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Stanislav Gamar

POWER TO THE PIXEL « Crowdsourcing: Using Audiences to Bankroll Projects - 0 views

  • Now, with online tools that enable direct connections, filmmakers can reach out to their fans for support in the early stages of project development
  • crowdsourcing is a collaborative way to overcome barriers in the filmmaking process
  • lacking financial resources
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  • One of the first and most well known filmmakers to use crowdsourcing is Robert Greenwald
    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      While crowdsourcing is all the rage this days, ranging anywhere from film making (seeking funding on pirate websites) to video game funding, yet not so long ago crowdsourcing was a new concept. This article is one of more early examples of such funding in its infancy.  Article dates from 2009. Please note that such examples that are covered in this article geared towards financing funding as opposed to innovation and idea funding. In first article out of five we will look at early stages, in following article climax of financial/social success will be covered with ultimately looking on last two articles how such crowdsourcing ideas have failed and succeeded.
Stanislav Gamar

7 Captivating Works of Crowdsourced Art - 1 views

  • The art world has also leveraged the power of crowdsourcing to create some stunning works.
  • SwarmSketch randomly chooses a popular search term as the topic of each week's collective drawing
  • online canvas composed of 1 million squares and they're hoping to get people from all over the world to paint pictures that fill them
Stanislav Gamar

Obsidian surpasses Kickstarter records with their crowdsourced game | Lazygamer .:: The... - 0 views

  • numerous new titles have received a kick up, bringing to life ideas for games that most big name publishers would scoff at
  • people actually being willing to fork out cash for a game that they would want to play.
    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      World of video games by many business folks is viewed as form of entertainment, and as result it is categorized as such. At one point it was considered the niche of grand marvel of entertainment industry.   But this was in the past; now-a-days videogame industry has more money flowing through it then even filming industries like Hollywood, and biggest drawback from this sudden growth has been inflow of money hungry investors whom view this sector as only vessel for cash flow and not creativity. Who can blame them? Its part of the game! The downside comes in for of taxation on creativity and vision, large publishes are only willing to make bet on sure-fire hits with general public, they wish not to invest in to truly wonderful and creative games that would redefine the landscape. Kickstrater website is one of many of its kind that allows gamers and any one else who is interested in investing towards such video game venture in hopes of playing it one day and claiming the credit of making the difference!
Mohammad Amir

Crowdsourcing Our History: How The Wikipedia Generation Will Change The World - 0 views

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    Online and encyclopedic resources will have the most bearing in our common understanding of the past, or how history is written in the present
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    Online and encyclopedic resources will have the most bearing in our common understanding of the past, or how history is written in the present.
Stanislav Gamar

Amazing crowdsourced music video uses thousands of mouse cursors as cast members | The ... - 0 views

  • Roel Wouters to create an browser-based experience that tracks your cursor movements and later integrates them into the video itself for future playback.
  • thousands of cursors form patterns by sticking within guidelines
    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      Please note that article does not have any questionable content. But if you follow the link and watch the actual video there is very mild nudity shown at the end of the video.
Stanislav Gamar

Everything brilliant starts with an Idea | kickstarter - 0 views

  • The smart organisations are figuring out that social and collaboration platforms
  •  Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have demonstrated that a sizable and growing ’fan’ base
  • submit inspiration or ideas about different topics such as travel and romance
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    • Stanislav Gamar
       
      Carrying on with trend of financial and creative support for various institutions and individuals of unspecified renown, we get to enjoy some quality examples of social platforms with in this article.
Mohammad Amir

Augmented Reality TV System Mixes Programming and Web Content - 1 views

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    New start-up combines web content with television programming
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