Social-Creature

Last year, I wrote a post called “Your Life Is A Transmedia Experience.” In October, the post became the basis for a panel discussion event at the FutureM conference in Boston with me, Marta Kagan and Jan Libby. I have updated the deck from that panel, and am sharing here for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! [...]

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HBO has created a monster with the promotional campaign for True Blood, a new TV series from the creator of Six Feet Under, set to premiere September 7th. AdAge (which has a nice little video about the campaign here, but no way to embed it elsewhere) explains: While they’re only one part of the larger [...]

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While trying to track down a quote from Bret Easton Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction, I came across a LinkedIn profile for Sean Bateman. In case you’re not acquainted with Sean Bateman, one of the main protagonists of the Rules of Attraction, here’s his LinkedIn profile: Sean Bateman Student at Bennington College Albany, New York [...]

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Lightning in a Bottle is in a week, and i have no time to write anything else, but check out this issue of the Artist Network. it’s all about stories so that’ll absolutely keep you entertained in the meantime. i will get back to having time to be more insightful after may 28th. thank you [...]

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This whole thing Radiohead’s doing, encouraging remixes of its songs is way clever. Radiohead, iTunes and GarageBand are giving you the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude”. To make remixing easy, the separate ‘stems’ from the song are available to purchase from iTunes. The ‘stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. [...]

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there is so much i would like to say about this issue, but i have no time! so for now just enjoy the videos, and maybe at some less hectic time, i’ll get to all the rest. the one thing i do have time to mention, is that it is an honor to create the [...]

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get your post-apocalyptic designer dream on… Illuminated is a new animated series being created by some of the people behind GNN (Guerrilla News Network), Phong.com (Eminem’s “Mosh”), Pod Collective, Broken Saints, and ConceptArt.org. illuminated.com and while you’re looking at that you may also want to look at this: how to share illuminated and this: how [...]

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worst case scenario, who would lose out if the music industry disappeared? the fans and musicians would still be able to connect now that they have the internet to act as matchmaker. in fact, even huge acts such as Radiohead and NIN are starting to ditch their labels , cutting out the despotic middleman to [...]

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first, you need to watch the trailer for sony pictures’ across the universe: here. if you cannot be trusted to come back here afterwards, however, you can just watch the shittier-quality youtube version: ok then. now that you have been adequately briefed, we can begin. i first saw the trailer for across the universe on [...]

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yesterday a new client pointed me in the direction of reverbnation.com, and while i don’t usually write about websites, this is different–i can’t even help it. launched just under a year ago, “ReverbNation.com is a Music 2.0 company that is responding to the changing music business paradigm.” except, when they say it, this isn’t just [...]

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