For all you Diligent blog enthusiasts out there, here’s an update from our Summer 2008 calendar of events and happenings.
Diligent Partner Ron Eigen will be appearing at the Building Blocks 2008 Seminar, a Digital Hollywood Event, in San Jose, CA on August 5, 2008. Ron will be speaking on the “All Video, All the Time: Next Generation in Media Technologies” panel.
Click HERE for more information on the Building Blocks panel.
Digital Hollywood debuted in 1990 and has been among the leading trade conferences in its field with over 15,000 top executives in the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries attending the various events each year. Digital Hollywood, Inc., in conjunction with CEA Consumer Electronics Association,is sponsoring and producing the event.
In other news, Diligent continues its development on a new interactive installation with the Natural History Museum.
The installation is set to open Dec. 19th and will use multimedia delivery to bridge the gap between the overwhelming amount of artifacts and the individual stories and meanings behind each of them.
And last, but certainly not least, we’re now listed at LosAngeles.com under the business media section. Click HERE for our listing.
Keep checking back for updates this Summer, as we’ve got lots of interesting and exciting projects in the works!
For those of you keeping score at home, here’s a quick numbers update on one of the Parrot viral videos we launched on You Tube earlier this week. The video follows our favorite student driver Johnny as he learns how to drive with five different instructors. Here’s the video.
It’s titled “Kid fails driving test 5 times in a day” featuring Johnny.Here are the stats the video has racked up this week: #6 Top Favorited Entertainment Video, #15 Most Viewed Entertainment Video, #19 Top Rated Entertainment Video. Keep sending the video to your all friends and help us move all the way to number one! ClickHERE for the official Parrot web site.
After three weeks of production, our favorite Parrot Bluetooth Handsfree car kit project is finally complete. So what did we learn about the birds and the bees? 1. Working with birds is easier than we thought. Just don’t talk loudly, flash bright lights, move scaffolding, or redress the set when they’re around because once they lose their cool, it’s all over. Now that we think about, maybe working with birds is harder than we thought. 2. Driving and talking on the phone, while still en vogue, will be no longer be legal in the state of California as of July 1, 2008. So put down your Starbucks, your Ipod, your mascara brush, your blackberry, your Iphone, your other cellphone and concentrate on the road, idiot! You have enough distractions as is! Now can you please change the radio station and hang a U-turn? WATCH OUT!!!!! 3. No, Polly does not want a cracker; in fact, Polly can’t even say that Polly wants a cracker unless Polly has been extensively trained for years and years and years. Birds rarely speak on command; we don’t know what caged bird sings. Can you help us find it? See all our hard work in its glory: While you’re at it, why don’t you send it to your friends, your mama, your daddy, your baby mama, and your pet bird. After all, sharing is caring! In closing, we ask you to please start abiding by the new California driving law as of July 1 because getting pulled over by a cop is no way to start your summer vacation. Click HERE for the official Parrot web site and stay cool.
Looking to raise awareness in the US for European company, Parrot, LA based Ad Agency Ground Zero, has teamed up with Diligent to produce a set of comedic viral videos due out later this month. Link to come soon…
It’s been too quite, here on the blog. Really cool things are in the pot and cooking….Can’t say too much now as the multiple millions of dollars we signed away on our NDA’s would come kick us where it hurts.As soon as we can spill the beans…we will let them loose and spread news all over our beloved internet…
The new Creative Arts Angency (CAA) and Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB) online innitiative – weplay.com soft-launched this week featuring content produced by Diligent.
The New York Times ran a story on the launch in the technology section earlier this week:
“The venture, WePlay.com, a social networking site for youth sports — something like Facebook for young athletes — is expected to start in mid-April. The site caters to youth athletes, parents and coaches — a vast audience. About 52 million children a year participate in organized sports leagues, according to the National Council of Youth Sports….
“Two hundred forty million people in America are one degree of separation from youth sports,” said Steve Hansen, the chief executive of WePlay. “Youth sports is held together by e-mails, phone calls and clip boards. We want to change that.””
We have won the bronze prize for commercials “The Race” and “Sticky” which we produced in conjunction with The Sheppard, LLC for Herbalife. Sticky is an animated piece that won in the health and wellness category and The Race is a live action piece that won in the film and TV category.
We are working with CAA and Major League Baseball Advanced Media to produce content for exciting new sports social network – WePlay. The site is set to launch in April. Meanwhile we will be working with some of the biggest names in sports producing content for the site.
The new Creative Arts Angency (CAA) and Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB) online innitiative – 
We have won the bronze prize for commercials “The Race” and “Sticky” which we produced in conjunction with The Sheppard, LLC for Herbalife. Sticky is an animated piece that won in the health and wellness category and The Race is a live action piece that won in the film and TV category.