October 23rd 2007
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Well, not quite 'death' but an indefinite hiatus. I'm powering down this blog for a few reasons, one of which is my desire to finish my PhD. I've tried for the last year and a half to do PhD writing and work ...
As I've mentioned before, the upcoming episode (Wed Oct 24th in the US) of CSI:NY will feature and continue in the online virtual world Second Life. A primer has been released on youtube, getting audiences excited and prepared for cross-platform traversal, which is good!:
[youtube 3-ZmjA7GCzQ]
I kept forgeting to post about this but just in case there are some of you that not aware of what Radiohead are doing, here it is. Radiohead's latest album, In Rainbows, will be released in December but you can preorder at their website. Rather than just offer the CDs ...
A couple of years ago Scott Donaton, the editor of Advertising Age, published a book called Madison & Vine: Why the Entertainment and Marketing Industries Must Converge to Survive. Scott revisited 'branded entertainment' in a talk he gave recently, which has been published at the Madison & Vine section of Advertising ...
UK-based Hi-ReS! (Handsome information - Radical entertainment Systems), founded in 1999 by Alexandra Jugovic and Florian Schmitt, have been creating amazing award-winning websites for the film, TV, music and marketing industries for a few years now. Some of their sites, like Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko, I mention in my ...
That got your attention. Playwright and screenwriter Jason Grote's new play, 1001, is set to premiere in New York on October 22nd. Jason has done what not many playwrights have done (that I know of -- tell me if not!) and created a fictional newspaper for the play, with links ...
Those who have attended one of my presentations over the last few years will recall Peter Greenaway's multi-platform project: The Tulse Luper Suitcases. One part of this massive work is the online game Tulse Luper Journey. Here is some info about the TLS and the TLJ from the game's site:
Tulse Luper is the ...
Jak Bouman has posted about the Monkey Murder Mystery which started on Oct 4th:
From October 4th, 2007 a real street game, the Monkey Murder Mystery, will start in four Dutch cities. The Monkey Murder Mystery is a local interactive reality game, which gets gamers away from their computer. The gamers ...
X Timeline is a site that provides a system for anyone to create timelines of any topic, and embed them on another site. There are plenty for entertainment -- in particular properties, technology timelines and so on. This technology makes it easier to share what fans and researchers have been ...
Mirjam Struppek has an investigation into the variety of screens available in her Urbans Screens project:
URBAN SCREENS is a concept developed by Mirjam Struppek. It investigates how the currently commercial use of outdoor screens can be broadened with cultural content. We address cultural fields as digital media culture, urbanism, architecture ...