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This is sooooo cool. Local Mac expert and musician Moses Kravatz sent me this great link to an incredible site. Check out Midnight Ukelele Disco. They're redesigning this site next month and I hope they add a feed so I can watch these in FireAnt. I really like this rendition of the Geroge Harrison classic. This guy really wails near the end and the sound is sooooo sweet.
Chris Nolan is taking a cinematography class and posting the assignments so others can particpate. Here's my first. Twenty 10 second shots with no moving the camera Just like good old photography days. Natural light. Good way to learn more about my camera and remember those old lessons. Fun stuff. Thanks Chris!
I mentioned earlier that Alicia and I went up to Silicon Valley and San Francisco last week to attend our friend Dave Toole's 50th birthday bash and to catch the Eric Rice Roadshow.
The roadshow was at our favorite San Francisco drinking establishment: Schlomo's House of Shields.
Here's a little video I stitched together to the beat of Pink Fish Signs by GeeNerve, Suspence Dance Delights. Lounge music from the Internet Archive that's licensed as a-nc-sa.
I've included a short public service announcement from Jan (of Sound) at the end.
Click the movie pic to view the vid.
And the re-mixes just keep on coming...
Watch movie 1.9 min 6.7 MB
(Original post, via blip.tv)
Too cool! MeFeedia just set up this neat script for creating a video archive page.
I had the pleasure of meeting Chris Ritke by phone and online when he contacted me about a podcast interview for 49media.com. I got a chance to meetup with Chris in San Francisco just prior to the SF Vlogger Meetup on June 20th, 2005.
The interview takes place in the lobby of the Stanyan Park Hotel where I was staying on this great trip to the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco.
We all had a great time and I was very inspired by the experience, as was my good friend Dave Toole.
Chris came down the next week to join our VloggerCueWest in Ojai, California on July 9th.
I asked Chris about his passion around 49media.com and he shares some powerful feelings and insights. One site that both Chris and I have discovered through 49media is Vit and Madge by vitriolica at unkemptwomen
My friend and associate Rachel Toole has created a fun and interesting mash-up video post around the BlogHer event that "we" are all going to on July 30th.
Who are "we"? Outhink and Apperceive are helping and sponsoring several people coming to BlogHer and the SpinFlow meetup dinner afterward for vloggers and "like minded people" as my good friend Dave Toole puts it.
He's doing a lot to help people like Ryanne Hodson, Jay Dedman, Michael Verdi, Rene Amini, Alicia Shay, Rachel Toole and myself to come and participate in these two great events.
Click the pic to view Rachel's video.
As part of our work together for Outhink, I suggested that Rachel post to her vlog about the upcoming BlogHer event. I also suggested that she make a video without a camera this time and to make use of images from Flickr that had an appropriate Creative Commons license. I suggested images of women working, sharing or collaborating.
One of the things I find most interesting about this video is the choice of music. We did not have time during my short visit to Outhink last week to discuss this and so she made her own choice. Personally, I love it This was a song from my youth and I had no idea she even knew about it, much less liked it. I love that a woman has taken this message as a symbol of her own empowerment.
Women of the world are uniting and collaborating around this great event and it has stirred the passions of Rachel Toole and others. We need more women to blog and vlog. We need more people to support their efforts.
Here in San Francisco, they are making a Media Center in the Apple store. (basically it will be computers with FCP and iMovie on them and people around to help answer questions), which I think is perfect to showcase what we do.
from schlomo at schlomolog.blogspot.com
FCP is Final Cut Pro (of course).
Richard made a screencast of ANT.
All day long I've been griping to the Yahoo Videoblogging Group about the troubles with Archive.org accessability and the Apple Quicktime Fast Start option.
So I went to watch Richard's latest gift to humanity and guess what happened!
It's like waiting for that client call or meeting.
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.
So I made a screencast of Richard's screencast. What else could I do?
I love the RichardShow. I love Scratch Video. I love ANT (FireANT).
Thank you Richard. Thank you Charlene. Thank you Josh, Daniel, Erik, Jay and Ryanne.
Click the pic to view the vid. Better if you use ANT, because this is a bit large (10 minutes, 36MB).
