February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchOne of the best screenwriters of our day gives a lecture on what it takes to be a writer, the nature of entertainment as a product solely and much much more.
via erikurtz
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Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic →
Fantastic post by Brian Lam thinking deeply about technology addiction (and technology news addiction).
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Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation... →
An optimistic paper explaining how #opendata can change the world
by Vivek Kundra, Harvard
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Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy...
“This is the first real test of the political strength of the Web, and regardless of how things go, they are no longer a pushover. The Web taking a stand against one of the most powerful lobbyers and seeming to get somewhere is definitely a first.”
— Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School on the efforts by the technology industry to fight Congressional bills aimed at curbing...
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Watch Observing life is an artform and it’s called “documentary”.
Pioneering Scottish filmmaker John Grierson(1898-1972) is often considered the father of documentary film and credited with coining the very term “documentary” in his review of Robert Flaherty’s film Moana in the February 8, 1926, issue of the New York Sun. His 1932 essay “First Principles of Documentary” argued that cinema’s...
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19 free ebooks on journalism (for your Xmas... →
futurejournalismproject via Online Journalism Blog
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Confessions of a product CEO: The age of emotions →
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“For most of us, this social life is not fulfilling. I see some people leaving Facebook, people leaving even all form of Internet connection, but in fact what we need is a new set of services that helps us slow down. I have been advocating for such services for the last years, hoping that more people would join the Slow Internet Movement and start synchronizing their digital life...
December 2011
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WatchSneak Peak At Our Holidays Workshop
This week, four of us (Sarah, Damien, Maria and I) at the HonkyLab took advantage of the Winter break to test the upcoming release of Klynt… while having fun! To frame this two-day workshop, we defined a creative brief:
Use a playful, rhythmic format inspired by the world of children’s games,
Getting into the theme: “All cats are gray in the...
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Top 50 multimedia packages of 2011
Thiw week, Tracy Boyer Clark shares her top 50 of the multimedia projects for this year.
Below, enjoy her selection in Journalism & Documentary
Journalistic Multimedia:
Portraits of grief – NYTimes.com
How does your income compare? – WashingtonPost.com
The debt crisis: What should Congress do? – NYTimes.com
A week on Foursquare – WSJ.com
The death of a terrorist: A turning point? –...
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“The universe is made of stories, not atoms”
We highly recommend you to read the whole article “Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives” by Maria Popova
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”The independent life begins with discovering what it means to live alongside the monoculture, given your particular circumstances, in your particular life and time, which will not be duplicated for anyone else. Out of your own struggle...
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Taryn Simon: Shot True
“It’s human nature to look for purpose or an answer in everything and I think it’s unconfortable to accept purposelessness. I think I am constantly trying to find some sort of truth or reality and it does make you question this thing that we all kind of rest upon which this is searching for…a reason”
Taryn Simon questions meaning and photographic truth while...
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Redefining Interactive Narratives & Multimedia... →
drewvigal (Multimedia Editor, The New York Times)
AIGA recently updated its Pivot website and made available a few of the “main stage” presentations as videos from their convention in Phoenix. I’d recommend watching a few of them, including Jonathan Hoefler & Valerie Casey. Accompany this with a recent interactive story we produced at The New York Times (more on this later), and I’m ...
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In Africa, the Art of Listening →
drewvigal commenting the article In Africa, the Art of listening on the NYTimes
“… Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person.”
Brilliant. I love this sentiment.
“Western literature is normally linear; it proceeds from beginning to end without major digressions in space or time…. Here, instead of linear narrative, there is unrestrained and exuberant...
November 2011
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“Imagine a world where YouTube, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter had never been...”
– Andrew Howard on what SOPA and the Protect IP act mean for the future of the Internet and how they affect you directly. Read it, then watch this, then go do something about it. (via curiositycounts)
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WatchWinner of the prestigious ARTE Pixel Pitch Prize, Kaarle Aho & Tonislav Hristov present Love & Engineering at The Pixel Pitch 2011, part of Power to the Pixel’s annual Cross-Media Forum
October 2011
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Tutorials for multimedia journalists →
Tutorials for multimedia journalists :
#css #flash #html5 #wordpress #sound #video #seo #photography
from the Knight Digital Media Center
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Discover Klynt! HonkyLab research project is now...
