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New Yorker Cover Painted with iPhone App

Gizmodo reported today that artist Jorge Colombo used the iPod app Brushes to fingerpaint the June 1 cover of the New Yorker magazine. Watch the video below on the artist’s process using the app. The apparent contradiction between the New Yorker’s gravitas and Apple’s youth culture duly noted. However, as one commenter noted, graphic artist/animator Francoise Mouly (spouse and collaborator of Art Spiegelmann) is in charge of covers, which may explain the adventurous decision.

QuickPlay’s Mobile DVR

Back in the 20th century, when Tivo was still in alpha, I was assigned to write an article on it. As I learned more about Tivo, I thought: this is exactly what I’ve been waiting for my entire TV watching life.
I had the mobile version of that epiphany with QuickPlay Media’s PrimeTime2Go, which is essentially a DVR for the mobile phone.

So What’s Happening in Mobile Content? Powerful Devices and Fast Data Networks Have Changed the Game

Since the beginning, content developed for mobile phones has been a game of low bandwidth and slow processing speeds. Like a painter who is tasked with creating art on a very small canvas with only one color, mobile content developers did as much as they could with the resources at their disposal. Fast forward to now.

The game of low bandwidth and slow processing speeds is ending very, very quickly. High speed networks and mobile broadband are becoming increasingly ubiquitous.

The CLIO Awards Go Mobile with Mozes

For 50 years, the CLIO Awards has honored the best in advertising, design and interactive. With its 50th conference, the CLIOs are now going mobile. “We’re doing text-to-screen and putting audience comments and questions up there which is something we do for quite a number of conferences,” said Mozes’ Greg Estes. “In the case of the CLIOS, people can put their comments up there for any of the presentations and for any of the associated panels.”

Mobile GPS Opens Door to Content, Commerce - Part 2

This is part 2 of a conversation at a Digital Hollywood considering the impact of GPS and location-based services (LBS) on mobile content and commerce. In Part 2, panelists consider the perspective of mobile operators and retailers, and the Nine Inch Nails app.

Mobile GPS Opens Doors to Content, Commerce

At a Digital Hollywood session last week, panelists considered the impact of GPS and location-based services (LBS) on mobile content and commerce. By 2014, there will be a 46 percent growth in GPS-enabled mobile phone shipments worldwide. “We’re seeing evidence there’s big growth here and that mobile commerce and location based services are overlapping. It looks like there’ll be traction.”

Movies, TV and Video for Mobile

Digital Hollywood/Santa Monica, CA—Movies, TV and Video for Mobile was the topic of discussion for a panel that ranged over opportunities for creating, advertising/marketing and monetizing. The future of mobile entertainment shows opportunities for enormous growth, said the panelists. “For movies, it’s moving to people watching full-length films on their devices,” says Herdrich.

Celebrity Sites Picking Up the Phone

Moderator Alex Ben Block, editor-at-large for The Hollywood Reporter, introduced celebrity sites by noting that the earliest days of motion pictures avoided making “stars” out of the actors, until the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford changed all that in the early 1920s.
But reality TV programs have instigated the biggest transition into the basis of celebrity, and Digital Hollywood hosted a panel on how celebrity media is transforming broadband, mobile, social media and TV.

Mobile 2.0 at Digital Hollywood

Digital Hollywood started on Monday, May 4, and MobilizedTV covered a panel on “The Mobile Platform 2.0: Establishing the Personalized Video, Music and Communications Experience” moderated by Ted Cohen, managing partner at TAG Strategic and panelists Dan Schiappa, GM, mobile advertising experiences, platform, Microsoft; Edwin Aoki, technology fellow, AOL; Albert B. Chu, vp, marketing & alliances, ACCESS Systems America; Tom Ellsworth, CEO, GoTV; Matt Murphy, SVP, Digital Video Distribution, ESPN; Anthony Bontrager, president, 1Cast; and Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora.

My Damn Channel Relaunches May 7

After 21 months, My Damn Channel–home to Wainy Days and You Suck at Photoshop among other hits–is relaunching its site this Thursday, May 7. My Damn Channel has now produced over 500 original videos, on 20 different channels with over 40 different web series. The relaunch is timed to coincide with the debut of Season 4 of Wainy Days, the web series starring comedian David Wain.

Producers Guild to Honor ‘Digital 25′

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is accepting nominations for “The Digital 25: Visionaries, Innovators and Producers of 2009,” which will honor “individuals and teams that have made the most significant contributions to the advancement of digital entertainment and storytelling over the previous year.” Nominations have been extended to May 8.

Nokia Hollywood Lab Inks USC Deal

The University of Southern California (USC) and Nokia Research Center (NRC) Hollywood today announced a research collaboration framework agreement that centers on advanced mobile user experiences. The umbrella framework agreement allows Nokia and USC to work together on multiple projects in a variety of areas and will streamline the process for commercializing USC inventions.

Powering Mobile DTV

NAB 2009 was a big event for the launch of Mobile DTV. MobilizedTV has covered some of the announcements of the show, but to give an idea of how well-supported the mobile broadcast standard is being supported by equipment manufacturers, the following is a round-up of where mobile DTV could be found on the trade show floor.

Watching Mobile DTV at NAB 2009

Mobile content-original and repurposed-has been limited, for a wide variety of reasons. But the doors to mobile content swung open at the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas, which ended last Thursday. The acceptance of a Mobile DTV standard was not only demonstrated at the show by a wide spectrum of companies, but call letter stations and networks joined in the fun with live broadcasts of programming. If you think there’s nothing to watch on Mobile DTV, check out the program that ran throughout NAB:

Director Spike Lee to Host MOFILM’s UGC Competition

MOFILM, a pioneer in creating content for global online and mobile operators, just announced that director, producer, writer and actor Spike Lee will host the MOFILM’s User-Generated Content “You to the Power of 12- U12” Competition at the Cannes Lions 2009 Advertising Festival, held June 21 to 27. Prizes top $120,000 and a chance to be on set of Spike Lee’s next production.