I attended the Vimeo Festival + Awards in 2010 and was blown away by how fun and creative the whole experience was. We did a Digital Bootcamp workshop and the packed audience was fantastic, asking really great questions. The film curation was top-notch and they had a bunch of really fantastic speakers including Reggie Watts, Morgan Spurlock and King of DSLR Philip Bloom. During the festival Seeper did a really jaw-dropping projection mapping onto the IAC building where most of…

I love Maria Popova’s site, Brain Pickings. It’s an endless source of interesting ideas. She has also helpfully provided an online bookshelf so you can explore all the amazing books she consumes so voraciously. She often posts videos and cool stuff about the history of film, for example this post on Grierson: A Documentary About the Filmmaker Who Coined “Documentary.” Basically, I’m urging you to subscribe to the blog and follow her on Twitter without further ado. “Brain Pickings is…

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If you feel rather overwhelmed by the barrage of social media information coming at you every day but don’t want to miss any good stories I highly recommend Summify. It sends stories by email – you decide how many and how often – and it always sends me interesting stuff I might otherwise have missed. Of course this does depend on how good/relevant your social media feeds are in the first place which is yet another thing to think about…

Well this certainly clears things up! I think I can just give people this sheet of paper from now on and stop doing my Digital Bootcamp workshops altogether. Not sure where this originally came from so I can’t credit it but congratulations to whomever did it!  

You have to admit that this fake trailer is right on the money about certain British film tropes. “Is this film going to batter audiences over the head with a message of social injustice?” Meanwhile I’m waiting with bated breath for the results of Lord Smith’s review of UK government film policy on Monday. I do hope it is more nuanced than Cameron’s simplistic demand that the film industry should support “commercially successful pictures.” As Ben Blaine pointed out, this…

Drunk History Christmas with Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes from Ryan Gosling

Does anyone know what this is from? It reminds me of one of Douglas Rushkoff’s maxims: You may always choose “none of the above.”

I have been waiting in vain to find some time to try Klynt out so I’m just going to post the info here so YOU can all try it. Give it a go and let us know how it is.