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.
I started growing my beard a year ago today. It?s my beardiversary. Randomly, a friend emailed me this morning and said ?Love the beard? as a sign-off. Like the N93, it was just supposed to be a brief experiment. I even shaved it off after 2 months to make one of my first proper little films with my phone (and as a tribute to Scorsese for finally winning his Oscar). I used the same music as his amazing 1967 short The Big Shave . I posted it on FatGirlInOhio - it was pre-Twittervlog. So lots of you won?t have seen it - and really, it also belongs here. And the original, so you can compare and contrast: Alternative formats: Quicktime / Flash
I started growing my beard a year ago today. It?s my beardiversary. Randomly, a friend emailed me this morning and said ?Love the beard? as a sign-off. Like the N93, it was just supposed to be a brief experiment. I even shaved it off after 2 months to make one of my first proper little films with my phone (and as a tribute to Scorsese for finally winning his Oscar). I used the same music as his amazing 1967 short The Big Shave . I posted it on FatGirlInOhio - it was pre-Twittervlog. So lots of you won?t have seen it - and really, it also belongs here. And the original, so you can compare and contrast: Alternative formats: Quicktime / Flash
Click to Play Time out for a while. Formats available : Quicktime (.mov)
Click to Play I feel sad that this is over. I feel sad that I didn't complete it in the way that I'd planned. Even though I never planned to. But much more than that, I feel like laughing out loud for everyone else. All those who took part in just a little bit of it, those who got through most or almost all of it, and those who did it every day, within the deadline. A film every day for a month. That's so great. We want to do a screening. And have a site. And record this somewhere so it isn't lost. What have we learned? Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Click to Play I wouldn?t have had the strength to make this metamorphosis, this renaissance, this rebirth, alone. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
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Christmas Fair at my niece and nephew’s Waldorf school
Click To Play Just a collection of moments from today. I wish I could have shown you the Gnome House. It was one of the sweetest things I?ve ever seen. Amy was awed. But it was way too dark to film. (Even my kitchen at night is too dark to film. It?s the one thing that really bugs me about the N93. I think I?m going to have to stop using it soon, so I can have some fun with colours and night-time filming.) Anyway, the school is pretty amazing. Those drawings I show on the way into the main building - they?re by people in Class 9, who are (I guess) 15/16 years old. It?s not an art school. It?s a Waldorf school - an holistic educational movement set up by Rudolph Steiner in the early 20th Century. Read more here and see the Wikipedia entry on him here . It?s pretty interesting. Also ran into the brilliant and unhinged Jason Jarrett ( ABuddhistPodcast.com and ForestRowRadio.com ) whom I met for the first time two weeks ago at Phil Campbell ?s bash ( see here for evidence ), and only afterwards realised that ...
Click to Play I am not a morning person. Unfortunately, this trait was not in the 50% of genes I passed to my daughter. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4) , Flash Video (.flv)
Click to Play Does anyone get the feeling my wife doesn?t take me very seriously? Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Click to Play This is a trip that @ sizemore and I took on Monday.?? I really wanted to post it that day (that's the whole point), but with one boring thing and another, here I am posting it at 5.48am on Thursday. These free Tuk Tuks are being laid on in central London until Saturday (24th) to promote The Darjeeling Limited , the new Wes Anderson film, out here on Friday.?? Mike (@ sizemore ) was asked if he wanted a ride in one by the PR company, and he asked me along too, because he'd just seen and liked last week's Visit London film. Wes Anderson is the guy who made Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic.?? I've stumbled on the daily posting for NaVloPoMo a little, but I'll catch up again.?? I am astonished at everyone else's stamina and creativity. While I'm in the mode of pimping The Darjeeling Limited, you should check out the Fox Searchlight US site for it.?? It has a whole heap of videoblog posts from the production (no RSS feeds, surprise surprise). ?? They haven't put them on the UK...
Click to Play Navlopomo Day 18. I?ve been telling people a lot recently about how intimately I feel I?ve got to know other videobloggers through their work. Shot, cut, and sent from my phone while enjoying your ambient intimacy. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4) , Flash Video (.flv)
Click to Play Navlopomo Day 17. Simple pleasures. Tags: navlopomo07, navlopomo, london Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4) , Flash Video (.flv)
Click To Play I made this on Thursday night, but my computer froze and I lost half my edit, so I gave up and went to bed. Couldn?t do it in the phone because I needed to cut Jeffrey in. So I?m cheating and backdating it to when it was really made. This is a recipe Jeffrey posted on truthfairy.eu for Day 11 of NaVloPoMo . I read on Twitter that some other NaVloPoMoers have been making it, and I thought I?d have a go myself. I?m not much of a cook, but as I mentioned the other night, one of my 15 failed 2007 New Year?s Resolutions was to cook 2 recipes every week. So this is my second recipe for the third week of January. Jeffrey calls it Quick & Dirty Carbonara. Quick and Dirty. That?s how I like it. Video Files: MP4 / Flash
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Just film a moment and send it off. Stop dicking about and letting the side down.
