Month: October 2007

Total 32 Posts

Show and Tell: Day 15

Erbert & Gerbert’s Human Flipbook + its really great behind the scenes featurette. I love showin’ off videos like these, videos which require such precision planning, such perseverance, creativity, and self-motivation but which don’t require an abundance of cash. ¶ Already, I’m hearing fewer “get a life”-type comments and more amazed murmuring, which, I can only hope, will produce some creativity of its own before long. [via adgoodness]

Apple’s Insomnia Film Festival

Apple is in preproduction, eleven days away from mandating the themes, props, and settings that’ll comprise its Insomnia Film Festival, a 24-hour cast-shoot-edit-and-score-a-thon. ¶ Pass it along to your students. Whatever your class, guaranteed you’ve got some students who’d undertake this kind of exercise for adrenaline and giggles alone, but the prize package (full hardware / software kits for each team member) is something of an incentive also. ¶ Feel free to pass along, also, screenwriter John August’s (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) ten-step plan for victory.