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The Streets Have their own Language

Alex — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:02:49 +0000

Guy Sharett takes it to the streets! And by “it” we mean teaching. Hebrew. Giving Hebrew lessons while sitting in a cafe or passing down a poster, his students inhale the language together with the urban culture of the Tel-Aviv metropolis.
Guy spent several years in the far east, and even wrote a book about Thailand, so he knows a thing or two about getting immersed in a foreign culture and enjoying it.

NoCamels’ Video Contest – Win 5000 NIS

Alex — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:48:25 +0000

NoCamels.com, a division of The Asper institute at Communications School, IDC is proud to present the 2009 ‘Israeli innovation video competition’.

Directors, writers, creators! We know that you have so much to show and tell the world about Israel and we welcome you to participate in a unique competition where you get to show the world “Israel behind the headlines”.

For more information click here.

City-cast, an urban media experience

Alex — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:04:24 +0000

City-cast is an urban media experience that connects people with the personal history of their city and neighborhood. We propose a user-generated content system using a combined approach including (a) custom cellphone recording and uploading, (b) content editing and narration, (c) web, gallery, and situated cellphone listening, (d) online voting, and (e) traditional and podcast broadcast radio.

With city-cast, people can collect personal stories associated with urban locations through a unique cellphone interface. The stories are automatically geo-tagged and edited into a broadcast-quality documentary. Listeners can experience these stories situated in the original setting, and vote for them through their cellphones and online. A weekly radio show will present the highest voted stories in a one-hour radio show.

A city is made up of millions of stories and its oral history is embedded in its streets, parks, and buildings. The project will create a unique urban radio experience which will connect people with the lives of those who have lived in the city before them.

More Information: IDC milab

Credits: Dr. Guy Hoffamn, Dr. Oren Zuckerman, Eyal Toledano, Yael Natan, Noa Morag, Inbal Doron, Nimrod Gat, Daniel Shein, Shawn Mautner and Ronen Avidar.

Liad Agmon’s sleep of the just

Alex — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:40:24 +0000

Liad Agmon is 32 and he likes to sleep 8 hours a day, which is difficult now he has become VP, new services of Sears Holdings.
Liad leads quite a life for an IT entrepreneur, and Delver, the social search engine he’ve sold to Sears is his 2nd success, the first being an anti-virus solution to McAfee.
And as far as Liad is concerned, he’d rather be wind surfing than living the corporate dream…

Gaza-Sderot Life in Spite Everything

Alex — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:13:01 +0000

The article is about a project which reports on life as experienced by men, women and children in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel) through stories which are being aired on the Internet. Arik Bernstein the Co- Producer of the project tells us about the idea behind this project and its feedback around the world. Recently Gaza-Sderot was nominated for an International Digital Emmy Award in the non-fiction category.

This video made by:

Meytal Abo

Nadav Melnik

Sivan Kiperman

Gaza-Sderot Link: http://gaza-sderot.arte.tv/

3D Me

Alex — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:36:40 +0000

Picture is worth a thousand words. But how many words does a 3D picture worth?
Here’s a nice idea for your next holiday greeting card. Give your spouse your child’s first smile, A sunrise. Or even Obama’s warm friendly smile…
Snapily will take your 3 seconds videos and turn them into an interactive moving 3D card.

60 Seconds about ICQ

Alex — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:53:33 +0000

Almost Everybody is familiar with the popular instant messaging program ICQ which invented by 5 Israeli guys and conquered the world. If you came from mars, this video will probably help you: 60 Seconds about ICQ.

Roy Shapira invites you for Petrograd adventure

Alex — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:18:48 +0000

Roy Shapira is a brilliant game designer, dedicated to the point that you might call him a workaholic.

After single-handedly completing his award-winning Crysis mode “Combat Training”, which took him 9 month of work, he now leads an 18-members game-developing team in order to create “Petrograd” - a viable independent AAA game by 2009.

In this interview he shows concept pictures and videos, talks about the development process, demonstrates how game design works and gives some advice for novice game designers.

What he doesn’t talk though, is how in the world can you keep a day job, a wife and young kids, and still do a full time job as a developer in your free time. The nocamles team has a suspicion that it involves time travel but we can’t peove anything…

More Petrograd links:

Petrograd in Moddb

Roy Shapira’s Blog

His Video Elegance

Alex — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:04:32 +0000

Oren Lavie is an Israeli Musician / Producer / Director. He did several plays off-Broadway and Of-West End, produced a music album and then distributed it through his own label “Quarter Past Wonderful”.

The video for his song “Her Morning Elegance” is climbing, slow but steady, into the hall of fame of viral videos. Beautiful and unique, matching the moody morning song, the video was created by people who worked for fracture of their usual costs. It took 4 weeks to create an animated storyboard and only 2 days of live shooting to produce the 3225 all-stills frames for the stop motion.

More info on Oren’s Myspace.

Petrograd – The Official Trailer

Alex — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:59:34 +0000

In the last post we wrote about game designer Roy Shapira and his ambitious project – Petrograd. Today, Roy and his group released official in-game trailer.

Here some more information about the upcoming video game, Petrograd:

Petrograd: an action-thriller first person shooter. Enter the shoes of a Black-Ops Special Agent, investigating the disappearance of a full city’s population overnight. An eerie atmosphere and immersive environments are just the beginning, nothing is quite what it seems in this suspenseful experience set in post-USSR Eastern Europe.

Petrograd Homepage

Roy Shapira’s Blog