Production meeting in Santa Monica today with my DP for SXSW, Mike Ambs, to discuss the overall tone, shots and logistics. Ten days to ‘til we land in Austin. Really excited to get going! More info to come (Yes, I know I have to actually say what this is all about at some point)! In the meantime, check out Mike’s work. This one video always does it for me. :)
Hello! Officially.
I’m setting up this space up as a behind-the-scenes blog for all the media and research collected for my documentary film I Heart the Web. Posts will usually be short in nature. We’ll see how things develop. It’s go time. :)
Digital Dark Age
The Digital Dark Age is a term used to describe a possible future situation where it will be difficult or impossible to read historical documents, because they have been stored in an obsolete digital format.The name derives from the Dark Ages in the sense that there would then be a relative lack of written record. (via wannabegaz)
Pew Research: The Social Side of the Internet
The study found…
- 62% of all Americans said the internet has had a major impact on the ability of [volunteer] groups [for a social cause] to draw attention to an issue. Some 68% of internet users said that.
- 53% of the online Americans who are active in [volunteer] groups [for a social cause] say the internet has had a major impact on their ability to keep up with news and information about their groups; 30% say the internet has had a minor impact on that.
Kind of “no duh,” but also nice to see the numbers and the ideas approached scientifically.
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Art Games
2011
Leo Caillard
“We see thousands of different pictures every day in news, art, fashion, internet ads, Facebook,” says Caillard. “Everything is together without any organization. People start to lose the ability to reflect on what they are looking at.”
Caillard arrived at the UI concept after visiting Paris’ famous museums. He saw visitors looking at masterpieces for five seconds at a time, the same way they look at pictures on a mobile phone, and then move on to the next painting.
“Digital technology is changing the way we consume culture,” he says. “This is neither good or bad. A lot of very interesting art emerges from new tools of expression. But, like any change, it will take time for people to understand that we need art of the past and masterpiece paintings [in order] to make something interesting with digital creation. The future will let us know.”
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Art Games
2011
“We see thousands of different pictures every day in news, art, fashion, internet ads, Facebook,” says Caillard. “Everything is together without any organization. People start to lose the ability to reflect on what they are looking at.”
Caillard arrived at the UI concept after visiting Paris’ famous museums. He saw visitors looking at masterpieces for five seconds at a time, the same way they look at pictures on a mobile phone, and then move on to the next painting.
“Digital technology is changing the way we consume culture,” he says. “This is neither good or bad. A lot of very interesting art emerges from new tools of expression. But, like any change, it will take time for people to understand that we need art of the past and masterpiece paintings [in order] to make something interesting with digital creation. The future will let us know.”
via Jennifer Chan
You need to get off Facebook
People who find the Web distasteful — ugly, uncivilized — have nonetheless been forced to live there: it’s the place to go for jobs, resources, services, social life, the future. But now, with the purchase of an iPhone or an iPad, there’s a way out, an orderly suburb that lets you sample the Web’s opportunities without having to mix with the riffraff. This suburb is defined by apps from the glittering App Store: neat, cute homes far from the Web city center, out in pristine Applecrest Estates. In the migration of dissenters from the “open” Web to pricey and secluded apps, we’re witnessing urban decentralization, suburbanization and the online equivalent of white flight.
Mind blown. What a crazy, and what I think accurate, thought.
Virginia Heffernan (via soupsoup)
(via katykelley) (via mikehudack) Reblogging so I can remember to comment on this later. (via attentionindustry)
The Invention of the World Wide Web
