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Makeover movie | Psyche Films
18 minutes Growing up in the early 2000s, the US filmmaker Sue Ding was exposed to a seemingly endless procession of makeover montages in Hollywood films. Think of Sandra Bullock’s transformation from FBI agent to pageant queen in Miss Congeniality (2000), or Anne Hathaway’s royal metamorphosis in The Princess Diaries (2001). As a teen from an immigrant family, Ding was entranced by their glamour as well as the roadmap they provided for ‘not just how to be a woman, but also how to be American’.
There’s an ‘Unprecedented’ Sriracha Shortage Right Now Original
An abysmal spring harvest of Mexican chiles caused an “unprecedented shortage” of Asian hot sauces, a California-based producer said. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Video Step inside the factory that makes the iconic hot sauce in this 360° tour.CreditCredit...Sue Ding for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung. A fixture at Vietnamese restaurants, sriracha sauce can lace aromatic pho with a jolt of heat.
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The Trouble with Nonfiction Transmedia
An Immerse response As a documentary filmmaker, as well as a researcher at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, I am both curious and enthusiastic about the creative possibilities of nonfiction transmedia projects such as Notes on Blindness, which chronicles the experience of going blind in a short film distributed online, a feature film, and a series of VR experiences. In the lab’s Docubase, I’ve curated a playlist of other notable nonfiction transmedia projects.
Emerging Media and Future Realities at Getting Real
Mixed reality, artificial intelligence and other innovations are rapidly shifting the landscape of media and society. As storytellers, we have a central role to play in envisioning and catalyzing what the future holds. The Getting Real conference addressed emerging media technologies and creative praxis at a number of different sessions.
Reenactment Reconsidered at Getting Real: Addressing the Nonfiction Fantasy
Reenactment Reconsidered at Getting Real: Addressing the Nonfiction Fantasy Reenactments have been a part of documentary since the very beginning of the form: Robert Flaherty's seminal 1922 film Nanook of the North, arguably the first feature documentary, was largely staged. Since then, directors including Errol Morris, Shirley Clarke, Werner Herzog, Sarah Polley and Joshua Oppenheimer have utilized documentary reenactments to great effect.
Augmented Reality's Documentary Potential
Note: Augmented reality (AR) generally refers to digital content overlaid on the physical world. Mixed reality (MR) represents a more comprehensive integration of virtual and physical, in which virtual objects map onto, and are responsive to, features of the physical environment. Meanwhile, the term XR, or extended reality, is gaining traction as an umbrella term for a wide range of experiences that combine physical and virtual worlds, including AR, MRand VR.
Where It’s Made: Sriracha Hot Sauce
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An Eclectic Mix of Arts Without Walls
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Deconstructing the Meaning of Home
In and Out of Prison, and His Daughter’s Life
A Hmong Rice Farmer in Transition
Times journalists around the world bring you a new 360 video every day.
Afrofuturist Virtual Reality Installation Reimagines the Future for Women Of Color
In this dispatch from MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, a look at a new virtual reality experience designed to encourage women of color to explore the medium's potential. You sit in a pink-hued “neurocosmetology” lab, your feet dangling off the salon chair, tentacle-like electrodes hanging down above you. You’re here for an appointment to get your hair styled—and at the same time, increase the neuroplasticity of your brain.
Why Virtual Reality Is Overhyped, and How New Projects Could Change It
In this dispatch from MIT's Open Documentary Lab, a look at how Sundance's VR installations showed the potential of an emerging medium. Virtual reality has been on the cusp for decades, but many in the tech industry touted 2016 as the year VR finally arrived. Multiple consumer headsets were released, billions of dollars were invested, and more media companies experimented with VR content.
Virtual Reality is Here, But What is VR Storytelling?
At Sundance's New Frontier, creators push the boundaries of storytelling and search for a new lexicon for VR. Entering New Frontier's main exhibition space at Sundance feels like stepping into a science fiction movie. Seated clusters of visitors wear virtual reality headsets, their heads roving in different directions. In the tethered VR installations, people shadowbox with unseen foes and step gingerly around invisible obstacles.
Podcast: Tom Levenson, "Einstein, Mercury, And The Hunt For Vulcan"
MIT professor of science writing Tom Levenson discusses his new book, The Hunt for Vulcan…And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe. For decades, scientists discovered, dismissed, and rediscovered a hidden planet — Vulcan — thought to be responsible for the wobble in Mercury’s orbit.
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