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In Everything is a Remix Part 1, Kirby Ferguson began a four-part series exploring the influence of remixing in the creation of new works. The series continues below with Part 2: Remix, Inc. To find out more about the series, see a complete list of references and support Kirby’s time-consuming efforts visit everythingisaremix.info. Part 3 will be available later this summer.
An exploration of the remix techniques involved in producing films. Part Two of a four-part series. An additional supplement to this video can be seen here: goo.gl/gtArc To support this series please visit http://www.everythingisaremix.info/donate/
The accepted wisdom of journalism and its schools was that storytelling was our real job, our high calling, our real art. Ain’t necessarily so. The accepted wisdom of blogging has been that now any of us can do everything: report and write, producing text and audio and video and graphics and packaging and distributing it all. But I also see specialization returning with some people reporting, others packaging. Can we agree to a new accepted wisdom: that the most precious resource in news is reporting and so maximizing the acquisition of facts and answers is what we need?
So what is an article? An article can be a byproduct of the process. When digital comes first and print last, then the article is something you need to put together to fill the paper; it’s not the goal of the entire process. The process is the goal of the process: keeping the public constantly informed.
An article can be a luxury. When a story is complex and has been growing and changing, it is a great service to tie that into a cogent and concise narrative. But is that always necessary? Is it always the best way to inform? Can we always afford the time it takes to produce articles? Is writing articles the best use of scarce reporting resources?
A kind of follow up to the previous post.
Journalists the world over are struggling to cope with a social and mobile tsunami of ‘user generated content’, to use an increasingly inadequate phrase. Twitter and YouTube will overwhelm news organisations who can’t master their potential.
A common mistake for those seeking to cope with this profound disruption is to confuse technology with innovation. Algorithms, apps and search tools help make data useful but they can’t replace the value judgements at the core of journalism.
Genuine innovation requires a fundamental shift in how journalists think about their role in a changed world. To begin with, they need to get used to being ‘curators’; sorting news from the noise on the social web using smart new tools and good old fashioned reporting skills.
I find it helps to think of curation as three central questions:
* Discovery: How do we find valuable social media content?
* Verification: How do we make sure we can trust it?
* Delivery: How do we turn that content into stories for a changed audience?
Storyful uses the power of social networks to create an authentic, cooperative and socially useful journalism.
Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your windows. It allows you to quickly and efficiently "divvy up" your screen into exact portions. This lets you take maximum advantage of your screen real estate without any hassle at all. Window management has never been this easy.
A very simple and very helpful application.
Title: 'Above Everything Else' Agency: N/A - direct client Client: Grupo Cosentino Product: Worktop Brand: Silestone Production company: The Mushroom Company Director/DoP/Art direction/Post/Editor: Alex Roman Original idea/Concept: Alex Roman Additional CGI: Juan Ángel García Martinez Music: ZipZap Music Spot TV 60" www.thirdseventh.com
“Above Everything Else”, an ad for Silestone countertops by Alex Roman, is pretty impressive. The lush HD imagery of objects cascading on to the client’s product is kitchen & bath fetishism at its finest. But what makes this little advert so extraordinary is the fact that each frame is computer generated. To call it photorealistic doesn’t really do it justice.
Previously we posted about Roman's work "The Third and Seventh."
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