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Bowl Of Noses

More Mario Stuff

Here some more Mario hack video. They are pretty cool. Homemade video games are cool. Anything homemade is cool but the harder it is to do the better. Since we can’t do this ourselves we give it extra points. They could take a nose home with them today if they want.

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Bowl Of Noses

Styles of Animation #10: Paper-mation

Jen Stark is an artist that works with colored paper and does all kinds of things. Check out her website.

She has done a couple of animations that we are very excited to put in our bowl.

Thanks BoingBoing!

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Truly Free Film

Thank You Manohla (and The New York Times)

Ms. Dargis has been doing an excellent job covering — and contextualizing — Indie Film’s move towards an artist-centric collaboration with the audience (and away from an exclusive control by the corporations in terms of what is made and exhibited).

And she just gave TrulyFreeFilm some serious props today. Perhaps that is why you are reading this now (that is if they fixed their online link). Anyways, this is that big shout out of thanks.
In regards, to art films current inability to attract young audiences, Manhola quoted me:
it “is really surprising how few true indie films speak to a youth audience.” He continued, “In this country we’ve had Kevin Smith and ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ but nothing that was youth and also truly on the art spectrum like ‘Run Lola Run’ or the French New Wave (‘Paranormal Activity’ not withstanding…),” adding: “Are we incapable of making the spirited yet formal work that defines a lot of alternative rock and roll? And if so, why is that?”
If you want to read the whole post that came from: this is it.
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Bowl Of Noses

The Known Universe

Not only is this beautiful, but it speaks of the possibility of all things. Our bowl is so small and the universe is so large.

Watch it full screen.

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Truly Free Film

Sundance 2010 Producers’ Roundtable, Part 2

Please, let me know what you think about what we are discussing.

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Truly Free Film

Sundance 2010 Producers’ Roundtable

Sit down, pour yourself a glass of wine, eat a chicken wing, and join myself, Christine Vachon, Jonathon Schwartz, Thomas Woodrow, & Liz Watts discussing how to survive as a producer in this day and age.

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Truly Free Film

Sundance Observation

To me, the filmmaking community (the artists, the business folk, the curators & promoters, the appreciators & fans) have to embrace that we are in a seismic shift to an artist-centric collaboration with the audience and away from the corporate controlled supply & attention. This requires a redefinition of cinema by its creators to embrace the discovery, engagement, presentation, promotion, & appreciation processes as much as we do development & production. We have to erase the lines between between art & commerce and content & marketing. We have to stop thinking of films as singular objects and refocus on how they are bridges for the ongoing conversation we have with audiences. Specifics like VOD numbers are important, but we miss the point if we don’t look first at the big picture.