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'A Swarm of Angels' crowdsourcing film production

Can open source methodology be applied to film production? Yes, says UK filmmaker and author, Matt Hanson, whose own project, A Swarm of Angels, is attempting to "crowdsource" the funding, production, and distribution of a $1.9+ million dollar movie.And hes not alone; supporters include free culture advocate, Cory Doctorow, the...

Tags: crowdsourcing, ANGELS, filmmaker

Blog posts 2007-03-22

Photos: Making 'The War Tapes'

Soldiers in Iraq, filmmaker in U.S. use inexpensive camcorders and constant stream of IMs and e-mail to create award-winning documentary.

Tags: photograph, documentary, filmmaker, camcorder, e-mail, IM, Iraq, U.S.

Image galleries 2006-10-14

Filmmaker, Filmmaker make me a film

And Lionhead Studios now owned by Microsoft, as it turns out, means that pretty literally. My last post triggered a fascinating discussion in the comments about what one may or may not do with machinima films created using The Movies. The Movies is a unique combination of...

Tags: Games, Game Movies, filmmaker, game

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Photos: Firefox filmmaker

Pete Macomber is hoping for a little exposure after winning Mozilla's "Firefox Flicks" competition.

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, filmmaker, Mozilla Corp.

Image galleries 2006-04-28

Photos: Firefox filmmaker

Pete Macomber is hoping for a little exposure after winning Mozilla's "Firefox Flicks" competition.

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, filmmaker, Mozilla Corp.

Image galleries 2006-04-28

Photos: Video-shooting minihelicopter

NAB conference showcases latest broadcasting tech, including a tiny, remote-controlled chopper for filmmakers and photographers.

Tags: filmmaker, broadcasting, conference, video

Image galleries 2006-04-27

Photos: Video-shooting minihelicopter

NAB conference showcases latest broadcasting tech, including a tiny, remote-controlled chopper for filmmakers and photographers.

Tags: filmmaker, broadcasting, conference, video

Image galleries 2006-04-27

Additional Resources

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

The Mac desktop, set to music

A friend emailed me a link to the above video from YouTube, which is a music video for The Bird And The Bee's "Again & Again" created entirely on/in a Mac OS X desktop. I especially like the creative plug to buy the song on iTunes at the end of...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, Music, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-12

'Google Me,' the movie

We've all googled our names, but how many of us have actually wanted to meet our "google twins" or "googlegangers"? That's the premise behind the new documentary film Google Me. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi sits down filmmaker Jim Killeen and learns about the six other Jim Killeens he's met around...

Tags: News, google, movie, jim killeen, google me, kara tsuboi, youtube, film, hollywood

Videos 2008-04-23

U.S. says 'virtual fence' on border ready for use

U.S. says 'virtual fence' on border ready for useWhat does 16000 USD matter...When you're saving 45k USD annually, per illegal immigrant employed?Europe is allowed to have work camps for their detainees from africa, why is it we have to embrace people who are breaking our laws with open arms?$135 per...

Tags: Real estate, fence, virtual fence

Discussion threads 2008-02-23

Dreamforce 07: George Lucas pitches edutopia

At the Dreamforce 07 conference in San Francisco, Calif., filmmaker George Lucas discusses his educational web site, edutopia.org. The interactive platform is being used to help teachers develop project based learning curriculums for their students.

Tags: Platform, George Lucas, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Sales Force Management, Sales

Videos 2007-09-18

Google backs contest to put robot on moon

The transition from huge, government-funded space projects to those driven by private initiative and capital took a great step forward Thursday. The X Prize Foundation announced that Google is financing a contest to put a privately funded robotic rover on the moon. The thing would...

Tags: Google Inc., NASA, Moon, Robot, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-13

iTunes showdown brewing: Content owners vs Apple

iTunes showdown brewing: Content owners vs AppleUniversal represents one entity woho ...... cancelled two agreements so they could justify opening their own on-line store. So what? They are not going to take those customers away from Apple unless they undercut Appleon price - and Apple's pricing seems to...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, NBC

Discussion threads 2007-08-31

Alex Jones Radio (widget)

If you've never heard of Alex Jones, then you've been missing out on some of the most dynamic, hard-hitting radio on the planet. Syndicated radio journalist and documentary filmmaker Alex Jones has been on the front lines of the growing global information war from ground zero to the occult playgrounds...

Tags: Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-05-11

VirtualStage (jnlp)

VirtualStage is a toolkit that enables the beginner or intermediate level machinima filmmaker to create their own 3D animated movies, virtual dramas and stageplays. With VirtualStage, you are able to design and build virtual film sets, position cameras and configure the lighting. You then direct the virtual actors as they...

Tags: Animation, Actor, Action, VirtualStage

Software downloads 2007-05-10

Copyright laws and piracy - Where do you stand?

Copyright laws and piracy - Where do you stand?Agree.....but.....Actually, it could be "theft" by the media conglomerates.When VCR's became popular, MPAA claimed that they would lose money when users taped shows and movies, so that they can be watched at the users convenience. A surcharge was eventually added to...

Tags: Sales strategy, Peer to peer (P2P), Operational accounting, irony, piracy, file-sharing, sales, copyright law

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

NCAA meets YouTube on March Madness site

Cant make it to the stadium to root for your schools team? Miss the good old days of screaming with a mob of fans when a player scores points? Now, courtesy of CBS, students and other sports fans can broadcast their team spirit online, reports the New York Times ...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-03-01

Report: Despite risks, school must embrace online communities

Public schools in the U.S., traditionally under-funded and slow to embrace innovative ideas, will be facing particular challenges as emerging technologies play a larger role in students lives, reports eSchool News. The "Horizon Report" recently issued by the New Media Consortium and the nonprofit group Educause, predicts that...

Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech

Blog posts 2007-02-13

YouTube: Is Viacom hurting innocent YouTubers?

YouTube: Is Viacom hurting innocent YouTubers?Google is the largest IP theifin all of history.Youtube Mistakenly Removed my Film too via Viacom NotificationI read your article today about Youtube's actions to remove 100,000 clips via Viacom's copyright notifications, but what you should know and report is that Youtube is mistakenly removing...

Tags: Corporate communications, Intellectual property, Google Inc., DMCA, Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc., video

Discussion threads 2007-02-02