Take This Lollipop
If you think Facebook is creepy, check this guy out.
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A flickr CC search toy
Not only a nifty set of options, it can even stamp the attribution into the image.
» Identity Slippage, and what’s the weirdest thing you’ve been e-mailed by accident? hilarymason.com
This sort of unwitting misattribution results in an identity slippage that could actually have some fairly interesting consequences. We’ve settled on e-mail as a unique identifier across platforms, but we increasingly cannot rely on that assumption.
WordPress › SoundCloud Shortcode « WordPress Plugins
The SoundCloud Shortcode plugin allows you to integrate a player widget from SoundCloud into your WordPress Blog by using a WordPress shortcodes.
Lawbot and the Case of the Missing Copyright Infringers
The following is a mostly fictional text-based adventure game. The situation is fictional, the world in which it is set is fictional. The references it makes to copyright law and the Canadian Copyright Act, however, are currently true.
Fair Use Tube - Promoting Fair Use in Online Video
Welcome to Fair Use Tube.org! This is a site for user-generated video creators to learn how to protect their "fair use" rights under U.S. copyright law on video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Metacafe, and Dailymotion. This site is is a compilation of resources and tools relating to copyright law and user-generated video, and is designed to provide amateur video creators with the resources they need to stand up for free speech and successfully challenge abusive takedown notices and content ID filters, which frequently target non-infringing content. If you are a creator whose video has been blocked, please check out our Guide to YouTube Removals as well as our Fair Use Resources section. Additionally, if you are a video creator wanting to use DVD footage from a movie or TV show for a remix video, check out our new Guide to Ripping DVDs, which describes how to rip DVD footage to a format which you can import into video editing software.
Video gaming children 'more creative' - Telegraph
Children who play video games are more creative than those who don't, according to a new study.
BBC - College of Production - College of Production
The College of Production website is a free site available to everyone in the UK who works, or wants to work, in radio, tv and online production. Our short videos, articles and podcasts provide informal training in core editorial, creative and production skills.
Video 101 on Vimeo Video School
Are you curious about how to make videos but can't tell a camcorder from a coffee maker? Do the terms 'pan' and 'tilt' conjour up thoughts of tv cooking shows instead of movie making terminology? Or maybe you're tired of always being the audience member and want to start making videos yourself? Well look no further, Video 101 is here! Join the friendly Vimeo Staff as we cover all the basics of shooting and editing videos you can be proud of. We've handcrafted these lessons for beginners of all backgrounds, check it out!
Film Literacy & The Language of Film
Helping Educators Teach With & About Film Resources, readings and recommendations
ChronoZoom
ChronoZoom is an open source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences using the story of Big History to easily understand all this information. This project has been funded and supported by Microsoft Research Connections in collaboration with University California at Berkeley and Moscow State University. You can browse through history on ChronoZoom to find data in the form of articles, images, video, sound, and other multimedia. ChronoZoom links a wealth of information from five major regimes that unifies all historical knowledge collectively known as Big History. By drawing upon the latest discoveries from many different disciplines, you can visualize the temporal relationships between events, trends, and themes. Some of the disciplines that contribute information to ChronoZoom include biology, astronomy, geology, climatology, prehistory, archeology, anthropology, economics, cosmology, natural history,
Home | Project Re: Brief by Google
Advertising Re-imagined Can America’s most iconic advertising campaigns be re-imagined for the web? This year we partnered with four global brands and a group of advertising legends in a bid to test a medium and challenge an industry. See how Amil Gargano, Paula Green, Harvey Gabor, Howie Cohen and Bob Pasqualina worked with the latest technology to bring their most famous ideas to life online and inspire a new generation of creative minds along the way.
21 Examples of Big Photography in Web Design | Inspiration
Using big photographs in a web design, either as the background or part of the content, is a great way to easily set the overall mood of a site. However, when doing this, you run the risk of creating a site that it visually too busy. That’s why most site’s that you see making use of big images have an overall minimal style when it comes to the other design elements. For today’s inspiration, we’ve gathered a collection of sites that are excellent examples of how to use big photography in a web design.
Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots | Brain Pickings
You are an author about write a story. How shall it begin? Perhaps there is a single, basic plot: a conflict that needs to be resolved. Perhaps there are two questions to be answered: will my story have a happy ending or a sad ending? Perhaps the conflict has one of several distinct oppositions: man vs nature, man vs. technology, man vs. god or man vs. self. In 1894, French critic Georges Polti recognized thirty-six possible plots, which included conflicts such as Supplication, Pursuit, Self-sacrifice, Adultery, Revolt, the Enigma, Abduction, and Disaster. In 1928, dime novelist William Wallace Cook, author of Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots, did him one better, cataloging every narrative he could think of through a method that bordered on madness. His final plot count? 1,462.
