The Actors’ Sandbox: Be an Actor

Held every Wednesday in Second Life, The Actors’ Sandbox is a tuition-free open enrollment workshop for voice and machinima actors. Producers of machinima and other forms of animation are welcome to attend and observe. It’s an excellent opportunity to evaluate talent in a context free from the anticipation and tension of an audition. More information about [...]

The Actors’ Sandbox – Bay Area Edition

The folks at San Jose 48 Hour Film Project have created a special opportunity for Bay Area independent media producers to meet talented local actors and other producers. It’s called The Actors’ Sandbox. It is for actors, producers, directors, and especially for 48HFP team leaders. On Saturday, July 30th, in partnership with Schoolhouse Earth, and [...]

Listen To the Man!

…we usually focus here on content that you’ll find online rather than things you’d see in the movie theater. However, one of the richest veins of online content today is video designed to teach you something. In the past, we’ve pointed at a couple of the finest TED lectures, and this time we want to [...]

What’s on YOUR Mind?

We love to feature content that is designed to enlighten and teach. It’s no secret that the TED lectures are among the best of this sort of material online. These talks are a little bit longer than typical clips and videos online. But they are definitely worth the time. In one of the best of [...]

Learning from TED

For the most part here at See It Online, we’ve favored the short works, and those that primarily deliver entertainment. (We like being entertained, don’t you know…) But one of the richest emerging veins of emerging online content is that of educational matter once reserved for university students, and attendees at top level industry conferences. [...]

Perspective

We’ve always enjoyed programming that puts things into perspective for us. In the history of such works (dramatic and narrative), we’ve enjoyed many delightful works. Stories like those in Life is Beautiful, Contact, and and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy come immediately to mind. Long running works such as Connections, and Cosmos spring forth in [...]

Story of Stuff

This series has become an online classic. It’s led to a great deal of notoriety for its creator.  We like the style and the message.  This is good work. The full series can be seen in one long 21 minute video if you go here. We think it’s worth it.