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What is Flickr Video For?
So Flickr finally ended the years of rumour-mongering and actually rolled out video. I was interested to see the way the official announcement carefully positioned the purposes of video on Flickr within the company’s (tasteful, cosmopolitan, playfully grown-up) brand identity, and its focus on self-created content: we thought long and hard about how video would […]
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my first crush
Wow, really nice combination of original animation with edited audio from oral history-style anecdotal interviews in this sweet short film by Julia Pott. It’s one of a few YouTube videos that won selection at the SXSW film festival. Oh, and while I’m embedding YouTube videos, I also found The Great Trafalgar Square Freeze sort of […]
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Frack, no more BSG?
As I do when I find a series I like, over the last couple of weeks I binge-watched all 3 seasons of Battlestar Galactica. I did the same with Heroes. In both cases, eventually the tragic day arrives when I’ve caught up with the States. At best, this habit means waiting a week in between […]
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another video experiment
Thought I’d share a couple of quite silly stop motion animations made using Boinx iStopMotion and the iSight on my MacBook Pro. I plan to do something a bit more purposeful with the software one of these days, but I was quite pleased with what I managed to achieve in an idle hour or so […]
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lost in light
what a cool idea: This is a project about the 8mm film format. But 8mm is dead, you say? On the contrary! Not only is the format alive with innovation by filmmakers around the world, but hours and hours of Super 8 and regular 8mm film exist in attics and basements the world over—as home […]
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‘we are beseiged because the world is watching’
Thanks to Ben, I just found From Beirut to…those who love us. While I am trying not to drip ineffectual tears on my keyboard, I can’t recommend highly enough that you go watch it (BIG Quicktime file). Here’s the background: This video letter was made on July 21, 2006 at the studios of Beirut DC, […]
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some new developments in web video
Caught in my tech news net over the last week: Via Boing Boing, another new ‘meta’ service launches into public beta: Dabble, a site that makes it possible to search, recommend, rate, discuss and be sociable about video hosted anywhere on the the net, has come out of private beta and launched for public use. […]
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no cinematic equivalent to autobiography?
In this videoblog remix, I think Trine begs to differ. Lovely stuff. I’ve been thinking as well that perhaps ‘the everyday’ is the currency of videoblogging in a way that is more muted for (personal) text-based blogging. Not that everydayness is more or less present, but that it is more important in creating whatever affective […]
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‘more than a mere assemblage of moviemaking information’
Thank you Glen for sending me this little treasure which I found in my in-tray this morning – for that you are a prince among men. I’ve also uploaded the first two pages of one of the many fabulous example storyboards that the book includes in glossy colour. It’s called ‘Laura’s Seventh Birthday’, and it’s […]
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more video-sharing thingies
Online editing, rich ‘folksonomy’ and community-building features would seem to be essential components of whatever is going to be the ‘flickr of video’, i.e. the default destination for video ‘sharing’. (That is, if there will be such a thing – remembering the very specific circumstances of flickr’s emergence, which have a lot to do with […]