How to turn the bloody truths of the Iraq war into mass entertainment is a problem that has repeatedly bedeviled Hollywood executives. Even “The Hurt Locker,” which won the Academy Award for best picture last year, earned only $17 million domestically. Now Broadway, where the price of a ticket can be 10 times as much as at the multiplex, is taking its first major look at Iraq eight years after the invasion, with a play that starts with a behanding, descends into brutality and murder, and features no less than Uday Hussein clutching the severed head of his brother, Qusay.
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May
23
Kill your facebook account
Posted by: Glover |Tagged in: postmodern , Performance Art , New York , Live Art , language , Interview , interdisciplinary , Facebook , criticism , critic , contemprary , community , audience , artist , art
Facebook is pretty inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. It has wormed it's little coding into our collective unconsciousness and made us feel that we are doing something proactive to be less lonely, miserable, depressed and isolated than we really are. Facebook is a digital simulation; mimesis of the Hyper-Real, faux communication which passes as "friendship," there is no "real" reason to maintain any presence on Facebook or any other digital social network. So I suppose I can't really give you any reason not to delete your account. It has certainly crossed my mind on a regular basis over the last few years. On the other hand you could jump in the car and come over to NYC where we could hang out and have a few "real" experiences which we can then promote on Facebook. Proving to others that we have "real" friends in the "real world."
Mar
31
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Robin William's Broadway War show.
Posted by: Glover |Tagged in: writing , war , theatrical allusion , theatre , Theater , story , Robin Williams , reviewing , playwrighting , plays , play , New York , ideology , broadway , audience , acting
Star Power Meets War’s Firepower
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: March 23, 2011
Richard Perry/The New York Times
Robin Williams in Rajiv Joseph's “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” More Photos »
Oct
12
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Communicating your transmedia experience
Posted by: Glover |Tagged in: transmedia , story , marketing , interdisciplinary , interactive , gaming , experimental , cross media , community , audience , ARG
This is a quick post but I thought this template might be useful for some people when they’re explaining their transmedia project. You’ll notice that this is focused on the experience rather than the technology: there’s no mention of platforms or business case or even audience. So there’s more that needs to be communicated to get the full picture but this is a cool way to get your point across in certain circumstances.
This is my Transmedia Radar Diagram – use it to communicate your transmedia experience to interested parties… but probably not your audience 
Note that there’s no absolute scale for the four axes, it’s their strength relative to each other. Of course, if you’re comparing projects then they need to compare across projects too.