[modfilms-general] SANCTUARY NEWSLETTER > DECEMBER 14 > 2005

[Alex Zinzi]

MOD FILMS FOR MASH-UPS
In a recent interview with 'Wired Magazine' Director Steven Soderbergh
talked about the copyright cops, the remixing underground, and why he'll
debut his new movie on DVD, cable, and in theaters all at once. Here's a
little snippet of that interview: Interviewer: Have you thought about making
a mash-up? Steven Soderbergh: I have ideas like that - video mash-ups. Some
of them I've done privately. But there's no way for them to be seen legally.
I wish we could come up with a system that allowed someone to do a Grey
Album without having to pay millions of dollars for music rights. A system
in which rights holders share profits of a new piece of work and people can
access it without breaking the law." For the full interview go here:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/soderbergh.html?tw=wn_tophead_5


KONG LIVES... YET AGAIN
I was deeply sceptical that this re-remake of the
monkey-and-blonde-chick-flick would be anything beyond VFX candy, but Peter
Jackson's 'King Kong' surpassed my expectations. If not for the plot, the
cinematography, the colours, and above all the emotive performance of the
world's biggest CG character make this a classic. The godfather of mocap
acting, Andy Serkis, has spent quality time hanging out with the gorillas of
London Zoo and it shows. On The Culture Show, you can see gorillas
responding in the background as he demonstrates a few phrases to the
interviewer. One revision on from the process of creating Gollum was the
'Kongalizer', a voice-masking system that allowed Serkis to vocalize
gorilla-like on set.


STIMTVMUSIC
StimTVmusic is a video-based online music service which cycles through short
clips and allows the viewer to bookmark favourites. It's marketed as "a
revolutionary way to discover music" but so far the interface looks decidely
non-scalable and, functionally-speaking, appears to be nothing more than a
cut-down Bookmarks tool. http://www.stimtv.com


THE FUTURE OF OUR MEDIA ACCORDING TO THE MMH
"It is the best of times.. it is the worst of times".. thus begins The
Museum of Media History's semi-factual, but ultimately 'fictional' account
of how the Internet has effectively changed the way we receive our news and
assorted media from 1989 to 2014 (yeah that's right.. 2014!!) This very
clever and quasi-prophetic mockumentary makes a very compelling case for how
information about the past can be cleverly remixed and manipulated with the
present to draw some pretty convincing speculations about the future.
http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/epic/ols-master.html


NOW IT'S YOUR TURN..
Why.. to predict the Future of our media of course! But while you're at it,
you might as well check out some of the rather accurate predictions and
highly educated guesses that others have made before you at the 'Media
Futures Archive' http://mediafuturesarchive.org


RADICAL FORCE IN MUSIC QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones." - John Cage
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