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- DIY DAYS is coming to NYCOn Saturday April 3rd, the WorkBook Project and the New School present DIY DAYS NYC. This marks the first time that the roving conference for creators will make a stop in NYC. The day will consist of talks, presentations, workshops and a special section called Incubator that matches two media startups with a think tank of experts. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP! Fo […]
- NEW BREED: The CrowdBy Gregory Bayne – As some of you know, I recently completed a successful funding campaign using Kickstarter.com to raise the initial capital needed to get my new film, Jens Pulver | Driven, an intimate documentary about legendary UFC Champion Jens Pulver, off the ground. The end result of the campaign was $27,210 pledged, my goal was $25,000, via 410 contr […]
- CULTURE HACKER: The Art of Branded Contentby Peter Katz – Here’s my interview on branded content with Creative Director Tim Roper from award winning advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. We met at UCLA Media & Entertainment Week. What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions about branded content? The biggest misconception is how easy it is to conceive it in a fresh way and then how wi […]
- EVENT: Join the Conversation at ColumbiaOn March 27th The Conversation comes to Columbia University. Started in 2008, The Conversation is a look at the future of filmmaking and how advancements in technology are enabling new opportunities for filmmakers. The program for March 27th is extensive and will bring together a number of innovative thinkers in the space. For more information visit www.thec […]
DIY DAYS
- Speaker Highlight: Noah HarlanNoah is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, producer and co-founder of 2.1 Films (film & media) and Two Bulls (mobile apps & mixed reality). His features have premiered at Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Rome. He has produced branded projects for TV and the web for MTV, CSTV, Chevrolet, Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Southwest Airlines and Audi. Two Bulls [...] […]
- Speaker Highlight: Jesse von DoomJesse is the executive director of CASH Music a nonprofit organization building open tools and services for musicians and the evolving music industry. He has a background in design and technology and has been working with music marketing and technology for over ten years. Jesse lives with his wife and two daughters on a tiny [...] […]
- DIY Days is still looking for a few good volunteers!We are looking for volunteers to be a part of our logistics team. Volunteers will be needed to greet and register attendees and speakers, direct traffic between our spaces, maintain time for sessions, prep speaker presentations, and generally be ready to attend to other logistical issues as they pop up. Our friend and talented writer/director/editor Raffi [ […]
- Speaker Highlight: Michael LastMichael has combined his passions for entrepreneurship, technology, and fun into his startup Intellitoys. Intellitoys is using toys as a new platform for distributing traditional media such as songs and stories, as well as interactive media, such as games and interactive stories. Michael is seeking to disrupt the business model of the toy industry to [...] […]
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[SXSW] The End of Anonymity
16, Mar 2010One of the themes that seems to be touched on here at SXSW Interactive 2010 is the way the internet has changed our personas. Douglas Rushkoff talked about this in his Friday keynote, and a panel of indie content producers* also touched on it in today. Anonymity, as proposed by John Gabriel, changes [...]
- In: gaming
The Art of Branded Content
20, Feb 2010Here’s my interview on branded content with Creative Director Tim Roper from award winning advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky. We met Jan 23rd at UCLA Media & Entertainment Week.
What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions about branded content?
The biggest misconception is how easy it is to conceive it in a fresh way and then [...]
- In: gaming
Internet Attention Whoredom, Endangered
16, Feb 2010I spend a fair amount of my internetting time on DeviantART – enough to see random “recent deviations” fairly often. There is no social network filter on this landing page, so, like the recent tweets page on Twitter, everyone sees when you’ve just posted something. You can get a fairly good idea of what people [...]
- In: gaming
Transmedia as a Tool for Audience Building
22, Jan 2010The purpose of this blog posting is to show how I’ve been using transmedia for audience building and to welcome comments from others who can suggest points for improvement. You might also like to check-out what’s been implemented and give it a whirl!
- In: gaming
The Fight for Exlusive Content
17, Dec 2009When there are too many platforms competing with each other content will become king.
Right now entertainment has been devalued when you can rent a new film or TV show for 99 cents at a Red Box kiosk at 19,000 different locations, can download unlimited films through Netflix, and a rent/buy a film through iTtunes. I [...]
- In: gaming
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