Worth reading the full post on Gary Hayes' blog:
Excerpt from original post:
"...the TFI set out to create the new fund as a way of both funding new, interactive storytelling projects, and to produce and distribute them as a branded series of work "that will reach the audiences where they will have the most impact," Janson said.
The organization will accept submissions for the fund from April 4 through May 25. Grants will range from $50,000 to $100,000, though Janson said that TFI may be able to assist grantees with additional resources to ensure that they are able to complete and sustain their projects.
Janson said that there are no existing models for the kinds of projects the TFI is looking to fund. Ideally, she said, projects will have three "core elements": they will feature strong stories; they will be designed to bring in and welcome new audiences; and they will have the kind of impact that can "make real change in the human world...."
Boston U Student Nate Goldman is the creator of Undead End.
From the site:
"In October 2010, I founded WTBU’s Radio Performance Department. Our inaugural performance was a show that I had been writing for over a year called Undead End. Inspired by Orson Welles’ 1938 Performance of War of the Worlds, Undead End was a radio drama that utilized the 21st century media landscape to create an immersive and interactive storytelling experience. We used viral, guerilla, street performance, and other media to supplement the story; however, the main narrative unfolded via radio. The show brought in over 2,000 unique listeners to WTBU in less than a month and that number grows daily. Undead End is syndicated and aired on WZBC Boston two months after its original airdate on WTBU. [Above] is a Prezi presentation on the entire project. Enjoy."
Words by Simon Rogers
Information is Beautiful
Data journalist and design whiz David McCandless’ Information is Beautiful blog is a treasure-trove of cool visualisations and mash-ups. His work has also been published in a bestselling book of the same name.
Flowing Data
If someone, somewhere, is producing a great data visualisation or analysis, Nathan Yau’s blog will find it. Yau has an unerring ability to unearth the best data visualisations on the web. He also produces graphics, and is a regular poster to the Guardian Datastore Flickr group.
Patrick Cain’s Map Blog
Canadian Patrick Cain is a ‘journalist who makes maps for the web’. Based in Toronto, Cain takes the city’s data and maps it – producing guides to everything from crime figures to World War I deaths and single parent families. A fan of open data, Cain has a record of demanding data from the city’s authorities using Freedom of Information laws.
Timetric
If you’re looking for time series economic data – and a nifty way of creating a sophisticated, embeddable graphic – this is the place to come. Timetric updates thousands of datasets every day and provides an easy-to-use interface that makes it very simple to create your own.
OWNI
Although a lot of the best data work is done in English, Paris-based OWNI is a collective of geeks and data freaks producing visualisations and apps that manage to be imaginative and innovative. The collective’s work on Wikileaks – which allowed people to interrogate the data – won a 2010 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence.
Guardian Datablog
The Guardian and its Datablog publishes raw data behind the news every day, and encourages readers to visualise and work with it. The site publishes its data using Google spreadsheets and Google Fusion Tables, and allows readers to search thousands of government datasets around the world.
Infochimps
The big brains at Infochimps have come up with an innovative way to find, share and sell formatted data. Both users and the site’s own contributors collate and scrape datasets so that they’re easily accessible. With big plans for expansion and lots of intelligent developers onboard, it’s definitely one to watch.
DataMarket
This brand new site combines an innovative data search function with bright and imaginative visualisations. It also allows you to create your own, download them and put them in your PowerPoint presentation or company report.
It might be better known for its impact on the world of social media, but LinkedIn also has a hugely innovative approach to data. LinkedIn has made collating and using data a priority, with lead data scientists completely integrated into the commercial operation.
London Datastore
Governments around the globe are opening up their data, from data.gov in the US, via Australia, the UK, New Zealand and France. One of the best and most useful is the London Datastore. Created by the Greater London Authority, it publishes thousands of datasets with the emphasis on useful, live data, such as transport and economic numbers. Developers are using those figures to create interesting apps, such as Matthew Somerville’s live train map for the London Underground.
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"...Let’s imagine that next year is actually right now. So what does this present (formerly the future) look like?
- Each side recognizes each other as a partner – a critical partner – a partner that wants to inspire the other to the highest level of work and experience.
- Filmmakers recognize that completing their film is only half the work.
- They recognize that the other half of the job is both marketing their film and maintaining a dialogue with their audience.
- The filmmaker is taking responsibility for their work through the end (aka forever).
- They no longer entertain dreams of riches exchanged for rights.
- They no longer anticipate surrendering control of their film to distributors.
- The filmmaker now thinks of their ultimate creation as what will be their body of work. They no longer look at each movie as a stand-alone entity. They recognize it is all a continuum.
- They no longer see themselves contained with a single form of medium. They make long and short form work for different platforms and different audiences.
- They look at all their work as an ongoing dialogue with an evolving audience.
- The filmmaker has already established at least one platform from which to maintain an ongoing dialogue with their audience(s). This platform will be: Blogs and/or Social Networks. They maintain regular – daily or weekly – contact with their audience. They reward them, and visa versa...."
Read the full keynote on indieWire.com
Above is an excerpt from Ted Hope's "closing keynote address (as prepared and delivered to indieWIRE today) for the Arthouse Convergence, a gathering of exhibitors and others held this week in Salt Lake City prior to the Sundance Film Festival" on indieWire.
Read the full keynote for the most detailed breakdown of where we need to go.
Very Cool Site. Jeffrey Martin's 360º Panorama of the Strahov Library is the largest indoor Photo in the world as of March 2011.
"Martin’s panorama lets you examine the spines of the works in the Philosophical Hall’s 42,000 volumes, part of the monastery’s stunning collection of just about every important book available in central Europe at the end of the 18th century — more or less the sum total of human knowledge at the time."