Patrick Jean’s short film Pixel (featured below) isn’t new – it’s been around a few months, but it is amazing. It was viewed more than 1 million times within it’s first 24 hours of its release.
It was a passion project by Patrick. He did it because he was inspired by the 8-bit video games he grew up on. He won lots of prizes, and then got many offers from major Hollywood studios (Sony, Warner, Dreamworks) to make pictures.
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The lessons we can take from the film are many for entrepreneurs:
– It’s one of the best mashups of technology / genres I’ve ever seen.
– It leverages nostalgia – one of the most powerful emotional tools.
– It was released to the market free to just ‘see what happens’. And some very cool stuff happened.
– It reminds us that sampling isn’t limited to tiny bottles of shampoo.
– Patrick didn’t invent the technology to make it, he re-imagined the use of it.
Very soon, Patrick will be making movies that we’ll all be watching in cinemas. Startup blog says: think like Patrick.
Start Small. Go Social. Get Viral. Damn, today’s web is cool.
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Very impressive flick, memory lane, technology and creativity are a lethal mix here.
and then it’s hello Mr Spielberg.
Good piece Samma.
It is a damn fine film (love those closing credits).
Steve, you might like this tale of passion too (from guy who founded and then sold CD Baby):
http://sivers.org/trust