In brief: It's an installation, & yes, it plays tunes when you dance on Joseph Grimaldi's grave
Read more deets on the Creative Review site!
By Dan Nosowitz
Excerpt:
"The new Apple TV is streamlined to a fault, and forgoes two major elements that just about every other competing media streamer offers: internal and external storage. Apple TV has no internal storage, like a hard drive or flash storage for you to store the movies you own.
"People don’t want to think about managing storage, they just want to watch their shows," Jobs said during the event. "They don’t want to sync to a computer, most don’t even know what that is. And they want whatever the hardware is to be silent, cool, and small."
Removing that hard drive is one way Apple is able to reduce the cost of the device, but the in-sourced A4 chip--which is now used in the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Apple TV--likely provides the biggest cost benefit for the company....
All the TV shows and movies come from the cloud. You to rent TV shows and movies from iTunes, or watch streaming video from Netflix. None of it is downloaded, none of it is permanent--unlike the music on your iPod, or even the apps on your iPhone. The Apple TV is the latest in a line of new Apple products that sees the tech world this way, with the first being perhaps the MacBook Air, which eliminated the optical (DVD) drive."
read more on source:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1686407/apple-event-post-mortem-onwards-and-upward...
Film Training Manitoba would like to thank New Media Manitoba for their support with this event.
In collaboration with New Media Manitoba, the TPL was designed to explore the creative challenges of developing multiplatform content from the ground up. Trainees and their mentors will be immersed in an intensive week of practical transmedia production, culminating in the creation of a series of new multiplatform prototypes. Fundamental concepts underlying transmedia production will be explored, such as:
- how to manifest a story on different platforms using different strategies
- the role of the audience and how they experience interactive media
- the pipeline and workflow of how successful teams work together
- the important elements of successful convergent media
FACILITATOR
Ryan FitzGerald (ROGUE NATION STUDIO) has taught convergence media (aka; transmedia) nationally for the Cultural Human Resource Council, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and most recently at Melting Silos for the National Film Board. Ryan is the recent winner of the 2010 Rogers and Manitoba Film & Music $15,000 Pitch, presented by On Screen Manitoba.
WHAT’S INVOLVED
Sixteen individuals will be selected to participate in a six-day training lab. The 16 selected participants will be formed into two teams; a mentor team and a trainee team. Each team will envision, produce and give life to five short form transmedia projects. Teams will work collaboratively during pre and post-production, providing mentors the opportunity for one-on-one consultation with the trainees. Each day will flow in the following way: delivery of an in-class learning component, planning, shoot, post, and review of each project.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Application deadline: Thursday, September 2, 2010
- Lab dates: October 15-21, 2010 (Fri. Oct. 15th and Thurs. Oct. 21st are evenings. Oct.16th – 20th are full days, 9am - 6pm)
APPLICATION CRITERIA
This competition is open to residents of Manitoba only. Previous experience with transmedia is not required.
MENTORS
We are looking for experienced directors, writers, producers, project managers, graphic designers, programmers, and actors from film, television, and new media, who are open to working collaboratively on cross platform content. Mentors will be selected according to each applicant’s demonstrated level of expertise in their field. The mentors will be required to work with, share skills with, and impart knowledge to their equivalent role on the trainee team. The mentors will be required to sign a letter of agreement, and 1-2 page-training summary upon completion of the lab. Mentors will receive an honorarium. Please contact us for details.
TRAINEES
We are looking for emerging film and television and new media professionals looking to gain the knowledge and skills to work on Transmedia projects.
Course fee: The trainees registration fee is $200, payable upon acceptance into the program. This course has been valued at $2000. Film Training Manitoba is pleased to offer our training at a subsidized cost for the MB film industry.
Application Process
All applicants must submit a complete package (see application form) by September 2, 2010. A jury of industry professionals will review the application packages and select candidates for both teams. All applicants will be notified of their acceptance status by email.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Rose-Anne Harder, Training Coordinator, Film Training Manitoba Ph: 204-989-9663 Email: rharder@filmtraining.mb.ca
About this project
It is time for pro-active social innovation.
We are building a mobile app that showcases some of the most innovative projects of social change while empowering viewers to make a difference in the lives of others. By creating a virtual credit system we allow the app owner to select a project to fund. Once funded, we build it. This can be a school in Haiti, a youth center in Kenya or low-income housing in the United States.
Let's Build Change. Together.
These are projects that educate, heal and house those caught in systemic poverty or affected by natural disasters and will be built by Architecture for Humanity and its' chapters as soon as the thermometer hits 100% funded. We do not put plaques on our community focused buildings but you will have a digital signature on the building and can track it's progress via the Open Architecture Network.
Open Source Architecture
The Open Architecture Network, a project developed from my 2006 TED Prize, continually updates as people upload and project manage innovative designs. To date there are over 3000 buildings on the network. All project on the app and network are protected by Creative Commons licensing and all app funded projects will hold a Non-Commercial Share-Alike Attribution licenses. We believe it is only innovative if it is shared openly.
Micro-investors wanted
Most folks would circle silicon valley searching for some angel investors. We're not looking for millions, we're seeking less than $10K. So we're reaching out to micro-investors, folks looking to show the big dogs in Palo Alto that crowd-funding can make a difference.
We believe in this idea so strongly that regardless of whether this is funded or not this app will launch in October 2010. Are you ready to step up!
Designed and developed by http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/ and Detroit based http://www.o2creativesolutions.com/
About Architecture for Humanity
Since 1999 Architecture for Humanity has worked in 36 countries on projects ranging from schools, health clinics and affordable housing to long-term sustainable development. Architecture for Humanity has been internationally recognized for its reconstruction efforts in South Asia, the United States Gulf Coast and in Haiti.
Project location: Sausalito, CA
I'm looking forward to being on a panel on Transmedia Storytelling at IN Ontario with Christopher Bolton, Kat Cizek, & Andrea Nemtin!
Tues. Sept. 14, 10:45-11:45
Excerpt from a piece by Jeff Watson on Culture Hacker/WorkBook Project:
Trans-Canada transmedia: Christopher Bolton’s multi-platform search for identity, sound, and story
"Christopher Bolton is a Canadian writer, producer, and actor, best known for his award-winning comedy series, Rent-a-Goalie. A few months ago, Christopher — AKA “Bolts” — contacted me asking for feedback on his latest project’s transmedia strategy. After a few minutes of chit-chat and an exchange of development documents, I realized that the project, a comedic exploration of Canadian landscapes popular and physical, entitled In Search of Gordon Lightfoot, was much more than a TV series with a few transmedia extensions tacked on just for the hell of it; no, this was something different, something much more integrated — transmedia from the get-go. And, as it happens, it was also something that sounded quite funny and more than a little community-minded in its direct engagement with audiences and Canuck mythology. Naturally, I wanted to be a part of it. A few web chats later, we came to an agreement — I would consult on the project and shadow Christopher as he worked his way through the development process, and in return he would share what he learned with me, here, in the form of a series of interviews."