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The Talking Dead

Jay Bushman — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:30:39 +0000

For Halloween 2010. Players took on the character of a famous dead personage, as they mysteriously manifested on Halloween weekend. The festivities concluded with a ghostly ball at the spectral Cocoanut Grove Nightclub, before the party was crashed by some unwelcome guests.

The Empire Follows Back

Jay Bushman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:51:04 +0000

At the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival, I organized a real-time, twitter based reenactment of the attack on the Death Star, under the hashtag #SXStarWars.

For the 2010 conference, I’m kicking it up a notch, with an adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back, based on the screenplay. The entire story, with additional material from the radio play. 1 list, 64 accounts, about 1500 individual tweets.

Follow the list here:

Special thanks to Eric Gradman for his Jedi-like coding.

At the 2009 SXSW Interactive festival, I organized a real-time, twitter based reenactment of the attack on the Death Star, under the hashtag #SXStarWars.

For the 2010 conference, I’m kicking it up a notch, with an adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back – the entire story, with additional material from the NPR radio play, through the tweets of 64 different characters.

You can follow the story at the SXStarWars/Empire Twitter List at http://twitter.com/sxstarwars/empire.

And if you’ve missed your favorite part, don’t give in to hate and aggression – once the script reaches the end, it will start over from the beginning.

Special thanks to Eric Gradman for his Jedi-like coding skillz.

Happy Cthalloween!

Jay Bushman — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:23:27 +0000

On Halloween 2009, the eldritch monsters of H.P. Lovercraft came alive to take over Twitter

#SXStarWars

Jay Bushman — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:20:34 +0000

A real-time Twitter re-enactment of the attack on the Death Star, launched from the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival.

Variety coverage

Starwars.com article

#YCDTOTV

Jay Bushman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:21:08 +0000

ycdtotv

In honor of the passing of the great Les Lye, I organized a re-enactment of several classic locker sketches from “You Can’t Do That On Television.”

#Aliens

Jay Bushman — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:20:53 +0000

At BarcampLA #7, particiants used Twitter to portray the US Colonial Marines during an…unfortunate engagement.