Ping Pong: watch the table tennis documentary on demand via #Distrify

Ping Pong – the inspiring documentary about eight veteran table-tennis champions – will be available to watch here from 6–26 July 2012.

The HD stream of the movie is available to watch on a pay-per-view basis for £4.99 or download to own for £8.99. The film will be available to watch immediately. The streaming version can be viewed five times within 30 days of purchase. Distrify, an online film distributor, are managing the payment of this product.

read more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/interactive/2012/jul/06/watch-ping-pong

MUST Watch. Riveting. Gorgeous... SHIA LABEOUF IN THE BUFF FOR SIGUR RÓS’S EXPERIMENTAL NEW VIDEO

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http://www.fastcocreate.com/1680962/shia-labeouf-in-the-buff-for-sigur-r-ss-e...

'...Sigur Ros’ Valtari Mystery Film Experiment involves giving a dozen filmmakers a modest budget of $10,000 and the laissez faire guidelines to do whatever they want to do on film with songs from the band’s new album, Valtari. (The 'mystery’ part is because the band has no idea what they’re going to get until they get it.) The latest entry in the experiment, "Fjögur Píanó," arrived yesterday. Directed by Alma Har’el , whose Bombay Beach won the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival documentary award, it is a hauntingly beautiful short film that seemed to catch the Internet off guard.

To make the entry even more of a ringer, "Fjögur" stars bearded, shaggy-haired Transformer jockey Shia LaBeouf and the dancer Denna Thomsen as a couple engaged in what is clearly a passionate love affair, replete with drug abuse, morning dancing, and occasional cross-dressing...'

 

Moving Storyboards And Drumming: Wes Anderson Maps Out The Peculiar Genius Of "Moonrise Kingdom" | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce

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Excerpt from FastCoCreate.com:

'MAKING THE SCRIPT "SOMETHING TO READ"

"When you write a script it’s about making this other thing -- you know, you’re trying to make a movie," Anderson says, seemingly stating the obvious. "But for me, when I make a script, I’m also kind of obsessively working on a script that’s a thing for somebody to read. There are certain aspects of the movie that are only in the script -- mainly, the writing of the descriptions, which I’ve spent all this time on." He even inserts photographs into his scripts, ideas for visual reference. "But mostly it’s who is saying what and how do we make this something to read," he explains. "[In writing the script], I want to make more than something you visualize, I want to make something you can sit there and read; you can experience the story."...'

read more & more pics here:

http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681005/moving-storyboards-and-drumming-wes-ander...

Disney plans £3m internet safety campaign around Club Penguin | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Excerpt from the GuardianUK:

"Disney is launching internet safety campaigns targeting 100m children and parents in Europe, the Middle East and Africa based on its Club Penguin virtual world, capitalising on the recent paedophile scandal surrounding rival Habbo Hotel.

Disney says it will put up £3m of media to support the campaigns: essentially advertising space on its TV channels, websites and magazines across the EMEA region, as well as on Club Penguin and its other virtual worlds.

Club Penguin co-founder Lane Merrifield – now executive vice president of Disney Online Studios following Disney's $350m acquisition of the virtual world in August 2007 – announced the initiative in a keynote speech at the Children's Media Conference in Sheffield.

"From the very start, our vision for Club Penguin was to create a safe place for my kids and their friends to play online. The scale may now be bigger than I could ever have imagined but that philosophy has not changed," said Merrifield in the keynote...."

ARG 101: The Mission Business presents ZED.TO - Transmedia 101 (formerly Transmedia Toronto) (Toronto, ON) - Meetup

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Super excited about our upcoming Transmedia 101 ARG event!

"As part of our continuing 101 series on Transmedia and Alternate Reality Gaming, The Mission Business will present ARG 101: Zed.to on Tuesday, July 17th at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.

The Mission Business is an adventure laboratory based in Toronto that designs connected live-action and online experiences to thrill you, challenge you, and make you think. After setting forth from their shared educational foundation to a broad range of expertise, the founding members of The Mission Business have reassembled in order to explore new platforms for creative development. The team includes experts in theatre, digital content creation, and game design. The first project of The Mission Business is ZED.TO, an 8-month interactive narrative experience. The centrepiece of ZED.TO is a series of interactive theatrical events, including the upcoming Fringe Festival show [ZED.TO] ByoLogyc: Where You Become New, running July 4 - 15.

