Just a reminder… Our weekly Featured Member profiles, posted on this blog, aren’t the only way to become better acquainted with the work of members of the Fractured Atlas community. Come over to the Fractured Atlas YouTube channel and see videos submitted by our members under “Playlists”. Dance, film, theatre, opera, animation [...]
In only the last week I’ve heard about several innovative ways that musicians are using the internet to not only connect with one another, but to collaborate and produce finished pieces of music despite limitations of distance, time and physical space. Good ideas are meant for sharing…
One of the best blogs on arts administration out there is Andrew Taylor’s. In his post from this afternoon, Taylor proposes a contest to develop an arts advocacy public service announcement based on his rough storyboard concept. The idea is to balance messages about art’s functional community value and its intrinsic aethetic/experiential value. This is [...]
You might have noticed this already, but there are a whole lot of arts contests swirling around nowadays. From Fractured Atlas’ video contest that happened last year (non-profit), to the Doritos spot during a recent Superbowl (for-profit), to public art design contests in almost every major city (government). I even just found a [...]
Fractured Atlas is sponsoring a contest on YouTube to promote the creation of an “Art and Writing” category. Entries should answer the question, “Is there a place for traditional arts in new digital media?” (We didn’t come up with that question, but we agree it’s a good one!)
Here are the full contest rules [...]
Name: Lauren Zito
Website: www.theweakness.net or www.youtube.com/toolgirl150
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Artistic Discipline: Film/Video
Fractured Atlas Member Since: January 2007
Fractured Atlas Services Used: Film & Equipment Liability Insurance, Health Insurance
Today, we’re featuring Lauren Zito, a teacher, filmmaker, and actress residing in Pittsburgh. Currently, Zito is working on a long-term web serial video project titled “The Weakness.” The video [...]
The NY Times reports on Merce Cunningham’s new series of online dance classes: Mondays with Merce. Merce Cunningham has always been one of our community’s true visionaries and it’s great to see that he’s continuing to break new ground at age 89.
At our benefit on Thursday night we announced the winners of the Fractured Atlas Online Video Contest. Here they are:
2nd Runner Up: “Change the World” by Kevin Sampson
1st Runner Up: “Office-Bot” by David Sandberg
$3,000 Winner: “The Egg Collaboration”
The Fractured Atlas Video Contest closed on November 1. I’ve never done anything like this before, so I had no idea what to expect, but I’m very happy with how it all turned out. We ended up with 20 entries and the overall quality is excellent. Many thanks to Genius Rocket for [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Fractured Atlas is hosting a contest to produce a 30-second video. The winner receives $3,000 and a screening at our benefit in November. All the details are at www.fracturedatlas.tv.
If you take a look at the entries so far, you’ll see that we haven’t received a whole lot (2, [...]
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