I just finished up cutting together my new acting reel. Check it out:

Jason Nunes – Acting Reel from Jason Nunes on Vimeo.

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I desperately want to make a movie here:

The abandoned Six Flags of New Orleans destroyed by hurricane Katrina. (more photos here)

How would you use this amazing location? The scene of a zombie apocalypse? Blighted urban love story? A super villains secret hideout? Remake Mad Max with go carts?

My good friends and fellow filmmakers, Luci Westphal and Scott Solary, will be releasing their feature length documentary “All God’s Children” on YouTube soon. The doc is a powerful story about the children of missionaries in Africa.

Through the eyes of three families, All God’s Children tells the personal story of the first boarding school for children of missionaries to be investigated for abuse at the hands of the parents’ missionary colleagues. The survivors and parents share their journey of seeking justice, redemption and healing.

Subscribe to their YouTube Channel to be notified when the film will be available.

Together we all go solar. from Solar Mosaic on Vimeo.

I find the Solar Mosaic concept very interesting. Similar to a CSA, they are proposing CSS–Community Sponsored Solar. Rather than purchasing a solar panel yourself and placing it on your roof, you buy shares (tiles) in a community owned solar project located in a more solar friendly location.

What do you think?

…as a first person shooter?

This amazing little camera kit created by GoPro can help you realize that dream.

Check out this video to see what I mean.

Amazing stuff, no? It’s got me thinking about what kind of narratives you could tell with a camera like this. What do you think?

This presentation by Bryan Rieger reminds me of a lot of the conversations we had during my days working on Nokia MOSH–an app developer’s content sharing and social network that became the foundation of Nokia’s Ovi.

As designers from the United States we’re somewhat hobbled when thinking about web on mobile because of such a high percentage of us use desktop/laptops as a primary way to access the internet.

I think it might be fun to take a bunch of designers/UXers/technologists, and require them to only access the internet through a non or semi smart phone for a month, and then have them design a web site. I’d love to see what they come up with.

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.

This awesome video by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen whose project–Immaterials: Light painting WiFi that displays WiFi signal though long exposure photographs and light painting–got me thinking, wouldn’t this be the most useful augmented reality app ever? How great would it be to see the network around you, so you could figure out where to stand to get an actual internet connection, or make a phone call?

Or maybe I’m just sensitive because I’m still on the AT&T network.

Cubelets are a fun new modular robotic toy.

The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light, sound, and temperature, and have surprisingly lifelike behavior. But instead of programming that behavior, you snap the cubelets together and watch the behavior emerge like with a flock of birds or a swarm of bees.

Cubelets Engineering Prototypes from eric schweikardt on Vimeo.

Sifteo is a cool gaming system that uses mini-movable display modules.

Sifteo cubes are 1.5 inch computers with full-color displays that sense their motion, sense each other, and wirelessly connect to your computer. You, your friends, and your family can play an ever-growing array of interactive games that get your brain and body engaged.

Sifteo’s initial collection of titles includes challenging games for adults, fun learning puzzles for kids, and games people can play together.

Interface modularity seems to be an emerging trend… at least in the toy and game world. Maybe emerging is the wrong word, seeing as Legos have been around since 1916. But with their digital interactive components, Cubletes and Sifteo take modularity a step further.

This has me wondering how this kind of mix and match interface might be applied to other verticals. Media and entertainment? Finance? Programming? What do you think? Is there a need for modular interfaces outside of gaming? Will tablet computers enable something like this, where one person might work on one aspect of a project (in financial reporting, say a video interview with a source), and another might work on another (a data visualization or an info graphic ), and then they will bring them together by simple “plugging” their iPads together? Anything to be gained by this?

What do you think?

…to my writer and actor friends out there.

I shot this video while riding the Staten Island Ferry on Wednesday on the way to my shoot:

Untitled from Jason Nunes on Vimeo.

What do you think these 2 people are saying? To me this is a 30 second story. Drama? Comedy? That’s up to you. Send, or post your scripts (or VO tracks) to the comments and I will cast, record the VO, edit the final piece, and post my favorite here.

Here’s a sample script to get you started:

SHE
…ever clean these windows? I guess you get what you pay for–

HE
Shhhh.

SHE
Shushing me? Over the window comment? I know the ferry is free. I don’t think it’s too ungrateful to–

HE
(whispering)
SHHH! Ixnay, on the alkingtay…

SHE
(whispering)
Why are we whispering?

HE
Don’t look now, but we’re being filmed.

SHE
Huh? Where?

HE
DON’T turn around. He’s right behind us. Big. Bald. Suspect.

SHE
Wait. What? A suspect in a crime or something? How do you know?

HE
(exasperated)
No. He looks suspect. You know? Dubious?

SHE
Dubie-what? Suspicious?

HE
Yeah. Suspicious.

SHE
Why didn’t you just say that?

Annnnd… you get the idea. What do you think? Fun little exercise?  What story can you tell? In 30 seconds? Between a man and a woman? On the Staten Island Ferry?

It’s been a while. A month, actually. And what a month… I’ve gone from being an Argentine adventurer, to a Dutch diplomat, to Lourdes Benedicto’s father. Oh yes, I’m versatile I tell you.

Here I am in Argentina (thanks, Shaw Flick, for the photo):

And here’s photos of Argentine stuff:

This is why I was there (Mazel Tov Ethan and Carla):

Here I am as Jaan Alders in the short film “The Politics of Conflict”:

And here’s some stuff Jaan got into:

Lastly, here I am as Lourdes Benedicto’s father for an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories:

Yup. Quite a month.