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
Loving the look of this forthcoming webdoc by those Canadian pioneers of interactive greatness over at NFB. Harnessing digital tools to create a multi-authored movie about what goes on behind those myriad high-rise towers that scatter the skylines of the world’s cities, High Rise explores the suburbinization phenomenon in places as remote as Marseilles, Miami … Continued
It’s nigh on impossible to pick out the highlights from this year’s DocLab – because the whole thing was so darned exceptional – and I’m not just saying that. Really! Whereas other documentary festivals may have a slightly shoddy sideline in New Media, DocLab show-cases the cream of web content (documentaries, cross-media fun stuff, data-visualization, … Continued
It’s the brainchild of Jeffrey Shaw (geek Jesus) and Peter Weibel: a 360° panoramic virtual interface which you can navigate and remix using your bare hands! For its third ever appearance, the complete 3-dimensional T_Visionarium experience is installed in one of Amsterdam’s oldest and most glorious churches for two weeks only – starting now. A … Continued
Watching Taxi to the Dark Side again the other night left us hating humanity – and thankful that the dark days of Bush-Cheney are behind us. At cross-media fest Picnic 09 in Amsterdam recently, we came across Gone Gitmo, an immersive journalism project constructed in Second Life, that places users inside the Guantánamo detention center, … Continued
Lens is the new multimedia reporting blog from the tome of journalistic esteem they call the New York Times. A pick of exceptionally badass photography, video and visual journalism from around the world, including some fine web documentaries – a genre which seems to be picking up momentum as we speak. Hey if the NYT … Continued
Get heaps talent, add a unique hybrid of skills, and a sprinkling of inherent splendidness, and what have you got: the visual delicacy that is this mini-trailer for work-in-progress interactive web documentary Boomtown Babylon. The art-tech heroes at Champagne Valentine and Mulato repurposed a heap of timelapsed chaos footage with a whole lotta 3D Studio … Continued
The half-naked bodies of a brilliant scientist called Dr Gilbert Bogle and his philandering lover Margaret Chandler were found on a Sydney riverbank in 1963. Shrouded in mystery, a series of forensic dead-ends led to wild theories that ranged from LSD ingestion to Cold War assassination – but even now, the cause remains unclear.
For the first time in the history of humanity, there are more people living in cities than in the countryside. Fact! And of those many billions of city-dwellers, every 1 in 3 is living in a slum. The Places We Live is an immersive online documentary produced by the celebrated agency Magnum Photos, which introduces … Continued
Alexandre Brachet is a Paris-based e-producer and director of experimental, cross-media production studio Upian. A luminary in the world multi-platform documentaries, he merges cutting-edge technology and traditional techniques to break new ground in made-for-broadband story-telling. We managed to corner him after an inspirational presentation at the very first edition of the International Documentary Film Festival‘s … Continued
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