Additional information on Alternate Reality Gaming will be presented by ARG blogger Geoff May of 4D Fiction. As Geoff explains, "With technology becoming ever more ubiquitous for the layperson, storytelling is hot on its heels. Being confined to a single medium is no longer a limitation for many eager storytellers. And while 'Transmedia Storytelling' describes this creative space ripe for exploration, Alternate Reality Games are the essence - where an interactive narrative plays out using the real world as its platform. Here, the story is the key -- the element that seamlessly connects every medium together, and ultimately weaves willing players into the story itself as it takes place around them in real time -- and it's also why they're destined to a niche, albeit significant, existence."

read more here & hope to see you July 17 2012

http://www.meetup.com/Transmedia101/events/70635772/

Renewable Resources: An interactive doc on Barton Springs seeks community involvement - Screens - The Austin Chronicle

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BY MARC SAVLOV, FRI., JUNE 29, 2012

Living Springs

If you've lived in Austin any length of time at all, chances are good that you've either been to the city's fabled Barton Springs, or, at the very least, have heard all about it. The bracing, cool waters have been a part of – and in many ways the heart of – Austin since, well, before Austin even existed. As befits such a sacred watering hole, the Springs (and the politics that surround and occasionally threaten them) have been well documented in films such as Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen. But movies, and especially documentary films, have a shelf life. They're made, they screen from time to time, and then, if they're lucky, they find a spot at your local video store, passively awaiting one more audience ... of one or two people at a time.

Karen Kocher aims to change that situation forever. The University of Texas lecturer and interactive media producer/filmmaker is currently at work on Living Springs, an "interactive documentary" that will include not only a wealth of up-to-date information about the history, ecosystem, and literal life and times of Barton Springs, but also footage and photographs culled from the community-at-large. Remember those reels of Super 8 footage your parents took of their Barton Springs splash time back in 1965? Find 'em. Dust 'em off. And send them to the Living Springs project....'

more deets here:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2012-06-29/renewable-resources/

blackgivesback: W.K. Kellogg Foundation Promotes Racial Healing with New Online Documentary

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Description from the site:

"Cornelius Maneaux with his two sons, Cornelius Jr., 17 and Jason, 14 are profiled in the new online documentary, “Healing Histories.”

“Healing Histories” part of foundation’s Racial Healing Initiative

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced the launch of its newest project, “Healing Histories,” an online interactive documentary that calls on Americans to engage in a dialogue around racial equity and racial healing.

The documentary zeroes in on the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, where citizens young and old, and black and white, reflect on the legacies of racism and segregation and the impact today on gaining access to adequate health care, education and jobs. Equally important, though, residents share inspirational stories about how neighbors are coming together to improve life for the next generation..."

website here:

http://www.blackgivesback.com/2012/06/wk-kellogg-foundation-promotes-racial.h...

Alt-Minds: Making "Transmedia” a Reality - IGN

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by Steve Boxer July 2, 2012

"Even in this fast-moving world, in which more or less anything with a silicon chip in it is a gaming platform, you don’t often come across a game with its own neologism. So that instantly makes Alt-Minds, a collaboration between French developer Lexis Numerique and Orange, stand out. For it describes itself as a transmedia game. Admittedly, transmedia is a word that has already established itself in the lexicon – it means “To tell a single story across multiple platforms”. Which, judging by a recent demo, describes Alt-Minds perfectly.

Lexis Numerique may not be the best known developer around, but it does have a track record of making innovative adventure games – its highest-profile such effort being 2003’s In Memoriam, published by Ubisoft, and the recent PSN game Red Johnson’s Chronicles. Both games are essentially jazzed-up point-and-click adventures, and that, deep down, is what Alt-Minds is, too. It’s a popular genre among French developers, as Heavy Rain reiterated, and seems to suit the French love for the off-beat and cerebral...

...The basic plot of Alt-Minds centres on a group of five young scientists working at a foundation in Belgrade, who disappear in Ukraine – and your job, as a member of one of a pair of investigative teams, is to find them. Much of your raw investigative material will come in the form of video (shot, according to Kemal, in Russia, Ukraine, Germany and the UK). You’ll be fed info and assigned tasks by the (fictional) members of your team, although Kemal asserted that although it is designed to be a solo game, you can collaborate with real-life friends who are also playing it..."

more deets here:

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/07/02/alt-minds-making-transmedia-a-reality

Great Post by Brian Clark on 'Centering on the Audience' • Phenomenal Work

This is an excellent call to think about design as both the object and/or experience being created and the context in which we encounter that object and/or experience. I fully agree.

'Despite my love of dead German philosophers and obscure art theories, I’m a pretty practical guy (for a mad scientist.) I don’t see a phenomenal work mindset as an abstraction; I see it as a framework that actually makes real work better. I look at the way these ideas revolutionized art and science and philosophy, I read the words our predecessors have written about how it changed the way they thought about life and art, and I wonder: isn’t it time for the Networked Age to absorb in those same concepts? All it takes is another translation of phenomenology in a way that makes sense to the now, so let me start with a provocation and then humbly offer up a translation of minds greater than mine that left these gifts for us we’ve failed to unwrap...'

full post here -

http://phenomenalwork.com/post/26339026916/centering-on-the-audience