I met with Gordon Gould of WeblogsInc to talk about future directions in blogging, tagging and aggregation. We had another one of those great talks, hanging out at Zen Zoo in West LA.
I asked Gordon one of my favorite questions. If you keep up with this vlog, you already know what it is. This is number 2 in a series and I hope to capture a lot more.
As a videographer, I particularly love that moment of silence that seems to always come just before things get really interesting. You can't stop "filming", that's for sure.
Gordon shared some interesting thoughts about what does and will make him happy.
Thanks Gordon!
Click the pic to view the vid.
Relating to the last post, I have put out a call for collaboration to the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group. Hopefully some of those good people will get interested in this.
You don't have to be a member to collaborate, everyone is welcome to submit a vid.
Even you Michael. Click the pic to view the vid.
Wow! I just found something amazing! I found a complete duplicate of my "zzzzzzzz-list" of bloggers that I used to read but no longer find relevant.
Even more amazing is the fact that the list is also the list of bloggers who appear in a so-called documentary called "59 bloggers".
What's most amazing is that the "former Hollywood executive", John Hart, who seems to be behind the "59 bloggers", has attempted to usurp the name "Blogumentary" which was first coined by Chuck Olsen of Secret Vlog Injection long before Hart showed up on the blogging scene.
What's worse is that Hart has responded rudely to Chuck's polite requests to try and work the matter out.
Luckily the "59 bloggers" documentary may never see the light of day as it appears that funding is lacking for this project. This guy's so desperate that he has apparently threatened legal action against Chuck. Hopefully potential sponsors will realize the potential backlash of bad publicity that will no doubt ensue.
This is not true collaboration and I have no intention of supporting or viewing "59 bloggers".
I do look forward to Chuck's truly collaborative and honest "Blogumentary".
Please email John Hart at john.writer@gmail.com and urge him to show a little respect and to consider interviewing a more interesting set of people.
Aside: Even Lessig is on the "zzzzzzz-list" these days. I must admit that his name came up for consideration as a keynote speaker recently and everyone involved agreed that he seemed to be going on about the same old things these days Pass. We get it Larry, you're preaching to the choir. Perhaps he's trying to get the chior to sing? I dunno. Check out my "Promises, Promises" playlist on WebJay for my favorite Larry Lessig mash-up.
Have you ever noticed how often it says "comments will be re-enabled soon" over at Creative Commons? Weird.
I just found this banner in the sidebar of a site that Raymond had mentioned in a recent post to the Yahoo Videoblogging Group. Interesting site.
Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by government, by
corporations, by society itself. This icon — the Individual-i —
represents the rights of the individual...
I like this alternate image too: 
I recently returned to Los Angeles with my friend Dave Toole to meet with people in the entertainment and gaming industries.
One of the highlights of the trip was a wonderful dinner in an old Craftsman style home near downtown. My grandparents and relatives all lived and died near here. It has always been a strange place for me.
Lot's of memories. Lot's of ghosts.
Here's a little collage from the footage I shot in the car as we drove into town. The music is called "Los Angeles (Intro)" and is by Novokain and is available on the Internet Archive under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
This is for the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group's Video Music Week. Happy birthday folks!
Click the pic to view the video.
I posted an article on "Collaborative Video" at spinflow.org, please check it out; I'd really appreciate your feedback (or pushback! I like that word.)
It covers a wide rage of group efforts centered around video in general and videoblogging in particular.
Here is clip from yesterday's videoblogging video conference in which Nathan Peters is discussing music and video collaboration.
Just one of the many topics dicussed.
I'm in a particularly inspired mood and am putting the final touches on an important spinflow.org post on "collaborative video". It's got me all fired up, my music is blasting.
I read an old statistic today: 13-24 year olds spend more time watching vids on the computer than on TV. That was 2003.
I looked at the TV and thought about how dead it was. How apropos.
Give me vlog, or give me death.
I was telling some videoblogging group member friends about another collaborative environment: collab.nl. If you've never been to this flash based environment, do check it out.
This is a rough video of a collab.nl session I caught off the fly. I was visiting, saw this fabulous woman with the blue hair smoking a cig and knew I had to grab the video cam.
