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Feed SubscriptionVodo Is Netflix-Meets-Kickstarter for Indie Film Fans
With 500,000 downloads in less than a month, a neo-noir thriller by newcomer Justin Eugene Evans shoots down the standard distribution model in favor of video-sharing site VODO. For director Justin Eugene Evans, making the movie was the easy part.
Read More »Inside Intel And Toshiba’s Social Film
"Inside" stars Emmy Rossum, Intel, and, maybe, you. We go behind the scenes of the latest branded filmmaking adventure. Emmy Rossum’s hair is up in a bun.
Read More »Rethinking Employee Awards
I Love Rewards and other businesses find ways to bring meaning to corporate award ceremonies. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors the year's finest film. The PEN/Faulkner Foundation honors the year's best fiction
Read More »Transformers: More Than Meets The Ear
The giant robots in the new Transformer movies are all computer-generated. The ear-rattling sounds, however, are 100% real. Right down to the tiger with emphysema playing Megatron.
Read More »Lindau Nobel Meeting–Buckminsterfullerene and the Third Man
Sir Harry Kroto gave a talk yesterday that was unlike any other lecture at the Lindau Meetings so far. Kroto didn’t talk about the work he had done, or about his life as a scientist
Read More »Putting the Quality in Q&A
While working at Facebook in 2009, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever had a question: Why isn't there a place on the Internet where a question can be answered by someone who actually knows the answer? That question led the pair to start Quora , a Q&A website that allows users to share knowledge. You can pose a question, answer a question, and edit others' answers
Read More »Anatomy Of A Cannes Winner: NTT DoCoMo Xylophone
Anatomy of a winner takes us through the key decisions that took a piece of work from good to great--and won the campaign for NTT DoCoMo Touch Wood SH-08C a Golden Lion at Cannes.
Read More »Making 15 Minutes of Fame Last
Whether it's sudden press or a viral video, it's easier than ever for business owners to get a taste of the spotlight. Here's how to make it last. Before she turned actress Natalie Portman into a ballerina for the film Black Swan, dancer Mary Helen Bowers was already training women all over New York City through her fitness company, Ballet Beautiful, which she founded in 2008
Read More »The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Film
01 / Netflix > > For ushering in the era of streaming video.
Read More »The Story Behind The Story Of Cars 2
How Pixar's John Lasseter dug into the cutting-room-floor scrap heap of the first Cars movie to come up with the idea for the new film. Creative people know that no idea that gets cut from a project ever goes in the trash can
Read More »YouTube Adds Rentals, Largest BitTorrent Case Ever, Google Goggles For Biz Cards, And More…
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Read More »How to Avoid the Passion Trap
Passion alone is typically what drives a founder to get a new business off the ground.
Read More »A journey inside the ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ with Werner Herzog [Video]
As a filmmaker--albeit for the very small screen rather than the very large one--it was my supreme pleasure to interview legendary director Werner Herzog ( Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn ) about his latest film Cave of Forgotten Dreams . Herzog's first foray into 3-D, the movie takes viewers on a journey through the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave in the South of France, which contains perfectly preserved charcoal drawings, many of which date to 30,000 years ago. [More]
Read More »Robot Job Diversification Allows For Radiation Testing, Rating Video Games For Sex And Gore
In an era when cars drive themselves and algorithms predict traffic , the robot as a guardian figure is rising: 'Bots are being used in Japan to measure radiation levels from the crippled nuclear reactors, and the video games Rating Board is using automated systems to decide what rating a game gets.
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