DIY DAYS
DYI Days is as the producers call it is a “is a roving gathering for those who create. Past stops have included Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia. FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – DIY DAYS is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable creators to fund, create, distribute and sustain.” DYI Days which New York event took place at The New School on March 3,2012 was a gathering of creative brain trust. Participants were able to take part in workshop workshops, think tanks, talks, etc to gain knowledge and help build their ideas from the wealth of sharing taking place. That is part of the beauty of DYI Days it is not just good for transmedia developers but for people in all creative mediums from music, gaming to journalism you name it. Also involved were non-creative fields that would like to share and pick new up new tools to energize their field. One example of that is education from scholars to elementary school education is well represented at DIY days. Two examples are Nicholas Diakopoulos and Story Pirates. Diakopoulos a Brown University graduate and known media researcher spoke on data and how it can be used in the world of creativity. Story Pirates multi- focused development program uses kids talent as writers to develop stories that that they create and Story Pirates act out, that is both educational and fun. They also graced the stage at the end of the event with a crazy story about creatives of the future that everyone seemed to really enjoy.
One of the highlights of the event is the pitch sessions. This is when they take time out from the event and regular attendees could come up to the microphone and pitch whatever they have, which could be anything. Attendees pitched everything from projects that they are working on that they might need some kind of help with too a school teacher who just want to find a way to enhance her classroom with some of the ideas that are present at the event. The list of invited speakers also specks volumes of the depth of DIY Days they included Playmatics Chief Creative Officer & Come Out and Play co-creator Nicholas Fortungo who talk about the benefits of social play. Also former lawyer turned activist Lina Srivastava who talked the use story to effect change by utilizing available multi-media platforms. Storycode the first Transmedia non-for-profit was also present at the event they head up a panel on the use of technology in transmedia storytelling. One of the events producers is story architect and director Lance Weiler who created the film and transmedia experience Pandemic that wowed folks at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. So he is stranger to transmedia and its importance in the future of media and beyond. Weiler stressed the importance of event like DIY Days to everyone in attendance no matter what you do. DIY Days seem like it has it only began to door open for new things for the future and beyond.
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