Cool passing moments, direct from my phone to Twitter @ twitter.com/ruperthowe Shooting, cutting and posting twitter-style clips directly from my Nokia N93 phone via wifi email to Twitter and my blog. ALL AUTOMATIC. ALL FREE. ALL THE TIME.
Click to Play For Lucy Two things that have hypnotized and haunted me all week: Music: performed by Adam Quirk from standards.bullemhead.com - see comments for explanation Image: on every phone box in West London see also flickr.com/photos/ruperthowe Formats available : Quicktime (.mov)
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20 seconds moving snapshot of nothing from the end of our street on a beautiful day.
I was just answering Trine's thesis questions about what prompts me to post... and how audience-focussed I am. for a long time i've wanted to post more simple snapshots of things i see and like. but i've been afraid of putting up stuff that's too inconsequential... and boring you. anyway, i was thinking all this just as i was passing the corner of our road, with the pillar (post) box lit up bright red in the sun... and i just pressed Record and stayed still. A car came past with bass thumping so loud it set off another car's alarm, then a third car raced round the corner. and a man with crutches hobbled past. Then i pressed stop. It was just 20 seconds of nothing... but it captured something about our neighbourhood. like a flickr snapshot... but moving. the more i vlog from my phone, the more open i am to the world around me and the more moments i have like this. And I've realised that i'm starting to go out looking for them. so, instead of things happening to me that prompt me to post, i'm actively start...
***** UPDATE: God, it?s been a busy few days. Very low activity here. Sorry. Thought I?d registered Twittervlog.com - turns out I hadn?t completed payment and someone else has cybersquatted it. And .org. And .net. Vermin. But screw it - at Pixelodeon, I was talking to Daniel and David and Michael about a logo for Twittervlog for the new site while we were drawing on our placemats like kids at Mel?s Diner, and Daniel (I think) pointed out the obvious gag to me: that TwitterVlog was TV. So I?ve registered Twittervlog.tv - which is perfect. I?ve made a nice square red TV Guide logo and I?ll be uploading everything there in the next couple of days. HURRAY! And then I?ll get back on the case posting films again. ***** When I shot this, I thought I?d end up posting this tomorrow morning, but actually posted this from their house as soon as I got there, just a few minutes later? so I haven?t put my Wordpress blog online yet. The domain will be Twittervlog.com - currently dead. And I?m talking about ShowInABox.tv...
Nothing really. Just a snapshot from the council housing estate that makes up one half of our road. The other half is being 'gentrified' by people like me and Kate, with privately owned terraced houses rising 40-50% in value in the last two years. A 3 bed house is now worth ?600k ($1.2m). When I was working in Investor Relations, I used to find this estate a scary place to walk through, and avoided it. Now I walk through it at least twice a day to get the bus. When I passed this Nokia box just now, I was in the middle of calculating that the retail price of my Nokia phone was around a month's salary on minimum wage after tax - and a quarter of a year or so on the dole. On the plus side, I think 3 to 5 thousand people in the City take home bonuses of over one million pounds ($2m) each year, now (in addition to their 6 figure salaries, of course) - and in total around ?10 billion is given in bonuses in the uk. So I'm sure all that will trickle down soon enough. That's the theory, isn't it? Strange it hasn't...
Nothing really. Just a snapshot from the council housing estate that makes up one half of our street. With nice crappy audio of bangs and shouts to give a flavour of the area. The other half of our street - divided by a larger cross-street - is being ?gentrified? by people like me and Kate, with privately owned terraced houses rising 40-50% in value in the last two years. A 3 bed house is now worth �600k ($1.2m). When I was working in Investor Relations, I used to find this estate a scary place to walk through, and avoided it. Now I walk through it at least twice a day to get the bus. When I passed this Nokia box just now, I was in the middle of calculating that the retail price of my Nokia phone was around a month?s salary on minimum wage after tax - and a quarter of a year or so on the dole. On the plus side, I think 3 to 5 thousand people in the City take home bonuses of over one million pounds ($2m) each year, now (in addition to their 6 figure salaries, of course) - and in total around �10 billion is...
Starring David Howell as Mr Mauve David Meade as Mr Puce Bill Streeter as Mr Wood Ash Blonde Jennifer Proctor as Mrs Mushroom Michael Verdi as Mr Russet Michael Meiser as Mr Mahogany and Rupert Howe as Mr Black and Not Daniel Liss Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Today, I realised that everything i?ve been looking for is right here in front of me. It?s happening right now. It might not be your dream, but it?s mine, and I?ve only put the pieces together after meeting everyone at Pixelodeon and seeing all the curated sessions of films. This is why i?ve fallen in love with internet video distribution. Funny how it?s taken me so long to realise the obvious. I guess i was too busy looking ahead for the one big idea, and not realising that it wasn?t a ?show?. As we say in Jedi school : It?s not the End, it?s the Means Whereby . And as the Dwarf said in Twin Peaks: Let?s rock. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Click To Play Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Cheating, because the camera?s not fixed - but I can?t fix my phone, so I just held it still. Lumiere Rules - from Andreas? blog , Solitude.dk: 60 seconds max. Fixed camera No audio No zoom No edit No effects They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s.? See more by other people at Blip.tv - search for ?lumierevideo? Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4) , Flash Video (.flv)
Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Today, I realised that everything i've been looking for is right here in front of me. It's happening right now. It might not be your dream, but it's mine, and I've only put the pieces together after meeting everyone at Pixelodeon and seeing all the curated sessions of films. This is why i've fallen in love with internet video distribution. Funny how it's taken me so long to realise the obvious. I guess i was too busy looking ahead for the one big idea, and not realising that it wasn't a 'show'. As we say in Jedi school : It's not the End, it's the Means Whereby . And as the Dwarf said in Twin Peaks: Let's rock. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Again - not for the casual viewer :)� And completely unedited.� Shot as it was, on my phone from the front row. Lots of questions answered - not sure how much you'll be able to hear the questioners - particularly Mike Meiser's three or four questions from the back of the room - but I hope this a useful reference for anyone interested in finding out more about SpinXpress.� See the previous video for a great introduction. Answering questions are Dave Toole, CEO; Markus Sandy and Michael Verdi � Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Caveat: Not the usual personal nonsense.� This is a technical presentation, and I'm posting it because it'll be useful and interesting to a select few.� It's unedited, shot on the phone from the front row. It's a great, easy-to-follow introduction to the amazing new collaborative video production tool SpinXpress at http://spinxpress.com/ and also their brilliant Get Media tool for finding media online that you can reuse. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Starring David Howell as Mr Mauve David Meade as Mr Puce Bill Streeter as Mr Wood Ash Blonde Jennifer Proctor as Mrs Mushroom Michael Verdi as Mr Russet Michael Meiser as Mr Mahogany and Rupert Howe as Mr Black � and Not Daniel Liss � Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
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Not Daniel Liss, talking about why if he *were* Daniel Liss, he wouldn't appear on camera
see http://pouringdown.tv/ for the real(ish) Daniel Liss. This was at the In N Out Burger (again - everything's out of whack in my posting timing) with Cheryl Colan , David Howell and Jennifer Proctor . Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
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Another party full of cool people, another unfilmable inferno
Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
05:49
Jen's Q&A and me asking the longest question in history after six cups of coffee
This is rough & Ready and unedited - I tried to post this yesterday, but having trouble with the old wifi.� � Hopefully that'll be fixed today. It was after Jen Proctor 's session yesterday - which was amazing.� Great inclusions by Trine and Michael , who asked me to record what she said for them.� Hopefully they'll post a list of the videos she showed at http://pixelodeonfest.com/ Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
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