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With localmatters.co.nz digital editor Cathy Aronson
Local Watch
We popped in to film the farewell and musical tributes for retiring Leigh School teacher Susan Gibbings recently.
Of course you can’t capture decades of work in a short video, but we gave it a shot.
Great to see Warkworth get creative for the Town Hall fundraiser film competition and show us how it’s done!
What’s Trending
#plutoflyby Is it a heart, is it a Disney character, is it the death star from Star Wars?
NASA lit up social media and planet earth’s imagination after sharing a picture of the dwarf planet Pluto on Instagram, an hour before an official media conference. Captured by the New Horizons spacecraft drifting past the edges of our solar system, they cleverly called the heart-shape on its surface ‘Pluto’s love note back to Earth’. While the flyby was a quick 20 hours, it was the culmination of an epic 4.8 billion km journey over nine years, and three months of social media strategy planning.
So just incase you are planning on going into space soon, here are some social media tips.
What the #
Instagram is a popular photo sharing service. Take a picture or video, add some fancy filters, and then share.
For another visual storytelling tool try mobile app Storehouse to create a story using still images, texts and video clips.
What we love
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A good yarn
Here’s a cool video on the latest system for weaving technology into fabric to transform everyday objects, like clothes or couches, into interactive surfaces. Basically your clothes act like a touch screen to control devices.
