Traverse City Film Fest begins today! 7/29-8/3

Arguably the most amazing film festival currently here in Michigan, the Traverse City Film Festival is the brainchild of Michael Moore and has transformed his adopted-hometown into a mecca for film buffs nationwide. Last Sunday's edition of the Detroit Free Press had FOUR articles on this Film Fest alone!

As wonderful as we think it is that Madonna is coming home to Michigan for the TCFF, the real stars of the show for us are our friends from The Art Place in Suttons Bay who are offering three great Animation and Film workshops for youth of all ages, in official partnership with the TCFF. Go TAP! :)

RESOURCE: Playnation an Online Video Gallery

The Gistter project at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair was a great success! The site is now filled with tons of great content, browse the content and feel free to leave comments (you can leave "anonymous" comments also if you like). That's what Web 2.0 is all about: inserting yourself and your perspective into the content so it becomes a two-way street and stimulates more discussion and movement across the web.

We shared a tent with an awesome project called Playnation. The folks were with a UMTV partnership called Playgallery, "a gallery for time-based work on tv and on the web" and they set up an animation station which allowed fair goers of all ages to make their own animations right there on the spot. I've embedded one of their clips below: