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March 12, 2017
Watch: Kenneth Lonergan Reveals the Emotional Journey of Storytelling
Every moment of the storytelling process is filled with emotion.
If you’re a fan of Kenneth Lonergan’s films and plays, you know that he tells stories with characters wrestling with their deepest emotions, many times struggling with very real existential crises. And yet, Lonergan also has a wonderful sense of humor that he laces throughout these emotional tales.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Manchester by the Sea and much lauded playwright recently gave a very interesting talk for the BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture series, where he works through his personal experiences and describes how they relate to his writing and directing. Check out the lecture below, and if you don’t have time for the full talk, you can read our takeaways after the video.
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March 12, 2017
Giorgio Armani Chatbot and “Films of City Frames” Installation at SXSW
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Giorgio Armani presents the third edition of Films of City Frames through a digitally immersive installation at SXSW 2017.
Armani has chosen to present the Armani Chatbot and this edition of Films of City Frames at SXSW because it sees the festival as one of the most innovative arenas for film, music, and interactive technology.
Chat with @Armani on Facebook messenger for a chance to win “Frames Of Life” Armani sunglasses.
Visit the Giorgio Armani installation at 314 East Cesar Chavez, from March 12–15 10:00am–6:00pm.
For more information, visit FilmsofCityFrames.com.
Photo Courtesy of Giorgio Armani
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March 12, 2017
Socialize from the comfort of your couch with Rooms 1.2 on Gear VR
In an effort to introduce even more people to social virtual reality experiences, Oculus today began to roll out support for its highly anticipated Rooms and Parties features to the Gear VR.
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March 12, 2017
Stir Up Innovative Ideas with Catalyst Product Design and Development
Catalyst Product Design and Development will provide delicious complimentary coffee at their SXSW Trade Show booth this week and share their new design methodology.
In recent years, design thinking has become a widely accepted and endorsed tool, utilized by not only designers but business strategists and key decision makers alike. While wildly popular, and valid in producing good, safe, ideas, there are some limitations.
How do you take into account the constant evolution of technology and the ever changing market place as you approach new design ideas, if you only consider the realities of the world today?
Catalyst believes that the concepts behind design thinking and user/human-centered design are valid; however, they also believe these products and solutions do not produce the highest creative potential nor do they consider the constraints of the current and future reality.
What if there was a way you could have it all, the immersive understanding, the data from users, and the creative forward thinking?
Stop by booth 943 at the Trade Show for your caffeine fix and learn more about how Catalyst can help you have it all.
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March 12, 2017
Interactive Keynote Jennifer Doudna at the 2017 SXSW Conference [Video]
“What if a cell’s DNA could be edited just like the text of a document so that you could actually erase letters, you could erase whole sentences, [you could] replace sentences, and you could do things that would enable scientists to change the mutations that might cause genetic disease, make changes that allow us to understand the function of DNA and different kinds of organisms and perhaps, enable us to really direct the way that organisms are evolving on the planet?”
Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2015, Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D. is a professor of molecular and cell biology and chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. As a coinventor of CRISPRCas9, a process that revolutionized gene editing, she has received numerous honors including the NSF Waterman Award, the FNIH Lurie Prize, the Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the Gruber Prize in Genetics, the Massry Prize, the Heineken Award, the Gairdner Award, the Nakasone Award, and the L’Oreal UNESCO International Prize for Women in Science.
Watch the video above for the full 2017 SXSW Conference Keynote Session with Jennifer Doudna. Get inspired by a multitude of diverse visionaries at SXSW – browse more 2017 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, Red Carpets, and Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.
Each day of SXSW 2017, we will also be live streaming exclusive conversations with SXSW Conference speakers from our Facebook Live Studio – view the schedule here.
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2017 SXSW Conference Speaker, Jennifer Doudna – Photo by Nicola Gell/Getty Images
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March 12, 2017
Hotel Rooms Become Live Music Venues with Room Service Show
In Austin to shoot their third season during the SXSW Music Festival, Room Service is a short-format digital series distributed on Vevo and YouTube that captures intimate musical performances in hotel rooms.
But how does a hotel room work as a performance space? Room Service’s quick production times enables them to shoot two live acoustic performances and an exclusive interview, all from inside a musician’s hotel room. The interviews are short and sweet; the performances, unique to the setting, provide an original, mastered track for each artist.
Featuring both up-and-coming artists and established talent, Room Service creates compelling stories for a diverse audience, easily shareable on social media and digital streaming platforms. Their first season was shot Las Vegas in 2015 and their second season was shot during the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York last year. Check out some of those performances and interviews on their YouTube Channel.
Hey musicians! If you’re in the Austin area during the SXSW dates and are interested in booking a performance or learning more about their series, feel free to reach out to their producers at info@theelevator.tv.
Find Room Service on Twitter and Instagram at @roomserviceshow and Like them on Facebook for more updates on their SXSW events.
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March 12, 2017
Announcing Encore Presentations for Monday, March 13 at the SXSW Conference
Announcing special Encore Presentations at the 2017 SXSW Conference for Monday, March 13.
