-threaded blog called Morph-the media Center conversation. The threads, or tracks, have a large collection of “official” contributors and are themed as: We Influence Public Relations & Marketing We Imagine Technology & Narrative We Lead Public Policy & Politics We Live Behaviors, … Read moreIndustry blog on Narrative & Technology
*** Update: 4th March 2006: This post updated with extensive data here *** One thing industry likes is Top Tens. They like to see at a glance what are the top services, etc. No wasting time figuring out which ones are more successful, just a list of the top ten according to usage and/or ROI. … Read moreTop Eleven ARGs
After my slow uptake on “The Secret” I will now blog AS SOON AS I HEAR SOMETHING. So, here is the news about some new distributed story/games that were announced in the last couple of days. [Okay, I still didn’t know about them before the public, but this is better than 3 months after the … Read more"The Next Broadcast Network"
Announcing my first TiddlyWiki. It is a single webpage that just keeps going. You’ll see. It houses alot of info, like a wiki, but it not editable by anyone else except me. (Though the interface leads you to believe you can, I’ll have to tweak that element.) Otherwise, the page is a handy collection of … Read moreNew Media Arts Design Tiddly
Just a quick admin update. I was offline twice over the past month because I switched website hosts, twice. Another story. I have also upgraded to Word Press 2.0 but for some reason my categories are not showing. I’ll figure them out sometime soon. That is all, just explaining the faulty plumbing.
I am very much behind the times, because I was unaware of a viral campaign that has been out for a few months. I do recall a “secret” but who knows what teaser or ARG I could be thinking of?? This viral campaign is designed to gather interest in two things: The upcoming worldwide broadcast of … Read moreSpreading The Secret
This is the second post in a series of posts about new cross-media researchers. Introducing… Andrew McKenzie, PhD candidate, Creative Media, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Here is his description, from a listserv conversation: My research is into areas of narrative structure and content creation. For my PHD I’m going to be devising theories surrounding the … Read moreCross-Media Researchers 2: Andrew McKenzie
Many blogs have posts about predictions for this year (including me!), and some have round-ups of the previous year. This post is the beginning of a round-up of last year. Not a round-up of cross-media projects, cross-media in the news or the cross-media industry; instead, over the next few posts I’ll be doing a round-up … Read moreCross-Media Researchers 1: Anja Bechmann Petersen
News from MocoNews: Channel 4 is running a website called FourDocs. FourDocs is the “place to upload, watch and learn about documentary“. It is addressing the desire for audiences to create their own shows, learn about filmmaking, share their view of the world, and their stories. Audiences have been jumping on uploading video clips, viral … Read moreCross-Media, UGC, Emerging Media, there isn't enough room for the hot words to describe this…