I think this calls for one of those clip reels that we get at award shows.

Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor – aaronvaldez.com) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing – pughtube.com) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.

The Story:

In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.

We can’t thank everyone enough for making this such a special project.

I was going to use the Canon 5D MK III to illustrate this point because it’s the newest and everyone is talking about it. However, this happens every time a new camera is released so instead I’m going to use (insert any camera here). This is not something that will go away. A new camera comes out and we go through the same motions. Now you will have a handy reference guide for whenever they are released Allow me to walk through the steps.

1) The (insert any camera here) rumor mill.
An unconfirmed report comes out stating the camera will have (insert any spec here) and (insert any spec here). This causes a number of reactions. One faction becomes excited because they have been waiting forever for (insert any spec here). Another group calls shenanigans and says there is no way (insert any camera here) will have (insert any spec here). It’s not going to happen and who told you that anyway?

2) The (insert any camera here) release date announced.
Now we have a date when the (insert any camera here) is supposed to be released. Repeat step one but this time with more (insert any spec here). More noise from both sides. We still haven’t accomplished much.

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Reid’s goal was to capture and represent some of the rhetoric from that past decade and a half in a way that would fill the hall with laughter, even if some of it came at the expense of some clearly ridiculous industry arguments. “Everyone can laugh at silly infographics,” Reid opined while silently crushing the serious journalism dreams of hacks everywhere. “And who doesn’t want to deface a Leave-it-to-Beaver-like Christmas scene with pirate-and-Santa graffiti?”

The brilliance of Reid’s talk is that he thoroughly skewers the content industry’s dubious appeal to quantitative reasoning. We’ve all see the headlines proclaiming huge numbers of dollars, jobs, and patents lost to piracy. The appeal to quantitative measures is supposed to undermine counterarguments by doing two things: slyly stepping into a (pretend) world of objectivity, and raising the alarm with big, scary numbers. It’s hard to look at those kinds of headlines in the same way after Reid’s elegantly hilarious skewering.

Reid’s examination of Copyright Math began when he started working on his soon-to-be published debut science fiction novel, Year Zero, which Random House is publishing in early July (we’ll be reviewing it). Year Zero tells the story of how the toxic legal byproducts of some overly litigious lawyers cause problems that make global warming seem downright cozy. Not to give it away, but could you imagine how pissed off an alien music lover might get if he was sued into bankruptcy for pirating a few lousy Rick Astley songs?

Khan Academy in the classroom
School administrators Alyssa Gallagher and Jeff Baier of the Los Altos, California, school district are testing out Khan Academy software in their classrooms.

Google’s Eric Schmidt on Khan Academy
Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, explains why he’s backing the work of Sal Khan and Khan Academy.

Khan Academy’s “world-changing” plan for schools
Khan Academy’s core team – Sal Khan, Shantanu Sinha, Sundar Subbarayn, Ben Kamens and Jason Rosff – say they hope to revolutionize education.

Khan Academy: School of the future
In Sal Khan’s vision of the school of the future, the traditional classroom, school day, and even school year don’t look like anything like our current system.

Tim Schmoyer of ReelSEO talks with Kevin Nalty, affectionately known on YouTube as Nalts, about some of the differences between viral videos and evergreen videos.

Traditionally, there were three main types of distribution for the work of independent filmmakers: theatrical, broadcast and straight to DVD. Most filmmakers hoped for a combination of all three.

But everything has changed. The digital online world has opened up new avenues of distribution including video on demand, live streaming, and mobile and tablet applications.

Indie filmmakers are harnessing these digital forms of distribution to increase their audience and maintain control of their film, but the “how and where” their film is viewed, the financial recovery of production costs, and their eligibility for awards all factor into their choices.

“Every film has its own path,” said director Tiffany Shlain, remembering something she once heard that stuck.

Today, choosing that path is more complicated then ever.

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