Category Archives: digital storytelling

Vimeo Awards Resnap

Written by . Posted on October 11, 2010. No comments.
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This past weekend I attended the inaugural Vimeo Awards . As a bona fide video nerd, I have to say it was pretty cool.  Lots of camera geeks, filmmakers, plaid shirts, beards, plaid shirts, and booze.  Hightlights included the awards ceremony, which I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to, but was bummed and [...]

YouTube introspective

Written by . Posted on May 29, 2010. No comments.
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Remember LonelyGirl15? YouTube’s 5th birthday was last week and I’ve finally gotten around to watching the “YouTube Stories” series they produced– 2 minute interviews with select creators about their successes with the medium. The stories, and this interview with the director, contain interesting little insights about creating for YouTube that are worth checking out– What [...]

Pop Up Film Festival “Special Offer” in NY

Written by . Posted on April 20, 2010. No comments.
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Stop… drop… open up a film festival.  We haven’t heard enough about Damon aka Dame Dash’s Creative Control TV… how is that possible?  Dame typically bangs his self-promo drum pretty loudly.  CreativeControl.tv is his latest (as far as we know) spinoff post HOVA split.  It’s difficult to figure out exactly what it is, but it [...]

VOD: create your own Google Search Story

Written by . Posted on April 15, 2010. 4 Comments.
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Google’s Search Stories campaign turned mundane search into a charming story telling device. You probably saw “Parisian Love” during the Super Bowl, and now you can create your own Search Story with a simple tool on Youtube. It’s a pretty cool interactive twist– see what you can do with it… Search Story Tutorial Parisian Love

LOOSWORLD Presents… Noseferocktu

Written by . Posted on April 13, 2010. No comments.
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It’s actually happening… believe it.  Urgent Content famlay, Looseworld is putting on a pretty uniquely sick event in NYC.  They asked filmmakers to submit their work, and paired them with musicians to score the films and perform live.  Should be a fun event, with the Street Carnage dudes hosting, and apparently Das Racist performing?  Hmmm.  [...]

A Convo w/ Sundance Nominated Max Joseph

Written by . Posted on March 1, 2010. No comments.
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Max is a great example of a creator who’s taken his skills and creativity and leveraged it in the web video space to gain serious recognition as a filmmaker. In a web video less world, Max’s vision would not have had the multimillion view exposure that it has, and he’s managed to take the medium [...]

DSLR footage – don’t kill yourself in post

Written by . Posted on February 2, 2010. No comments.
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I was online window shopping for my dream DSLR only to end up reading about the unexpected nightmare that DSLR footage can become in post. The .MOV or .AVI files that most cameras shoot can be super glitchy in a Final Cut time line, and can’t really handle effects or text at all. Luckily a [...]

Grassroots Media Report from Haiti

Written by . Posted on January 20, 2010. No comments.
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We have to do our due diligence and get in touch with this org, Cine Institute, if/when things calm down there.  Moving coverage, challenging images.  Our hearts go out to Haiti.  Thank you to basho for submitting this link.

NYTimes Video on Video

Written by . Posted on January 7, 2010. No comments.
Unfortunately, they don’t let you embed. Lame.

The Worlds New Journalists, Straight From The Slums

Written by . Posted on December 16, 2009. 2 Comments.
I’ve been an admirer of Video Volunteers for awhile now, having learned about their global-empowerment-through-media-production initiatives while still at Current. I’ve got to say, though, their new initiative VCU.br, feels pretty next level. In addition to teaching young, aspiring media professionals the basics of digital production and new media storytelling, they’re also teaching them HOW [...]

Late to the Party: You Suck At Photoshop

Written by . Posted on December 15, 2009. No comments.
If you already know about this, then I apologize, as the 1.5 million views clearly indicate that I am way behind here. However, if I didn’t know about it and FakeTV, the most upstream girl in new media didn’t know it, I couldn’t have missed the boat entirely. You Suck At Photoshop does two awesome [...]