Interactive guides

In 2015 England and Australia will contest the 69th Ashes series, Australia having won 32 of their previous encounters and England 31. Australia were most dominant between 1989 and 2002, when they snaffled eight series on the spin, while England won 11 of the first 12 contests, all of them in the 19th century. Over just the last 100 years Australia have a greater 25-16 lead but for all their sometime superiority, this cricketing rivalry remains red-hot.

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AP Interactive visualizes a future of stories that reach beyond text Over the past two years, the Associated Press has nearly doubled the number of interactive graphics it produces each month, jumping from 40 in 2009 to over 70 so far in 2011. On the surface, that increase is logical almost to the point of being unsurprising: The AP, after all, makes a lot of stuff that serves a lot of clients, and the demand for interactives is growing. But while the AP’s Interactive department is pumping out a steady amount of work, it’s what they’re creating — and how they’re creating it — that’s really interesting: from data visualizations to mash-ups of video, maps, and animation that can jump from website to phone to (soon enough) tablet. Often, they’re creating those features against the backdrop of breaking news. Data visualization is “going through a kind of renaissance in journalism,” said Shazna Nessa, director of Interactive for the AP. “It’s integral to everything we do,” Nessa said of the team’s reliance on programmers.

STATE OF TERROR There’s never been such a meticulously organised extremist group. A huge cache of secret documents seized with former IS leaders, Abu Hajjar and Abdul Rahman al-Bilawi, reveal a detailed pyramid hierarchy. At the top is its reclusive and mysterious leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, its self-proclaimed Caliph of the Caliphate. Under him are a series of bodies: the all-guiding Shura Council, the Cabinet, the Military Council, the Sharia Council and the Security Council made up of the Governors of each province or ‘willayat’.

Interactive Documentary Archive .:. Interactive Documentary The archive is now closed When I started this PhD there was not very much happening in i-docs land. So I felt I had to assemble my discoveries through this website. Five years later this is not the case anymore. There is so much happening that it is actually mission impossible to follow it all. The Wetsuitman A gale was blowing from the south-west as the elderly architect put on his jacket and rubber boots and went to face the elements. Down in the bay, four metre high waves crashed against the cliffs and sent sea spray hundreds of metres across the grazing land at Norway’s southernmost tip. The first thing the architect noticed when he approached the sea was a wetsuit. It lay stretched out on the small patch of grass between the cliffs, right outside the reach of the waves. “That might be useful,” the architect thought. It was rare for him or anyone else in the village to take a walk down there.

Atterwasch - a Scroll-Doc It may not be the end of the world, but it could be the end of Atterwasch, population 241. While Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised her country a future virtually free of fossil fuels, it may seem strange that this village in eastern Germany, and two neighboring ones, are still fighting plans to wipe them, quite literally, off the map. But Germany’s sudden hunger for coal has emerged as the dirty side of Ms. Merkel’s ambitions to shut down the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022 and eventually move Germans mostly to renewable energy... Read the full article on the website of the New York Times.

Unisfair Save time, optimize your budget and create lasting impressions that influence decisions Streamline content delivery, lower production costs and maintain a continuous, engaging presence. Our Virtual Environment platform enables you to train, promote brand awareness, expand market reach and accelerate sales. Generate interest from prospects Trade ShowsRoad ShowsProduct Launches 01storytelling ‘The Boat’ is an interactive online graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War. Written as a short story by Nam Le, the storyline centres around a teenage refugee Mai who is sent on the boat by her parents after the fall of Saigon. New York-based Australian artist Matt Huynh (whose parents fled Vietnam to Australia) created the illustrations using traditional Vietnamese bamboo calligraphy brush, paper and Sumi ink. These were then transformed by Matt Smith to impressively convey the depth of the story’s message on a screen. To top it off, Sam Petty engineered the incredibly realistic and even haunting sound effects, creating a true exploration of history using superb innovative storytelling. The entire project was produced by Australian broadcasting company SBS in commemoration of Vietnamese forty years resettlement in Australia.

Get ready to submit your project to IDFA DocLab 2014 DocLab is open to all sorts of interactive projects, ranging from webdocs, apps and virtual reality projects to data art, multimedia journalism, installations and live performances. For those interested in the creative potential of digital technology, virtual reality and interactive media, this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (16-27 November 2016) will have more to offer than ever before. Since 2007, the IDFA DocLab program showcases the best interactive non-fiction storytelling and explores how the digital revolution is reshaping documentary art. Selected Wallpapers Creative wallpapers can serve as a nice source of inspiration. Particularly if you are having another creativity block, but don’t really have enough time to take a walk or browse through Flickr pools1. However, it isn’t easy to find some really nice wallpapers – the choice is too big, and there are simply too many sources.

Documentary Has The Future Covered Documentary was once seen as the castor oil of cinematic genres: it was supposed to be "good for you," but it didn't taste very good. Aside from the fact that this just wasn't true -- the adjectives "boring" and "dutiful" applied equally to many dreary fiction films -- today documentary might be the coolest cultural form around, and new digital technologies are part of the reason documentaries are connecting with new audiences in innovative ways. Documentary films, at their very best, are exemplars of cinematic storytelling -- astonishing, delighting, inspiring and enlightening us, and doing so in ways fiction can't, by framing real life in ways we haven't considered before.

Open Documentary Lab at MIT April 15, 2014 MIT OpenDocLab Lunch with AIR’s Localore We’re pleased to invite AIR’s Localore production team to the Spring 2014 MIT Open Documentary Lab’s lunch speaker series. MIT Building E15-331 These events are open to the public. RSVP required. February 18 MIT OpenDocLab Talk with Bjarke Myrthu