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The journey from story to legend

On 27th of september, together with NBF (Dutch Association of Film- and Video Professionals) and NFF (Dutch Film Festival Utrecht) we are organising an event on crossmedia, transmedia and film. Which actually is not just about film.. off course. More information can be found on the website http://www.fromstorytolegend.com
The conference is a starting point…
From Story [...]

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Chatroulette, Next wave in social?

Today I tried http://www.chatroulette.com for a while. I tried before, but then the service was down. Monday evening at the upload event (an event putting webfilms on the screen: subject webcams) we chatrouletted with a filmhouse full of people. Today i wanted to try the intimate 1- on - 1 version.
It’s actually really fun [...]

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How small ideas can grow big

Who would have thought, over 10 years ago when I started pioneering in the field of crossmedia/transmedia that our ideas for new more engaging ways of storytelling would become a real accredited profession today! (that of the first theorists and practitioners playing in this greenfield, yes even before Jenkins wrote his influential work; 'Convergence Culture' [...]

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A lack of clarity when it is most needed

In the middle of a storm, it is difficult to see the bottom of the ocean through the muddy waters
This is one of Plato’s stories:
It is about a ship in the middle of the ocean. On this ship was a gruff burly captain who was rather shortsighted and slightly deaf. He and his crew followed [...]

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Loss of first window control

To me “Alice in Wonderland” is one of the greatest meta-stories there is around. Is see it as methaphorically for the work I do, helping media companies going through the “rabbit hole”. How symbolically that it is this story that today illustrates how Disney is trying to get cinema’s to enter into the ‘rabbit hole’.  [...]

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Moving from stories to legends..

Moving from stories to legends..

This is part of my 10 years old quote:

….Some people think we are made of flesh and blood..

Scientist say we are made of atoms.

But actually I believe we are made of stories!…
& here is what I was thinking of recently..

Now we have come to a time where [...]

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‘Dondersteendag’ It’s a go!

the launch of the first dondersteendag, together with CMBO, Syntens and MA Factory on september 10th, 2009

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They won their tickets ;-)

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Jeff Gomez on transmedia experiences & future entertainment bizz

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When Jennifer met Ward..

Last saturday Jennifer Hicks from the inkstudio met Ward Geene (one of the Dondersteen People). She decided he was a person to know more about.
So she put him in her ‘hot seat’, talking about games, the things we do around here and his favorite nuts.. Read all about it at the tattletech blog

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