May 20
On Wednesday, I held the first Transmedia Vancouver Meetup to discuss transmedia and what we wanted from the group. There were about a dozen attendees, which I thought a fantastic turnout for a first meeting. There’s a lot of interest in this city, as has been clear from the previous Merging Media conferences and seminars. …
May 05
After the Merging+Media seminar, about two dozen of us who had been selected from an application process gathered with Anita Ondine for a day-and-a-half intensive transmedia lab, delving deeper into the concepts touched upon in the seminar. Anita would discuss one topic in more depth, and give examples of transmedia projects, and then we broke …
May 01
At the end of every month of our twitter fiction project Azrael’s Stop, we’ve released a piece of bonus content, something that stands alone from the primary story but serves to enhance it. At the end of February, it was a short story in the form of a kind of folk tale, told in-world by …
Apr 04
This week brings a few pieces of news for Silverstring Media. Azrael’s Stop Contest: Last month we announced a twitter fiction contest for our ongoing project Azrael’s Stop. We didn’t have as many entries as we had hoped, but the quality of the entries we did get was superb. The entries are posted here; each …
Mar 31
I admit to a great deal of optimism in promising 10 winners for the Azrael’s Stop death-themed Twitter fiction contest we launched a couple weeks ago, given that we received a grand total of five entries. However, every entry we did receive was of exceptional quality, so I have no qualms in rewarding the submitters! …
Mar 15
If you’ve been following Azrael’s Stop, you’ll know that a lot of people die in that bar, many coming there as if led. It is named for the Angel of Death, after all. And you’ll have noted that at the end of February, we released a special piece of bonus content in the form of …
Mar 01
There’s a few updates for us to share with you this week. Azrael’s Stop month end Yesterday marked the end of the first month of Azrael’s Stop, and if you were following the story, you witnessed a bit of a special event. The Stop was visited by the travelling bard Floerian Silverstring (among other things, …
Feb 15
Things never seem to stop moving forward — we bring you a couple of updates this week. Site Design: You may have noticed some slight changes in the site design. We’re still settling in and finding our stride, and that includes constant fiddling with things! Besides the basic visual elements (I a much bigger fan …
Feb 01
Azrael’s Stop, the bar where people come to die. Today marks the launch of Azrael’s Stop, Silverstring Media’s first project. The project takes the form of daily Twitter fiction, a 140-character story that is a complete story in itself — the snippet of a scene that gives the reader a sense of character, place, …
Jan 31
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working like a madman on a Sekrit Projekt, and it is finally ready to be revealed. You see it all around you as you read this post. Silverstring Media is being relaunched — not just as a blog about transmedia written by me, but as a fully-fledged transmedia …
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