Un an après le lancement du projet, le film Star Wars Uncut est terminé : coupé en 473 segments de 15 secondes, des fans du monde entier ont recréé scène par scène le film Star Wars Episode 4 (La guerre des étoiles, un nouvel espoir) dans son entièreté.

2000 vidéos ont été réalisées ! Toutes dans un style différent et avec les moyens du bord dans la plus pure tradition des films « suédés»  (voir Be Kind, Rewind).

Encore une démonstration de la puissance de réalisation phénoménale d’une communauté réunie autour d’un projet commun.

Voici la bande annonce du projet :

Site officiel du projet :  Star Wars Uncut

Et pour le plaisir, deux photos du projet Stormtrooper 365 qui vient aussi de se terminer. Un fan a fait une photo par jour durant une année de figurines Storm troopers. Inventivité pure :

Stormtrooper 365 - Day 53 - 'Trooping in the rain'

Stormtrooper 365 - Day 57 - 'Recruiting some pigeons for the Imperial Navy'

… ou comment écrire un livre, y rajouter le contenu de participants et imprimer l’étonnant résultat : un livre avec 186 auteurs !

L’aspect « chacun a sa propre interprétation d’un texte, sa propre compréhension; faisons la ressortir»  est spécialement intéressante.

Assuming that every reader interprets an interesting book differently, they wanted to remind their target that reading is much more satisfying than obtaining information the fast forward way. They spread out pages of the book online, to Facebook friends, key opinion leaders and even the author himself to create a unique book, where every reader actively took part in generating its content. They created another story to the story, as seen through their own eyes. After the pages came back, they published the end result: a book with 186 coauthors and also revealed the author and the name of the book.

Quelques pages visibles ici : http://www.liternet.ro/

Trouvé sur http://www.directdaily.com

« Anthropologists and socio-economists have spent decades examining the principle of people responding to a positive action with another positive action, commonly referred to as “direct reciprocity.”» 

De nouvelles expériences d’espaces d’échange entre inconnus sont en cours… avec succès.

Des squats genevois proposaient de telles espaces de partage, fonctionnant à ma connaissance plus dans une direction : mise à disposition par les habitants de l’immeuble/maison d’objets, vêtements inutilisés et qui pourraient être utiles à autrui. Ici, il s’agit d’échange pur entre étrangers.

Voici donc deux exemples simples et ingénieux de détournement de mobilier urbain vers un usage communautaire : une boîte à journaux et une cabine téléphonique… très british.

Stranger Exchange :

… Both artists have long been fascinated by open systems built on the philosophy of “Have a Penny, leave a Penny. Need a Penny, take a Penny,” such as Wikipedia and Craigslist, or The Free Shop in New York City. As with the Wicker Park boxes, they would try to create a dialogue between strangers and exchangers. But there would be two key differences from the boxes Chris had originally seen in Chicago: they would “broaden the scope of what could be dropped” and they would build a simple online “guest book” so that people could share messages about things left and received.

… they found an abandoned newspaper box, and with their friend Samantha repurposed it as the first local « drop box.»  They wanted the box to stand out enough to be noticed—but they didn’t want it seem at all “kitschy” or “contrived.” It was also critical that it feel anonymous, so that the community would immediately see the box as “theirs” and not as the possession of whomever put it there.

… They placed the Stranger Exchange box in Central Square during the late evening of October 25, 2009. Since then, either John or Chris tries to visit it every other day to see what has been left and taken. They’ve discovered books like A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, as well as movies, photographs, souvenirs, and even letters.

But what really has surprised the friends the most is the quality—and, in many instances, the effort—that has gone into some of the things that have been deposited. Plus, people are clearly making items specifically, for the box for no other reason than to share.

Article complet ici : http://shareable.net/blog/the-stranger-exchange (excellent site by the way!)