Click to Play It?s no wonder I?m behind with my posting. I?m spending too long doing my hair. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4) , Flash Video (.flv)
Click To Play Another message from London?s underground tourist board .
Click To Play A timeless bedtime/bathtime scene. This was actually preceded by another scene in which she was crying uncontrollably, and I tried singing Baa Baa Black Sheep, Row Row Row Your Boat, Five Little Ducks and Horsey Horsey to calm her down, to no avail. Then I had a moment of divine inspiration and started singing something which made her instantly flop in my lap, head back, still and calm: the theme from Star Wars. Anybody looking through the window at us would?ve been forgiven for thinking that I was singing Ave Maria. Not that she?s seen Star Wars. The only time she?s heard any of the music was in Car Going Fast film. Which was a bit of a favourite last week. So me singing the theme reminded her (a totally different part of the theme, though, so she?s pretty smart to pick it up). Next thing I knew, she was sitting on the loo demanding Car Going Fast. Watch on Loo, Daddy. What am I doing to my family? (other than turning them into light entertainment for you?) Files: Quicktime / Flash
Click To Play This is one of the things I?m going to miss most about England when I go to Canada. I shot this on Monday in Devon, on the way back from Kate?s dad?s cottage to the station in the nearest town. 20 minutes of death star taxi adrenaline. I was wondering what I should do with it until I saw Gogen?s NaVloPoMo Day 7 video of his drive back home through his town at night, set to music. Then I realised I?d secretly known all along what to do with it. NaVloPoMo is full of people responding to and being inspired by other people?s videos. Organic video conversations . I love it. And I love how - when cutting quickly to music - you can find and take advantage of chance interactions between image and soundtrack. It feels good to finally add the score for real, since when I?m actually driving at high speed along single lane country roads, this is *always* what I?m singing to myself in my head. And if I?m driving and there?s nobody else in the car, maybe perhaps sometimes I might even possibly have been k...
Click To Play NB - THIS HAS NO SOUND ?? I said it before, I?ll say it again. I hate technology. I?m thinking of going Amish . I?ve tried to upload this twice yesterday/today. I?ve been away from the internet this weekend. Shocking, but true. Just testing out the Amish thing. Anyway, here it is. I shot it in Canada in August, in the woods along Long Beach on Vancouver Island ( map/satphoto ). I usually shoot a lot of still photos on holiday. This time, I shot a lot of moving snapshots, only one or two of which I?ve published so far. Basically, I just experimented with keeping the camera still and shooting a movie instead of a still. Slightly different compositions from what I?d choose for photos, but you see what I mean. I was frequently surprised by what would unfold within the frame in the minute or so I kept the camera running - plus you get the extra dimensions of moving light, and sound (though not here). Futuristic holiday snaps. This isn?t a Lumiere , strictly speaking, because it?s not under 60 sec...
Click To Play Damn! I posted this on Friday night from my phone, but it never arrived. Technology. I hate it. This is just a couple of dark, barely audible drunken moments from a dinner called N0shit organised by Phil Campbell in Burton-on-Trent for a few UK social media guys - including Nik Butler ( Loudmouthman.com ); Christian Paine ( Documentally.com ; OurManInside.com ); Jason Jarrett ( ABuddhistPodcast.com ) and Craig Marston ( craigmarstonphotography.com ) Top. Men. My N93 is terrible in low light - I have to start using another camera at night, like the Ixus I used in San Francisco - and again this is something that I probably wouldn?t publish if it weren?t for NaVloPoMo, I?d just share my clips among those attending. But here it is, including Phil?s explaining to me why I?m disorganised after that video last week. Also, this is the only time you will ever see evidence of me on the dancefloor. I think I had had a moderate amount wine at that point. Thanks, chaps, it was fun.
Click To Play I handed the camera to Kate today. We were in Burnham Beeches, just outside London ( map/satphoto ). The colours are incredible this year. Another thing I?ll miss in evergreen Vancouver Island. I was trying to persuade her to sing her song The Falling of the Leaves (a Yeats poem she set to music - you can hear it on her Myspace page ) so that I could use it as a soundtrack for the other moments I shot all around the woods. But this is better. I think I?m going to give her the camera more often. Alternative file types: Quicktime / Flash (click to play if player above doesn?t work)
Click To Play I don?t know how you all do it. So many of you taking part in NaVloPoMo have been writing comments on my videos every day, so I know you?re watching - AND you?re making incredible films. Which is what it should be all about, I feel - I don?t want to just be making films here, I want to be watching and talking, responding and collaborating. But I haven?t been able to find the time to do that for days. So I?ve tried to steal a couple of hours this evening to watch videos. I watched 5-10 films while the dinner was in the oven between 8 and 9. Then I watched a few more while Kate ordered our shopping online between 10 and 11.30. And I still hadn?t made a film myself. In fact, I was so busy watching that I?d totally forgotten that I was even supposed to make one myself. Until 11.33pm. So this is the only option left to me! Really fulfilling what I said at the beginning of NaVloPoMo about just posting ANYTHING. You can?t even *see* this, the low light filming on my phone is so bad. Anyway, the poi...
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