To say that this photographic project had some “grim origins” is kind of an understatement. 12:31 takes a fascinating but gruesome story involving the execution of murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan and uses it as source material for some ghostly looking light painted images. Jernigan’s murderous cadaver was frozen in gelatin and water, then cut into 1mm sections that resulted in 1,871 slices of human body. The 65 gigabyte data set of cross-sectional photographs will be used for scientific study as part of the National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project, but photographer Frank Schott and art director Croix Gagnon had different ideas for it...
"The installation features a series of 6 cameras concealed along the front of the screens which track and detect motor show attendees as they walk past. Via the camera data captured, the software can detect peoples face positioning and features in real time. The detection data is used by the software to then calculate what it “sees” and determine details of the show attendees such as gender, age and emotions such as happy, sad, etc. Based on this data the application delivers different messages to the show attendees including the “generation of dreams” in the form of motion graphic animations.
The resulting experience is both very compelling and highly intuitive; motor show attendees are greeted by a hummingbird, who detects their position and encourages them to smile – before leading them through the experience of generating their own dream on an enormous wall of 24 x 42″ plasma screens – 2.1 meters high x 5.5 meters wide..."
Read the full Michael Anderson recap on Wired.com, March 30, 2011
Excerpt:
"Rabbit Holes
Phillips touched briefly and humorously on the subject of rabbit holes and starting points. Many games begin with anonymous mailings to people who have posted their addresses in places like Unfiction, hoping to receive trailheads or swag. She pointed out that transmedia people are not the only people who like to send anonymous packages, punctuating this statement with a picture of Ted Kaczynski. She added that anonymity does not give people incentive to participate; in fact, it is easier to reach an audience and generate greater interest by being upfront about the origin of a campaign..."
Original post on CrunchGear:
"by Devin Coldewey on March 31, 2011
Most people over the age of 20 will remember the ViewMaster toys that let you see slideshows from your favorite movies and cartoons in 3D. Shabby, static 3D, but still. Well, Hasbro has put out a product that, while it sounds ridiculous at first, is actually sheer genius. Replace the slide wheels with an iPhone! It’s brilliant!
What you do is download an app and some content, then attach the iPhone to the end of the viewer goggle-thing by means of a special bracket (there’s one for every iPhone or iPod touch model). It sits securely in there and shows the two stereo images, which the goggles make into one awesome, totally self-contained 3D content...."
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"By Daniel Loria (Updated 16 hours, 5 minutes ago)
A scene from Feng Xiaogang's "Aftershock." The blockbuster film is part of the new distribution agreement between New Video and China Lion.
North American audiences have new access to Chinese blockbusters through New Video, which will be the exclusive distributor of China Lion titles across cable VOD, television, digital and DVD.
The first films in this partnership include Chinese box-office hit “Aftershock” and the Chinese remake of the 2000 Mel Gibson/Helent Hunt vehicle, “What Women Want.” Titles will be available to U.S. audiences after their respective day-and-date release in both territories.
This is the second North American partnership for China Lion, which recently made an exclusive arrangement with AMC to provide theatrical exhibition for up to 15 China Lion films per year. That deal calls for films to go out on at a minimum of 23 North American screens, in areas with large Chinese demographics. A number of these premieres are slated to be day-and-date releases with China...."
...Aspiring directors will be able to submit their idea for a short film at http://www.vimeo.com/nokia on a subject of their choice. Following a rigorous selection by a panel of judges, eight of the best submissions will be shortlisted for the semi-finals and their creators awarded a budget of 5,000 USD and two Nokia N8 smartphones to make their film. The winning film will be chosen by the panel of judges and will be screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2011....
Shared Story Worlds is a project created by Scott Walker.
Scott does not like typing in the third person, but he does enjoy exploring what he calls participatory entertainment, collaborative storytelling, and value co-creation. Anything that bridges audiences/fans/consumers with creatives is likely to spark his interest.
Scott has fueled his passion for participatory entertainment through his company, Brain Candy, LLC, which created the shared story world Runes of Gallidon. He is also an advocate of transmedia storytelling and a self-professed typing monkey.