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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
Michael Tran

26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog - 0 views

  • Need a professional-looking image but don't have the budget for spendy stock photo houses? Check out these great alternatives for free stock photography.
    • Michael Tran
       
      Blogs aren't too interesting to read without pictures in between to keep them attracted
  • Nothing makes a blog post more eye-catching than a great header image, but not all publishers have artistic talent. And even accomplished digital creatives often crave some found material to start from or work with in a project. Luckily for all of the above, sources abound for finding a compelling photo to grab your readers' eyes and draw them in, or to locate fresh multimedia to remix.
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    A comprehensive list of sites for people to find free audio, video, and visual media to add extra detail and spark to their websites.
Michael Tran

6 Tips on Choosing a Proper Template for Your Website - 0 views

  • Each kind of a website has its own peculiarities. A common mistake in web design community is to ignore the specificity of a website.
    • Michael Tran
       
      A lot of people pick a template because of how it looks but certain templates don't work for certain kinds of sites. An online shop for example shouldn't have a template that was originally designed for a fashion blog for example.
  • In order to help people that want to create their own website at any cost, the designers came with a great solution: website templates. A template is a structure that needs small customizations, especially for personalizing it, and after finishing these it may be uploaded.
  • Tip #2: Choose the template you need but not the one you just visually like
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