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 and extraterrestrial mayhem to tie-in directly to the animated film. Juggling live action, animation, and comedy all at once proved to be extremely challenging, but I [...]
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A very cool honor for all of us involved in “Terminator” from this year’s Webby Awards!
It is my pleasure to inform you that Terminator: Dark Discovery has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Online Guerilla & Innovation category in The 13th Annual Webby Awards.
As a result of the exceptional quality of submissions [...]
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 it faces an extremely tough road ahead. It’s a masterpiece and yet it has to challenge 81 years of Academy [...]
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 [...]
This article from SciFi media site IO9 is an interesting discussion of the pros and cons of Alternate Reality Gaming campaigns and how they work (or don’t). Many of the points they make are things I think I agree with, specifically about relying too much on puzzles and schwag and not enough on compelling storytelling.
Here’s [...]
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 [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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