panoptik

A thousand plateaus…

August 12, 2010

The first small films shot entirely with the iPhone4 are coming to light.

This ubiquity of mediation is problematic for “the media”.

Don’t call it “slacker”…

July 19, 2010

During the winter season in Tokyo, two disillusioned models fall in love. When their stay extends, the relationship combusts.

TIGER, as a work of trans-media enterprise, is a splendid example of the enabling possibilities of the moment.

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It comes down to this – everything you do, or offer to the public as a business is a service. Each time they interact with you. it is a touchpoint, and an opportunity to offer what is wanted from that service.

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Fashion week

May 25, 2010

I have produced a range of parade programs at Fashion Week over the years, and have been surprised at the shift in the way the event is mediated. Five years ago I was probably one of the only people in the pit with a smaller form factor camera – there were four news crews and [...]

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5D :: Cinema Minima

May 20, 2010

Why is this different? If you work lighter, you work faster, with less lighting, less grip and camera support – so you move through the setups more quickly. You save time and use almost no crew – we had two people.

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The end of the future

March 6, 2010

“Dad – when will the world be like this?” he asked.

“Probably never” I replied, reflecting on a question that has puzzled me for some time – when did the FUTURE cease to be imagined?

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The real “picture” of social media

July 16, 2009

There are an entire class of supposed media savants who act as self styled contemporary anthropologists of popular culture. Can they be trusted?

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Triumph of the Shrill

July 14, 2009

The hideous Microsoft Encarta, a disturbingly synoptic series of 75 word hyperlinked summaries on all sorts of generic fast facts became the unwitting poster child for everything that was dull and reductive about the CD ROM format.

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