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Thanks
// April 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // news
Big thanks to all the volunteers, speakers and to those who contributed funds to help make DIYDays NYC a reality. Over the coming days and weeks we’ll be releasing videos from the event on WorkBookProject.com. We’re also in the process of merging this site with the new version of the WorkBook Project site.
Next up for DIYDays is a stop in LA later this fall. If you’re interested in lending a hand and / or know of someone who would make a good speaker please let us know.
Speaker Highlight – Ethan Rublee
// April 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // NYC, news
Ethan Rublee is a researcher at the Computer Fusion Laboratory in Temple University’s College of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a software engineer with Seize the Media, working on transmedia application development. As of late, Mr. Rublee’s research involves augmented reality, computer vision, novel human interfaces, and mobile apps. Ethan is currently developing mobile and web applications for Lance Weiler’s transmedia project, HIM.
Q & A:
What excites you about the future?
What excites me about the future: There are so many brilliant people being connected by the ethers of the net, sharing knowledge freely and collaborating. Everyday, someone shares this piece of code or that circuit. People are even trying to make open-source fusion reactors! I can see the day coming when the fusion reactor in my kitchen breaks and I print out a new one with a Makerbot.
What is on your playlist, reading list, or movie queue?
modest mouse, neutral milk hotel, wolf parade, broken social scene, mirah, M.I.A.
What are some of your favorite sites and / or blogs?
sparkfun.com, kickstarter.com, wikipedia, last.fm, makezine.com, pandora.com, xkcd.com, wolframalpha.com, makerbot.com
Speaker Highlight: Sree Sreenivasan
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Sree is a Columbia J-school digital media professor and Dean of Student Affairs; contributing editor to DNAinfo.com; and one of AdAge’s 25 people to follow on Twitter. More on him at http://sree.net and you can see how he uses social media by connecting with him on: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.
Q & A:
What excites you about the future?
There will be as many changes in the 10 years ahead of us as there were in the 10 years that just passed.
What is on your playlist, reading list, or movie queue?
As I write this, I am listening to the only song to immortalize a student of mine, “Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance,” about the WNYC Morning Edition anchor, by Jonathan Coulton.
What are some of your favorite sites and / or blogs?
Too many to name here, but everyone should be adding Mashable.com to their media diet.
Speaker Highlight: Josh Cramer
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Josh is a film-editor and founder of House of Trim. Over the past year, Josh has worked on WBP Labs’ RADAR as an editor, producer and director. Recent commercial work includes spots for Nike, Stoli, History, & David Yurman. Josh also edited Lance Weiler’s Head Trauma, the PBS doc La Lupe, edited/co-produced Tommy Pallotta’s American Prince, and recently won a Best Editing Webby Award for a New York Times video he also directed.
Speaker Highlight: Cyndi Stivers
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Cyndi is managing editor of EW.com, the website of Entertainment Weekly. She also teaches a magazine workshop at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, Stivers was EVP of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she supervised the launch of Martha’s 24-hour Sirius satellite radio channel. From 1995 to 2005, she launched and led U.S. operations for Time Out. Stivers is a trustee of Barnard College, of which she is a proud alumna.
Speaker Highlight: Alex Johnson
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Alex is an interactive strategist and filmmaker, with a background in the convergent fields of advertising, communications, new media and film production. She worked in music video & commercials at Radical Media & Partizan before heading up interactive & cross-media initiatives at Sally Potter’s Adventure Pictures where she also created the social learning/archive platform, SP-ARK. She then joined digital marketing agency Deep Focus (HBO, Vitamin Water, New Line, Universal) guiding thinking on audience insight, branding & strategic approach. Alex consulted for Massify, IFP, Filmmaker magazine, Seize The Media & independent filmmakers before setting up the agency/project producer WBP Labs with Lance Weiler last year. Their first project RADAR, a weekly mini-doc series, has been nominated for a Streamy, featured on Gizmodo, Flavorpill & CBS & is currently airing its third season on Babelgum.
Speaker Highlight: Janine Saunders
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Janine is a producer, media collaborator, and DJ living in NYC. She has worked as a producer since a very early age, in music, video and publishing. Her foremost interest is in exploring media environments in a variety of mediums. She has worked closely with writer/ documentarian / graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff, and directed and edited Life Inc: The Movie, a nine-minute history of corporatism, to support his latest book. She recently finished working on a Frontline documentary and interactive website, Digital Nation, which continues to explore what it means to live in a digital world. Janine is currently Segment Producer of RADAR and Producer of WBP Labs.
Q & A:
What excites you about the future?
The kids who are growing up now, and what they’ll do.
What is on your playlist, reading list, or movie queue?
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth – Buckminster Fuller
- Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility – Stewart Brand
What are some of your favorite sites and / or blogs?
Speaker Highlight: Bre Pettis
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Bre is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things. Bre is also a founder of NYCResistor, a hacker collective in Brooklyn. Besides being a TV host and Video Podcast producer, he’s created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine’s Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer. Bre is passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY.
Speaker Highlight: Scott Beibin, Elizabeth-Jane Cole
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Scott Beibin is a founder of the Evil Twin Booking Agency. In the 90’s he ran seminal punk label Bloodlink. or the past decade he’s toured as VJ and storyteller for Lost Film Fest (the only film festival with an fbi file!). His new project is Scientists Are The New Rockstars, a live broadcast stageshow exploring the intersection of science, art, and metaphysics with a heavy emphasis on environmental and social issues. Through his messaging organization The Redefinery he’s campaigned for issue oriented documentary films (The Corporation, The Weather Underground, etc:) and promoted environmentally sound and organic vegan products. In 2009 the prank he pulled on the Jerry Springer with Justin Pearson of The Locust won video of the decade on NME.