Almost two years ago, we launched the revamp of Klynt, our in-house prototype editing production tool with the goal to design a versatile, professional & universal application.
Today, we are thrilled to invite you to participate to our open demo release. It’s now free and it takes only a few minutes to download and install.
» Try it now!
Klynt is a project by HonkyLab, Honkytonk...
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“Now, we’re a species of editors. We all recycle, clip and cut, remix and upload. We can make images do anything.”
— Erik Kessels. founding partner and Creative Director of KesselsKramer
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WatchCraig Mod on the future of publishing and storytelling in the iPad and Kindle era
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On the future of storytelling via internet
“It’s like the old days with traveling projectionists, who not only showed films, but also engaged the community in discussion.”
— Tom Perlmutter. Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board
September 2011
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On the challenges of digital storytelling →
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Pedro Monteiro @psesinado for @niemanstory . P.Moneiro Graphic designer & consultant working with apps, tablets and digital content. Writing about experiences on www.digital-distribution.org
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The Workers - Interactive feature by the NYTimes →
Powerful multimedia work by @nytimes. An interactive feature on The Workers at Ground Zero - Portraits by Fred Conrad
June 2011
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Unveiling Klynt Brand New Player
We are delighted to show you the latest design of Klynt player. A design by Brieuc Dupont, who is also the author of the interface design of Klynt Editor. Here are a few sneak pics:
Main Interface with all link & text types
Interface of default menu index (and lots of cars - don’t ask me why)
Interface of map menu index
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“Rapporteur de Crise”, First Klynt Project to be...
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Since the global financial breakdown, the EU has to tackle the consequences of a crisis that is far from over and that puts the political and social cohesion of Member States and the currency union at risk.
Faced with this emergency, what can MEPs do to reverse the trend?
This web documentary is an insight into the European parliament, behind closed doors. From Brussels to...
May 2011
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A Brief Introduction to Klynt – Part 3: Where we...
Klynt Editor Graphic Design Revamp Proposal by Brieuc Dupont - september 2010
I remember back in 2007, while working on Journey to The End of Coal i-doc (aka Voyage au bout du charbon), how cool it would be to allow anybody to create his own interactive documentary, and that it would make sense to create a “platform” for that (yeah, well the whole there-is-an-app-for-that-too did not exist ...
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A Brief Introduction to Klynt – Part 2: What it...
First Klynt 2009 prototype (extract from notice created for Lord Chris Marker…)
So here we are with Klynt official V1 realease, almost a year ago after we launched the revamp of the app, from an in-house prototype tool to a versatile, professional app.
We have worked hard – almost 4500 hours to be precise in 2010 alone – to reach this first release that is loaded with creative features...
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A Brief Introduction to Klynt – Part 1: Just an...
At Honkytonk (Klynt’s young mother), we have always liked to get our hands on new creative and productive tools. For me, it all started a couple of years ago with cubase, photoshop, finalcut, Indesign, flash and so on. I also remember a quite recent time when I would spend hours testing new software / engines for building websites (wordpress, joomla, drupal…), managing and creating communities...
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Welcome on klynt.net
We are very pleased to launch Klynt.net new website on the interweb.
We thought about it as both a vitrine for the app but most of all, a place to share ideas and feedback on the soon to open Klynt community area.
This is also the opportunity for us to unveil Klynt’s new visual identity, interface and features, designed by our team at Honkytonk Films and developed with the indirect help of...
April 2011
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New conference tour, Cannes, Cairo and Lucerne
Update: Cairo and Lucerne postponed due to Island Volcano…
Cannes, France (MIP DOC) SUNDAY 11 APRIL 15.30 – 16.30 Conference Room INTERACTIVITY AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT* (Docs Go Digital) This special showcase will present the most innovative cross-media documentary productions which are now using the online, mobile and gaming dimensions as live experiences for documentary making. From...
October 2010
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Special Features at Maarifa Conference and IDFA...
Tunis, Tunisia (Maarifa Conference) October 26th 2010, 14:00pm NEW FORMATS, NEW PLATFORMS, NEW OPPORTUNITIES Canal France International has just launched the Maarifa project (“knowledge” in Arabic), with a presentation for members of the Asian States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) attending their AGM. This ambitious project, which consists in developing educational multimedia programmes with...