Peter Knegt of IndieWire writes: Few folks in the independent film industry are more qualified to teach a master class on rights management and film distribution than John Sloss. Founder of Cinetic Media, a co-founder of both FilmBuff and Producers Distribution Agency (the theatrical distributor of...
Tom Breihan of Stereogum writes: Whoo! Last month, Janelle Monáe released her Erykah Badu-assisted single “Q.U.E.E.N.,” an irresistible art-funk strut. And today, we get the sort of video that makes an already-great song even better. The new “Q.U.E.E.N.” video is...
Dara Kerr on Cnet writes: On the heels of YouTube celebrating 1 billion unique monthly visitors to the site, the companyannounced Wednesday that these people are watching more than 6 billion hours of videos every month.
For a little perspective, that's equal to nearly 684,...
Heathrow of Stash Media writes: Paper cutout inspired cuteness pulls at the heart strings in this spot for Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo from Toronto studio Crush via creative agency Wong, Doody, Crandall, Wiener, Seattle.
Amanda Lin Costa of MediaShift writes: This year the Tribeca Film Festival took digital storytelling directly to the people with an entirely new juried interactive exhibition programmed by the Tribeca Film Institute’s director of Digital Initiatives, Ingrid Kopp. Nestled in a...
Flora Yin-Wong of Dazed Digital writes: Experimental noise musician Roly Porter (formerly of dubstep duo Vex’d on Planet Mu) and longtime collaborator, visual artist Rod Maclachlan will be joining forces once again for a special performance as a part of the...
The Inspiration Room writes: Apple is promoting the iPhone 5 as the camera for everyday use and sharing in the commercial, “Photos Every Day”. The commercial is a montage of shots of people using the iPhone in many settings, including editing, flash photography, and also the...
Heathrow of StashMedia writes: Buck NY rocks the American experience of the decadent decade in this 15-second ident for the National Geographic show “80′s the Decade the Made US”. Created using pencil, ink, watercolor paint, and that ever-so-1980′s pastel pink. CD:...
Mentorless writes: Bill Viola is an american contemporary video artist that has been creating for four decades now and exposing his work all around the world. If you’ve never seen one of Viola’s installation, they are often disturbing, but not in the way you would expect. Viola uses...
Olivia Solon of wired.co.uk writes: IBM has made a stop-motion film—A Boy and His Atom—using individual molecules as pixels, in what Guinness has acknowledged is the world's smallest movie.
The movie's plot line depicts a character called Atom who befriends a single atom...
