Post by ichorwhipPost by Philip S.Just caught this on some cable channel or other. Cingular's new Go Phone ad
features two teenage twin girls holding hands in a hotel corridor, saying
something like "Come and get your new cellphone, Danny", or something like
that. I had the sound down real low, so I really didn't catch all of it.
Anyone else seen this?
No, I haven't, but thanks for the warning... , )
We could well be watching micro versions of The Shining on
mobiles/cellphones soon enough. A recent film festival featured the
latest craze ["market niche"] in film-making: the mobile-cellphone
film - essentially short films downloadable to your mobile and
instantly "consumable on-the-go" ["Text one to your friend!"]. Could
become as popular as dial-tones. Surprisingly, a lot of "serious"
film-makers are approaching it all very, er, seriously ...
Canada's first Mobile Film Festival, PALM MOBIFEST, in Toronto, for
instance, has just started:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2006/17/c0145.html
Got a minute? New York Minute Film Festival Wants Your 60-Second
Masterpiece ...
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb385020.htm
Belgium is to run its first ever mobile phone film festival, reports
Le Soir. The idea is to create a new art form of films captured on,
you guessed it ...
http://www.telecom.paper.nl/site/news_ta.asp?type=abstract&id=128142
Padraig
"Wendy, go check out the radio. Go check it out!!!"