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PSFK recently asked our global network of experts, The Purple List for their thoughts on the future of journalism. We received answers that imagine a variety of possible scenarios, though a common theme emerged which points to a system that combines crowd-sourcing with some kind of editorial curation and professional reporting. If you want to [...]
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Festival goers at Glastonbury, in the U.K., can charge their cell-phones through using a standard airbed foot pump, the type normally found all over festival sites. The Orange Gotwind power pump’s turbine is rotated at speeds of up to 2000 rpm from the air flow generated by the foot pump, this turbine [...]
In a new TV concept which would make Andy Warhol grin-ear-to-ear in his grave, the Bravo network has decided to add a new art-based reality show to their roster. Instead of vying for fashion contracts or the title of Top Chef, 13 aspiring artists will be competing against each other for the chance at a [...]
Red Bucket Films and notorious graffiti artist Katsu have joined forces to create their own version of the classic Eames film about scale, Powers of Ten. The short follows Katsu as he executes a series of his skull tags, which grow in size from 1/20 of an inch (on a grain of rice) to a [...]
PCWorld reports that advertising rates for popular television shows such as The Simpsons and CSI are actually higher online than on prime-time TV. According to Bloomberg, ads cost about $60 per thousand viewers for a spot on Hulu or TV.com, but will only cost $20-$40 per thousand viewers on regular televison. What’s causing this change?
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The story of punks living in “communist China” is a compelling story for many visitors to China and we’ve covered some of the previous documentation by journalists and photographers. Now, there is a new feature length documentary film by Australian writer and director, Shaun Jefford. “Beijing Punk” was filmed last summer, while the 2008 Olympics [...]
Following the success of Dior’s recent video campaign featuring Marion Cotillard, avante guard fashion enfante terrible, Alexander McQueen has teamed up with David Sims to create a series of dark, sometime disturbing fashion shorts exploring the creative process. In these films (which are reminiscent of psychological dramas like Memento and 2001) McQueen hopes to do [...]
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the French photographer behind film projects like “6 Billion Others,” recently released his latest project called Home that captures the beauty of our planet in a free film stressing the gravity of environmental issues. Arthus-Bertrand pioneered modern aerial photography and this latest project showcases an incredible selection of inspiring images from his ambitious [...]
The Guardian’s Dan Chung shot and edited “One Night in Beijing” in a total of twelve hours starting directly after purchasing a Canon EOS5DmkII DSLR camera from a Beijing camera store and charging the battery. The result is a stunningly beautiful video of the people and street scenes of Beijing.
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The Guerilla Drive-In is an organization that projects 16MM movies in interesting locations in and around the West Chester, Pennsylvania area. Since 2007 the group has staged secret film viewings in settings that match the theme of the movie being screened. For example: Caddyshack was shown at a golf course, Meatballs at a canoe rental [...]
It’s interesting that just as the unwashed TV watching masses are coping with the drama of going completely digital, within days the annual opera buffo show known in the trade as the “Cannes Lions” will take place.
As the Adverati sit through screenings of the latest TV spots Brazil, Dubai and Timbuktu’s finest have come up [...]
The trailer for Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese has been released. From this promo, the film promises to be a dark and rather disturbing film with acting by Ben Kingsley and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Shutter Island
This video for We Have Band stands out with its use of face paint animation. The video was made up of 4,816 separate stills, where each frame had to be re-painted, shot, wiped off, and redrawn.
One question we have is why was it made by Wieden+Kennedy? Creatives Ida Gronblom and Fabian Berglund from the agency [...]
Wired recently interviewed Shane Meadows, the British film-maker, about shooting his new project named Le Donk in only five days. Meadows hopes the short shooting schedule will enable the film to focus on more minute details of the story and force the production team to come up with crazier ideas. Meadows teamed up with Warp [...]
The phrases “high fashion” and “Communist Germany” may not immediately conjure images of cutting edge garb, but former model and filmmaker Marco Wilms in his new documentary Comrade Couture hopes to change that by offering a peek into the underground world of 1980’s DIY Eastern Bloc fashion, one of the few artistic movements that was [...]
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