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Imaginative Links

This is a genius idea and would so speed up train journeys. A train that doesn't need to stop at stations. check out the web video via deputy dog

Barry Diller on the ending of narrative as we once knew it. via businessweek

Youth Marketing Presentation and more lovely links

Firstly I found the slideshare presentation on Youth Marketing (at bottom of this post) from the fast forward marketing trend blog. 'Youth is no longer a demographic, it's a mindset'. It's worth a quick view as well as the summary to the  Global Habbo Youth Survey, especially on teens and their favourite mobilephones here. Quoting the summary 'Examines the interests, values, attitudes, online habits of a global audience, the survey reveals teens' current media usage, consumption behaviour and brand preferences in order to better understand what compels youth around the world'

Here's a great story about how text messaging is used for flirting in India. It's from New York Times so you might need to quickly sign up for it to access the story but NYT is always full of great stories.

Here's two great pieces on the meshing of TV and the net. First in the Atlantic Monthly and second in the Timesonline.

This is an amazing site full of futuristic skyscaper designs, fascinating what architects are wanting to build. It's a competition and you have to click on '08 Skyscaper competition'

Synchstep from Pokenyc (explanation here) - This is going to be a killer app for the iphone or itouch (and every other phone for sure) and want it now. An app that synchs your music with your walking pace. Greg Elliott, the designer of it, can safely retire.

Here's a great piece on littleminx.tv. It's a division of RSA Films (where I work). They produced five shorts films from their the directors and there's links here to watch all of them - enjoy - Exquisite Corpse

Lastly my tweetcloud - I love twitter apps. Damiano via punkplanning

 

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Trucks - Sequel to Cadbury's Gorilla Film from Fallon London

It's here, after the huge viral success of 'Gorilla', Glass And A Half Full Productions launches its second major production and this time it’s the turn of ‘Trucks’.

Click here to watch the film, again directed by the Fallon's Creative Director, Juan Cabral.

Great Queen song...anyone care to comment?

Twitter Love

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Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void articulates the strengths of twitter against the other new communication platforms. I always thought it would be the perfect communication tool at a music festival where you could effectively mass text message all your friends at once but I have seen the light and see how it's a platform clearly populated by influencers, social media marketeers. A great platform to spread the day to day but also links of interest. Here's Shel Israel's insightful post on twitter at SXSW.

Here's Twitter in plain english from the wonderful common craft blog.

Links - AP is dead

Associated Press is killed by bloggers and aggregation. This is a huge story. The world of journalism is changing fast. Where before, the world's journalists wrote stories that were syndcated worldwide by AP but they're now written for free by bloggers (example of the free model?) and also aggregated by sites like Google News, Topix, Techmeme  - LINK

Links - Death of Cinema

After Peter Greenaway's comments on the present state of cinema at the Pusan Film Festival.  Here's a series of relevant links regarding the present state of flux in cinema starting with various tangential links. All hopefully food for thought.

Here's the original reports on Peter Greenaway's feelings on the state of cinema. The Variety and Independent articles.

FREE REVENUE MODEL
Here's a series of links referring to the Free Revenue Model.
Mike Masnick discusses basic model here and the grand unified theory on the economics of Free.
Here's Free Music Models and arguments to open up content to combat piracy.

Here's Hollywood attitudes to piracy and downloads.

Here's the slow death of DVD rentals and Netflix and the appearence of DVD kiosks.

Director/writer/actor Ed Burns new movie is premiering on itunes.

THE CONVERGENCE OF TV & NET
Fusion of net and TV is coming technologically here and here. What will be the social effects?

NICHE CINEMA & AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
Local audiences decides what is on a single screen in multiplex cinema - Theatrical-on-demand system
and the future of niche cinema here with the whole cinema experience rethought here.

Hollywood is disrupted - It's no longer the epicentre of creative culture against the internet.

Lastly , professionally generated content competing against user generated content. It's the case for all the old forms of distribution.

