Author: |Posted: 13:46 on 05/11/08
Category: technology
So this a great and exciting day, with Obama in to correct the mess. The world is heaving a heavy sigh of relief, and everyone is shouting to all their friends and electronically high-fiving.
It was interesting to note last night that when CNN and The Guardian and several other international news websites were difficult to get onto because of the vast numbers logging in, social networking sites such as Facebook were also jammed. People were communicating, creating personalised news content together and discussing the event.
This morning I understood the experiences of several friends who stayed up watching, as I read back over their news feeds. Apart from the collective woops and congrats, Nitasha ate election cake and a series of snacks, Nat was drunk before the results started, and Dave was detailed with voting figures as always (he runs a political blog). I like to understand things through people I know, the social with the political, being shared on the Internet. Which is obviously very potent with this, the first YouTube coated election. read more
Author: |Posted: 18:30 on 01/08/08
Category: festivals, technology, theatrical documentary
Man on Wire is a faultless fantastical film. Philippe Petit is so charismatic, and it’s such a killer story engulfing adventure, artistry and accolade, that the stage is set for exclaiming the magnificence of real life. Yet it is the subtleties of the film that makes it soar above most other factual theatrical releases. It’s a polished journey, which stirred in me a fierce jealousy that I have no desire burning nearly as deep as Phillipe’s dream to cross the tallest towers in all the lands. The romance, the spirit, the freedom! read more
Author: |Posted: 18:13 on 31/07/08
Category: technology
One of the biggest changes to FourDocs is the way the blog now ties everything together, and is the homepage. This is where we’ll review and post FourDocs, point out links on the web and write about what is going on in the worlds of documentary film, distribution and technology. If you want to stay up-to-date and know when we post new content, the easiest way is to subscribe to our RSS feed by clicking on the link at the bottom of the right hand column. Some of you may already subscribe to loads of sites, but in case not I thought I’d post this short doc video: RSS in Plain English.
It’s made by Common Craft, an awesome company who explain technological terms clearly and completely, by making short factual films. So, it seems entirely fitting to show some of their work here. Who else do you think is making really great factual how to guides?
