Beautiful, irreverent stop-motion animation – a collaboration between director Spike Jonze and French ‘hand-made’ arbiter of cool Olympia Le Tan.
It’s a book shop love story in which characters from book covers (hand made and embroidered by Le Tan) come to life. Leonard Cohen makes the credit roll too as a contributing animator.
Tags: animation, leonard cohen, olympia le tan, spike jonze, stop-motion, to die by your side
A couple of jack-in-the-boxes here perhaps?
Wigger Eminem is the most popular celeb on FB (by Page likes) and House is amongst the Top 5 most popular TV shows (by likes)…
What’s more, the Michael Jackson estate Marketing Manager gets props for keeping the GLoved One alive on the social web - the 4th mos-liked celeb @ 41+ million – Facebook, the New Afterlife.
Tags: Eminem, Facebook, facebook by the numbers, facebook infographics, House, infographics, Michael Jackson, social media
#occupymelbourne trends on Twitter as protestors tweet a blow-by-blow account of the police eviction from City Square with 10′s of Tweets per second.
Tags: #occupymelbourne, protest, social media, twitter
California’s Governor Jerry Brown has declared October 16, ‘Steve Jobs Day’ in recognition of Jobs’ contribution and influence…Brown announced this of course via a ‘tweet’ to his 1million + followers…
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about politicians using Twitter at all, (it often feels quite cynical and insidious to me), let alone naming days after undoubtedly brilliant and phenomenally successful businessmen, but businessmen nonetheless…call me a killjoy..
Tags: Steve Jobs, twitter
In a rare film-to-TV cross-platform endeavour, HBO has struck a deal to develop a drama series series based on the brilliant feature film The Kids Are All Right, that tells the story of the teenaged children of lesbian parents who want to meet their sperm donor father and the complications that ensue. The pilot will be written and executive produced by Lisa Cholondenko, who co-wrote and directed the original film, and will pick up where the movie left off with the same five characters — lesbian couple Jules and Nic (played by Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in the movie), their kids Joni and Laser (Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson in the film), and the children’s biological dad Paul (originally played by Mark Ruffalo).
Tags: 360 degree content, cross-platform entertainment, Film, television, the kids are alright. HBO, TV, TV series
The new apps that come with iOS 5 look pretty enticing. The new ‘Cards’ app that lets you design, print and ship greeting cards direct from your iPhone looks particularly cool:
Tags: cards, iOS 5, iOS 5 apps, iphone, iphones new cards app, new apps, new iphone, send cards
Fantastic, beautifully designed and engaging tool creates awareness about the slave labour that fuels our lifestyle by calculating your ‘slavery footprint’…eye-opening.
Tags: cause marketing, infographic, interactive tool, slave labur calculator, social media
My sacrilicious tribute to the brilliant Mr Jobs – RIP.
Tags: animation, apple, apple inc, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, steve jobs rip, steve jobs tribute
What Are You Waiting For?
What Are You Waiting For? is a concept for an interactive video opinion ‘stock exchange ‘ designed to be accessed in places people wait, both online and in the real world: Airports, planes, Doctors’ surgeries, trams, train stations and public meeting places as well as in social media spaces: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
What Are You Waiting For? lets users participate in an entertaining and dynamic exchange of opinions by curating, filtering, watching, rating, agreeing, disagreeing and commenting on entertaining and topical bite-sized video opinions (VOPs) from a diverse range of high profile and everyday ‘characters’ – as well as – contributing their own video opinions.
Video Opinion Content Sample
From bricklayers to foreign students, football players to comedians, bankers and high-school students, from sous chefs and ticket inspectors, stay at home mums, pensioners and indigenous soccer players to administrators, lesbians, socialites and recent immigrants – What Are You Waiting For? will capture and curate a ‘living library’ of video opinions on a diverse range of topics from The Carbon Tax to PDAS (Public Displays of Affection ), from pokie playing to politics, from road rage to God. ..and, reward users for their interaction.
Users earn status and rewards as they ‘build their portfolios’ by watching, rating, agreeing, disagreeing (or fence-sitting), commenting on video opinions, predicting public opinion, voting in opinion polls and by posting their own opinions and insights – with those VOPs that are highest rated, most-popular or most-controversial, earning the user more stock and status..
What Are You Waiting For? is in development.
Tags: iphone app, mobile video opinions, opinion stock exchange, video opinion stock exchange promo, what are you waiting for?
Tags: dance dance dance, lykke li, remix, Track of the Day
The Delilahs is a TV drama series I’m co-creating and writing with the girls at Studio Ish.
The series follows the provocative lives of three 40-something former 80′s rock chicks who are doing the growing up now that they didn’t do in their 20′s and 30′s, or attempting to…
In a nutshell it asks the question, ‘can you grow up and still rock on?’, ‘Can you do
tuck shop in your Stooges T-Shirt?’
Air guitar is so turn of the century.
Mobile music is the new black (sabbath)…
More mobile performances from Mashable’s Top Ten Mobile Melodies.