Anyone care to comment or please email me damiano at rsafilms dot co dot uk

Links - Spot the PC, virtual worlds, experience and the shrinking world

More signs of the slow declining influence of TV. If teens are not watching TV what are they doing? - "eMarketer estimates that 24% of the 34.3 million child and teen (3-to-18) Internet users in the US will use virtual worlds on at least a monthly basis in 2007. By 2011, 53% of them will be going virtual."

Memory and storage in electronics is shrinking further and faster and will use a fraction of the power of present memory. University of Arizona electronic engineering dept have developed nano-ionic memory. This new type of memory technology could lead to thumb drives or digital-camera memory cards that store a terabyte of information - 1000 GB -more than most hard drives hold today. The first examples of the new technology, which could also slash energy consumption by more than 99 percent, could be in our hands within 18 months. What will be the social effect of so cheap, so abundant, so small, so fast memory on us all? More people filming, storing, producing UGC? Storing your whole visual life in your pocket from the moment you first were given a mobilephone?

This great blog post from Caslon Analytics gives you quick and concise facts and stats on blogs - How many blogs? Active and dead?  Demos? Second largest blogging country after USA is Brazil- Interesting. - LINK

It's the EXPERIENCE not service or the product that matters. Peter Merholz slideshow lecture from Adaptivepath. via Vincent Thome's blog.

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Making of Get the Glass campaign

Here's the 'making of' the exquisite 'Get the Glass' milk campaign from Goodby Silverstein and produced by Northern Kingdom. It's only fault being it's slow buffeting - patience is a virtue - LINK

Samsung's new wafer thin (1 centimetre thick) 40in (TV) screen coming to the shops soon. Electronic scroll paper is only around the corner to kill off newspapers. - LINK

Lucid Touch - a multi-touch screen technology where you touch the back of the screen but see your finger movements on the screen without obscuring your view of it. - web video LINK

 

Homogenisation of city boroughs - great blog piece from Zeus Jones about the troubling trend of rich white population taking over NYC neighbourhoods primarily because of rising housing costs. Look at Notting Hill in London as one example. It's becoming an exclusively enclave for young rich white Eurotrash city bankers where the original mix of rich, poor with ethnic minorities is slowly drifting away. Only the council estates are left. How soon until even their inhabitants are bought out to complete the rich enclave. - LINK

Here's Patrick Wilson's lovely song illustrated to animation found by Iain Tait on crackunit.com

Information R/evolution Web Video

Kansas State University anthopology professor Michael Wesch has made another web video called "Information R/evolution" exploring changes in the ways we find, store, create, critique, and share information. Wesch made "The machine is Us/ing" at the beginning of the year. I have embedded both below to watch.

Information R/evolution

The Machine is Us/ing

Thoughts that hopefully generate reactions and comments

Goodby Silverstein web video talk switch from traditional to digital - LINK

Guide through new Apple OS Leopard software - LINK

Future of all forms of media articulated in this great post from Joshua Green from the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, Hollis Towns the Executive Editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer and Bill Stewart of IBM Digital Media at Kent Sate Media Mindsets Conference. - IMPORTANT LINK

Film industry blaming games industry for it's woes when there's a fundamental content consumption shift going on. From MMM - LINK

David Slade's new film - 30 Days of Night Variety film review - LINK

So you want to go viral?  - Matt Dickman's blog - LINK

More people playing online games than watching TV
This is a dynamite stat for the traditional forms of media like TV commercial production and worrying for traditional content production but will people just watch TV, play games, IM, email etc all at the sametime? Read a stat recently that said more technology in the home, the more TV was watched or is it just left on in the background? When the (appropriate demo) brands realise this amazing fact, as Toyota is beginning to, it's going to be fascinating to witness how it's going effect my industry - traditional commercial production. Why in the UK are we making traditional commercials more than ever? Will all these different fragmented channels survive? Visiting a commercial TV channel who are top of the long tail of digital TV in UK they claim the fragmented audiences are coming back to the established branded trusted channels and deserting the new niche digital channels. I don't know who to believe but the meshing of games, branding and some form of usefulness or entertainment is clearly the way forward. Interactive and not passive anymore. from the great wonderland blog.

Simon Andrews has a good take too how all online games will be free - LINK