"I’m talking about the user experience. With audiences spoiled by more hours of content than hours of life left – how does one effectively navigate such content troves?"
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MODERNITY, NOSTALGIA & JACQUES TATI'S 'MONSIEUR HULOT'
"For Tati, the disappearance of markers of the past underpins the loss of a Paris that is grubby and authentic, distinctive and artisan, patriotic and cultured, warm and personal but most of all: Community."
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TRUE LIES: ADAPTING HISTORY TO NARRATIVE DRAMA
"All cinema is political." (Cahiers du Cinema, 1969)
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CHALLENGES OF BROADCAST MEDIA IN AN INTERNET AGE
"The biggest money is in the smallest sales..."
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MANOVICH: DATABASES AS A 'FORM'
"Today, a 'computer age' introduces the database; new media objects that do not tell stories nor contain beginnings or ends but exist as collections of individual items. Database as form."
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AUDIENCE TASTE CULTURES
"Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it in service after service, from DVDs at Netflix to music videos on Yahoo!...People are going deep into catalog, down the long, long list of available titles, far past what's available at Blockbuster Video..."
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NOTES ON ESSAY FILM FORM
"The essay film is said to be defined by its exact 'undefinableness', and it's taking pleasure in that."
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NETWORKED MEDIA, PLATO AND A TECHNOLOGIST
Plato on objectivity: "...the discoverer of an art is not the best judge of the good or harm which will accrue to those who practice it..."
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DESIGN THINKING: RMIT CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PANEL
"Design will drive Australia into the 22nd century...design is a driver - we have a different view."
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DESIGN THINKING: CREATIVE HYPOTHESISING
"Currently, it is thought that designers have the right kind of forward-thinking toolkit for dealing with 'wicked problems' - the kinds of problems that only create more with every solution, if there is even a solution."
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REVISITING: WHAT IS DOCUMENTARY?
"... I hope to be able to create sequences that when run together will present aspects of my perception of what took place in the presence of my camera...."
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DATABASES & HISTORY
"Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual."
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CURATION THINKING: THE EMPLOYABLE SKILL
"It means hiring people who have the ability to mix content types, and not be moral about it."
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AN IDEA: DESIGN FICTION
"...an approach to design that speculates about new ideas through prototyping and storytelling."
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STEVEN JOHNSON: WHERE DO GOOD IDEAS COME FROM?
"Chance favours the connected mind."
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FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHTING WITH VITTORIO STORARO
"I listen to what his (the directors) feelings are…Then I suggest to him what can be done to augment his concepts in the photographic area, how the story can be represented in an emotional, symbolic, psychological and physical way."
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