Seven ways to think like the web « Jon Udell
Given the web’s hybrid nature, how to can we teach people to make best use of this distributed hypermedia system? That’s what I’ve been trying to do, in one way or another, for many years. It’s been a challenge to label and describe the principles I want people to learn and apply. I’ve used the terms computational thinking, Fourth R principles, and most recently Mark Surman’s evocative thinking like the web. Back in October, at the Traction Software users’ conference, I led a discussion on the theme of observable work in which we brainstormed a list of some principles that people apply when they work well together online. It’s the same list that emerges when I talk about computational thinking, or Fourth R principles, or thinking like the web. Here’s an edited version of the list we put up on the easel that day:
We, the Web Kids - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Piotr Czerski is a Polish writer and commentator. Here, he lays out the kind of political/literary manifesto that seems to pop up from time to time, usually in Europe. The essay, as translated by Marta Szreder, was posted to Pastebin under a Creative Commons license. I repost it here with the first several paragraphs excised, so that we can hasten to the meat of Czerski's analysis about how the expectations of young people have been conditioned by their experiences of the Internet.
Online Audio Converter (MP3, WAV, Ogg, WMA, M4A, AAC) – media.io
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SVA Portfolios :: Gallery
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How Tumblr Rekindled the Art of Animated GIFs
What is it about small, repetitive moving images that everyone is so crazy about on Tumblr? Animated GIFs have been circling the web since 1987, yet in the past few years, they seem to have increased in popularity. Because Tumblr acts as a digital incubator for all things visually stunning, it has helped rejuvenate the outdated artform — along with other content-curating sites like Reddit. The GIF tag on Tumblr is thriving with animated images of anything from cats eating pizza, to more captive, cinematic city shots.
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The Evolution of Animated GIFs [VIDEO]
GIFs have become a bit of an enigma — they are one of the oldest image formats used on the Web, yet if you ask anyone familiar with the old format, they’d likely not associate it with a short clip of a cat in a Godzilla suit knocking over a tower. Throughout their 25 years of existence, GIFs have served a variety of purposes, from practicality to purely entertainment. How did such a vast, eclectic medium come to be? The answer is in the newest episode of PBS’s web series Off Book, “Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium.”
GreenCine | Movie Primers
If you're like most people, you've probably heard of the French New Wave or Dogme95, but when asked at a party to explain what they are or to name more than a couple of films, you may struggle a little bit. Well, fear not! Going along with GreenCine's belief that DVDs are not just entertainment but film-schools-in-a-box, we're happy to introduce you to our own form of film education: Primers. They are meant to be a fun introductory overview of major film genres and movements, and to serve as handy guides in your rental selection process. The primers, written by a mix of GreenCine staff writers and outside experts, will highlight the representative films of each genre available at GreenCine (while occasionally also wistfully mentioning those that are not yet available on DVD).
AFI's 100 YEARS
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies documented AFI's celebration of cinema's centennial. Each special honors a different aspect of excellence in American film.
A Film Critics Guide Book
the concepts I have built here are for my own use. I do not consider them written in stone, or even perfect. They help me come to a decision. I do not like to force my beliefs or morals or my form of criticism on anyone. I wrote this as an option for others to use if they want to. It may not be perfect, but I feel it is accurate and fair. Have fun with it, and always remember to have fun with the actual films first and foremost.
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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
The mission of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is to promote open scholarly discourse around critical and creative uses of digital technology in teaching, learning, and research. Educational institutions have often embraced instrumentalist conceptions and market-driven implementations of technology that overdetermine its uses in academic environments. Such approaches underestimate the need for critical engagement with the integration of technological tools into pedagogical practice. The JITP will endeavor to counter these trends by recentering questions of pedagogy in our discussions of technology in higher education. The journal will also work to change what counts as scholarship – and how it is presented, disseminated, and reviewed – by allowing contributors to develop their ideas, publish their work, and engage their readers using multiple formats. We are committed first and foremost to teaching and learning, and intend that the journal itself – both in process a
How to create an epic tale | The Poke:
7 lessons presenters can learn from storytellers | make a powerful point
Everyone loves a good story. Thag and Ugg told stories of their hunting prowess and the time they brought home a particularly large woolly mammoth for dinner. Homer (not Simpson) gave us the Iliad. But when it comes to Ursula* giving a boardroom presentation, they are somehow, well – just not that exciting. It’s as if in the fine-print of ppt, buried somewhere deep in the license agreement, there’s a line that says, PowerPoint reserves the right to remove all personality, humor and human connection for the duration of this presentation. There’s a lot presenters can learn from storytellers. Take a look at this from Moran Cerf a the Moth GrandSlam. A competition for master story-tellers.
The Conspiracy Thrillers of the 1970s: Paranoid Time - Article - Stylus Magazine
It’s been a good long while since truly quality “conspiracy films” have ruled the cinematic roost. But they once did, as any glance at some of the major blockbusters of the 1970s will tell you. In that decade, often celebrated as the golden age of American cinema, conspiracy thrillers developed as a genre unto themselves, mirroring the political context of the times. These slices of paranoid darkness managed to strike the difficult balance of being uncomfortably subversive, profoundly dark and unsettling, and yet richly entertaining and often quite successful. And while since 1980, examples of the genre still popped up here and there, rarely have they combined the gripping suspense and trenchant sociopolitical critiques the conspiracy thrillers of the 70s managed with such aplomb. So it is worth wondering why the 1970s featured a slew of brilliantly made “paranoia” films so distinctive and yet thematically similar to one another, while the current generation of cineastes has until rec