Tags: clock, Coldplay, iphone music, led zepplin, mobile melodies, Stairway to heaven
Such a beautiful track – download…
Interesting analogy between the punk movement and the digital media revolution…
If social media is the new punk, does that make Mark Zuckerberg the new Malcolm McLaren?
Creator: PR Analyst Gerry McCusker Designer/Editor Rob MacDermid
Tags: malcolm mclaren, mark zuckerberg, punk rock, social media
Tags: The Pixies, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven, Track of the Day
More fodder for my fetish re digital media that enables meaningful experiences in ‘the real world‘, digi-media artist/student, Graham Smith traveled over 1800 miles in less than a week like a modern day Jack Keroac to physically connect with his Facebook friends, some of which he hadn’t seen for 15 years.
He and his travel-buddy made a mini-doc about the experience.
“This trip has really led me to see that these people I’ve lost contact with aren’t a series of updates and bits of information on a computer. They’re actually people living their lives.”
Everyone should take a social network road-trip according to Graham – it’s the new ‘On the Road’
Thanks to Miss Chapman for the reference
Tags: documentary, Facebook, facebook road trip
Download it…
Tags: #musicmonday, here comes the sun, nina simone, Track of the Day
Tags: Dyer Maker, JayZ, led zepplin, Track of the Day
Download…
load it on down…
Tags: elvis presley, rolling stones, sympathy for the devil, Track of the Day
Down load…
Tags: 80s pop mashups, Billy Idol, The Gorrillaz, Track of the Day
Tags: 80s pop mashups, dht, double you, George Michael, jackson 5, Madonna, Track of the Day, yazoo
Download..
Tags: 80s pop mashups, billy jean, Billy Ocean, Michael Jackson, stay the night, Track of the Day
Tags: 80s pop mashup, Duran Duran, Girls on Film, Heart, Kim Sozzi, Track of the Day
Down load and get funky
Tags: 80s pop mashups, New Order, Track of the Day, Vanilla Ice
Download…
Tags: joanna newsom, peach, pear, plum, Track of the Day
Beautiful custom barcode designs, predominantly for Japanese clients is D-barcode’s business.
Describing their work as a ‘bar-code revolution’, D-Barcode licenses the rights to their designs for exclusive or non-exclusive use.
Want your own barcode? For just $4000 and a $400 per annum license fee, you can have exclusive use of a barcode design of your choice…
D-Barcode makes me want to create a product just so I can have a custom bar-code design. Perhaps they should branch into the tatto design market?…
Guinness’ new global ‘Bring it to Life’ Gamepaign is in countdown mode – you can ‘reserve a plot’ on Google Earth via their bringittolife.tv pre-campaign teaser site - the campaign which kick starts in 18 days promises a creative google earth game experience in which ‘players’ can ‘bring to life’ their own Google Earth plots in a Farmville styley simulation experience…
Tags: bring it to life, digital marketing, farmville, gamepaign, google earth, Guinness campaign
Load it down…
Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, bonita applebum, Track of the Day
Tags: strawberry fields forever, the beatles, Track of the Day
Tags: ben harper, marvin gaye, sexual healing, Track of the Day
…together at last!
Tags: amazing grtace, lets get it on, Marvin gaye mashups, Track of the Day
Download…
If you’re looking for a new year’s resolution, this resolution generator has got it covered…everyone catered for
from the A-type alpha achiever…
To the less ambitious…
This is very beauty-ful:
Another piece of beauty from Phil Retro Spector
Tags: Bon Iver, Lippok & Martini, Nirvana, Polly G, Scott Mathews, Track of the Day, Wings
Tags: elton john, phil retro spector, philip glass
From Trendwatching’s Feb briefing:
“products that help consumers in emerging nations first and foremost save money on utilities, while offering consumers in mature consumer societies a chance to lead more sustainable lives. It’s a curious marriage between poverty and ‘meaningful living’ that nevertheless delivers the goods.”
Including Samsung India’s Solar Guru – a low-cost solar chargeable phone developed for developing countries with unstable power supplies…I want one
Belgian beer manufacturer Vedett takes immersive engagement and personalisation to a new level, inviting consumers to ‘become a Vedett’ by submitting their photograph for feature on the label of 10,000 beer bottles…even if not selected for ‘run’ consumers can order a case of their own beer, home delivered. narcissistic but nice
Very cool interactive info-graphic installation created by 3bits in Brazil.
It allows users to experience the evolution of electronic music via an interface to show the links between five main styles of electro music. When players make a hotspot selection using a Wii mote, connections appear showing where the style emerged from and what it went on to influence.
Tags: Synclost, 3bits, electronic music evolution, electronic music, wii, interactive installation
Absolutely breathtaking new film clip (and track) from Massive Attack…
Tags: massive attack, new clip, splitting the atom
Love this crowd-sourced social-change concept. It allows participants to ‘think big’ then break down their world-changing ideas into tangible micro-actions and recruit supporters to help realise them…
Tags: crowd sourcing, if i ran the world, ifwerantheworld.com, social change
I love Tape Recording for Pleasure!
http://www.myspace.com/taperecordingforpleasure
Tags: great new music, new music, tape recording for pleasure
Currently engaged by Tribal DDB to manage content for APIA’s branded content initiative, Guide to the Good Life – a lifestyle content site for baby boomers linked to a TV Series of the same name (Network 7).
