NY Restauranteur John Fraser goes Guerrila with Kickstarter: Temporary Restaurants - Now You See It, Now You Don't

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From NY Times:

By FRANK BRUNI
Published: January 4, 2011

JOHN FRASER’S new restaurant is doomed. It may make a splash at the start, but by this time next year it will be over, done with, kaput.
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At least if you take him at his word.

For his follow-up to Dovetail, an elegant success on the Upper West Side, Mr. Fraser has chosen a project with a death foretold. He signed a short-term lease for a space in SoHo whose landlord cannot promise that the building, likely to be demolished, will be around past July. In return he received a rent of about $9,000 a month, well below market rate....

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The Film Collaborative Update on Guiding Features to Sundance > SydneysBuzz

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Excerpt:

"Happy New Year from The Film Collaborative!

The Film Collaborative has already been guiding 3 feature filmmakers and are also going to assist a short and probably add a 4th of 5th feature. Sundance filmmakers benefit from our distributiion education because we’re helping them navigate distribution and avoid the pitfalls of excessive middlemen or not-so-ideal companies who are pursuing them. We’re helping them choose wisely and sometimes also directly representing their films on the sales side. And of course we educate and guide them on the DIY side. It’s still early in the process to see exactly how much we’ll end up doing per film (in terms of sales and/or direct distribution) but already we’re helping filmmakers sift through all their options and all the entities approaching them.

With regard to We Were Here, David Weissman signed up to TFC months ago and we’re handling grassroots outreach for him as well as our usual distribution advising and of course working with Jonathan Dana, who’s awesome.

And the other films at Sundance we are working with are:

Shut Up Little Man by Matthew Bate (though we’ve just started dealing and only giving them advice so far)....

Todos tus muertos (All your Dead Ones) by Carlos Moreno....

and Lord Byron by Zack Godshall...."

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Great Post! A Quick Glance Back – 10 of Our Favourite Posts from 2010 « BBH Labs

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Prompted to give a talk at our friends’ Power to the Pixel’s Pixel Lab, we examined how brands are telling stories on the web, what entertainment brands have to teach non-entertainment brands about transmedia storytelling and proposed a framework for how brands and producers may work together beyond straightforward product placement or promotions.