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DarkCampaign.com - My grassroots campaign supporting “The Dark Knight” for Best Picture

November 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

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 Best Picture.
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 history that [...]

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Catch me on a DIY Days panel in SF this Sunday at 2:15pm. Topic: Crowdsourcing

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos, Virtual Worlds

Lance Weiler, the film director behind The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma, has organized an interesting discussion series across the US that is called “DIY Days” (Do-it-Yourself Days). The series of live conferences / discussions known as DIY DAYS is happening in LA, SF, Boston, NYC and London. According to Lance, their goal is [...]

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SciFi blog io9 has an interesting article on “The Argument Against ARGs” but praises our work on Terminator

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

This article from 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.
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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 movie we created for 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

A 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 exactly as it does on the state [...]

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Video Project - The Cinematic Geography of Los Angeles

April 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

After driving all over Los Angeles for many days taking photographs, and researching iconic cinema locations, 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 they appeared on the cinema scenes.
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Viral Campaign - Why Children of Men Should be Nominated

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

A video made 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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