ARGNet’s Michael Andersen to Present in StoryWorld Webcast | ARGNet

ARGNet’s Michael Andersen to Present in StoryWorld Webcast

July 15, 2011 · By Brandie Minchew in Announcements, News 

Digital Book World, an online community for publishing professionals and host to the StoryWorld Conference + Expo, will feature ARGNet owner and senior editor Michael Andersen in StoryWorld’s July 27th WEBcast. The webcast is titled What’s Possible with Transmedia: Case Studies in Successful Projects and will air at 1:00 p.m. EDT.

According to Digital Book World, the transmedia campaigns that Andersen will talk about during this roundtable webcast include HBO’s recent Maester’s Path experience; Chain Factor, the Numb3rs tv series’ episode tie-in experience (and addictive flash game) from 2007; and Valve’s Portal 2 ARG.

PBS grant means more digital content for kids » Kidscreen

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"PBS Kids Go has been granted a gift from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to help advance its digital technology programs, notably web-original programs. The US$250,000 grant will fund website expansions, educational game development, research and PBS station and producer support for PBS Kids Go...."

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Corus posts higher Q3 revenue and earnings » Kidscreen

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"...The Toronto, Canada-based media conglomerate posted profits of US$39.2 million for the three months to May 31, against earnings of US$28.3 million in the same quarter of 2010. The Kids TV segment generated revenues of US$65.9 million for the period, up from US$57.4 million over the same quarter last year. For the nine-month period ended May 31, Kids TV revenues rang in at US$208.8 million, up from $182 million in 2010. Kids TV profits, meanwhile, rose to US$28 million in Q3 from US$23.2 million last year.

Overall TV revenue rose sharply to US$161 million, against a year-earlier US$147 million, offsetting a slight fall in radio revenue to US$50.7 million, compared to US$51.3 million in 2010...."

Read more: http://kidscreen.com/2011/07/14/corus-posts-higher-q3-revenue-and-earnings/#i...

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"Harnessing the power of social networking and multimedia, Project Restoration is about creating a worldwide conscious community that transcends political and religious boundaries. There can be unity in diversity. Our shared conviction is that in order to change the world, we must first change ourselves. Awakening together we can help create a sustainable future for the next seven generations.

The key is to build a critical mass. When enough people wake up, we all wake up.

The first step is to gather a nucleus by getting 144,000 people committed to shifting their own consciousness at www.projectrestoration.com.

This will lead to producing the movie and hijacking the media machine in order to expand the critical mass meme worldwide..."

Why Video Games Rule San Diego Comic-Con - John Gaudiosi - Game On - Forbes

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“Videogames, like toys, television and movies, play an important part at Comic-Con,” said David Glanzer, director of marketing, San Diego Comic-Con. “While the main focus remains comics with every major comics publisher at the show, we have seen an enthusiastic reception by our attendees of videogame companies, and some choose to debut properties at Comic Con.”

Capcom is using Comic-Con to unveil a brand new game, rumored to be Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. The Japanese game giant will have developers on hand for media interviews, panels and fan signings. The new stand-alone game is expected to add a dozen new fighter to the mix, including Marvel’s Doctor Octopus and Capcom’s Frank West and Strider Hiryu. Traditionally, a game like this would be unveiled at E3 or Capcom’s own press event, Captivate. But Comic-Con has become such a huge press event that it allows game companies to unveil new games to both the media (both mainstream and core gaming) and public at the same time.

Sega is also unveiling a brand new Aliens game at the convention. And the game publisher is setting up its own off-site Sega Pop Arcade just down the street from the San Diego Convention Center. Konami Digital Entertainment, BioWare and Microsoft will all have games on display away from the convention floor, where many fan boys and fan girls who couldn’t get tickets to the big event (this year’s show sold out in a few hours) can check out games early. Konami has games set up at the W Hotel, while Electronic Arts’ BioWare is set up at the Hilton with Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age II: Legacy..."

Gavin Turk's fairytale project | Life and style | The Guardian

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Gavin Turk and Deborah Curtis. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian

Five floors above Liverpool Street, in central London, at the top of a non-descript office block, is the workshop of Gavin Turk and his partner, Deborah Curtis. It is from here that they manage their House of Fairy Tales project, the travelling art circus appearing at this year's Camp Bestival in Dorset.

One would perhaps expect the hub of a pair of noted artists to be alive with the throb of visible creativity: paints, canvasses, a few easels, perhaps some Fairy Tale paraphernalia. There is, admittedly, a little of the latter – a chair on which a card reads: THIS IS A WORK OF ART, DO NOT SIT!, and a few snapshots of previous events – but not much else. Instead, it resembles an office space that has fallen victim to the credit crunch: empty, forgotten, forlorn.

But much of their work is in storage. An awful lot of space is needed for the House of Fairy Tales these days.

"Last year we took 180 people to Bestival," says Curtis, a serene, and self-confessed modern-day hippie, "and this year it'll be closer to 200. It's a pretty big operation."

"And it's getting bigger all the time," adds Turk, 43, a noticeably less serene individual, who, with his shaved head and intense light blue-eyed stare, is brasher and more forthright.

They started the House of Fairy Tales in 2006 essentially as a sideline to entertain their three children and those in their neighbourhood. But it has developed a life of its own.

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"....Curtis then set up Supernova, an arts-based day centre for primary school children, and it was from this seed that the House of Fairy Tales grew.

"We started as a one-off event at the Port Eliot literary festival, and it was basically a workshop for kids," says Turk, "though I don't like that term, because I don't like shops and I don't like work. But it was a way to interest children in all sorts of subjects – art, science, history, ecology – in a collaborative way and in the hope of getting them engaged in ways they wouldn't have done in a normal classroom."

It worked. More one-off events followed and for the past few years now they have been a regular at Camp Bestival.

One enters House of Fairy Tales by walking through an arched gate into what Turk describes as a "parallel universe". Here, children are encouraged to develop strands of their personalities they might not previously have realised existed – as alchemists, extremists, illusionists, surrealists – and where fact and fiction, right and wrong merge.

"It's where anything is possible," says Curtis. "If you think about it, a festival is a fantastic place for kids, as long as you are prepared to let go of some of your basic parenting ideals. In other words, hygiene, teeth cleaning, and bedtime goes out the window. But they are in a loving, and very community-based, environment, where everybody watches out for everybody else's kids."...