Borey Sok, auteur du Musique 2.0 a vendu les droits d’exploitation de son blog à MyMajorCompany . My major company crée par des anciens de maisons de disques fera produire les artistes par les internautes. Le prix d’achat reste confidentiel - mais selon Borey “beaucoup plus avantageux que tous le modèles publicitaires existants sur [...]
08 nov 2007 | Lire la suite
Last weeks have been pretty busy at Eyeka, the video and photo marketplace for new talents on new media.
We will publish on October 31st a first version of our marketplace which we will be significantly upgrade over the next 2 weeks. Technology based projects always seem to take longer than one expects. Sounds familiar? [...]
30 oct 2007 | Lire la suite
If you want to see one of the possible futures of photojournalism, check out MediaStorm. The company, self financed, founded by Brian Storm, operates like a production house. A few years back, while we were working together at Corbis, Brian already had this vision of combining photography, sound and text. I met him a few [...]
30 sept 2007 | Lire la suite
4 écrans, c’est pour ciné, télé, mobile, web : humez la convergence! Cela me fait penser à la devise des Trois Mousquetaires : “Tous pour un (le contenu), et chacun pour soi (les médias)”. La compétition est ouverte ici .Eyeka s’est associé à CAPA, Canal+ et SFR. Si vous êtes passionné d’image [...]
28 sept 2007 | Lire la suite
Broken is a young association of a dozen artists : directors, writers, sound and video makers. Here is their perception of how technology sneaks into our lifes and how we forget about it, about where and who it comes from.
01 sept 2007 | Lire la suite
Stuart told me about fotonovelas. The concept is to write comics using photos instead of drawings :
Complex perspectives and dark imagery have had a long history and far-reaching impact within the Latino and Chicano communities in the U.S., as well as Mexico and Latin America, where they continue to thrive as a mainstay of [...]
03 juin 2007 | Lire la suite
Aren’t you a fan of Wallace and Gromit? I am.
Aardman Animations, on May 30th, announced a deal with Joost, the online video platform.
This deal is a win/win situation and here is why.
For Aardman, it is a great avenue for distribution as the product - short animated films - is not always targetted to traditional [...]
01 juin 2007 | Lire la suite
Copyright: Philippe Warrin/Sipa
Books, european and french flags, light on the president… what do you think about the photo?
How much was this picture sold?
On Tuesday may 29th, Beatrice Garrette, managing director of SIPA Press, told me that the price for this picture was not yet set by La Documentation Française. The shoot was made without discussing [...]
27 mai 2007 | Lire la suite
Sometimes it may seem easy. That’s Jeremie Roux. He graduated from Stanford with Master’s degree in Computer Graphics, lived in San Francisco and worked in different start-ups in, co-managed a model agency in Paris, and is a talented photographer with several exhibitions in galeries in France and the US. He transforms industrial and urban [...]
27 mai 2007 | Lire la suite
I like this video clip from XERAK : the electronic music, the drawings and the movement. And you?
He says he gets his inspiration in the japanese and american comics, in pop art and in older scifi movies. He hides behing chraracters which he names entities.
He produced a number a records including in 2005 “SEXFLOOR [...]
20 mai 2007 | Lire la suite