Fwd: Summercamp! in Chicago

Hope you'll all consider going, Sarah Price also co-directed _American
Movie_ a sundance winner 1999.

Steve

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Subject: Summercamp! in Chicago
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:55:24 -0400
From: sarah price <ssprice@gmail.com>
To: info@summercampmovie.com

Hello friends--

Summercamp! opens at the Siskel Film Center Aug. 25-28. I'll be there
on the 25th for a Q&A, along with some of the kids in the film, with a
reception to follow sponsored by IFP Midwest. This is open to the
public (IFP members receive a discount ticket price on the 25th), and
should be a lot of fun. Rumor has it there will be camp snacks and
crafts (and bar) at the reception...

I look forward to seeing everyone and catching up, and please pass the
info on to your Chicago friends!
Thank you!
-Sarah

SUMMERCAMP!
Directed by Bradley Beesley & Sarah Price
Featuring music by the Flaming Lips and Noisola.

August 25-29, 2007
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60601
312-846-2600
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
Tickets $9 (adults) $7(students)
Sat @ 3:30pm, Sun @ 3:15pm, Mon-Wed @ 6pm

Co-director Sarah Price in person Sat. Aug 25th.

www.argotpictures.com <http://www.argotpictures.com>
www.summercampmovie.com <http://www.summercampmovie.com>
www.myspace.com/summer_camp_movie <http://www.myspace.com/summer_camp_movie>

REVIEWS:

"the saddest, sweetest, most magical and most deeply affecting movie of
the season." SALON.COM <http://SALON.COM>

"Summercamp is a riot of talent shows and campfires, canoeing, and
holistic clowning." THE NEW YORK TIMES

"With tenderness and joy, Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price capture the
precious moments of preteen freedom—not from parents and school, but
from self-awareness and doubt." TIME OUT NEW YORK

"Pure and heartbreaking, if you don't relate to this film you were
never a kid." CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"A sweeter, more unassuming movie isn't likely to come our way anytime
soon." NEW YORK POST

"utterly charming.........Beesley and Price's young subjects are smart
and unusually articulate, and they talk about their lives with a
perspective one doesn't expect from children." TV GUIDE ONLINE

"Summercamp, a marvelously honest new film." NEW YORK SUN

"In its shuddering truth, Summercamp! dares to suggest that the grand
disaster of youth as we knew it was actually... fun." THE REELER

"A feel-good hit for the summer" THE ONION

--
Steve Brantley
University of Illinois at Chicago
Daley Library
M/C 234
Box 8198
Chicago, IL 60680
312-996-4032
jbrant1@uic.edu

--
Steve Brantley

link: SXSW Panel: Web 2.0 to Web 3D [part 1]

From Susan Wu's "Venture Capital" blog: SXSW Panel: Web 2.0 to Web 3D [part 1]

Excerpt:

The question I was trying to answer was, “Is the next generation of the consumer web 3D?” I think the answer is not necessarily.

1. The reason why we’re asking this question is because there’s a bubble forming in the virtual world space right now.

That’s a pretty incendiary statement. What do I mean by it? What I see on the horizon are dozens and dozens of new virtual world platforms and titles hitting the market - far more than the public will want to consume. By ‘title,’ I mean a self contained, branded version of a virtual world much like “Virtual Laguna Beach.” All the big media and consumer goods companies are looking at what’s happening with online community sites like MySpace and Facebook and want in on this action desperately.

However, I think that all of the media hype around Second Life is misleading the public about what the next generation consumer Internet might look like. That isn’t to say that Second Life doesn’t have tremendous merit in moving the dialogue forward about what collaborative work and play spaces feel like. What I mean is that there are now quite a few companies who equate “future of online communities” with “3D graphical world.” The mad rush by these big brands to create empty showrooms in SecondLife is proof of this. Just like in the dot-Bust days, there will be lots of shoddy substandard products brought to market in the mad frenzy to create a ‘presence.’

two cool things

Make Magazine published a project to make your own tricked out Guitar
Hero controller!
HOW TO - Make a DIY PS2 Guitar Hero controller:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/how_to_make_a_diy_ps2_gui.html

Tech crunch blog reports that Morgan Webb from X-play is hosting a new
daily news show focussing on breaking technology and gaming news.
got to the webbalert: http://www.webbalert.com/
or go to the tech crunch post:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/02/webbalert-a-lot-like-rocketboom-except-its-interesting/