Henry Jenkins and the Transmedia Project
Feed yer brain. Henry Jenkins is the co-dir of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program and leader in field of Transmedia Stroytelling. There is some overlap here with some of the subjects touched on...
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MyLA – by George Velasco
I’m happy to present a continuation of the MyLA series with this guest post by SoCal native George Velasco. George has since moved on to the cloudier confines of the east coast (currently DC) but has...
View ArticleSymphony of Science = Web Videos of the Year
Musician John Boswell has come up with an incredible project he calls The Symphony of Science. He remixes and auto-tunes scientific greats rapping about the universe and what results is truly as...
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MyLA – by HuffPost’s Steven Nereo
No Huffington Post contributor Steven Nereo didn’t write it for this blog, but he pretty much nailed the assignment anyway. My Los Angeles has nothing to do with the botox playground of shallow...
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Banksy’s Gift Shop hits Berlin
One of my faves from this year’s Sundance was the street art docu Exit Through the Gift Shop. I pondered in my Twitch review the validity of some of the factual aspects of the film. The film’s premier...
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Top Moments from the Vancouver Olympics
The torch may have been extinguished, but before the post-Olympic hangover really kicks in, I’d like to share a few of my favorite memories from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. You won’t find...
View ArticleBEATS ANTIQUE Gets Arty & More From Streaming Coachella
After their very groovy and a little bit crazy set at Coachella this past weekend, Ivan Landau‘s video for Oakland band Beats Antique is well worth a check out. The vid uses some very cool motion...
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Found Media
While doing some cleaning up of old boxes of media, I found a few piles of disks and discs worth documenting here for posterity’s sake before sending them to the city media recycler. Check out the...
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Top 10 Highs & Lows from Sochi 2014
The last two weeks have absolutely flown by (hmm, that might be an exaggeration) but the Sochi 2014 flame has been extinguished and all eyes now turn to Rio 2016 and the next Summer Games. Before we...
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Top 10 Takeaways from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
The flame has been extinguished (and what a cool flame holder it was) on the XXXI Olympiad and man is my sofa worn out. There were plenty of memorable moments, and some that we’d rather all forget. If...
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