Peter Coffin’s Here & There exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum use video to create new experiential space in a gallery room containing 14 hung artworks. … Read the post Peter Coffin re-animates hung paintings with video art
Watching television like it used to be: live excerpt of Jaime Davidovich’s “Blue, Red, Yellow” at the Hirshhorn Museum. … Read the post good old-fashioned social television watching
For avoiding loneliness, a dog is cheaper and less complicated than a spouse or children. DOGTV solves the problem of the dog getting lonely. … Read the post innovation in television: DOGTV
Out-of-home video should play well within its particular physical circumstances. More mobile apps should encourage users to look up. … Read the post think outside the screen
Skype is moving aggressively into video telephony and real-time video sharing. … Read the post voice and video calling
Photosharing is growing rapidly. It’s a highly popular activity on social networks like Facebook. Pursuing photosharing makes sense as a “thin edge of the wedge” strategy for web startups attempting to build a social platform. But why is social photosharing so popular? Some reasons: Sharing photos is an easier way to communicate than sharing written … Continue reading communicating with photos
The well-established movie business has high movie production costs, high movie promotion costs, and close relationships between movie studios and movie theaters. Online services such as Amazon Studios suggest possibilities for much lower movie production costs. The growth of social media and online advertising, as well as services such as Amazon’s Withoutabox, creates powerful means … Continue reading the new movie business
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently stated that Netflix subscribers watch about equal minutes of movies and television shows.[1] Those movies plausibly average 80 minutes in length, while the TV shows, perhaps 40 minutes. Hence Netflix subscribers watch roughly twice as many TV shows as movies. The secondary-market TV-show business developed largely as an adjunct to … Continue reading movies and television shows are equal on Netflix
Average television watching time per U.S. adult grew from 16 hours per week in 1995 to 20 hours per week in 2009. From 2003 to 2009, television watching time increased 9%.[1] Television watching time accounts for about half of total personal discretionary time and far exceed time spent on the web.[2] Not surprisingly, new … Continue reading time watching television continues to grow
More than a third of all Skype calling minutes are in video calls. The share of Skype video in Skype calling minutes is higher in higher income countries. One interpretation of these statistics is that as income increases, users move from basic communication to richer, video communication.[1] Video calling with Skype suggests a bright future … Continue reading video communication better with natural gestures