Ducking the Hollywood studio system entirely, a group of ambitious OSU students and other Columbus folks have written, shot, and produced a home-rolled feature-length film, Detachment. The film is what it is, and I'm not going to offer up a review, but I'm more interested in the process that gave birth to it. In many ways, I liked the short "making of" documentary more than the film itself, because it showed how much fun the whole shindig must have been. Local indie theater Studio 35 produced it, the community seemed behind it, and one of the long-range goals of the project was to revive OSU's film major. As a new media proponent, I have to say that this is a positive move, especially if the influence ends up extending into the university at large.
I'm always keeping an eye open for examples of remediation, particularly those that illustrate how print is being refashioned by the design language of electronic writing forms. This scan is a detail of the article "Host: Deep, Deep, Deep into the Mercenary World of Take-No-Prisoners Political Talk Radio" by David Foster Wallace in the April 2005 issue of The Atlantic. I'm especially interested in the approach to marginal glossing in this piece: a complex, multi-tiered and color-coded labyrinth of textual musings that really break up the linear reading experience and make the footnotes a more integral component of the text. Of course, when the print piece finds its way onto the web, then you have a maddening case of recursive remediation that I, for one, dare not attempt untangle.
Shoutz to Banville for the tip.