So Awesomely Fabulous: Werner Herzog reads potty-mouthed bedtime audiobook | Books | guardian.co.uk

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"Legendary film director Werner Herzog has agreed to narrate an audio version of the surprise hit Go the Fuck to Sleep, a comic bedtime book for parents that has become an unlikely bestseller.

Published today, the picture book begs sleepless children to "go the fuck to sleep" in a series of quaint, expletive-ridden verses. It soared to the top of book charts last month after a pirated PDF went viral, and calls this week from a New Zealand lobby group to ban it are only likely to add to its appeal.

"The flowers doze low in the meadows / And high on the mountains so steep. / My life is a failure, I'm a shitty-ass parent. / Stop fucking with me, please, and sleep," writes author and award-winning novelist Adam Mansbach, who was moved to pen the book when his own daughter was suffering sleepless nights. "The cubs and the lions are snoring, / Wrapped in a big snuggly heap. / How come you can do all this other great shit / But you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?"

Mansbach said that "the best possible person in the world" was narrating the audiobook: Herzog. The film director's recording will be unveiled at an event to launch the book, illustrated by Ricardo Cortes for small American publisher Akashic Books, at the New York Public Library...."

Today's FITC Storytelling X.1 Spotlight // Mike Monello (Campfire NYC, Blair Witch) on Propagation for Storytellers

Propagation for Storytellers

Just because you build it, or put it on Facebook, doesn't mean anyone will care about your story or share it. How can storytellers better design their experiences to spread and be shareable? How can marketing strategies such as Propagation Planning help storytellers think about social experiences beyond just bolting on a Twitter feed? Mike Monello, Partner and ECD of Campfire will present some techniques and strategies to help storytellers design more social and spreadable stories.

Time: 3:40 PM
Date: Monday June 20
Room: Eaton Hall

USA Network's Covert Affairs Launches Alternative Plotline on Twitter #transmedia

The USA Network show Covert Affairs has launched a new plotline that takes place in Budapest — but don’t look for it on TV. It’s only happening on Twitter.

A “Tweetcast” of the plot began Monday, a week after the show’s second season began. The mission in Hungary was developed by the program’s writers and will include videos, audio streams, photos and classified documents. Fans can also influence the plot by jumping into the conversation. A resolution to the plot will run during the show’s July 12 episode.

The effort, executed by 360i, was partially inspired by Christopher Gorham, who plays the blind Auggie lead character on the show and has an active Twitter following. As Gorham explained to Entertainment Weekly, the idea of CIA operatives disclosing their every move on Twitter requires some suspension of disbelief. Gorham says, “It’s not the regular Twitter … When you’re following the Tweetcast, you’re becoming a CIA officer and it’s an interoffice Twitter.”

Very Cool Project; PBS Documentary 'Two Spirits' Interactive Map | The Bilerico Project

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"Projector Pam Daniels introduced us to the PBS documentary "Two Spirits" that premieres June 14. Pam writes:

Two Spirits as described on the Cinema Guild website is the story of Fred Martinez who "was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine essence, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at sixteen by a young man who bragged to friends that he had "bug-smashed a fag." Two Spirits explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl and the essentially spiritual nature of gender and sexuality.

Embedded in the site for the film is an interactive map of "Gender-Diverse Cultures" pinpointing global cultures that have "recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders."..."

URGENT: Congress Wants To Make Streaming A Felony | Demand Progress #indist

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"URGENT: Congress Wants To Make Streaming A Felony

Tell Congress to oppose S. 978, the new "Ten Strikes" bill

Here they go again: The big business lobbyists who are behind the Internet Blacklist Bill are already making the sequel. THIS WEEK Senators will be voting on a "Ten Strikes" bill to make it a felony to stream copyrighted content -- like music in the background of a Youtube video -- more than ten times.

As the writers at TechDirt point out, under this bill you could go to jail for posting video of your friends singing karaoke:

The entertainment industry is freaking out about sites that embed and stream infringing content, and want law enforcement to put people in jail over it, rather than filing civil lawsuits.... We already pointed to one possibility: that people embedding YouTube videos could face five years in jail. Now, others are pointing out that it could also put kids who lip sync to popular songs, and post the resulting videos on YouTube, in jail as well.

That's right: Ten strikes and you could get jail time...."

Good Post: Transmedia, crossmedia, multimedia, plurimedia… What if we had to describe these notions to someone working in a completely different field | Transmedia Lab

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By Laurent Guerin • 29 Nov, 2010 • Catégorie: Tribune

"Transmedia, crossmedia, multimedia, plurimedia… What if we had to describe these notions to someone working in a completely different field. What if we had to break down this avant-guard mumbo jumbo to a notary or a 6-year-old child? Here’s the starting point proposed by Laurent Guérin (co-founder of citymoviz.tv and co-producer of Detective Avenue, who reviews the innovations of the last decade and the new behaviors they entail for 21st century spectators in this article.

The other evening, a notary friend that that I hadn’t seen in 10 years politely asked me what I’d been up to. “I create transmedia programs” I answered, after he’d shared a few of the latest divorce laws that had made the most impact in his field of specialty. “What’s the difference with multimedia?” he asked me. I admit I didn’t have the courage to explain to him that the word “multimedia” was a term inherited from the 80’s and 90’s, from the days of Minitel and CD-Roms, and which has already become obsolete despite its modern connotation; that we now used crossmedia or even, if you’re on board with Henry Jenkins work and Jeff Gomez Productions, the term’s evangelists: “transmedia”.

I summarized the difference between “crossmedia”, inherited from advertizing and the press (same content/message on different media) and “transmedia” (different content for different media, each contributing to the creation of a unique final product) with two simple sentences:

Crossmedia is 100 pieces of a single piece puzzle.

Transmedia is 100 different pieces forming a unique puzzle.

But instead of explaining the word, its origin and its definition with power point slides, I preferred telling him about the context, and launched into a long pedagogic discussion – or so I hoped – of which I will share a few excerpts..."

NXNE Spotlight! Kensington’s 'Pocket-sized Films,' creating for mobile

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From June 15th – 18th NXNE Interactive (NXNEi) takes place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Toronto. This year, the festival has over 50 panels that explore technology, social media, interactive marketing and business practices. With the aim of providing tools for entrepreneurs and those employed across the spectrums of the music, film and entertainment industries, the line-up looks quite diverse.

Adding to an already exciting line-up of presentations on Saturday June 18th, Kensington’s founder Robert Lang and Interactive Producer, David Oppenheim, will talk about creating films for multiple-platforms, in which they’ll detail their Gemini-nominated music project, City Sonic: a GPS mobile application coupled with short documentaries about extraordinary artists and the places in which their musical lives were transformed.

During their presentation, “Pocket-sized Films”, they’ll explore how mobile devices are creating new ways for filmmakers to completely reinvent a film’s concept, execution and distribution. And they’ll recount the details to their audience about how they pulled off their successful project in which they created 20 short films, a website, iPhone app, mobile website, half-hour television series, and a Nuit Blanche installation.