Animated videos: Guessing what the Tiger Woods news might be
Is this right? Cartoonists imagining what Tiger Woods would look like when chased by his wife with a golf club in her hand—or when he was in other embarrassing situations? Here’s a video.
From the New York Times: “The minute-and-a-half-long digitally animated piece was created by Next Media, a Hong Kong-based company with gossipy newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The video is one of more than 20 the company releases a day, often depicting events that no journalist actually witnessed—and that may not have even occurred.”
So how long until the same “What if?” animations show up in “nonfiction” e-books?
Related: Dan Bloom, who pointed us to the NYT story, noted the use of barcodes to link Taiwanese newspaper readers to the videos. “E news to e Phone via Print Paper.”
December 7th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
[if you click on my website above, you can see jpeg of the video bar code:] try and see!
David, good post, and good question: “So how long until the same “What if?” animations show up in “nonfiction” e-books?” I bet they will migrate to ebooks in the future too. They apparently use a bar code called QR, I am told by those who know this stuff, also called “an encryption graphic” that looks like a square half inch by half inch mosaic on the print page of the newspaper in Taiwan, and readers can scan the EC / QR / D2-bar code (it has many names, i am told) into their cellphones which takes them to a link where they can view the animation of the imagined news story. For a price of course. I would guess that in future days, ebooks could have these bar codes in their pages and readers could go off on a short tangent this way, maybe reading a book about Louis the 16th on an e-reader, go to the D2 bar code and get a video of what Versailles looked like then, and then back to the book. Amazing how tech works. Who knew?