Lionsgate Retracts Its Claws: “Hunger Is Not a Game” Campaign Safe from Litigation | Leaky News

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POSTED ON MARCH 24, 2012 BY MELISSA

Lionsgate said in a LA Times article tonight that it has no intention of pursuing any legal action against the organizations, including The HPA’s Imagine Better Project, involved in the “Hunger is Not a Game” campaign.

The company said its only concern was confusion about a breach of exclusive deals Lionsgate had made with hunger-fighting organizations to use materials from the film:

A Lionsgate spokeswoman said the company supported anti-hunger initiatives and had simply been concerned about the effort because it could conflict with an exclusive deal the studio had made with several other anti-hunger groups; that deal gave two other groups rights to marketing material during the theatrical release of the film..."

The Miracle Mile Paradox ARG by Transmedia LA — Kickstarter

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Rexford Higgs, in the video above, is just one of many characters with which you will be able to interact as if they were real people in The Miracle Mile Paradox, an alternate reality game (ARG) set in a historic neighborhood of Los Angeles. The game will run for 14 weeks this summer and will be playable both online and in real life for free!

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

Rexford Higgs, in the video above, is just one of many characters with which you will be able to interact as if they were real people in The Miracle Mile Paradox, an alternate reality game (ARG) set in a historic neighborhood of Los Angeles. The game will run for 14 weeks this summer and will be playable both online and in real life for free!

– LARPs can change the world- According to Norway's new Minster of Development – Imagonem

<blockquote class='posterous_long_quote'><div class="post-info"><span title="2012-03-27T20:35:44+00:00" class="date published time">27. mars 2012</span> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span> <span class="post-comments">4 kommentarer</span> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <h3>At least according to Norway’s new Minister of International Development, Heikki Holmås.</h3> <div class="wp-caption alignright" style=""><p class="wp-caption-text">Minister of Development Heikki Holmås (39) with the Norwegian edition of D&amp;D Basic. Photo: Imagonem/Ole Peder Giæver.</p></div> <p>- I started playing with Ian Livingstone’s The Forest of Doom when I was 15, the minister from western Norway says.</p> <p>From the series of Fighting Fantasy books, the leap wasn’t long to Dungeons &amp; Dragons.</p> <p>With his cousin and a group of English speaking players, the new minister from the Norwegian party Sosialistisk Venstreparti (“Socialist Left”) started playing the Red Box. Soon, they moved on to Advanced Dungeons &amp; Dragons.</p> <p>Holmås was a founding member of the RPG convention RegnCon in the Norwegian city of Bergen, which he led from 1992-1993.</p></div></blockquote>

Excerpt from the interview (crazy!):

"O. - Once I played a eunuch in a Harem. He was captured as a child, and desperately wanted to escape captivity. He also wanted to, how I should put it; regain his manhood by the use of magic.

The minister also participated in the historical LARP 1942, set in a village in the western part of Norway during the Second World War.

H.- It was great. It was insane… I played a member of the Farmer’s Party who’d gone over to the National Socialist party of Norway. He was a carpenter and a collaborator, building an airport for the Germans, Holmås recalls.

He was very impressed by the effort of the organizers.

H.- It was an incredible staging of 1942. We had people dressed like German soldiers, driving around in amphibious vehicles. It was totally… it was an amazing LARP. I’ve never before or since felt such a total feeling of isolation in society. Isolation, and the despair that grabs you when you realized that your German masters didn’t give a shit.

The minister also sees a political potential in role playing games.

H.- RPGs can be extremely relevant in putting people in situations they’re unfamiliar with. Save the Children have their refugee games. I have friends in Bergen who’ve run human rights-RPGs. But you have to be professional. You create real emotions when you play role playing games, real emotions that stick, he says.

H.- That’s kind of the slightly scary aspect of role playing games, which has to be considered. At the same time, it’s what makes it possible for RPGs to change the world. LARP can change the world, because it lets people understand that humans under pressure may act differently than in the normal life, when you’re safe.

The minister of Development has taken note of a Norwegian LARP-project in Palestine later this year.

H.- I don’t know all the details, but there’s no doubt that you can put Israelis into the situation of the Palestinians and vice versa in a way that fosters understanding and builds bridges. Those things are an important aspect of role playing games which makes it possible to use them politically to create change..."

