Technology/New Media Pioneer
In the mid 90s, St. John was part of American Cybercast, the online network backed by Microsoft. He became the story editor and executive producer of the critically acclaimed web site, The Spot, which he revived in 2004 with an all-new cast for the web, and created a cell phone component with over 2500 mobisodes that aired on Sprint PCS Vision enabled phones, essentially becoming the first American cell phone soap. A huge believer in online entertainment and the community it reaches, St. John created California Heaven -- as the first scripted TV series produced exclusively for broadband. It launched in August 2005. Its first season was licensed to Japan. In 2011 St. John and producing partner Todd Fisher re-launched a newer version of California Heaven on their online television network, The SFN.
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Famous quotes containing the words technology, media and/or pioneer:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)