I’ve been following the development of the National Theatre Wales. They officially launched sometime this month with 13 shows slated for their season. What’s special about them is that their organization is hinged on the use of social media
The Telegraph covered its launched, done entirely on web-cast:
It’s hard to disentangle the medium by which [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Media’
November 9, 2009
How Social Media has changed British Theatre
September 21, 2009
Media/bot/Human Interaction in Theatre
This is an interesting premise: the live interaction of an autonomous vision controlled computer “actor” with a human actor. That’s what 1997 play “It/I” written by Claudio Pinhanez was apparently about. It’s an interesting exploration of AI – Human interaction. It looks intensely cerebral, cold and esoteric, but the intersection of media technology and actor [...]
June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson RIP
If you haven’t heard already, Michael Jackson passed away around 1pm earlier today. He was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center after paramedics, responding to a call, couldn’t revive him. He had already stopped breathing when the paramedics arrived. He had suffered a heart attack.
Within hours, hordes of fans rushed down to the medical center [...]
June 5, 2009
HIV/AIDS: Why Singapore’s media policies need to change
Singapore’s media policy towards homosexuality and Section 377A will hinder any improvement of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Singapore. The preliminary success of AIDS Chinese drama serial 不凡的爱By My Side and scholarly material show that educational-entertainment programs on free-to-air TV can be used to positively generate HIV awareness and prevention. However, the fact that homosexuality is a taboo [...]
April 14, 2009
A media management audit
The Singapore economy has been undoubtedly hit like the rest of the world in the global economic crisis. Like most governments around the world, S’pore has taken specific stimulus actions. What’s interesting to me is the approach that S’pore media has taken.
Since the global economic crisis hit about a year and half ago, I used [...]
February 26, 2009
Chinatown Hustler
The Notorious MSG, a tongue in cheek urban spit back at the yellow mafia. Filled with bling, 70s afros, bruce lee wigs and mahjong, they’ll show you the Chinatown “get-toe” There’s even a wok-umentary about who makes up the Notorious MSG and their reason for being. They are yellow cool.
“We come from the different ghetto [...]
February 24, 2009
Home publishing
I remember in college one of my friends started her own magazine. It was a valiant effort that eventually ended with her selling it off for a couple of hundred dollars within 1 year. This was in the early 2000s. Imagine if she had this service, magcloud.com how much easier that might have been. The [...]
January 19, 2009
Vlad Studio
Sick of staring at the morphing desktop images that came with your Mac? Ready to stick a pin in the eye from all the overly cute or busy theme based design? Transform that boring screen today. Surf on over to VladStudio for a variety of wallpaper designs…if the collection is a shoe size, it be size [...]
January 13, 2009
Archivist of the Yellow Peril
Check out the online version of this exhibition of a collection of cultural artifacts from the Western world, mostly American from as early as the mid-1700s, about the yellow peril, i.e. the prejudiced “oriental” view of Asia. You can also support the cause to make this collection a permanent archival collection at NYU, as part [...]
November 28, 2008
Pseudo Polaroids
When I first heard that kodak was going to stop producing printing paper, I was quite devastated, even though I don’t know how to develop pictures from scratch, or never really owned/used an SLR camera. It’s an art form forever lost to digital technology! Earlier this year, I bought an old school polaroid camera, and [...]