After a few moments (this starts slow, but hang in there), the music being broadcast from one (or more?) of the people starts the place dancing to a hot techno beat.
Sorry if it's a little slow and choppy, but it was caught in the moment and I think I'll come back and make another "tutorial" style video on another occasion. This one was one of those "grabs" you are lucky to get from time to time. I cranked the music to give it the volume it deserves. It was captured too so came out a bit backgroundish and so I tried to help it out. Hope that works.
Click the pic to view the vid. I think it's really cool that Frank Sinatra stays online now.
I had to make a video to go with the previous post. Think of it as a public service announcement. You might do the same for your kids. Click the pic to view the vid.
Fear and loathing on the road to DLA heaven...
I regularly enjoy several xLogs (webLogs, audioBlogs, vlogs, clogs, plogs and more). However, certain aggregators tend to push us into using only one form of interaction unless we make a real effort to engage with xLog content and creators.
If we are not careful, these aggregators could end up turning into little more than information TV's, keep people on the couch. On the other hand, aggregators also have the potential to become to link us into quality conversations.
Marc Canter has spoken wide and far about the wonders of digital lifestyle aggregation, but we rarely talk about the challenges associated with it. We need to address these issues in more detail. Nothing comes free; everything has ramifications. People need to discuss both the benefits and the costs associated with the adoption of new technologies.
On the benefits side for aggregation, many folks remember the "old days" when we were bookmarking and trying to remember to visit each blog on a regular basis, depending on the output of the author. I tried to maintain daily, weekly and monthly bookmark folders and del.icio.us tag categories full of blog bookmarks. What a chore! And what a horrible (and sometimes delightful) feeling of realizing I had fallen behind on some blog that I had forgotten about or that had slipped through the cracks.
But not no mo! Now I've got RSS feeds coming outta my ears. I love it. Now I am automatically kept up to date on all my favorite blogs. I use Thunderbird and ANT mainly. RSS Digest and Feedburner are also important tools.
Then came the big wave. A flood of information began flowing through me, I felt like something out of a sci-fi book. Terminal Man. I loved it, but also could see that there was impending overload as my feeds grew into the hundreds.
Note: People who complain about too much email should not even consider newsfeed aggregators. It will only make your life worse.
Out of necessity, I adopted the newsreader's code of ruthlessly weeding out content that was not highly relevant to me. Many of the feeds had an occasional good post, but for the most past, many were just full of noise. I wanted something more after the initial "rush" of reading so many new blogs. I was not really looking for "news", especially so much news about other blogs.
Then the "zzzzzzz-list" was born.
Many of the so-called A-listers have become just mildly interesting news regenerators and commentators. Busy to become the "new" journalist, many have also become less and less personal, except for their opinions, of course. Most seem to love writing about the long-tail, but are they really trying to address any element of it? It does not seem so.
If you really want fresh and hot news, then join a mailing list. It'll blow your mind. I recently joined the videobloggers mailing list. Wow! Talk about a conversation. That deserves a separate post.
Next came ANT and I caught the videoblogging bug. Both sides. Watching and creating. More importantly: watching, reacting, communicating and creating. Even collaborating.
I love ANTs Not TV. In fact, I have almost completely stopped watching broadcast television. Ok, so I still like to watch one or two old time shows on cable, but I almost always miss them because I'm doing something else. Did someone say "get a Tivo"? That won't help me unless it comes with the extra daily viewing time necessary to watch more than I already am. In a way, Tivo achieves this remarkable feat by allowing people to skip unwanted segments. This is not the issue, however. TV is not an xLog.
The issue is that I tend to NOT "read" the vlogs that I "watch". This is generally ok for Rocketboom or Ryanne's, but Raymond deserves a good watch AND a good read as well. And if you're not careful, you'll miss one of his interesting snapshots.
Similarly for renegade, backinblakk and many others.
This is not a slight on ANT. ANT is a truly wonderful application and it provides a handy button to visit a video's associated blog and make a comment. But that's not the same as experiencing all that the creator's have to offer.
I have the same problem with new Internet Archive postings. OurMedia helps to some degree by bringing together the works posted to archive.org under the umbrella of a blog and forum based community.
