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Called The Hunt for Gollum, the film is the work of 150 volunteers, says director Chris Bouchard. “We’re essentially a bunch of fans and enthusiast filmmakers,” says Bouchard, who has put two years into the project. He made up the plot, which focuses on a search to find the deranged Gollum. The fear is that the wizened creature might reveal the whereabouts of the magic ring to the powers of darkness.
via Bud Caddell
UVA were commissioned by the ICA as part of their 60th anniversary celebrations to produce a special one-off live collaboration with The Chemical Brothers in Trafalgar Square. The project was supported by Becks, and filmed for later transmission by Channel 4. UVA augmented the Chemicals’ touring set (designed by Tom Lesh, with visuals by Flat Nose George) with a constellation of powerful lights around the square, and created a set of generative, realtime graphics for the show finale – the tracks Hold Tight London and crowdpleasers Leave Home and Block Rockin’ Beats.
Alot of the time it’s really obvious that Asia is a totally different market to the one in the West.
QRCode adoption and mobile phone interaction are 2 of the most glaring differences between our habits and Asia’s – what you learn from people’s insight, like that of Jan Chipchase, is that despite our differences the mindset, no matter how subliminal, is in tune.
Which is what makes these insights in online video viewing habits in Asia so interesting.
Obvious differences include Anonymity but there are many more similarities that I relate to and believe in:
Participation – this is on the rise as a larger percentage of the audience engages and overcomes a technological barrier. e.g. Karaoke, Wii, 1v100, Facebook, Twitter etc.
Long form quality content is most popular online/VOD programming – As if you didn’t know, Content is King
Social Advocacy holds greatest sway – What your friends, family and peers think and say matters more than anything else in getting eyeballs – advocates not eyeballs matter in the long tail. e.g. BBC David Attenborough documentary fares better than Battle at Kruger (eventually…)
Local brands dominate Asian online video landscape – This is so much more relevant based on yesterday’s news in the UK that our Independent TV company, ITV, reported enormous losses. When will local advertisiers start having much more sway over national advertising?
Bill Joy is a founder of Sun Microsystems and father of the Java programming language. Now a VC, he explains how he conceived of the digital world we’re now in, some 10+ yrs ago, and came up with 6 ways he felt, that we’d interact with it.
Flight over Miniature San Francisco (Tilt-Shift) from Inoue_k3D on Vimeo.
courtesy of Inoue_k3D
Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.
Simply awesome work, really emphasising ease of use. Genius.
Despite how many times you’re told, nothing hammers home a trueism more than hearing about it first hand.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Iain Richardson, an expert in the field of video compression. Over lunch we were talking about the future of video and he described to me his 10yr old’s viewing habits.
First of all, his son has never asked him for a DVD for his birthday or Christmas – he just goes onto YouTube and watches clips of what he’s interested in – as far as he knows his son has never watched a full episode of anything from TV.
A case in point is his current fad for The Mighty Boosh. He and his friends recite sketches from the show to each other with perfect aplomb, yet they’ve never watched a full episode and he’s never asked for the DVD for Christmas or his birthday.
What’s important to him is finding and sourcing the next ‘sick’ clip or sequence and sharing his knowledge.
Nothing new, but it really hit home to me the reality of the every day and the mindset of 10yr olds – there is an immense cultural shift taking place that’s driven by technology and the internet and most people still don’t realise it.
