Sparrow Hall interview for SPARKSHEET: “Creating Experiences Around a Story”
Sparrow Hall interviewed for media & marketing magazine SPARKSHEET. Talking about transmedia storytelling and how it’s shaping the artist and corporate brands of tomorrow.
Alien Robot Teaches Kids How To Collaborate
If you were worried about robots one day taking over the world, you’ll be interested to know they’re already teaching our kids.
WikiLeaks Supports Occupy Protests, Launches “Commercial” Attacking Bank Block
Crunchy protestors aren’t the only ones with a bone to pick with today’s financial empire. Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, got in on the action this past weekend at the OccupyLSX protest in London – one of 951 cities in 82 countries that held similar rallies.
Building Begins With Demolition, Love and Otherwise
The last couple weeks have been a strange interconnection of places and events… Cities of ghosts and bright new futures… Remembering that building something great requires clearing out the rubble.
DRIVE: The “Quiet” Action Film Quentin Tarantino Would Have Never Made
“Drive” has the intensity of a freight train and the subtlety of a haiku. In a Fast & Furious world, Nicolas Winding Refn has taken a step back and rediscovered the underlying poetry of the heist.
Dying Publishing Industry Gets Schooled by Grassroots Hip Hop
Urban music is notorious for being innovative and doing whatever it takes to stay ahead of the game. Given that, today’s publishing industry could learn a lot from a 23-year-old rap artist with a mic and a laptop in his bedroom.
Inspiring “Hybrids” of Art and Self Promotion: Our New Transmedia Storytellers
When artists communicate their message through multiple formats it allows us to travel further into the material—and our own imaginations. We start to have a deeper relationship with the artist—perhaps valuing them more for their lens than the work itself.
New-School Digital Books Showing Respect to Old-School Print: When Printing Meant Pressing
As much as I love what can be done in the digital realm with storytelling these days, I still can’t help but love the feel of a book in my hands. When I decided to release “Two Blue Wolves” and “Nightwork” in a printed edition, it opened up a world of discovery on how books are made and the level of care and quality that goes into them depending on who makes them. But what I most loved learning about was the printing press itself, and how equally bad-ass and handsome this machine was when it first apperaed on the scene.
New Book by Sparrow Hall Out Today – Enter the World of a Story
The new enhanced paperback by Sparrow Hall “takes the story beyond the page” with a multi-media story experience like none other. $5 of every purchase goes towards Alzheimer’s Disease research and caregiver support.
It’s Midnight in Tulsa. Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
The flickering light of “MTV 120 Minutes” was the bug lamp of teen angst in the 90s – and now you can revisit every video of every episode on Tylerc.com.
Summer Movie Savior: Midnight In Paris
Midnight In Paris gives meaning to our relationship with nostalgia, to imagining ourselves in another time, and why we can’t help but do that.
The Terror of Doing Laundry: Rob Zombie for Woolite
For the new Woolite campaign, horror film/rock star Rob Zombie takes on his greatest nightmare – laundry day.
No, Nothing Stays the Same, But Are You Willing To Play the Game?
I randomly found myself connected to Carly Simon through two degrees of separation a few years ago when I discovered that the whimsical, slightly scatterbrained yoga instructor I was dating hadn’t “totally” cut things off with Carly’s son, Ben Taylor.
No Room For Romantics
Funny how you can have such fond memories of some of the most painful years of your life.
What Should the New Map Look Like?
General Orders No. 9 – Preview – “An experimental documentary that contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South as potent metaphors of personal and collective destiny.”
Sparrow Hall Book Preview #2: Taking the Story Beyond the Page
Movies, video games, and record albums have evolved over generations into rich experiences that capture our imaginations and allow us to dive deeper. But what about books? Here is a look at what’s to come.
A Merry Reznor Christmas
I love the way this looks. Even if the Swedish version did make me nauseous. – Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – PREVIEW
When We Were a Nation On the Brink
Visionary directors Ridley & Tony Scott produce a Memorial Day special that looks back at the three days that decided our nation’s future.
Fight For Your Right To Be In a Beastie Boys Video
I love that they made this. And that everyone in Hollywood wanted to be in it. Fight for Your Right: Revisited – Beastie Boys
They Said That the World Was Built for Two
I’ve watched this video at least a half dozen times today, and it’s not even noon. Please don’t tell my girlfriend. Lana Del Rey / “Video Games”
Before We Had Memes and Viral Videos, It was “Scrubs” vs. “Pigeons”
How Chilli, Left Eye and T-Boz gave us a brief glimpse at our YouTube future.
Everyone Looks Cooler In Wayfarers, On a Beach, Beside a Red Flag
You can go anywhere you want / but you’re here – “Villains of the Moon” – Cold Cave
A Common Beat
HEARTBEATS preview – A friend in LA sent me a photo of this poster from his cell phone. He said something about it seemed “Sparrow Hall-ish.”
Heavy Rotation / April 2011 / “Rolling Till the World Ends” Adele vs. Britney Spears
Jarod Ripley’s Britney/Adele mashup “Rolling Till the World Ends” takes two surprising solid tracks and turns them into what they should have been all along.
May 15, 2012: My Dad’s Upcoming NYC Show: OOTO @ OSKA
May 13, 2012: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-13
May 9, 2012: Inspiration! Soundcheck Sessions: Zola Jesus “Night”
