Cameo Wood
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These tech companies need something like kings that had court jesters, except it's a normal person who has a rolled up newspaper to threaten them with when they think about implementing ideas like this one.
Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d agoUPDATED STORY! Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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“Joybubbles did a remarkable job of reminding all of us that we’re not define by what we have or what we don’t have, but by how we see the world and how we want to engage with the world.” — John Ridley, Doc Talk Podcast (@deadline.com) JOYBUBBLES screening info is available here: loom.ly/TZVQ0eo 📞
On September 13, 1996, I went to Philly with some friends from the phreaker community. Drank my first Long Island iced tea, ate a Philly cheese steak, and was part of the welcoming committee for Bernie S when he was released from prison for possessing tone dialers and 6.5536 mhz crystals.
I just saw him a few weeks ago in LA. I am so sorry to hear about his passing. Motorcycles continue to scare me.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56
Teaching a summer class on fixing everything that's wrong....in your first five pages. I know. I wish I could teach you how to fix everything that's wrong in the damn universe. But I can definitely help your manuscript kick some serious ass. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/firs...
Craft Seminar: The First Five Pages: Making A Beginning That Sells Your Book with Maria Dahvana Headley — The Shipman Agency
4 Sessions: Thursdays, August 6, 13, 20, 27 6:00-8:00pm ET Maria Dahvana Headley Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times -bestselling, Hugo , and World Fantasy Award-winning author...
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NYC immersive industry event - Brooklyn, July 28, 7pm - a salon for immersive creators looking to talk about marketing their experiences www.eventbrite.com/e/next-stage... Ticket sales end Tues AM so get 'em now!
Next Stage Salon: Finding Your Audience
The Immersive Experience Institute presents an evening long event exploring the issues around marketing immersive art & entertainment.
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Got to experience Janet Cardiff’s “The Telephone Call” this morning at #SFMoMA as part of my research for my #OdysseyWorks EDCP Lived Research project on audio-performance and intimacy.
I wrote about language, lying & world-building for the NYTBR as expressed in 3 extraordinary & very different books: THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm, THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley, & THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS by SL Huang.
New Science Fiction About Truth and Lies in an Age of War (Gift Article)
Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.
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A jazz club where every song launches a new case. A note on your cocktail napkin. A portal in the cleaning closet. Last month, Culture House's creative team began developing a new narrative-driven experience, CLUB HOLMES, co-produced by @cameowood.com / Charming Stranger Films. The game is afoot! 🔍
And a big THANK YOU to the Stowe Story Labs team for putting together such a thoughtful and inspiring program for creatives, and to the mentors and fellow participants who made the experience what it was 🤍
The lab may be over but the work is just getting started! After one unforgettable weekend in Vermont, @cameowood.com has officially wrapped the 2026 June Stowe Narrative Lab 🎬 We are so proud and cannot wait to see what comes next for JANUS GATE! PC: Jesse Schloff
Signups are open for Strandfall, an orienteering larp inspired by Stalker and Death Stranding! Set five years after a mysterious disaster unleashes deadly storms, players join a risky expedition to deploy "spatial computers" and put humanity back on its feet. Edinburgh / September 5th / *Free*
Strandfall is now open for sign ups
Sign up to our orienteering-style larp inspired by Stalker and Death Stranding.
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Thrilled to continue to advance my feature Janus Gate while at Stowe Narrative Lab in Vermont. This is an incredibly exciting film that I cannot wait to make real.
Charming Stranger Films@charmingstranger.com · 2mo agoThe news is out! Cameo Wood has been selected as a participant for June Stowe Narrative Lab! 🎬✨ @cameowood.com will be working alongside a community of peers and top industry mentors to develop her sci-fi feature JANUS GATE through presentations, small group sessions, networking, and so much more!
The news is out! Cameo Wood has been selected as a participant for June Stowe Narrative Lab! 🎬✨ @cameowood.com will be working alongside a community of peers and top industry mentors to develop her sci-fi feature JANUS GATE through presentations, small group sessions, networking, and so much more!
