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DREAMWORKS: Creating a Top Secret Conspiracy for “Monsters vs. Aliens”
May 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

Project overview: Writing and directing a 9 month online narrative tie-in with DreamWorks animated film “Monsters vs. Aliens” mixing live action video, CG cartoon characters, and web communities.
After an enormous 9 month engagement, the curtain has finally risen on DreamWorks’ latest animated feature and our unusual project creating a live action story of comic conspiracies [...]

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FOX: Rebuilding the ‘Terminator’
April 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

Project overview: Writing and directing 8 live action online episodes for Fox’s re-imagining of “Terminator.” This series would stretch 5 months and involve millions of participants from around the world in an intense cinematic experience.

“Terminator: Dark Discovery” behind the scenes video:

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THE DARK KNIGHT – promoting for recognition at the Oscars with DarkCampaign.com
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

Project Overview: To generate awareness and publicity for ‘The Dark Knight’ as an Oscar caliber film using viral and online grassroots communities.
Just created and launched this today new site today: http://DarkCampaign.com/
This is my new unofficial social media work promoting The Dark Knight for this year’s Academy Awards. Why? Because it’s an amazing film and [...]

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DIY Days panel in SF – Topic: The Art & Science of Crowdsourcing
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Online Worlds, Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

UPDATE: Video of the panel (that’s me on the far right of the frame ):
DIY DAYS SF – The Art and Science of Crowdsourcing

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I’ll be part of a panel “The Art & Science of Crowdsourcing” at DIY Days this Sunday.
Lance Weiler, the film director behind The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma, has organized an [...]

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“TERMINATOR: Dark Discovery” – an Alternate Reality Experience
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Viral videos

Terminator: Dark Discovery from blair on Vimeo.

ARG – An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants’ ideas or actions.
For several months, I’ve been working on writing and directing a [...]

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Me on CNN Headline News about the LA Cinema project
June 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

UPDATE on the Cinematic Geography of LA project: CNN Headline News wanted to interview me about the short film we created that became a hit on YouTube. This was basically a brief behind the scenes piece to talk about how we created the film:

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Video Project – A Tribute to Communism
May 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Viral videos

130,000+ views and counting.  This was my satirical tribute to the glorious accomplishments of many decades of communist governments around the world. After so many attempts in history, it seems the ideology still has legions of fans and supporters. The notion behind this film was to quickly explain how and why communism works [...]

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Video Project – The Cinematic Geography of Los Angeles
April 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

This is a film I created after driving all over Los Angeles for many days taking photographs, and researching iconic cinema locations. What appears in this film is the end result. A whirlwind tour around the various locations around the city of Los Angeles and photographs of how they appear today compared with how [...]

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Viral Campaign – Why Children of Men Should be Nominated
January 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

This is a video I created to help publicize a criminally underrated masterpiece. Alfonso Cuarón’s amazing dystopian vision “Children of Men” was completely ignored by Universal and dumped quietly at the box office despite glowing praise from critics. I made this short to help generate more buzz behind this overlooked masterpiece.
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