Tropfest is the worlds largest short film festival. It already happened a couple of months ago so you may have heard of this, but this year for the first time the best film award was won by someone who shot their short entirely with a mobile phone camera.
The movie itself is beautiful, so if you have 3 minutes check it out, but it also made me think more about the way we use/consume/create media, not only has it been getting easier and easier for anyone to create and use production tools on their computer (I recently edited a video at work in a couple of hours, and it was the first time I ever opened iMovie) but all the different tools are getting mashed together in smaller and smaller devices. It’s a topic that is definitely being talked about a lot these days, but I’ll look at putting some of these thoughts together for a post.
I was also at the Mushrooms of the Russian Avant Garde exhibition on Saturday, I’ll definitely write a post about it tomorrow once I upload the pics to Flickr – it was pretty weird and fascinating…
