OUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION

Photo Warner Bros/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar via The Guardian.

As we said in last week's To Do List, Sunday was the perfect day to go and see Gravity, so we went to our favorite local cinema and the experience was mindblowing. In my opinion this is the first truly justified use of 3D in a movie. I really don't like 3D movies, it's exhausting and I usually ended up with a major headache, but Gravity, oh yeah I even would see it in 4D or 5D. Andrew Pulver, of The Guardian, seem to have had his mind as blown as mine so he wrote an article called Gravity and other films that changed Hollywood for ever. Read it here. E.T.P. 5'45''

We also visited the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery where we had the chance to see "sixty new portraits by some of the most exciting contemporary photographers from around the world". We loved the winners, spectacular portraits of course, and Man with Owl and Lucy by Deana Kolenčìkovà and Fabio by Andy Massaccesi. More info here.

VICE Video Panel @ Old Blue Last.

Finally, we attended a couple of events part of the Internet Week Europe: The Evolution of Video in the Digital World, produced by BBC Worldwide Labs; VICE Video Panel, by VICE, of course; and The Future of Journalism, produced by Protein®.

The first event was alright, there was a lot of talk about what is happening in the digital video world from different perspectives: brands, personalities, YouTube, interactive video producers, but the conversation was focused in the present of video, what is happening now. Just at the very end Louise Tullin, Marketing Director of Unruly Media, mention the importance of emotional triggers to send messages across, and that in her opinion next year's emotional trigger will be exhilaration.

VICE's forum was really really interesting, they were the only ones with a strong focus in the content being created and not only in the platform (maybe because they've always got the right platform); in the they way they tell their stories and how they manage to transmit not only information but also an experience (practicing immersion journalism, something they really know how to do); and in the fact that they know that young people is interested in the news, as opposed than everybody else that think they have to be tricked into stop watching cat videos and start paying attention to the world.

Finally, The Future of Journalism forum was a discussion again mostly platforms and share-ability, and less about the kind of content you are creating, although at some point Martin Belam, from Us.Vs.Th3m said that obviously "you can't design your way around uninteresting content". I think that's the key. Simon Hinde, Director of journalism and publishing at LCC, also made some interesting reflections about the new skills that the journalists have to learn, a mix of curation and entrepreneurship and branding (for themselves), and what it means to be a journalist in a world of commoditized news.

All in all a great day. Thanks Internet Week!

TO DO (OR NOT TO DO) LIST

Image via Protein.

Internet Week Europe definitely will really interesting procrastination time during next week. We are going to three really interesting events: Protein "The Future of Journalism" forum, VICE Video Panel at the Blue Old Last, and Women in the Digital Economy and Culture networking organized by Creative Works London at V&A museum. Are you going to any of these events? Let us know!

Gravity still via The Hollywood Reporter.

Also Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is finally in UK screens and that definitely sounds like the plan for a sunny Sunday like this Sunday (after the sun goes way at 4pm that is, of course). Read Peter Bradshaw review in The Guardian, he appears to have liked the movie A LOT: "Alfonso Cuarón's glorious creation, less sci-fi and more a thriller set in space, makes you breathless with excitement."

Bikers, 1967.

Double Standards, 1961.

Selfportrait. (All these Dennis Hopper were in my computer, as they are some of my favorites, so I don't know the source, but obviously the rights belong to whoever have the rights of Dennis Hopper photographs).

Everybody that like movies a little bit know Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now), but just a few know that he loved photography and actually was an amazing photographer. Well now you have the chance to go and see for yourself! This is what the article in The Guardian says: More than 400 previously unseen photographs from the 1960s, which were discovered in cardboard boxes after the death of the actor Dennis Hopper, are to go on display in Britain for the first time. The Royal Academy of Arts on Friday announced details of an exhibition called Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album. Good news! Read full article here.

TO DO (OR NOT TO DO) LIST

Photo: Fireworks at Alexandra Palace via The Guardian.

Remember, remember that Bonfire Night celebrations started this past Friday but there will be some going on until the actual 5th of November. The Guardian lists where you can go to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. Have a look here.

Screenshot from Internet Week Europe website.

Also, even if Internet Week is not next week, if you want to assist to any of the events you should book your tickets NOW. Go ahead and have a look at the itinerary, venues and speakers of this "week-long festival celebrating Europe's thriving Internet industry & community", clicking here.

Pau Sampera at Beach London via Beach London's Tumblr.

Finally this Thrusday 7th of November is the opening of Spanish illustrator Pau Sampera's Draw a Penis AND Run Away at Beach London. This exhibition will present a body of new painting and sculpture by Sampera, who has recently moved to, and has been working in, London.
Have a look at the expo details in the Facebook event.