Glow
Jo Lawrence. UK, 2007.
Inspired by the true story of Grace Freyer, one of the “Radium Girls” who worked for the Radium Dial Company in New Jersey in the twenties painting watch faces with radioactive material.
La Vita Nuova
Christophe Gautry, Arnaud Demuynck. France, 2008.
Besides being the title of Dante’s first known work, La vita nuova is a [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2008 (2 of 3)
Posted in animation on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the best animation short films I’ve seen in 2008 (1 of 3)
Posted in animation on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A6/A9
Johannes Schiehsl. Germany, 2007.
An everyday landscape might hide indescribable surprises. A forceful visual metaphor as horrifying as it is beautiful, taken to its utmost logical conclusion
Bolides
François-Xavier Bologna, Théophile Bondoux, Lyonel Charmette, Vincent Le Ster. France, 2008.
Adventure is found where you would least expect it. The secret life of an old people’s [...]
A naive thought about games and media
Posted in video games on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When, several months ago, I posted about the Chris Deering’s presentation in Barcelona, I pointed out that one of the most important conclusions I had extracted from the talk was that Deering stated the industry had to take seriously games as a media. A couple of days ago, at the ECGBL08, I attended a inspiring [...]
Media battlefields
Posted in media on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abstract from the article “Tactics and strategies in the new battlefields of communication. Changes in the use, production and consumption of information in the network society”
Imma Tubella, Jordi Sánchez-Navarro & Carlos Tabernero
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) – Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
In the network society, our lives are arranged, more than ever, around communication. In the [...]
The young and the Internet: Revolution at Home
Posted in media on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abstract from the article “The young and the Internet: Revolution at Home. When the household becomes the foundation of socio-cultural change”
Carlos Tabernero, Jordi Sánchez-Navarro & Imma Tubella
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) – Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
This study aims to understand current patterns of transformation in communication practices owing to the ever-increasing incorporation of the Internet [...]
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