Portable Film Festival - an interview

While I was at SXSW I had the opportunity to have a chat with Andrew Apostola, the Creative Director of the successful Australian ‘virtual film festival’ Portable.
Each year they curate a festival that happens purely in the virtual realm. ‘Visitors’ access screenings, premiers and other events via whatever electronic device they have to hand - [...]

Use your webcam to make video micro-content

On the last day of SXSW2007, Texas I was hanging out with the guys from Viddler and we decided to do an SXSW video wrap up.
A lot of new laptops seem to have webcams built in, including all new MacBooks. Viddler offers a great feature - you can use your webcam to record video directly [...]

Name in Lights is going viral

I’ve just looked through the statistics for the Name in Lights site that we launched before I went out to Texas last week.
As a reminder, it’s a site where you can see what your name will look like in huge Hollywood-style lettering and then enter a competition for why it should be made into real-world [...]

Get your Name in Lights

I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk
Fierce! Festival launches its Name in Lights project today and we’ve been working into the night to do our best with the new website.
It’s a UK-wide competition for a member of the public to get their name made into large Hollywood-style lettering and beamed out from one of [...]

Ryan Teague

Ryan Teague, one of Type Records’ critically acclaimed artists wanted to be able to run his own blog and promote his work, so we set him up with a small, simply designed blog site using the fantastic open source WordPress blogging system. This is an example of what can be achieved with a relatively small [...]