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Posts Tagged ‘cross-media storytelling’

Soy Tu Aire (I am your Air)

Posted in Media and Popular Culture, digital fiction, tagged , , on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Listen to this incredible, evocative song and watch the wonderful music video that accompanies it. Then interact with the narrative of the song, by going to Labuat.  Make sure you move your cursor like a paint brush across the screen as the song crosses the space and takes its emotional journey with you, allowing you [...]

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Soap Opera extends fictional diegetic to online “fake” magazine

Posted in Media and Popular Culture, New Media Literacies, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

In a very clever move, popular soap opera The Young and the Restless has developed an online magazine and blog for a fascinating blend of fiction and reality.  Restless Style is a magazine that is an important part of the YATR storyline, and although fictional, it now exists in the online world so fans can [...]

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Sex, Hiccups, and the Spoiler’s Imaginations

Posted in Media and Popular Culture, tagged , , , on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Spoilers ahead

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Sex and the City Movie: filming, spoilers, and the extratextual conversations

Posted in Media and Popular Culture, cyberculture, tagged , , , , on October 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been logging in every day to my favourite gossip blogs to catch up on what’s happening with the filming of the movie Sex and the City. I’ll put the rest of this post under the fold, but beware, all the major spoilers buzzing around the blogosphere are there!

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The Extratextuals: the Mediation of Media

Posted in Digital Media Researchers, Media and Popular Culture, New Media Literacies, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , on October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Fascinating new blog find (via Christy) – the Extratextuals, a group blog defined as the following: This is a blog about the media. However, with other blogs on television, film, and the media in general, we wanted to carve out a specific niche. So our blog will focus primarily on the extratextuals that surround the [...]

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Mild-mannered professor (that’s me) turns into superhero

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on September 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Thanks to Christy I have now been converted into a bone fide superhero: I have a special superheroes kit, which includes my superhero undies: and I get superhero missions sent to me via text messages: Angela, traffic jams in Sydney are accelerating global warming. Help to plug this perniciousness! Reply “yes” to accept this mission. [...]

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My Digital Fiction Presentation for Futures in Literacy Conference

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »

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Transmedia Puzzle Solving Game/Story/Prize

Posted in cyberculture, tagged , on August 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Wow! A jigsaw puzzle with emailed anagrams, clues all over the web, and a 1 million pound prize for the first person who solves it.  How exciting! But if you want to be amused, read the part in the comments section where one person complained about not being able to get to the site to [...]

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My NMC Symposium on “Creativity in Second Life” Presentations Next Week

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Next week the NMC is running an entire weeks symposium on “Creativity in Second Life” There are a number of strands: Machinima, Fashion, Sculpture and Modeling, Virtual Photography, and Teaching Environments, social / arts events, and lots of practical and interactive sessions. I am involved in three sessions, all at (sort of) Australian friendly times. [...]

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The Cross-Media Self

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Yesterday when I added Andy Piper as a friend on Facebook, I flippantly said “now we’re friends everywhere” – since I knew him on Second Life, on Facebook, on twitter, on flickr, on his blog, and through his comments on my blog. He paused for a while, then replied with a wide ASCII grin: “friends [...]

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ARG Style marketing for “The Dark Knight”

Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , on July 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I thought the new Simpsons movie had done some great pre-release marketing but The Dark Knight (thanks Andy for the correct title!) tops all, complete with all sorts of teasers and even an ARG style game that occurred via whysoserious.com.

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Robbie Dingo’s “Watch the World” machinima

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , , , , , , on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Wow!  Robbie Dingo created the most amazing 3D version of Van Gogh’s painting, and it is shown in this time lapse machinima.  Robbie’s blog post about here.

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Four Eyed Monsters – the full feature film on youtube

Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In February I blogged about the innovative movie Four Eyed Monsters.  Now the young producers have put the entire feature film on youtube, so here it is: I’m so excited to be able to watch this after missing out on it when it was shown in Second Life.  I love it!

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Harry Potter Theme Park

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Wow!  Universal Studios are creating a Harry Potter theme park in Florida – here’s the press release.

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Postcards from Second Life

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , , , on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

south beach strip club in Second Life, originally uploaded by amywilson. Amy Wilson’s (Freelunch’s) Postcards from Second Life is now available, and there will be a free signing of the book in Second Life on Saturday, June 2nd, 6pm PST at the Pooley Auditorium (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pooley/250/6/38). The book, a set of watercolors documenting the travels of [...]

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I’m Heading Off for June to Speak, Research, Speak, Plan more Research etc etc…

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The major speaking event I have is the featured session at the NMC Summer Conference. I was specifically invited to speak about a “bit of everything” related to my research, so here’s the slides that accompany the talk. I hope I can arrange an audio stream to support the slides for the near future. And [...]

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Christy Dena on Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was fortunate enough to listen to Christy Dena today presenting a truly stimulating lecture on Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts.  Her point of departure was a quote from Henry Jenkins about transmedia storytelling, which she interrogated by tracing the history of cross-media art forms, from pre-internet media such as Twin Peaks to new forms [...]

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