{"id":4020,"date":"2013-04-30T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:01:27","slug":"dailies-dumb-deaths-soderbergh-fitzgerald-pre-roll-ads-fff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/dailies-dumb-deaths-soderbergh-fitzgerald-pre-roll-ads-fff\/","title":{"rendered":"[Dailies] Dumb Deaths, Soderbergh, Fitzgerald, Pre-roll Ads, FFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dumb-ways-to-die.jpg\" alt=\"dumb-ways-to-die\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4032\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw\">&#8220;Dumb Ways to Die&#8221;<\/a> by Melbourne Metro<br \/>This PSA about preventing train accidents &#8212; a real problem in Victoria, Australia &#8212; won seven accolades at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webbyawards.com\/\">Webby Awards<\/a>. According to <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/entertainment\/Dumb+Ways+picks+seven+Webby+Awards\/8315778\/story.html\">Ottawa Citizen,<\/span> the video seen by 45 million has &#8220;also apparently reduced the number of &#8216;near miss&#8217; accidents.&#8221; Campaign from advertising agency McCann Melbourne. Video developed by Pat Baron, animated by Julian Frost, and produced by Cinnamon Darvall.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/04\/read-soderberghs-state-of-the-movie-biz-speech.html\">&#8220;Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s State of Cinema&#8221;<\/a> via Vulture<br \/>The New York Magazine blog posted the full speech from the San Francisco International Film Festival. One commenter about just how sad the state really is: &#8220;You&#8217;ve got people who don&#8217;t know movies, who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t watch movies for pleasure deciding what movie you&#8217;re going to be allowed to make.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/thompsononhollywood\/steven-soderbergh-on-whats-killing-cinema\">Thompson on Hollywood (Indiewire)<\/a> adds more commentary. <u>Update:<\/u> The San Francisco Film Society added an official <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/65060864\">video<\/a> of the 40-minute talk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.sc.edu\/digital\/collections\/fitzledger.html\">&#8220;F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s Ledger (1919\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1938)&#8221;<\/a> via <a href=\"\">University of South Carolina<\/a><br \/>Full text that&#8217;s keyword-searchable, including his typos, earnings, and an &#8220;Outline Chart of [M]y Life.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/199249\/all-that-online-video-is-great-except-when-its-r.html?edition=59377#axzz2Ry4V1bjE\">&#8220;All That Online Video Is Great, Except When It&#8217;s Really Not&#8221;<\/a> by P.J. Bednarski (Mediapost)<br \/>When there&#8217;s breaking news or evocative rants, so many video players (and their parent sites) sit you through ads &#8212; many of which are repetitive, irrelevant, and\/or inappropriate.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cinematech.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/now-totally-free-forever-pdf-version-of.html\">&#8220;Fans, Friends &#038; Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/scottkirsner.com\/\">Scott Kirsner<\/a><br \/>The journalist is giving away his 2009 book as a free PDF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dumb Ways to Die&#8221; by Melbourne MetroThis PSA about preventing train accidents &#8212; a real problem in Victoria, Australia &#8212; won seven accolades at this year&#8217;s Webby Awards. According to Ottawa Citizen, the video seen by 45 million has &#8220;also apparently reduced the number of &#8216;near miss&#8217; accidents.&#8221; Campaign from advertising agency McCann Melbourne. 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