Working with Studio Ish to develop a treatment for a short-format web-series and a new digital channel for Mary G – the Black Queen of the Kimberleys!… with development funding from Screen Australia.
Putting the romance back into prostitution…
Writing and concept development for Charades – a comedy series in development with Producer Kelly Chapman (KCDC) with development assistance from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland.
Charades is a narrative comedy series that follows the attempts of new managers Rod and Leeanne to apply the franchising principles from their fast food Wishbone Chicken chain to the escort industry. Their mission statement? To put the romance back into prostitution…
Co-writer and Producer for two short-format webisode Pilots for the RUSH TV series (Channel 10) – Southern Star Productions in association with Straightjacket Productions.
Rush Underground centers around the life of RUSH ops room God Leon Broznic (Samuel Johnson) when he’s not at work for the TR team.
Finally have copies of the Erky Perky Erky Perky Series 3 episodes I wrote:
Bughouse © Ambience Entertainment
I was commissioned by the ABC to write scripts for the online video components of Bluebird AR – ABC’s alternate reality drama launched in April 2010, set around the leak of Bluebird, a clandestine geoengineering initiative created by eco-billionaire Harrison Wyld.
Proposing a fictional scenario set against a backdrop of real world possibilities, Bluebird AR took some of the conventions of the well-established alternate reality game (ARG) genre and pulled them into the relatively new area of online drama, to create a hybrid entertainment form best described as ‘participatory drama’.
Here are some excerpts:
Great crowd fund-raising campaign site for Greenpeace from DDB Paris.
The campaign enables you to ‘buy’ elements of the new Rainbow Warrior in order to fund the ship’s construction.
An LCD screen in the on-board campaign office will cost you 500 euros while a biro will only set you back 1 euro.
Everyone who donates to the ship’s construction will have their name appear on the contributor’s list on board and receive a certificate of ownership.
The elegant website has an impressive cinematic feel and emotive soundtrack – it lets users navigate the new rainbow warrior via multiple views including 3D, to browse items ‘for sale’, as well as connecting to a live construction video cam.
If you want a piece of the iconic ship, act fast - real-estate is selling fast.
Tags: cause marketing, crowd funding, greenpeace
Digital media at it’s most responsive: a random Charlie Sheen inexplicable quote generator inspired by his recent ABC interview.
No. We Can’t.
Tags: charlie sheen interview, live the sheen dream, random quote generator
I was inspired to create my own tongue-in-cheek crew member vs crew member movie …way too much fun!
A social media round up of April Fools Day using Storify:
I recently conceived, directed and produced a series of short viral mockumentary videos for the Straightjacket Productions stageplay, The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell with Samuel Johnson and John Wood.
The viral videos were released in the lead up to and in the aftermath of the 2011 TV Week Logie Awards and were a ‘fly-on-the-wall’ mockumentary view of the play’s rehearsals in which the actors play ‘versions’ of themselves.
The videos were shot and edited by Stuart Liddell (Industrial Cuts and Crossfades) and improvised by Samuel Johnson, John Wood and Marcella Russo around loosely scripted scenarios written by myself.
The Concept: Samuel Johnson Wants a Logie
Samuel Johnson has been nominated for two Logie awards in 2002 and 2003 but has never won. John Woods has won 6 logie awards.
The viral video series centres around the concept that Sam Johnson really wants a Logie award, is obsessed by John Wood’s career Logies haul and that The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell is part of Sam’s strategy to win a Logie..one day.
Sam’s plan? Do theatre, grow facial hair, get taken seriously as an actor, get a lead role on TV as a cop or a doctor …equals Logie.
Video 1 – Samuel Johnson’s Rehearsal Brain Snap
Samuel Johnson has a meltdown about not having a Logie Award during rehearsals with John Wood for the Haunting of Daniel Gartrell.
Video 4 -Samuel Johnson’s Post-Logies Reaction
Sam is feeling flat after his attendance at the Logies on Sunday night and calls a break in rehearsals.
Video 7 – Sam Johnson Has a Meldown in Rehearsals
With Gartrell opening soon, Sam’s feeling the pressure but still has time to reflect on his allure with the ladies.
Visit the Straightjacket Youtube Channel to watch the full series of videos.
The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell is currently playing at fortyfive downstairs in Melbourne.
Tags: fortyfive downstairs, John Wood, mockumentary video, Samuel Johnson, social media campaign, The Haunting of Daniel Gartrell, viral video, viral video marketing, web series
3 superlicious girls with PMS Superpowers fight their arch nemesis Mr Purple to save the day.
Boom! Pow! Mwah!
Featuring Karla Burt, Georgia Bolton, Sarah Hallam, Lee Mason, Daniel Burt, Kirsten Cameron and my very talented stunt finger…
Written and Directed by Marissa Cooke
Produced by Carla McConnell & Marissa Cooke
Copyright 2012