Featuring a variety of tracks exploring what’s next in the worlds of journalism, culture, entertainment, technology, and beyond the SXSW Conference proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together. Browse the newly added Encore Presentations below and add to your schedule.
Encore Presentations for Monday, March 13
So You Want To Go To Mars
9:30am-10:30am | Austin Convention Center, Room 16AB
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NASA is building the world’s first interplanetary space travel system to take humans on deep-space missions to destinations never explored before. Come meet the NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems team and learn how to follow them along the Journey to Mars.
Storytelling In Design
1:30pm-2pm | Austin Convention Center, Room 10AB
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Drawing on tried and tested storytelling principles from film, fiction, and music and applying them to the context of UX design and business, in this talk Anna Dahlstrom (UX Fika) shares how we can instill a bit of magic in the work we do and hereby ensure that we create better multi-device experiences for our users and healthier bottom lines for our businesses.
AI’s Final Frontier: Your Living Room
2pm-3pm | Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon G
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KASITA is making the next big leap by building attainable, super smart micro homes that reflect and learn the way people actually live. Join CEO Jeff Wilson as he shares what he’s learned by taking a product approach to the home, how his startup is rolling out the ultimate piece of integrated “hardware,” and how new trends are causing the housing industry to re-think physical space altogether.
Augmented Intelligence: The Next-Gen AI
2pm-3pm | Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon K
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Melanie Cook (SapientRazorfish) discusses how Augmented Intelligence takes human intuition and imagination, and combines it with AI’s ability to automate and scale, making the Intelligent Workplace hard to beat.
Being Human: How Personal Stories Change the World
2pm-3pm | Hyatt Regency Austin, Zilker Ballroom 2
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With leading voices from the Obama Administration’s senior speech (and joke) writing team, the Ford Foundation, and The Atlantic, our panel – Alfred Ironside (The Ford Foundation), David Litt (Funny or Die DC), and Jean Ellen Cowgill (Atlantic Media Strategies) – will explore how we bear witness and give meaning to the defining issues of our time with humor, rage, grief, and honesty.
Interactive Data Analysis: Visualization and Beyond
2pm-3pm | JW Marriott, Salon H
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Join Jeffery Heer, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, to learn about current trends in visual data analysis tools and gain new insights applicable to their own work.
UX of Story: Designing the Future of Storytelling
2pm-3pm | Austin Convention Center, Room 8ABC
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Mandy Manddelstein (Luxloop) explores what can we learn from the experience design of past storytelling mediums, as we experiment in new fields with new technologies, and guide audiences into new storytelling formats weather they exist in the interactive, physical, digital or virtual worlds?
Professional athletes DeMarcus Ware, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Sr. director of performance Nike Ryan Flaherty, and founder/president of Hyperice Anthony Katz speak onstage at ‘How Technology Is Improving Human Performance’ during the 2017 SXSW Conference. Photo by Sandra Dahdah/Getty Images
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March 12, 2017
Seth Rogen on Adapting ‘Preacher’ From Comic to Series: ‘There’s No Line You Can’t Cross’
Seth Rogen pitched a series based on the controversial comic for 10 years until he got the green light.
Sitting down for a session focused on the making of Preacher, Seth Rogen, showrunner Sam Catlin, and original comic creator Garth Ennis gave behind-the-scenes explanations about how to keep the show grounded while still exploring blood, blasphemy, and what everybody else considers way too f*cked up. No Film School sat in on it and compiled some of the best points from the talk.
Be persistent—the industry might change
Rogen first recalled talking about how much he wanted to make this show on the set of Pineapple Express in 2006. “The project kept going to more qualified people, but we kept pursuing it. Eventually, we were the guys who were left. In that time, TV went from just a thing you watched on Thursday night, to a place where you could watch incredible things. In that decade, TV became the platform that could support something like this.”
“TV went from just a thing you watched on Thursday night, to a place where you could watch incredible things.”
Source: NoFilmSchool
March 12, 2017
Music, Podcasts & Sports: TuneIn, Your Everything Audio App Is Here for #TUNEINatSXSW
This SXSW, TuneIn is taking over two spots in Downtown Austin.
On Wednesday, March 15 through Friday, March 17, TuneIn takes over Easy Tiger with nightly music showcases featuring Cam’ron, BNQT feat. Jason Lyle of Grandaddy and Fran Healy of Travis, Midland, and more.
Stop by during the day for live podcasts, sports shows, and happy hours. Full details and schedule available at tuneinatsxsw.com
TuneIn is also proud to present the SXSW Podcast Stage at the JW Marriott, hosting 40 unique podcasts from varying genres including comedy, music, film, technology, food, science, inspiration, culture, news, and more!
Share your experiences with #TUNEINatSXSW.
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March 10, 2017
Learn Languages VR: Our first take
Learn Languages VR, by Mondly, transports you to numerous everyday experiences as you learn how to answer common conversational questions in a different language. The free app promises to help you learn through life-like experience.
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Source: Digital Trends VR