Update

Well I have finished the 5 week distraction of working on a feature film. Now it's back to new media. I just filled out my volunteer application for the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco March 23rd. The admission is normally $2,000, so that's the only way I could go at this point.


I am up in San Francisco at the moment. I am hoping to get the San Francisco Zoo to sign a location agreement so I can do more with my Zebra film. I am also thinking about going over to CurrentTV to see if they do tours or if I could speak to anyone that works there. CurrentTV is really leading the way in new media, documentary, and television.

I also just withdrew my application for an education coordinator job in Gilroy. I just had my second interview, but the hours were more than I previously thought. I want to be able to go do things like volunteer for conferences, etc. It does me no good to be committed to working several hours a day 5 days a week. So I have decided to stay focused on getting PodclassTV off the ground. I am going to start designing the prototype site as soon as I get back from San Francisco.

Oh, here's a good site for new media and education: http://www.glogster.com/edu

Zebra Film on TERRA

I gave permission to my Masters program in Montana to use my film for their TERRA podcast site. I just received word it had almost 10,000 hits its first week and was number 1. I am on edge waiting to hear back from 16 film festivals I entered. Here's a link to TERRA: http://www.lifeonterra.com/episode.php?id=191

Greeners and new media

A fellow Greener emailed me yesterday (Greeners are people who went to the Evergreen State College) about new media brainstorming. Sounds like he might know of some interesting sites. Here's one: Jamglue.com
I wrote about remix websites in my thesis, (the user-malleable media chapter). I am in the process of applying this same kind of idea to video.

Sea Kittens

Interesting interactive campaign. Design your own sea kitten by going to http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/

National Geographic Virus Documentary

Here's a clip from the last film I worked on for Sea Studios. I cannot tell you how hard it was to find prairie vole stock footage. I ended up posting a want ad on a digital videography forum. Then a few months later, a filmmaker from Pronghorn Productions emailed to say he had just caught a prairie vole and shot some footage. I don't know what we would have done without the footage.

Why don't we ride zebras? Documentary

Here's the final version of my film. Sorry for the watermark, but youtube has some weird policies about rights. If you read the fine print, it says that youtube kinda "owns" the rights to what is uploaded. But the watermark fixes that!

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Part 2:

Blogging

Now that I am officially done with my thesis / film, I have noticed that my blog has gotten away from its new found purpose. (It's original purpose was to get me through my thesis). Mission accomplished, but now it should serve as a resource for new media, documentary, and education. I will probably continue to sprinkle it with things going on in my life, but I am back to scouring the twitterspace and the web for useful information. Here's three gems I found today:

http://greatsites.wikispaces.com/

http://notebook.zoho.com

http://www.diigo.com/