So I have to make sure that people like this are in all of my aggregators.
As a result, I am now going back and reviewing many of the old vids and podcasts and finding their xLogs to see what other wonderful things they are saying or doing and, most importantly, to interact with other xBloggers.
And me, I am an xBlogger too. "x" in the sense of what xBase was to dBase. "x" as in Malcolm X, "an unknown quantity, variable". Today it is a text post, tomorrow a video and something else the next day (perhaps a greenthing).
What element of the long tail am I addressing? Above all, I am an artist and so that means to me that I must define my own nitch. Do I want others to find it interesting? Of course. Do I want to make money from it? Not necessarily. Do I want money? I want the freedoms that I think it can help me obtain. Is this xBlog a vehicle for that? It might be, but it's not what drives me. Making art from applications is what drives me at this moment. RSS, blogs and video are all just paints on the palette.
Recently, I 've been experimenting with a new kind of blog. Instead of a blog written for either a large or a small audience, these are written for the smallest audience possible (other than just yourself - a diary). I have started to create blogs for just one person.
I'm sure many others have done this. This is even a bit of a return to an old medium for me. Many years ago, I created ad-hoc web pages expressing my feelings when courting my wife.
Now I have a blog for my wife. Not about her. For her. It's not secure or protected, but it is not publicized either. From time to time I write short thoughts and post them for her to read. In this case others can read it, but they are anonymous to us.
I also write private blogs for some CEO's. In one case, I coordinate a blog that is written by several people for one person. We post items to it and produce a "personal" on-going report where the CEO can communicate and interact with the group. In this case, the CEO is not an author. They make comments.
Talk about long tail. You're own personal zine. Not just filtered and aggregated for you, but actually written with you in mind. Now that's personal service.
The point is, we are constantly experimenting with new ways to communicate and express ourselves, especially through xLogs. Aggregators, while good at blending, often remove the individual flavors of the contributors. We need to work on maintaining our interaction with content creators and not just becoming voyeurs (at least not all the time).
Shot a video. Write a poem. Paint something. Make music. Tell a story.
And then please go over and check out someone else's xLog and interact.
Addendum: Raymond is thinking about similar things.
Woops! Just got a Technorati post that renegade has also written on this topic. She shares many of the thoughts that go thoughts that go through our minds when creating content. She also shares some of the changes that have occured in her linking behavior that I have notice too (see post on just google it for a related thought).
We're buying a house. Today the realtor brought over some flowers from a florist.
I just noticed something odd.
It's not that "artificial" flowers are getting more like "real, cut" flowers.
It's that "real, cut" flowers are getting more like "artifical" flowers.
I'm a big fan of "mash-up", but I think this commercial flower breeding has gotten a little out of hand for my tastes.
Don't get me wrong, these flowers are beautifully engineered and have del.icio.us colors.
But, I'll take a wild flower over this any day. Here's why...
Addendum: I got a little carried away with the zoom and it got a little out of control. The ending is a bit abrupt, but at least we added music from archive.org.
Attribution: Beenoodle by Brett Edmonds, 2005.
What's a vlog?
It's simple. Just do the math.
If a videoblog is a weblog with video, then ...
Back in March, Michael Verdi prompted videobloggers to share "what do you love about life". He started the conversation with a great example and Ryanne and the Voiz responded with posts of their own and lots more followed.
Also, last March (it seems like yesterday), the Secret Vlog Injection posted a link to the Better Life Blog project that they are working on. The BLB has a great little video that shows what can happen when you get a camera and ask a simple little question.
Now, nordark has posted a video titled "I like..."
If you read this blog, you know that we just got a new video camera and so I had to try my hand at this sort of thing too.
Here is my first interview. It's with the love of my life, my wife Alicia.
I can not help but notice: the Sanyo Xacti hand-held, digital camera fits in your hand like a weapon (a hand-gun) It even looks like one.
I think it is.
I know, I know. It's a tool.
A knife is a tool. It can also be a weapon.
How do you see your camera? Tool? Instrument? Something else?
The new camera we got today had been examined by Homeland Security. I hope they didn't smudge the lens.
Click the pic to view the video to see hard won US tax dollars at work. Why do I actually feel less safe now?
