Episode 4 of our interactive documentary Unspeak looks at how hackers and vast media conglomerates disguise their true intentions to create a brave new world. Unspeak terms discussed: Big data Digital Rights Management File sharing Intelligent design Like button Paywall Piracy Reform Smartphone Social network The Cloud User Generated Content Viral UNSPEAK is an interactive … Continued
“SubLA has been working in super stealth mode and about to launch our first project,” tweeted Collapsus director Tommy Pallotta @SubLA yesterday. Tommy directed the rotoscope animated personalized FaceBook viral for the new Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol movie. Check it out. It looks amazing: whoisCobalt.com This project’s been a blast for everyone involved, and I … Continued
Liking this project by Gabriel Shalom of KS12. Shalom created an “immediated autodocumentary” on The Future of Art for the Transmediale media art festival in 2011. Some mind-boggling forecasts about art –in the widest sense of the word– are discussed in this little film. Visionary creators like Aaron Koblin (data viz wizz), Vincent Moon (Take … Continued
United Vloggers was Submarine Channel’s ultimate guide to the ever expanding universe of Vlogs. From 2006 till 2009, United Vloggers chieftain Michael Schaap and his aids searched every nook and cranny on the Internet to find the very best video blogs. From web comedy to online video art, from grass roots journalism to hardcore propaganda, … Continued
The L.A Times recently launched their interactive investigation of the conflict between Mexico’s powerful drug gangs and the country’s ruthless government troops – a gruelling but incredible body of multi-media journalism that delves right inside this parallel violent world on North America’s doorstep. As well as remarkably raw still photography and video with optional captions, … Continued
Aah the New York Times! Not satisfied with being an award-winning bible of reputable American journalism, they’re cracking the interactive market too. Following on from their brilliant Lens audio-visual reportage blog, One in 8 Million offers a poignant selection of monochromatic character portraits, via beautifully shot photography and audio recordings with everyday extraordinary citizens.
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.
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
A hotshot Hollywood producer named Mark Horvath, who lost everything to alcoholism and ended up living rough in 1995, is the latest darling of the social media industry. He teaches vulnerable, marginalized, and often under-educated homeless people how to use Twitter to tell their stories and put pressure on policy-makers – as well as providing up-to-the-second documentation of homelessness … Continued
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