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12 December 2013

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Ira Glass on Storytelling, part 1 of 4 – YouTube. Ira Glass of “This American Life” talks about the building blocks of a great story. Jump to you tube for the rest.

“Disabled” Mannequins Challenge Our Perception of Beauty | DeMilked

Pro Infirmis, a Swiss-based charity organization for people with various disabilities, set out to shake up people’s ideas of what is beautiful. The charity organization created a set of “disabled” mannequins as a means to celebrate the International Day of People with Disabilities on December 3rd. “Disabled” Mannequins Challenge Our Perception of Beauty | DeMilked.

Ira Glass on Storytelling

A lovely and short video about getting better at things. when you start off you know you are rubbish but its this knowing your rubbish that spurs you onto getting better. Nice piece of storytelling.

2 December 2013

What will interfaces look like in the future?

The interface of the future won’t be made of just pixels, but time and form as well. And that future is only five or ten years away. It’s time for designers to start thinking about what that means now. inFORM – Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display from Tangible Media Group on Vimeo. Find out more […]

8 November 2013

Wanted! A Film Marketing Intern

Do you have a passion for marketing – and for film? media co-op is offering a 13-week paid Film Marketing internship. We have produced two feature-length documentaries and need a smart, enthusiastic, informed and well-organised “film marketeer” to help us set up the tour and to promote the screenings across the UK. The two films are: “Man […]

12 October 2013

Media Co-op at the festivals

Three fabulous film festivals are coming your way in October @ Glasgow and Edinburgh. media co-op is happy to announce we have films in all three festivals. 1: Document 11 Human Rights Documentary Film Festival “Making it Home” Sat 19th October 6.30pm, CCA Document Film Festival Site 2: Africa in Motion Film Festival “Courage” and “Making […]

19 August 2013

Film Launch … and more!

Starting Primary School: For parents who have learning disabilities The film we produced for People First and the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disabilities being launched at an event on 5th September. The event is called : SUPPORTED PARENTING – what works well for families? This event will prove useful to: Anyone who support children or families […]

25 July 2013

Animated Infographics we like

This is You Its a nice animation, don’t know anything about the company though. The Violence of Mexican Drug Cartels A bitterly violent war against Mexican Drug Cartels wages on across the U.S. border. Tens of thousands are being murdered, and over a million are being forced to flee their homes. U.S. laws and policy […]

17 March 2013

Technology Freelancer’s Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative

A useful guide. A Technology Freelancer’s Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative: heres a link to the pdf: http://s.coop/1h0zt

How To Write The Perfect Tweet

A tweet … its only up to 140 characters but you can still do it bad or good. An actually useful article on how to write them. See here

23 February 2013

Creative Internship as a Digital Design Intern.

Come join the media co-op team! media co-op have been awarded part- funding for a 13 week internship, 35 hours per week @ £8 per hour. CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS 8th MARCH 2013. The Intern’s role will be to produce digital design across a broad range of projects under the direction of the Digital Media […]

20 February 2013

Showcase

19th Feb Over 80 people came to a video showcase aimed at trainers who are tackling violence against women. Five films by media co-op were screened, to very enthusiastic feedback. Trainers swapped tips in how best to use the video resources “a great way to get discussion going on taboo subjects”. Today’s showcase was organised […]