Forget 3D, Google Maps in 4D!
It sounds crazy at first glance, the idea of mining still frames from Google Maps and stitching them together like a flip book, but the end result is pretty, well, awesome! There’s not much to analyze here, just put it into full screen mode, lean back and enjoy.
Time Out Tuesday: Denton Pedicab
“Denton Pedicab” is a beautifully shot and produced short documentray on an immigrant entrepreneur who found a cheap solution for barhoppers in “a drinking town with a college problem.” Laurent Prouvost noticed that after a night of drinking, students from nearby University of Northern Texas, in Denton, Texas, were choosing to drive home drunk rather...
Geo-tagged videos reveal a mosaic of stories
The folks down at MyBlockNYC.com seem to have come up with a novel idea for organizing an overflow of video stories by narrowing it down to geo-data points on a very nicely designed interactive map. They aren’t focused on journalism, but that doesn’t mean it can’t inspire us. I think it’s worth checking out, and...
Time out Tuesday: Art Heist
This week I came across a piece of marketing for HBO that just had me hooked for hours. And it wasn’t because of anything slick from the PR department, it was all about the storytelling. “Art Heist” is an interactive website which invites you to explore a story in a non liner narrative. Each of...
Time out Tuesday: Choosing Thomas
When Deidrea and T.K. Laux learned during their first pregnancy that their unborn child had trisomy 13 (a rare DNA abnormality which makes it impossible for newborns to live more than a couple hours to days outside the womb) they were faced with a choice, carry the child to term and say goodbye to him...
Time out Tuesday: Journey to the End of Coal
This week I’ve found something that is just cool. Very very cool. Journey to the End of Coal takes a look at the exploding growth of China’s economy and the new energy needs that have come with it. By visiting various sites around Beijing, viewers are invited to dictate the path of two freelance journalist...
Time out Tuesday: In Bb 2.0
I sat in on a lecture about social media recently and a gentleman asked the speaker what was the point. It was an interesting question, and answer seemed obvious. To explore new art forms and models of communication. To bring a simple medium to the people. And ideally to collaborate. The first two have been...
Time out Tuesday: ReTweet Revolution
We all know the role Twitter played in the aftermath of Iran’s elections. How tweets got the play-by-play news from the streets to the world. How it was used by some to organize protesters. How the White House asked Twitter to keep the servers online and push off scheduled system updates. And how it appears...
Time out Tuesday: Ira Glass on Storytelling
I don’t even think I have validate this entry to time out, it’s F’n Ira Glass, women like his style and men have been ripping off his hipster style for years. The host of PBS radios “This American Life” has carved out a piece of the radio landscape and delivers each week the find of...
Time out Tuesday: Dr. Horrible
Ok ok, so two weeks ago I did kind of cop out by posting Spaced, but you know you enjoyed it. 😉 It’s 42 min, but if you haven’t seen it, you are so missing out on something awesome. The controversial ending alone is genius. Created during the writer’s strike in 2008, it was basically...
Time out Tuesday: Letters to the President
“Every day, President Obama reads ten letters from the public in order to stay in tune with America’s issues and concerns. “Letters to the President” is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the process of how those ten letters make it to the President’s desk from among the tens of thousands of letters, faxes, and e-mails...
Time out Tuesday: Spaced
What? You say I’m phoning it this week? Look, Spaced is about showing respect for your audience to get it without spelling it out, telling an honest story, making it entertaining and most of all, understanding your consumer and how to reach them. Sounds a lot like journalism no? Aren’t we all trying to figure...
