Wow. If you haven’t seen Peripetics by Zeiguised yet (on Kanye West’s blog, of all places), than you’d better watch it now. Here are some stills.
Filed under: art & design, video , zeitguised, peripetics
April 3, 2010 • 9:53 pm 3
Me explaining crowd-sourced funding on too much coffee
Courtesy of the folks at Film Courage, I bring you my hyper-caffeinated explanation of crowd-sourced funding for filmmakers.
Filed under: film, self-referential, video , coffee, crowd-sourced funding, Film Courage, San Diego IndieFest, saskia waxing poetic
February 18, 2010 • 9:36 am 0
Flash Mob at TEDActive
Film guy and flash mob organizer Kenneth Hughes got about 50 TEDActive members together to engage in a little ‘idea spread’ via flash mob in Palm Springs- to the surprise and mixed reactions of some of the local Palm Springs residents. Be sure to watch out for the locals’ giggly, gleeful, wiggling (and in some cases begrudging and fearful) participation in the video I produced about it, here.
Footage was shot by Brooklyn’s mssng peces, Sarah Shewey (pinkcloudevents.com) with shaky backup flip-cam footage by Saskia Wilson-Brown.
Filed under: dispatches, video , flash mob, kenneth hughes, Palm Springs, sarah shewey, saskia wilson-brown, TED, TEDActive
February 11, 2010 • 2:25 pm 0
Evan Grant’s Multi-Touch Sphere at TED
In this video, Evan Grant explains his multi-touch sphere on exhibition at the Bing Innovation Lounge at TED Active in Palm Springs.
Check out more of Evan’s work at seeper.com. The sphere was a collaboration between Seeper and Pufferfish. I’ll be uploading more videos from TEDActive, all week.
Filed under: dispatches, video , art, Evan Grant, innovation, multi-touch sphere, Pufferfish, Seeper.com, technology, TED, TEDActive
February 10, 2010 • 3:25 pm 0
James Patten’s Audiopad at TED
In this video, James Patten explains his Audiopad project at TEDActive in Palm Springs. Look out for lots of complex hand gestures, some fancy wallpaper, and really bright guy.
Check out more about James Patten and the Audiopad, as well as other projects, at http://www.pattenstudio.com/. I’ll be uploading more videos from TEDActive, all week.
Filed under: dispatches, video , Audiopad, James Patten, music, Palm Springs, technology, TED, TEDActive
January 25, 2010 • 11:51 pm 1
An Open Conversation about Film Festivals
“SABI Pictures presents the first of the New Breed video reports realized this year in collaboration with Filmmaker Magazine and The Workbook Project. This one’s an open discussion between Lance Weiler, Peter Baxter, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Brian Newman and Paul Rachman just prior to Slamdance and the Open Video Alliance’s Filmmaker Summit in Park City.”
See the video on Vimeo or read the article in Filmmaker Magazine here.
Filed under: diy distribution, theory, video , brian newman, film festival, filmmaker summit, Kevin Shah, Lance Weiler, paul rachman, Sabi Pictures, saskia wilson-brown, slamdance, Zak Forsman
October 17, 2009 • 4:27 pm 0
Marketing Your Video Online
A semi-updated version of my introductory primer for learning how to market your film or video online… Download the PDF here.
If you have any questions, suggestions, addendums, please email me at saskia@saskiawilsonbrown.com.
Filed under: diy distribution, film, video , Marketing Your Video Online
• 11:17 am 1
100,000 eyeballs to your film, in 3 days flat.
An important new weapon in the arsenal for filmmakers who are bucking the system and choosing to self-distribute, VODO is incredibly subversive. Its success, after all, is predicated on human generosity, not to mention the radical (and counter-intuitive) act of letting your film loose in the P2P world… Believe me, it’s probably there already.
With all that said, the benefits are tangible: In its first few days of existence, this new brainchild of filmmaker Jamie King has already proven to be very effective.
So what is VODO? Simply put, it’s an additional distribution option for filmmakers, one that utilizes and consolidates existing file-sharing systems -- as they put it: ‘a distribution system for the post-copyright age’.
What VODO proposes is that P2P filesharing services (such as The Pirate Bay) can be utilized by filmmakers to reach an unprecedented amount of potential viewers. What makes VODO’s service special is its use of the ‘Distribution Coalition (DISCO)’– a coalition of the P2P/filesharing sites. VODO acts as a pipeline of content, populating the various P2P services with the films it represents. This, in turn, allows filmmakers to get their content released in the P2P universe in a cohesive way, with the chance of an income through crowd-sourced donations. The purpose, then, of VODO is to harness the filesharing world and distribute content in it in a way that benefits filmmakers (and, eventually, creators of all stripes).
What this means – in layman’s terms – is that if your film gets selected for VODO, it will get a cohesive release across across a wide selection of filesharing sites and services, complete with an actionable donation capability which will allow people who watch your film to support you with money.
So, my ask to you is that you go support this new tool for independent filmmakers today. Here are several ways you can help:
- By checking out Ivo Gormley’s documentary: US NOW (don’t forget to donate some cash back to the filmmaker)
- By subscribing or donating to VODO
- By spreading the word to your independent filmmaker friends
- By submitting your own film for this.
If you doubt the reach of filesharing, note that VODO launched a few days ago (on the 14th of October, specifically) with the documentary US NOW, and, at the time of writing, has already obtained 100,000 downloads for filmmaker Ivo Gormley.
That, my friends, is a hell of a lot of downloads.
Filed under: diy distribution, film, friends doing cool things, subverting dominant paradigms, theory, video , DISCO, Jamie King, P2P, Pirate Bay, Vodo