Our new Sanyo Xacti C5 camera arrived today and it was wrapped in green! Is this somehow connected with the request I sent today to renegade for a piece of greenthing?
Click the pic to view the video and find out what the heck I'm talking about.
Here is the second of a pair of interesting videos that I ran across recently on the Internet Archive.
This is the second part of a 2002 Net Cafe video interview with Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, author of Being Digital, and columnist for Wired magazine.
As before, "I found it interesting and related to some of the ideas that I have for Apperceive. I hope you find it interesting too."
Click the pic to view the video (256Kb/71MB MPEG4 - this may take a while, depending on your download speed).
Here is the first of a pair of interesting videos that I ran across recently on the Internet Archive.
This is a 2002 Net Cafe video interview with Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, author of Being Digital, and columnist for Wired magazine.
I found it interesting and related to some of the ideas that I have for Apperceive. I hope you find it interesting too.
Click the pic to view the video (256Kb/68MB MPEG4 - this may take a while, depending on your download speed).
I recently paid the stupid Apple QuickTime Pro tax and within just a few days QuickTime 7 came out and auto installed itself on the eMac. Now all the pro features are disabled. WTF?
I tried to reset the key Apple gave me, but it was "invalid". Checking the Apple QuickTime support site, it turns out that Apple says you can either pay a new tax or downgrade back to an older quicktime.
Fuck you Apple.
Ok, it's time to get going with some videoblogging again. We just ordered a video camera (Sanyo Xacti C5) and it should arrive next week. I also just joined the videobloggers mailing list and that's already making me feel a lot more in touch and inspired. Of course freevlog.org is up and flying now and I did take that pledge...
So, here's a vlog entry I made a little while ago after reading a post by metamanda and meant to post for some time now. It tells a short story of early computing days for me and introduces some Archive.org vids that I'd like to share with you over the next few days until the camera arrives. Click the pic on the left to view the QuickTime video (a little over 3 minutes).
Addendum: Here is another video that I made over the last few weeks. It's a short piece on the relevance of new communication skills, like videoblogging and podcasting. Click the pic on the right to download and view the video (about 3 and 1/2 minutes).
I finally got a chance to get back into playing around with SMIL a bit more. I have cobbled together a small web service to allow playing mp3's from WebJay playlists while watching images pulled from Flickr RSS feeds. I'm surprised that I haven't seen examples of this already.
Anyone know of any similar projects?
I still have a bit more to do to it to make it "user friendly", but once I do, I'll post something for everyone to play with. The goal is a simple app that will select the music and images based on a "tag" (we can use del.icio.us for tags in WebJay). Too much fun.
I've been fortunate to work with some very talented people lately. Here is a post on SpinFlow that I wrote about one of their projects. Watch the video they made about a videoblogging workshop that they gave in NYC.
Here's a short story (3 minutes) about true collaboration, Kathy Sierra and SpinFlow. Click the pic to view.
Obviously I am way too close to the camera in this one (I thought I'd try something different - you should see the failed swimming pool experiments from earlier in the day!), but this is how I learn - by doing.
Also, it's like 1am after a looooong day and I was about to call it a night, but I had just taken the freevlog pledge and so I thought I should shoot another vid as promised.
Something triggered an old memory and I felt I should vlog it. Sorry if it's a bit long (6 minutes) and I know I have to get all this down better, but the important thing is to get the vids out there.
Hopefully this has better compression. I followed Michael Verdi's great compression tutorial notes and it looks like I got at least 20% smaller files.
The start up still seems a bit slow to me - bear with me please as I figure this out and try to keep up with all the pros.
Anyway, here is a little story about the early days of teaching desktop publishing on the first Macintosh's. Click the pic and enjoy!
Just a short 'katsup' note. I'm so busy with SpinFlow related projects that I have little time for blogging. Things are definitely starting to spin and flow with respect to our Outhink sponsored projects.
I had a great interview with Metrov on friday. He's a multi-talented and insightful digital artist living in Goleta, California. He graciously invited me over to his studio and we had an interesting conversation about his work and moving digital media. I'm putting together a complete writeup for SpinFlow.
