We spent yesterday growing brain cells at a post-digital geek fest about a few of our favourite things: from a fan-powered Madonna music video to bottom-up buildings in Deustchland, crowd-sourcing, collaboration and participation were the order of the day. We particularly enjoyed the illicit thrill of critiquing the speakers via Twitter as Tweets were projected … Continued
Ooh a nerdelicious new BBC documentary series has lots of exciting ingredients, like collaborative crowd-sourced content, a 3D online documentary explorer interface, and all the convergence culture necessaries like Tweetage and the rest. In the first episode alone, geek Goddess Dr. Aleks Krotoski meets Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, online news maverick Arianna Huffington, YouTube CEO Chad … Continued
Attention all soldiers! ‘Coalition of the Willing‘ is a collaborative animated film about “an online war against global warming in a post-Copenhagen world.” Because if our unwilling world leaders won’t commit to saving our planet, we will darn well have to do it ourselves, is what project initiators Knife Party and Tim Rayner must have … Continued
It’s crowd-sourced, inter-galactic buffoonery and you KNOW we like that! Have you always harboured a niggling suspicion that you can give George Lucas a run for his money? Now is the time to prove it! Log yourself in to Starwars Uncut, select one of the (rapidly depleting) 15-second Star Wars scenes still available and replicate … Continued
Nine Inch Nails, rock religion of the 1990s and pioneers of open source remixing in music video culture, released 400 gigs of high quality concert footage to the public last year. In a maelstrom of credit crunch consciousness, they side-stepped a costly concert video production inviting instead their fans to edit, remix, and screen their … Continued
In their quest for ever more original music video concepts, Dutch designers Roel Wouters (watch Grip for zZz) and Jonathan Puckey came up with a refreshing idea/experiment for a music vid for Dutch eclectic “four-piece powerhouse” C-Mon & Kypski. And it goes something like this: 1. Band does quirky poses in front of camera. 2. … Continued
Ten people, selected for their cumulative representation of the world’s population, are each filmed for 24-hours non-stop to create a 240-hour uncut video encyclopedia of human existence. The production team comprises an ever-growing network of contributors from around the world, and they’re currently recruiting.
“Transmedia”, “crossmedia”, whatever you want to call it, there is a growing penchant for projects that blend a heady cocktail of the real and the virtual, inviting the public to interact with – and contribute to – the development of the (immersive, multi-platform, etc) narrative. Breathe is one such project: 3 short films made up … Continued
Motionographer editor Justin Cone critically reflects on the success of Mass Animation’s crowdsourced 5 minute animation “Live Music” in his article “Mass Animation=Mass Exploitation?“. In his very good analysis of the pros and cons and the ups and downs of the “democratization of animation“, Cone explains why mass animation won’t work and could potentially hurt … Continued
Simple geniusity: a member of electro band Science for Girls got 20 musician buddies to record themselves playing one track in B-flat (a musical key, for those who forewent the screechery of school orchestra), and post them on Youtube. He then embedded them all on one simple web page – and now YOU can make like a fiddler … Continued
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