Watch vid - I can't begin to count the absurdities here: AdFreak: Viewers buried alive for 'Buried' movie stunt

By David Kiefaber. Oct. 13, 2010

"As far as movie promotional stunts go, nothing beats the jetpack demonstrations in advance of Iron Man. But burying people alive comes pretty close. At last month's Fantastic Fest in Texas, four women agreed to watch the Ryan Reynolds indie movie Buried while buried in coffins that were outfitted with LCD monitors. Not only that, but the stunt involved them signing waivers before getting blindfolded and driven in silence to the burial site, 30 minutes outside of Austin. As a reward for their bravery, all four participants will get to meet Reynolds himself. Not bad. Not sure I'd volunteer to be buried alive for anything, regardless of who I'd meet afterward, particularly after the Chilean mining accident. Via Adland."

Tonight: Paranormal Surveillance starts world’s first crowd-sourced paranormal experiment‏ – It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.

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"I’m happy to report signups to join the world’s first crowd-sourced paranormal investigation for Paranormal Activity 2 live — the details of which I can now also reveal…

(Through the power of social media! ) tonight at midnight you will be able to take part in a global investigation into paranormal activity if you have a webcam and access to the internet.

The host site www.paranormalsurveillance.com will be encouraging people from all over the world to live-stream footage from their homes, workplaces or any area they suspect to attract unexplained phenomena. This footage will be analysed overnight using its technology and republished to individuals in the morning. If anything unusual is detected it will be uploaded to the site for participants to view, discuss and share over social media.

This experiment is part of a project which has also seen 60x Twitter-enabled EMF readers (ghost detecting devices that tweet their owners when paranormal activity is sensed) sent to 10x countries in what could be the largest paranormal investigation ever undertaken online."

Whoot! Ryan FitzGerald Joins Best Boy Entertainment

Ryan FitzGerald Joins Best Boy Entertainment

Transmedia Specialist To Lead New Interactive Media Division,
Part Of Aggressive Growth Strategy By Newfoundland-Based TV & Film Producer


St. John’s, NFLD [October 12, 2010] -- Transmedia specialist, Ryan FitzGerald, has joined Best Boy Entertainment and will lead the company’s new Interactive Media Division as VP Interactive. FitzGerald is the former Executive Director of Fortune Cat Games Studio and President & CEO of Rogue Nation Studios, which are both based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He joins the company with an aggressive mandate to develop cross-platform opportunities for Best Boy’s current library of television and film product.

“We are very happy to have someone with Ryan’s creative capabilities lead our newest and most exciting division,” says Ed Martin, Founder and Executive Producer at Best Boy Entertainment. “We want to make Best Boy Interactive a leading developer of Interactive content. And, with Ryan we have the confidence that we’ll achieve this goal.”

FitzGerald has led transmedia workshops for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Banff New Media Institute, and Film Training Manitoba & New Media Manitoba. He is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab Interactive Art & Entertainment Program and the National Screen Institute’s playWRITE Program. Prior to working in the new media sector, FitzGerald was a military police officer working in air force anti-terrorism and intelligence.

Best Boy Entertainment is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. Productions include Mickey (Pet Network), Soccer Shrines (GOLTV), The Horse (Pet Network), The Skinny Dip (travel + escape) and What Do They Do In There? (NTV). Projects in development include Pet ER (Pet Network) and Gamblers Never Die, a feature film based on the stage play of the same name written by Ed Martin and based on his personal experiences as a professional poker player. Gamblers Never Die is currently in development with Telefilm Canada and the Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corporation.

FitzGerald will be leading a team of five with more hires within the division expected in the coming year.

About Best Boy Entertainment
Best Boy Entertainment is one of Atlantic Canada’s fasting growing film and television production companies. With a full-time production staff of 18 and its own HD production facilities that will soon include a fully-equipped green screen studio and insert sound stage, Best Boy develops and produces programs for Canadian broadcasters that have strong appeal in the international marketplace.