Editors and HTML5: Klynt, 3WDOC and Popcorn Maker - The Fourth BitThe Fourth Bit

<blockquote class='posterous_long_quote'><div>The Fourth Bit </div> <div> <div class="post-372 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-sin-categoria"> <h1 class="entry-title">Editors and HTML5: Klynt, 3WDOC and Popcorn Maker</h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="author vcard">Eva Domínguez</span> | </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>"Since Steve Jobs&nbsp;ruled out the idea of&nbsp;<strong>Flash</strong>&nbsp;for the iPad, the&nbsp;<strong>HTML5</strong> standard has gained momentum, as nothing created with Flash can be seen on this tablet. Right now, Flash continues to be the most consolidated, comfortable and versatile option when it comes to creating interactive contents. But, as we saw in the&nbsp;i-docs&nbsp;symposium in Bristol, it may not be for much longer. At the symposium were representatives from&nbsp;<strong>content editors&nbsp;</strong>Popcorn Maker,&nbsp;Klynt, and&nbsp;3WDOC. The debate was very illustrative.</p> <p><span></span>Why talk about the HTML5 standard, about Flash, about programming in a symposium about&nbsp;<strong>interactive documentaries</strong>? Because in the digital world the technology moulds the content. The narrative possibilities will sooner or later clash with the technological ones. The distance between what is imagined and what is produced is marked by the latter.</p> <p>If you have a budget that stretches to custom-made development, there are few limits, but in most cases the creators need already existing tools to complete their stories. In other words, they seek editors for interactive contents, among them&nbsp;<strong>Popcorn Maker</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Klynt</strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>3WDOC..."</strong>.</p></div></div></div></blockquote>

Great panel & presentation from Eva Dominguez at iDocs Bristol. Thanks, Eva, for archiving the discussion. Terrific!

Love this post from Daily Crowdsource: Five Crowdfunding Platforms for Niche Audiences

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Most people that have heard about crowdfunding probably did so because of a KickStarter, Rockethub, or IndieGoGo campaign. But there are other crowdfunding platforms and communities online that, while not as big, are not only active but thriving online. Welcome to the world of crowdfunding niche projects for niche audiences.

There are several crowdfunding platforms for niche audiences worth knowing.

One is Sporty Funder, a platform created with sports in mind which allows athletes, clubs and event organizers to ask the community for funding with their sports-related projects.

Takeashine is a platform designed to help underprivileged students raise funds for their college educations.Right now, the platform is seeking funds to help five particular young students achieve their dreams of obtaining higher education.

Emphas.is is a platform dedicated to raise funds for photojournalism projects. It allows photojournalists to pitch their stories to the community, and it allows the users to finance those stories they feel is deserving of in-depth coverage. One example of a project fully funded by the Emphas.is community is Portraying the Arctic, where one photojournalist will travel to the arctic region and document the changes the native population is facing.

From out of the arctic, and back onto your couch, we have 8-Bit Funding. By targeting gamers on their platform, 8-Bit Funding allows indie game developers to directly pitch their projects at those that will be later playing their games, making them the ideal investors for game development.

And then there is My Witty Games, a French crowdfunding platform created for board games projects. It allows its users to invest in board game projects as well as permitting them to discuss and edit them.

As you can see, as you browse these sites, having a focused crowd can be a boon to fundraising, and getting people to organize around their passions is not only practical but exciting way to create community.

What's your favorite niche platform?  Let us know what other crazy niche platforms you find out there on the Internet in the comments below.

 

Internet-Based Theater Company Lives Between Cyberspace and the Stage

beatrix and fessExcerpt:

"A small Philadelphia-based company called New Paradise Laboratories is re-creating theater for the connected generation. It’s incorporating social networks like Facebook, Skype and Chatroulette into the production and presentation of shows, pulling theater into the virtual space.

This innovative experience takes audiences through a rabbit hole on a visually stimulating online adventure. Stories evolve on social networks with multimedia components from YouTube and Sound Cloud. It can be hard to decipher what’s real and what’s fiction.

Before shows open on stage, the audience gets to interact with characters on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr accounts. The theater company works with actors to develop the fictional characters on social media accounts.

“A few years ago, we realized there was a whole audience of people that weren’t really participating in theater but they really heavily influenced by the Internet. They grew up online,” said Katy Otto, NPL’s activity coordinator. “NPL had a lot of interest in making theater that would appeal to these people.”

For the production Fatebook, the company’s theater experience begins on social media. The New Paradise Laboratories..."

Excerpt from Joann Pan's post on mashable.com

full post here:

http://mashable.com/2012/03/24/new-paradise-laboratories/