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)
Click To Play This is a rather fast but long and probably quite inarticulate reply to an email I got from Josh Cohen at Tilzy.tv asking about NaVloPoMo. I just riffed on his questions. They?re quite good questions for getting you thinking about NaVloPoMo. If you want to answer any of the questions yourself, or if I?ve missed something, or you?ve just got something else to say about NaVloPoMo and about personal videoblogging, reply in the comments or (even better) in a video. - How?d you come up with the idea? And how?d you initially share it with the community? Did it take long to catch on? - About how many vlogs would you say there are involved? (I think there?s a list on the Ning site, but was wondering if that was extensive) - Why do you participate? What type of people should participate? Is it for anyone? - What?s the best part about it? - How do your videos for NaVloPoMo differ than your regular fare?
Click To Play Yesterday, I asked everybody to show their desks & workspaces, in response to Cheryl asking to see everyone?s Junk Drawers. And I promised to show mine today. So here it is. Two years ago, a friend gave me David Allen ?s famous Getting Things Done . It changed my life. PS Dear Clients, This is a work of fiction.
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)
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)
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Rider Spoke - Interactive Mobile Technology Bike Theatre Game at the Barbican!
Click to Play My friend Lucy was reviewing this. She?s a theatre critic. She invited me along for the ride. And yes, that title is the shortest accurate description I could find. It?s not often you get something that presses Geek, Art and Theatre buttons all at the same time. You?ll see what it is by watching the video. It?s inspired use of new technology - Blast Theory , the artists behind it, have created something really Of The Moment, that couldn?t have happened until right now - or at least not in such an effective way. The key ingredients are: the Nokia N800 (released in January, the sister device to my N93) a wide screen portable computer with Wifi wireless internet access and GPS satellite positioning; and The Cloud, the new City-wide wifi network. For the benefit of both non-geeks reading this, these are the things that allow us, the riders, to roam around London, for it to know exactly where we are, to connect with the home server and allow us to hear other people - even those recording their me...
Click to Play Time out for a while. Formats available : Quicktime (.mov)
Click To Play ?Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you are already DEAD! Brothers, what we do in life? ECHOES IN ETERNITY!? ?Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don?t see any.? - Orson Scott Card ?To be a writer is to sit down at one?s desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over?? John Hersey ?Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are...
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Seeing Prince’s opening night at the 02 Millennium Dome!
Click to Play I was quite excited. Can you tell? The whole thing - before, during and after - was pretty intense. I'd almost forgotten how incredible he is, what an amazing performer and musician? and how many hits he's had. "I GOT MORE HITS THAN MADONNA'S GOT KIDS" Check out his Singles at Wikipedia Oh, and then scroll down to see all the songs he's written for other people. He plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, saxaphone. And composes, arranges, produces, performs everything at high levels of perfectionism. AND HE ROCKS Formats available : Quicktime (.mov)
Click To Play Another message from London?s underground tourist board .
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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 Finally, I think I've pushed through my period of panic and uncertainty and unhappiness with my work. I wanted to find a way to balance money earning work and creativity better - and to make good money from my skills and talents without having to do the same thing week in, week out. I'm easily bored and love nothing better than working on new ideas and completing projects quickly. Less simple cheap websites for people, more online video for slightly larger companies doing good things who need video to tell their stories better. Short, well-paid, achievable projects, and no guilt for spending time working on personal video projects (self-development). It seems obvious, but JESUS it's taken me a long time to work it out. Thank you Katie for putting up with me through these recent Black Dog days and helping me see the light. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
Click to Play Jay and Ryanne and GoGen and David Howell and a whole lot of other people have been inspiring me recently with films of travels and faraway places. I love watching moments from journeys, cut together without explanation or narrative, with jumping atmospheric sound, for no better reason than they were images and sounds that the filmmaker noticed and wanted to capture. Magic. I'm not sure I'm so good at doing that, but I've been sufficiently inspired to get off my arse and cut together one of my own journeys. This is a trip to San Francisco I took almost exactly a year ago. I filmed every moment of it - that was part of my reason for going. But I shot too much stuff and never got round to publishing. And yes, I know I didn't tell any of you in the Bay Area that I was in town. But I was on a secret mission. I had seven days to immerse myself in my book, in Thanksgiving week. I got a bit lost, went a little crazy. And then I came home and got more lost in freelancing work. I'm hoping to work on ...
Click to Play Beth?s video blog: http://abovetherug.blogspot.com/ Subscribe! http://abovetherug.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Gogen?s video blog: http://www.gogentv.com/ Subscribe! http://feeds.feedburner.com/gogentv Formats available : Quicktime (.mov)
Click to Play It?s a while since i had a good heretical rant on camera. RAAAAAAAAAAAA Since I became a freelance, I?ve spent the whole time feeling I should be working harder, and worrying that I?m not making enough money. Enough already. Vanity note: My hair?s not greasy, I?d had a shower and it was raining. Also today (when I was feeling a little calmer) I set up a video comments vlog - see link at top. Formats available : Quicktime (.mov)
Click To Play Two things: Lauren?s ? Video ideas for NaVloPoMo ? is a great idea in itself. You can see Valdez ?s attic here . You have been warned. I am not responsible for any night terrors or low self-esteem. For contrast, see David Howell?s attic , posted on Day 1 of NaVloPoMo. But although that?s comforting in its chaos, it?s disturbing for entirely different reasons. More! More workspaces! Feed me!
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Jen’s Q&A and me asking the longest question in history after six cups of coffee
This is dark, very unclear 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 - which was amazing, including great videos 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/ I had had SO much coffee - and had just watched a full screening of head scrambling experimental films - and I could hear myself talking? I just couldn?t shut myself up. Formats available : MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
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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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)
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
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