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For more information, contact:
Ed Martin, Executive Producer
Best Boy Entertainment
Tel: 709-722-0140
E-mail: edmartin@nf.sympatico.ca

 

 

Yarn Bombing??? like like like: The graffiti knitting epidemic |

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by Maddy Costa. Sunday 10 October, 2010

It's a blustery Sunday afternoon on London Bridge and I'm exercising my right – or at least, the right of freemen in 11th-century London – to herd sheep across the Thames. They're not real sheep, thankfully. They're tiny knitted creatures, with spindly legs and multicoloured bodies, and snapping at their heels is a gnarly-looking wolf in sheep's clothing.

Confused? Welcome to the world of graffiti knitting, or yarn bombing as it's generally known. If you haven't encountered it before, you might just over the next few days, as knitters across Britain celebrate wool week by "tagging" lamp-posts with knitted doilies, wrapping public statues in scarves and sending knitted animals scurrying about city streets. I can't say exactly where, though, as it's all hush hush.

My introduction to yarn bombing came courtesy of Knit the City, a tight-knit (sorry) London-based crew with fanciful names: my accomplices today are Deadly Knitshade, the Fastener and Shorn-a the Dead. For their Knitmare Before Christmas project, they attacked the statue of a ballerina outside the Royal Opera House with figures inspired by The Nutcracker, while Web of Woe found them installing a 13ft spider's web, replete with trapped insects and fairies, in the "graffiti tunnel" beneath Waterloo station.

Knit the City was established in April 2009 by Lauren O'Farrell, whose first act was to rechristen her group's activities yarn storming. "In London, you can't go throwing the word bombing around," she says. "Yarn storming sounds more creative than bombing, which is destructive. It's a bit more kooky and eccentric." You might say the same of O'Farrell, who started knitting five years ago to distract herself from the treatment she was undergoing for cancer and, in March 2007, celebrated getting the all-clear by tying a 550ft scarf around the lions in Trafalgar Square....

I love obsessive art | Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand | Adrian Searle

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by Adrian Searle, Mon. Oct. 11, 2010

At first sight Ai Weiwei's installation Sunflower Seeds presents us with an undifferentiated field of grey, filling the space between the bridge and the end wall of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It is almost disappointing. The late Felix Gonzalez-Torres's piles of cellophane-wrapped sweets, which he showed in the 1980s, were prettier, and you were free to eat them (the American artist liked the idea that people could leave his shows with a nice taste lingering in their mouths). But the sweets were also metaphors for the Aids crisis, and much besides. Nothing in art is what it seems. And you can't eat a single one of Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds, any more than you could Marcel Duchamp's marble sugar cubes. They'd break your teeth.

But you can trudge over them, walk or skip or dance on these seeds, all of them Made in China. Or scoop up handfuls and let them run through your fingers, in the knowledge that someone, an old lady or a small-town teenager in Jingdezhen, has delicately picked up each one and anointed it with a small brush. Every seed is painted by hand. The town that once made porcelain for the imperial court has been saved from bankruptcy by making sunflower seeds. It is absurd.

I love this work. It is a world in a hundred million objects. It is also a singular statement, in a familiar, minimal form – like Wolfgang Laib's floor-bound rectangles of yellow pollen, Richard Long's stones or Antony Gormley's fields of thousands of little humanoids. Sunflower Seeds, however, is better. It is audacious, subtle, unexpected but inevitable. It is a work of great simplicity and complexity. Sunflower Seeds refers to everyday life, to hunger (the seeds were a reliable staple during the Cultural Revolution), to collective work, and to an enduring Chinese industry. But it is also symbolic. It joins several previous Turbine Hall commissions – most recently Doris Salcedo's 2008 Shibboleth and Miroslaw Balka's How It Is – in a dialogue about the social and cultural place of art.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/11/tate-modern-sunflower-seed...