Archives for November 2005
Vlog Santa!
Ever wondered why we kiss under mistletoe? Ever wonder about how Santa gets his reindeers to fly? Well Chuck over at mnstories.com is going to be collaborating with Santa every Friday and he’s on the lookout for your video questions or holiday requests to respond to. What do you want to know? Tell him your deepest darkest xmas wish, inquire about religious confusion or ask about the usual elf/reindeer trivia. Just do it in video. Short and sweet is fine. You can post a quicktime or email it to Vlog Santa himself. Chuck will be shooting Santa in HD so that we can all count his wrinkles! Santa is going to start answering questions this Friday, so post your questions or tell him about that video ipod that you’re hoping he can leave under your tree.
Warning: You should know Vlog Santa is sort of a blue collar, whiskey-drinking guy. You know the type. Your mom probably divorced him.
Published by Bre Pettis on November 29 .
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Vlogball! Videoblog Remix Game
Jen Simmons and her students have started a videoblog game of VlogBall where you remix a video of a ball toss and add your own spin on it. The VlogBall rules are simple and detailed on Jen’s great looking VlogBall! page. Maura has already submitted the first remix and more are coming. There are also links to other games on the page.
Hey everybody! Let’s play VlogBall!
Published by Markus Sandy on November 29 .
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Even More Vlog Remixes
There are more great Re-mix Month submissions pouring in. In addition to Jen Simmons’ student remix’s that we already posted about, here are some of the ones that people have told me about:
Becca, in Hawaii, has put together a great mashup of Josh Leo’s papaya, er mango, video. Very a-peel-ing!
In his own edgy style, Randy Mann has mashed one of my videos from a visit with Eric Rice. He also mashed one for his buddy Jason.
KityKity Susan has been kicking out one remix after another for a total of three. I particularly like her mashup response to Nathan Miller at Bicycle-Sidewalk.
Nathan Miller remixed one of his earlier videos from a temple together with some interesting music and distortion effects.
Ted Tagami and I have both posted re-mix videos to the XpressionVlog around our videoblogging and personal media event at the Ex’pression College of Digital Arts.
Tom of Fast Moving Animals put together a great remix of the Cabinet of Dr. Calagari
And don’t forget to check the Technorati tag for remixoff2005.
Published by Markus Sandy on November 28 .
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Revlog Until You Get Lucky
As the year’s end approaches many of us will take the opportunity to reflect on our lives and consider what we have accomplished (and not) over the last year. For those of you who made New Year’s resolutions last year (and still remember them) this is often a time for self-scrutiny, self-justification, and self-deception. However, as many vloggers approach and exceed their one-year mark of vlogging, this year is a time to rejoice over all that has happened both personally and publicly in the vlogosphere.
Michael Verdi is doing just that in Lucky. Michael recently passed his one-year mark, and now he can enjoy reflecting on all of the beautiful, mundane, narcisistic, serendipitous, and epiphanic moments that he has shared with the rest of us. What is so remarkable is that, in the revlog of these experiences, as in the vlogosphere in general, there is a sense of nostalgia for both the vlogger and the viewer. Watching Michael’s revlog helped me reflect on my own introduction to the vlogosphere and to the wonderful people it inhabits.
So how has your live changed over the past year? Think about it and get out there and make a post about it–you have until Wednesday to post a remix right here!
Published by Jennifer Rundle on November 27 .
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Last Days of Remixoff 2005
The final days of the 2005 remixoff competition are upon us! If you haven’t made your video remix and tagged it with [remixoff2005] in technorati, delicious, mefeedia, or blip, do so now! Rumor has it that a secret prize package is being put together for the winner! Track down your favorite videos and make them new by hacking them apart and putting them back together.
Update:
Watch movie
Published by Bre Pettis on November 26 .
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Blip Feeds In Mefeedia
With Apple, Google, Yahoo, and a billion other instant “dot-com” style start-ups jumping on the vlogging bandwagon, I’ve had this little worry that the existing vlogging tools would get trampled. That worry was quelled today when I got this email from Peter Van Dijck.
Mefeedia and Blip.tv are starting to work together on little but important things. From yesterday, if you have a feed in Blip, you’re automatically listed in Mefeedia. This is also valid for all existing users of Blip, not just new users, which is why the total amount of feeds on http://mefeedia.com/feeds/ has jumped to about 1800 yesterday.
I think working together like this is crucial for the little guys (us, as opposed to the Yahoo’s, MSN’s and such of this world). This is infrastructure work, boring and tedious, but crucially important to build an open ecology of tools for videobloggers. What the big players tend to do is to use all these little details to lock you into their system. We try to keep things open. Charles of Blip did great work implementing this.
This is pretty exciting stuff. Being able to search and tag all of blip-users videos in Mefeedia is cool! With these small, yet super, vlog-powers in collaboration, my worries are held at bay and I am happy about the state of vlogging in the universe.
Update: If you aren’t subscribed to the blip dev blog’s feed or the mefeedia dev blog’s feed, do it now!
Published by Bre Pettis on November 24 .
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Slack Street on the Move
Eric Rice, just back from the Portable Media and Podcast Expo, has brought together the Slackstreet crew for some great new shows. This is Eric’s hand-picked, creative team that I mentioned in one of my Flash! podcasts. With people like videoblogger and event producer Schlomo Rabinowitz on the team, there’s sure to be some fun times ahead.
Published by Markus Sandy on November 22 .
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Re-Mix Month Celebration Continues
It’s “Re-Mix Month” here are WATM and we keep hearing about more great things going on that celebrate the art of the mash-up. Here is another treat.
Jen Simmons has posted three of her student’s remixes on her blog. These are from an editing class she taught last year at Temple University.
The films created by Chris Mulhern, Stephen Gardner and Michael Lizzio. Lizzio’s piece reminds me of one of those great Voices from the Future videos from Adam Quirk at Bullemhead.
Published by Markus Sandy on November 22 .
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Here come the XCasters
Lionel Felix reports on the Podcasting & Video-Blogging session from Streaming Media West 2005:
“Podcasting is growing, but video blogging is growing faster. In a natural progression, people liked audio content, but video appears to be the main driver in this area. As more and more media outlets are leveraging this technology to be competitive, XCasters of far smaller magnitude are developing rabid and dedicated audiences.”
Published by Steve Garfield on November 22 .
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A Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Film and Fair Use:
“Today the Center for Social Media at American University released “A Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use,” which details the situations in which today’s documentary filmmakers believe they have the right to quote copyrighted material without licensing it. What are those situations? According to the report, they are: employing copyrighted material as the object of social, political, or cultural critique; quoting copyrighted works of popular culture to illustrate an argument or point; capturing copyrighted media content in the process of filming something else; and using copyrighted material in a historical sequence.”
Published by Steve Garfield on November 19 .
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