This is crucial. There are some really interesting hybrid video game live events out there, but they need more support. I also think of MOMI's exhibition of Auriea Harvey's digital art and games, which was incredible and got a rave NYT review.
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard – Museum of the Moving Image
The first major survey of the pioneering net-artist and sculptor Auriea Harvey features more than 40 of Harvey’s works from her career spanning nearly four decades. Extended through December 1, 2024!
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meghna jayanth@meghna.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere’s also an entire conversation to be had about real-world events for video games which I think are entirely necessary if we’re really going to be part of the culture — games must be cultural objects that people meet and mingle around, culture relies on community which cannot be purely digital
Immersive experiences give you the opportunity to take horror into "a living, breathing celebration," and HAG delivers exactly that. Charming Stranger (@cameowood.com) brought The Queen’s Fools Shakespeare's Weird Sisters to life at #Overlook2026 in the most delightfully unhinged way possible 🧹✨
Thrilled to join my Culture House crew on another ship to space. Bridge Command @bridgecommand.bsky.social continues to deliver joy.
I gave a half-silly, half-serious talk analysing the 2013 movie Austenland in terms of larp design, and you have no idea how many people came up to me afterwards saying they were going to buy the movie. I should get referral fees! Now I’m “the Austenland guy” I feel obliged to do a regency larp…
Hey SF! Joybubbles will be at SFFilm! Can’t wait for all my SF friends to see it!
Charming Stranger Films@charmingstranger.com · 4mo agoBay Area friends! JOYBUBBLES is coming for SFFILM's San Francisco International Film Festival! Screening on April 25 at 3:30 PM. Director Rachael J Morrison, producers Sarah Winshall, Will Butler, and Annie Marr will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. ☎️ Get tickets NOW — loom.ly/pz47E20
mysterious worlds of "Control" game, enigmatic corridors by "Severance", Satoshi Kon's genious visions of "Paprika", even a less known animation "The King and the Mockingbird" (I watched in in my childhood endlessly). And of course Kane's own youtube masterpiece, just to mention some.
Liminal topic will be mainstream 2026, as the movie by Kane Parsons' "The Backrooms" will hit the theaters. Yet the aesthetic is way older. Look what a great book I found in Japan: "Liminal Space / リミナルスペース" by ALT236 (ALT236) (translated from French).
Just finished this for a work-related project- the heroes are all absolutely pathologically sociopathic. I was just mad.
Gail O’Connor@tofueater.bsky.social · 2y agoBook finished: The Enigma of Room 622 by Joel Dicker. I expected to like it. A murder in a nice hotel is exactly the kind of story I usually like. But this is not really a mystery, it's general fiction that happens to have a crime as a minor plot point. Very long, slow, and totally preposterous.
What a month! Winner of the No Proscenium Audience Choice award 2026 for the UK and now on the shortlist for Global Experience of the year 2026 (small) from The World Experience Organisation. So proud! #NoProscenium #Awardseason #WXO #Immersivetheatre
Thank you, WXO, for shortlisting Lennox Mutual for Experience of the Year. :)
Cameo Wood@cameowood.com · 4mo agoThrilled to see that two experiences I love, @candlehouse.bsky.social’s Lennox Mutual and Lemon Difficult’s @thekeyofdreams.co.uk, are both nominated for WXO’s Experience of the Year (small)!
This is a wildly fun at-home immersive experience! Worth trying out for a fun and engaging story with very cool creators.
Nathan Leigh || labRats@nathanleigh.bsky.social · 4mo agoin advance of AMAZE Berlin, we just added some more dates for labRats including one this weekend! www.tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...
Head back to the era of Y2K for a version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow told through letters, sketches, and artifacts from the era of cassette tapes, flip phones, and zines. Our latest Now Funding is all about SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1998, which launched today on Kickstarter.
NOW FUNDING: SLEEPY HOLLOW, 1998
Head back to the era of Y2K for a version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow told through letters, sketches, and artifacts from the era of cassette tapes, flip phones, and zines.
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