I've also been trying to get back into the groove with Internet Archive Tonight and have been adding significantly to the playlists at WebJay.org. Check out the new Lounge playlist.
Speaking of music, hop over to Hideout for a great source of legal tunes. Hideout is a radio show with "drops of 30 minutes of music featuring selections made by Brazilian DJs". Don't expect too much Samba here, the last show highlights some hot rock and roll bands. This is a nice Blogger site and you can use your own favorite media player or the embedded flash one if you are player-less.
I took a walk with Alicia yesterday in the Ventura River Preserve and just got so fired up by all the sounds that I have started to play more with my old Olympus D1000 digital recorder so that I can start an "Ojai Sites and Sounds" weblog (anyone want to help?) where people can visit to just take a break and listen to birds, horses, streams, parades, children's laughter, etc. Click the picture of horseback rider to view a Flash-based slideshow of the pics.
The good news is that the D1000 seems like a great little portable recording device. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a driver for the Olympus CA1 PCMCIA flash card reader that works with Win2K (this is weird, as I have another, similar, reader for my camera and old pda flash cards that works fine without installing any special drivers). Oh well, I can always go from recorder's mono headphone out to a computer's stereo line in. Joy. Sort of defeats the point of capturing things digitally. Anyone know how I can make Win2K recognize the Olympus CA1 flash card reader? Does it work under XP? I guess I can look into buying a new reader that handles flash memory cards and the newer and smaller SD ones used in my new iPAQ pda/phone.
Ok, back to work. I have aggregators to tame and lots of video tasks to get to (I learned how to do pic-in-pic and simple text videos in Quicktime last night - fun, but it takes way too much time from my programming). I need a 40 hour day, not week.
Hmmm. I just tried to see if the RSS feed for this blog would work in ANT. Nope. Ant indicated an error downloading and parsing feed. I've done this before successfully for webjay feeds, but not a TypePad blog.
I was thinking about using Feedburner anyway as it will be useful for the new SpinFlow site. Perhaps it will work better. I notice it's use on other sites and I hear you can get good stats too.
Ok, so more stuff to learn and do trying to get my message about SpinFlow out to you. I'll make notes here as I resolve things. I'll probably have to learn more about RSS enclosures or something like that.
This is what SpinFlow is all about: helping to remove the barriers to self expression.
I got some emails (thanks!) that indicated that some people could not see all the videos and so I tested them in various browsers and did find that things are horrible in IE/Windows (not so bad on IE/Mac). Of course, things seem to work great in Safari and Firefox.
I'll look into this some more as soon as I can and report back. I hope the solution does not involve multiple formats (e.g., a WMF version? ugh!). I sure could use a hand here (hint, hint to Ryanne).
In the meantime, IE users might try saving the video first (right click on the picture in IE and select "Save Target As..." from the content menu and then play the video from your desktop).
Might I also humbly suggest that IE sucks (sometimes). I still can't believe that Microsoft has filed a patent on "tabbed" browsing. Jeez!!!
This is all part of SpinFlow (or the lack of it in this case, thanks to Microsoft). Getting your media from here to there with the least hassle is what SpinFlow is all about.
Don't forget to set your clock ahead if you do that sort of thing. Click pic to see how it's done. Cheap thrills. Wait for it. 2AM on the first Sunday in April.
Post 7 of 7 for videobloggingweek2005 (it's still Saturday in the Pacific). Man, am I tired. Whew!
All week long this song has been in my head. When I got home from my trip to Outhink, I had to listen to it several times. The voiceover adds so much. I love it. So will you. Click to play.
Post 6 of 7 for videobloggingweek2005.
Does the power of this go to everyone's head? I had to do this for some silly reason.
I actually recorded this a few weeks ago when I got the iSight webcam, but I did not finish editing and producing until tonight.
Does that still count for for videobloggingweek2005? Here's 4 of 7. I promise to get back to more serious stuff soon.
Ok, so I have to make one with a cat. Here's 3 of 7 for videobloggingweek2005.
Kanoe is a very clean cat. She takes a bath before going outside in the rain.
Our first "mobile" video and a little drama.
I've uploaded new versions of the videos from the last two posts with better compression (I hope -- I will test in a moment).
