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JumpCut
JumpCut is another new player in the “creative online community” business – the idea is to not only upload, share, and discuss, but also edit, collaborate and remix images and video online. You can automatically import sets of images from flickr, too. After having a quick play around with the editing interface, it seems pretty…
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OtherFilm Festival
On the OtherFilm Festival – 23-26 March www.otherfilm.org Otherfilm Festival is a four-day festival of expanded cinema, installation, sound ecology and Super8 workshops, and music/moving image performances. We start from a point of view that sees ‘cinema’ differently, as something that’s open to re-imagining; something that’s crying out to be liberated from predetermined structures and…
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iPod video
One of many interesting discussions about the affordances, limitations and possible uses of the video iPod is happening at Adrian Miles’s blog. As I say in the comments, I’m quite positive about the implications of the iPod for small-format, visually humble and sonically rich cinema – like what my team had in mind with the…
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The film of tomorrow
From scratch video, via Trine: The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. The young filmmakers will express themselves in the first person and will relate what has happened to them: it may be the story of their first love…
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nonverbal
So I guess this is my first videoblog post, but it’s also my first entirely non-verbal (i.e. not just oral rather than written) one. Oh, guess I just stuffed that up. Update: If I really knew what I was doing, this is how I would do it.
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Ears before eyes
Among the very few good books (cultural/film theory-wise) on the auditory in “audiovisual” media, is Michel Chion’s Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen, which I just flogged off a friend’s desk. The book’s lyrical foreword by Walter Murch is a more than sufficient antidote to my recent frustrated conviction that media and cultural studies are almost profoundly…
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60 second story
The 60 Second Story Competition is an excellent idea, especially in encouraging people to use the video recording capabilities of mobile phones. Reminds me of my MMS haiku idea (3 images, 3 captions with correct no. of syllables and all – voila!) Anyway…. We need more stories in our lives, yet we don’t have much…
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home-made historiography
Found this buried in an old draft entry: it comes from Historiographic Axioms of Home Movies by Patricia R. Zimmermann and Karen I. Ishizuka. It’s good stuff: Patricia Zimmerman is the most right-on writer on home movies I’ve encountered so far. “1. Hollywood films are the home movies of global capital. 2. Home movies provide…
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Calling all mobile movie moguls
It’s always good when my “why doesn’t someone…” whining (as in, “why doesn’t someone do something to encourage people to see mobile phones as low-cost media production tools?”) proves to be redundant… Siemens and the St Kilda Film Festival announce the 2nd Micro Movie Award. To be held as part of the St Kilda Film…
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videoblogging starts to hit it
To look at properly later (seems way too interesting to allow myself to play with it now): mefeedia – a web-based videoblog aggregator, and ANTnotTV – funky desktop videoblog aggregator (Mac OS X) – thanks adrian for keeping me up to date with the exploding world of vlog distribution.