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For beActive Media’s Bernardo, transmedia can be a great way to build anticipation prior to a film’s launch
Transmedia is a buzzword that the film industry has used quite a lot in the last couple of years, from independent…
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Thanks to all the veterans you have laid down their lives some we can live freely.
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A Peek Inside the Notebooks of Famous Authors, Artists and Visionaries
Emily Temple, flavorwire.comIt’s no secret that we at Flavorpill are fascinated by the marginalia of our favorite artists’ lives — we swoon over their doodles, dig through their sketchbooks, and posthumously ogle their beach photos. Recently, aided by one of ou…
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Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”
Greg Rucka, io9.comGreg Rucka has rocked the worlds of comics and novels for years, including memorable Batman writing, plus the Queen and Country series and the Atticus Kodiak books. But he might be best known for being a man who writes a lot of “strong…
Greg Rucka” “Why I Write “Strong Female Characters” http://t.co/mrPE48go
‘The Avengers’: The First All-Star Movie By Design
Jeff Gomez, mashable.comJeff Gomez is CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, a New York based production company that consults with Hollywood studios on some of their most popular entertainment franchises. Follow him @Jeff_Gomez.
With some…
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People are more creative when they feel passionate about their work. Whether they are driven by interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, or a sense of personal challenge, they are more likely to take risks, look for multiple solutions to a problem, and…
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Enjoy Your Comic Books With ComicBookLover
Simon Slangen, makeuseof.comComics are an often under-appreciated form of fiction. Some of the graphic novels I’ve read rank right up there with my favorite fantasy books. But this article is not meant to recruit new comic book lovers. Rather it’s to cater to my fello…
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May
The Avengers, Comic Books and the Future of Storytelling
upenn.eduThis post is by Kendall Whitehouse, Wharton’s director of new media.
To no one’s surprise, the highest-grossing movie this weekend was Marvel Studio’s The Avengers, which brought in more than $200 million in the U.S. The…
Are You Too Comfortable?
accidentalcreative.comBy Todd Henry
What do you do mindlessly? Are there activities or routines that you jump into without thinking?
We are creatures of habit. It’s easy to gravitate toward activities and environments that reinforce our…
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22 Executives Share The Best Advice They Ever Received
Aimee Groth and Kim Bhasin, businessinsider.comStrategy
Innovation is a buzzword businesspeople can’t live without, but over the years, its meaning has gotten lost in the abyss of business jargon.
We’ve compiled 27 great quotes from some of the world’s most creative minds — an…
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May
Transmedia and the Audience
Simon Staffans, appmarket.tvIn a post in February I talked about what I saw as the ”Five pillars of transmedia”, the different types of people that need to work together to successfully develop, produce and launch a transmedia project. There was a sixth pill…
Transmedia and the Audience http://flpbd.it/BBi0g via @simonstaffans:
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Megan Erickson on May 17, 2012, 12:00 AM, bigthink.com
What’s the Big Idea?
Up up down down left right left right B A start. Press these buttons in succession while playing any one of the more than 60 video games which recognize it and heavenly rewards will rain down upon you,…
LEVEL 10!!!
Back when I taught tennis, there was something called a NTRP Rating. To this day I have no idea what NTRP stands for, but its purpose was legitimate. It ranked players on a 7 point scale. So a player with a solid…
Really interesting rating system for screenwriters. What level are you?
Sam McNerney on May 11, 2012, 3:50 PM, bigthink.com
Shakespeare was a ruthless thief. Some of his first plays – the three parts of Henry VI – were so similar to Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great thatmany eighteenth-century scholars believed Marlowe wrote them. By today’s…
Jason Gots on May 15, 2012, 12:00 AM, bigthink.com
What’s the Big Idea?
The average consumer associates 3M with tape – a product so integral to our daily lives that we barely notice it anymore. But in 1925, as an alternative to the unwieldy, glue-covered sheets of paper it made…