Today has been a great day. So many things have happened. I got up early Friday. It's 3am. I need to sleep. Can't wait for tomorrow (er, today). So many great things are happening.
Addendum: Ooo, much much better video startup. Thanks again Ryanne. I had recently read how to set compression and was in too much of a hurry to post for you. You caught me right away and so I just had to fix it right. This is great: reading knowledge is one thing, doing is another entirely.
I finally made a few posts to my WebJay playlists and now I can finally go to bed. I wonder if Jay is still up looking at ourmedia.org videos. Hey, maybe I should post these!!!
While hoping and waiting to hear from Ryanne, I decided to make another video. Have I joined for videobloggingweek2005? Only time will tell. I'll need another five more videos.
This one begins to explain the vision for SpinFlow, a community that we want to build to address "moving media for creative professionals".
Ryanne sent back the nicest email. I'm stoked. This may seem redundent now, but what the heck. Click to play.
Ok. Ryanne has prompted me to post my first video to reach out and see if she will come work and play with us.
Buddy, my cat, walks through the shot right at the end, of course.
Lucky the phone didn't ring. Lot's to learn here. Click picture to view.
Ok, I finally broke down and bought QuickTime pro for the Mac. I guess I'm getting serious about making some videos. I'm particularly interested in comedy videos (I love those snapshot stories on Mad TV) and training videos for use with software (screencasts). Also a good way to record software bug reports. Besides the fact that I don't have to put up with the Apple nag screen and the fact that I can now blog about it, I'm not sure why I really need this over iMovie (version 3.0.3 -- an upgrade to the new iLife will require a DVD apparently). QT Pro does seem easier and more light weight than using big old iMovie. I can cut and paste segments quite nicely now thank you. We'll see how it works out.
I got an Apple iSight videocam for the old G4 eMac. Nice looking camera. Incredible packaging. The truly amazing thing is that while it seems to work with the QuickTime Broadcaster, it appears that iMovie does not recognize the camera. What a joke. It's times like this that you realize just how much of the Apple hype is pure BS.
Addendum: Does not seem to work with MSN or AOL (I guess that is what iChat is for). Does not work with iCamShare.
At least my scanner is still working. Under Windows 2000, my scanner stopped working the last time I added a WebCam. I love computers - they save so much time.
Addendum: Outhink, Inc. has generously supplied the Mac I use as part of my work for them. Thanks Dave!
Tumbling Capsules is an entertaining and relaxing little short (1.25 minutes) by Frank Panucci. Very nice 3D graphics, colors and sound. See the Internet Archive information page for additional information and formats.
How To Start Smoking is another short that presents a somewhat unusual message to make a now classic point (don't smoke cigarettes, of course).
Edward L. Ayers, dean of the College
and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia will be speaking live on C-SPAN today from the LOC at 3:30 PST. Here is description from the C-SPAN site:
Ayers is the author (with Anne S. Rubin) of "The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War" on CD-ROM. Among the questions Ayers will address are the implications for the creation and distribution of knowledge in today's digital environment.
You can email in questions.
I came back from my trip to find OVER 50 NEW Videoblog posts to watch!!! Rocketboom, Ryanne, karmagrrrl and so many others to catch up on! PLUS new blog comments from those great folks at ANT's Not Television are announcing a new release that adds new sorting capabilities. Oh this is just too much for one day! I admit it. I'm a videoblog addict!!! Where will I ever get the time to catch up? Remember when you had to catch up on dozens of emails? Well, now it's video!!!
I have to confess something: while I have nurtured and evolved my RSS newsfeeds for blogs (I use Thunderbird and am also trying out Bloglines), I have never added a feed to ANT. I just let it automatically fetch the feeds that they had shipped the first version with!!! Even though they had a great del.icio.us directory for feeds (see also here) I never got around to checking out any new ones, what with the amount of time I already put into my work projects and my IA Tonight work. So here comes a new version and, probably, an update to the feed list. I was gone for 5 days and had over 50 videos waiting for me. What's next? 100? I still need "better radio", but I love this stuff. Thanks to all the videobloggers (especially you ANT people). I love what you're doing.
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