lance weiler
About: I've been called a cultural hacker. I've made two feature films (The Last Broadcast, Head Trauma) which I self distributed around the world. I'm also into cross media storytelling and gaming. I've produced a couple ARGs and I'm currently working on a number of new projects.
I founded the Workbook Project and I'm a co-founder of From Here to Awesome.
Discussions
Welcome
--From Here to Awesome is an experiment and a discussion as much as it is a discovery and distribution festival. Over the coming months we will be sh...
YouTube and myspace feature FHTA
--There are two new FHTA vids. Big thanks to Jeff and Jordan for their amazing animated version. And fest co-founder Arin put together a great live a...
SXSW
--The FHTA team will be in Austin this coming weekend for SXSW. Arin, M dot Strange and myself are speaking on a few SXSW panels and we're also holdi...
Less than a week to go
--The voting ends on June 6th so gather the troops and make your final pushes. We've secured some awesome distribution outlets and ALL the top 10 sho...
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Giving it away for FREE
--As some of you may know, I started an open source project for content creators called the Workbook Project. Well, this fall will mark the project&#...
Extending the media experience
--I’m in Boston for ARGFest-o-con, a conference for all things ARG. Later today I’ll be speaking about extending the media experience. 9:15 - 10:00...
Social Entertainment
--NYC has a new celebration of all things web and it’s called Internet Week. I’ve been invited to speak on a panel about online short for...
Hot Docs and Vampires
--We launched a new cross-media project last week. “Humans vs. Vampires” is an alternate reality game that runs in conjunction with Hamme...
adventures in storytelling
--I’m currently working on an exciting new cross-media project. I can’t go into exact details yet but I can say that it’s big. It c...
adventures in storytelling
--I’m currently working on an exciting new cross-media project. I can’t go into exact details yet but I can say that it’s big. It c...
Headed to SXSW
--This coming March, I’ll be headed back to SXSW which has become one of my favorite domestic festivals. The collision of film, music and tech ...
Headed to SXSW
--This coming March, I’ll be headed back to SXSW which has become one of my favorite domestic festivals. The collision of film, music and tech ...
A look back and ahead
--The HEAD TRAUMA cinema ARG shows caught the interest of Wired, the Village Voice and a number of other press outlets, thanks in part to the two lar...
A mid dec update
--The results are in on the HOPE IS MISSING cinema ARG. The ARG was constructed to assist with the promotion of HT’s Warner Bros VOD release. ...
Horror 2.0 - the escapist
--The Escapist Magazine covers the HEAD TRAUMA cinema ARG “Today is Hope’s birthday,” writes Richard Chambers on his blog, Hope i...
Best Argument That Film Can Still Be an Experience
--The Philadelphia HT cinema ARG that I co-produced with Joseph Gervasi was recognized with a Citypaper Choice Award. Best Argument That Film Can S...
A history of horror
--THE LAST BROADCAST gets props from CineMassacre’s Monster Madness roundup of historical horror films.
games, london and a new store
--CINEMA GAMES The HOPE IS MISSING cinema ARG has concluded. Over the course of two and half weeks more than 2 million people viewed elements of the...
On the road again
--The web series is set to go live on October 1st and tomorrow we’re doing the online and final transfers. I’m excited to have the series...
the cinema games continue
--This fall the HEAD TRAUMA cinematic gaming continues. Players will interact with the film’s characters; offline, online, and via mobile devic...
Bookmarks:
The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type
Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so. Now, the next revolution for publishing is to bring that same ease of creation to the process of building social networks.
Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
During the development of that first ARG, Weisman argued that no puzzle would be too hard, no clue too obscure, because with so many people collaborating online, the players would have access to every conceivable skill set.
8 Resources for Message Boards 2.0
Thanks to a few innovative upstarts and some crusty old-timers, message boards as we know them are undergoing an extreme social media makeover.
4 Technologies for Portability in Social Networks: A Primer - ReadWriteWeb
Today Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW, with the main topic of discussion being Data Portability. This post serves as an introduction to each of these technologies.
WHEN THE AUDIENCE TAKES CONTROL
Patrick, a 17-year old suburban male, pushes his hair out of his eyes and talks a mile a minute when we sit down for a session of Rock Band. Even though I‘ve played many times, I let him explain how the game functions.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Center for Social Media at American University - This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
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Comments
Your website actually scared me. Note to self - don't wear headphones at 1am while listening to old scary doods speak from flames.
Nice work man - site looks amazing.
new festival partners have come on board this week. Amazon Unbox, Power to the Pixel and DogWoof. Also there is a cool new "call for submission video in the works." We are doing a large press and promotional push next week. If anyone has suggestions on blogs or online outlets to target please drop a comment and let us know.
Good call lance, Crowdvine seems pretty cool, like that I can put my rss feeds in.
Welcome to the FHTA crowdvine. Our hope is that we can use this to create a sense of community around the upcoming fest.