Category Archives: new media

YouTube ‘Life in a Day’ Interactive Gallery

Written by Peter. Posted on September 7, 2010. No comments.
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On July 24th around 80,000 people participated in YouTube’s “Life in a Day” project. The idea was to get people to capture their day on video and upload the footage to a special YouTube channel to be worked into a feature film. At the helm is producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin MacDonald who are [...]

Arcade Fire’s Personalized Video with HTML5

Written by Moana. Posted on August 30, 2010. No comments.
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Indie band Arcade of Fire released a music video for “We Used to Wait” from their new album “The Suburbs.” Writer/director Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin from Google teamed up to create an interactive, personalized and experimental video using Google Chrome and Google Maps to support the HTML5 database. The video was posted today on [...]

YouTube introspective

Written by Kasia. 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 kinds [...]

who is the @ebertchicago of video games?

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on May 2, 2010. 1 Comment.
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For those of you missed the ridiculoso internet hissy fit over Roger Ebert’s blog post last week about video games never meeting the criteria for art, allow me to paraphrase it for you: Roger Ebert made a sober, slightly disconnected argument about interactive games not fitting into the most basic criteria for art (in response to [...]