Elizabeth Jane Cole co founded the Evil Twin Booking Agency which spearheads revenue generating publicity tours for such notable speakers as The Yes Men, Ed Begley Jr, Vandana Shiva, Bernardine Dohrn + Bill Ayers and Lance Weiler. She also specializes in non-traditional distribution of issue oriented documentary films. Elizabeth’s writings on technology, film, activism, and debauchery in the man-machine continuum have been published in WIRED magazine, Filmmaker, Plenty, Alternet.org, Greencine.com and ShootingPeople.org, among others.
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Speaker Highlight: Thomas Allen Harris
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Thomas is the founder and President of Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. Chimpanzee’s award-winning films have been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, CBC, SBN and New Zealand Television.
Q & A:
What excites you about the future?
New business models, new opportunities, no gate keepers, and direct access to audience.
What is on your playlist, reading list, or movie queue?
- Sade’s soldier of love
- DJ LA Thomas’ mixes
- The wind done gone
- The alchemist
- Blind memory
- Music for melancholy
- The profet
- Ghost writer
- Beaches of agnes
What are some of your favorite sites and / or blogs?
Speaker Highlight: Michael Margolis
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Michael is left handed, partially color-blind, and eats more chocolate than the average human. He is the founder of Get Storied – a publishing, education, and consulting company. As a business and cultural storyteller, Michael works on branding, innovation, and change initiatives. He also teaches narrative methods through Story University and hosts an interview series The New Storytellers. Michael is author of a Storytelling Manifesto for Change-makers and Innovators, available for free at www.believemethebook.com.
Links to Work and Projects
Storytelling Manifesto for Change-Makers and Innovators (free download)
www.believemethebook.com
Get Storied blog, with range of articles and resources on storytelling
www.getstoried.com
Story University, e-courses on business and cultural narrative
www.storyuniversity.net
The New Storytellers, bi-weekly interview dialogue series/podcast
www.thenewstorytellers.com
Limited edition Dan Goldman
// April 2nd, 2010 // No Comments » // NYC, news
We’re super excited about the limited edition DIY DAYS NYC posters that Dan Goldman created for the event. We’ve done a limited run of 50. Here they are fresh out of the oven. A three ink process on thick french paper hand printed by Sire Press. They are available for a donation of a $100. All the proceeds go to helping to make DIY DAYS events free and open to all. For more info visit our indiegogo page. BIG THANK YOU’S to all the folks who’ve donated already. Everything beyond the goal for NYC is being applied for the fall event that we’ll do in LA.
For more on Dan visit www.dangoldman.net
Dan spoke at DIY DAYS PHL about the future of comics here’s his talk
TALK – THE FUTURE OF COMICS
Comics are evolving right off the printed page into an online medium all its own; what do new mobile hardware platforms mean for online/digital comics? Acclaimed comics creator DAN GOLDMAN (Shooting War, 08:A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail) discusses what portability means to expanding your readership, creating new business models and exploring new global distribution channels.
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What is DIY DAYS?
The WorkBook Project and the New School present
DIY DAYS NYC
SATURDAY
APRIL 3rd
The New School
66 West 12th Street
Manhattan, New York
9:30pm to 10am
REGISTRATION
10:15am to 5pm
PROGRAM
5:15 to 8pm
AFTER PARTY mixer with DJ
FREE but space is limited
DO YOU LIVE IN NYC?
* If you live in the NYC area and are interested in lending a hand to help make DIY DAYS NYC possible we're looking for volunteers.DO YOU HAVE
- camera skills and gear- mad tech skills (good with laptops, projection, and presentations
- good people skills and are organized
Send email to work [@] workbookproject dot com with the subject "volunteer in NYC."
SPEAKERS
WBP discovery & distribution Award
The WorkBook Project is pleased to announce a new Discovery and Distribution Award.
One Filmmaker will be awarded a week long theatrical run in LA with PR, Street Team and Social Media support. Filmmaker keeps 100% of the box office.
Plus 20 filmmakers will be awarded a digital distribution package which will place them on Hulu, iTunes, NetFlix, Xbox and number of other outlets.
For more info visit www.workbookproject.com/award
WHAT IS DIY DAYS?
DIY DAYS - fund :: create :: distribute :: sustain
How do we sustain ourselves as storytellers in this day of shifting distribution systems? How do we monetize our work and get the word out? Presented by WorkBook Project - DIY DAYS aims to answer these questions with a day of panels, roundtable discussions and workshops: A look at how to fund, create, and distribute and sustain.
TARGET AUDIENCE Anyone wanting to make creative work - film, music, games, art. Self-identified Independent storytellers, Creatives and Tech-philes.
THE EVENT The day flows through a mix of both structured and free form activities to encourage open discussion and the opportunity to break into groups and get everyone talking to each other.
Proposed Discussion Topics - New Forms of Storytelling - New models of Finance, Production and Distribution - Audience Building & The Audience Becoming Collaborators - War Stories: “What’s The Real Deal?” - Self-Sustaining: what to know when trying to make a living from your art - Case Studies
Open Discussion Topics - What are you working on? What are you looking for? - How do you consume your media? - What needs to change in order for you to sustain?
SUGGESTIONS, SPEAKERS AND VOLUNTEERS If you have a suggestion of something you’d like to hear discussed or a speaker that you think should take part, or if you’re interested in volunteering please email us at work [at] workbookproject [dot] com with the subject “DIY DAYS”
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- DIY DAYS LA 2009
- DIY DAYS Philly: CHANGES IN CREATIVE COLLABORATION
- DIY DAYS LA: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR STORYTELLERS (video)
- Speaker Highlight: Marc Horowitz
- Speaker Highlight: Jan Libby
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