Category Archives: video

More Radiohead Than Radiohead

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
Click the “Big Ideas” link there to get the story.
Bonus three-degrees-from-ATL feature: the apparent winner (under suspicion) of the radiohead remixed contest, young mix artist SPOR is remixer/pals/label-mates on UKs Lifted with aggro drum-n-bass trio Evol Intent… from A-town!

Crying Wii Wii Wii All The Way Home

 
The Wii seems to be inspiring lots of motion interactive uses beyond the games that play on the box. I can see a whole niche film industry spring up around this little hack. You could call it the Open Window movement.
DIY virtuoso Johnny Chung Lee has already more than proven himself with his Wiimote whiteboard [...]

It’s Not the Media, It’s the Mode-shun

Slowly, ever so glacially slow, the traditional media outlets and big advertisting agencies are beginning to understand the predicament they find themselves. This  Ad Age article exposes some behaviors of media consumers and advises how to fit into those consumers’ landscape.

It’s Not the Media That Matter, but the Modes
Tune In: Understand the Mind-Sets That Drive [...]

Walken and Dancin’

This should be Marriott’s new ad campaign.

(Non)Soul Of The New Machine

Today is the first day in 2 years that New York Times online content is available free of charge to readers. The Times dropped their subscription service in favor of an ad-based revenue model (you’ll see the ad when you click the article link below). The move by the Times indicates that 1) ad-based revenue [...]

Skating away on the thin ice of a new day

As time shifting becomes the norm for television viewers, the need for “great creative” is falling away, and the placement strategy for ads now becomes paramount. It’s no longer about getting your ad on the most popular show, it’s getting your ad on the show with the most live viewership. It should be interesting to [...]

Virtual Popcorn Anyone?

My Different Skies friend Dennis’ contribution to some Machinima films made it to the finals of the Machinima Festival Europe 07 .

The series of machinima collaborations that were done, documenting the Second Life media installation called “BLINK”, has been nominated for BEST VISUAL DESIGN for Episode 2, and all three episodes for BEST SERIES and [...]

A YouTube video. Dang.

As much as the voice inside my head is screaming at me to stop perpetuating stupid YouTube video spam and endorsing the cult of the amateur ascribed thereunto, this is weird and cool.
So I guess I’ll be the one to break the seal on YouTube linkage. I’m sorry.

Insanely creative? …or creatively insane

Or maybe it is just insane. The creator of these videos clearly has too much time on his hands. Although, the attention to details and production values is to be admired.