The 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead is being remade or “reanimated” in a first for the film industry.
Mike Schneider one of the project coordinaters and lead animator explains:
“Night of the Living Dead Reanimated is a mass collaborative re-envisioning in which artists from around the world select scenes from the original 1968 film [...]

A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via [...]

Nice but relatively random Spaghetti Code sculpture image: George Hart Computer Science Department NY

Heard this on “Heritage Media” channel 702 ABC (AM!) Radio Sydney this morning. Deborah Cameron was interviewing Ben Eggleton of Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) a consortium between five Australian universities: The University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University [...]

Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with [...]

Plaxo Pulse is an interesting social networking service which, unlike Facebook, allows you to separate your personal and business contacts. It also has a sophisticated address and calendar function which are linked to all those highly addictive sharing and communications tools. News this week is that Plaxo has partnered with cable TV company Comcast to [...]

The following clip you are about to see has a Ripley’s Believe it or Not feeling to it. Apparently its straight unedited footage taken from the CCTV of Raffles Place Tower building in Singapore.
It was posted on the internet a few weeks ago and like a piece of viral media, has completely overwhelmed the asian [...]

LonelyGirl15 actress Jessica Rose is making a comeback to the computer-screen with a new web series called Blood Cell,produced by digital studio 60Frames. This new series is not a faked vlog but a well-produced murder mystery. Part of the current onslaught of professionally produced web content with a hyper-syndication (the viral distribution of content through [...]

MySpace UK has just announced a deal with the Lonelygirl15 team to make a 60-part webisode series called I Love Chieftown. This comes hot on the heels of a deal with Bebo to create the Kate Modern series and, in the style of LG15, will be highly interactive and designed to exist within the ecology [...]

All reports are that the latest online video offering from News Corporation and NBC is exceeding expectations. Although the service is currently only available in the US it’s only a matter of time before it goes global according to CEO Jason Kilar. You can read a report of his comments at MIP here. Also of [...]

The LAMP team have been packing up our offices at AFTRS in North Ryde in preparation for the big move into our new building at Sydney’s Fox Studios. In the process, a lot of paper, DVD’s and CD-R’s have gone into the wheelie bins and we’re hoping that in future we’ll be accumulating a lot [...]

This is the first of a 4 part report, by Michael Ball, who attended this years CTIA Wireless Media Conference in Las Vegas this week. As his furthur reports come in, Ill post them up for you.
let’s start with some intriguing stats: According to the panelists–which included mobile execs from MTV Networks, Discovery Channel, MobiTV, [...]

An interesting video with the creators of the new pilot web site from Carnegie Mellon University, called Spongecell. Spongecell. brings together the interactivity of social networking to product marketing and promotion campaigns. An interesting example was the Yari Film Group in the USA..
Yari Film Group sees 40% opt-in
“We wanted to promote our movie “Final Season” [...]

Walt Mossberg, the Wall Streets Journal very well connected editor of “All Things Digital”, was invited to the Finnish Embassy in Washington DC this week for a talk organised by Andy Plesser of beet.tv fame.
His comments on the future of online media is extremely interesting especially his comments on slow broadband. He also dropped a [...]

Current TV’s Ezra Coopenstein is currently touring Australasia as a guest of the Portable Film Festival. Ezra is one of the founding members of the Current TV team and works as their VP of Viewer Created Content or VC2. Empowering viewers is at the heart of the Current philosophy and VC2 makes up about one [...]

 Just in from the ABC:
Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says he recognises that the digital ambitions of the ABC have been constrained by funding.
Speaking at a subscription television conference in Sydney, Senator Conroy said pay TV had led the way in delivering new technology and innovation in digital TV.
The planned April launch of children’s channel [...]