Re: [videoblogging] Re: What I like about you
i totally like you i totally totally like you On Dec 27, 2007 12:39 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You helped me get started with videoblogging. That changed my life, led me to several interesting jobs, helped me connect with some wonderful people. All of whom are now dead. Coincidence? One wonders... ;) -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: I'm back, and I'm excited!
nice to have you back! On Dec 28, 2007 4:10 AM, Jan McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yupyupyup. Vlog it, dude. Jan On Dec 28, 2007 4:29 AM, Rupert Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]rupert%40fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Welcome back! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Tim D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vloggers, Some of you may remember me, and many of you probably have no clue who I am. My name is Tim, and I used to set up shop at a place called Reality Sandwich on Typepad (and I even posted on wearethemedia.com now and then). One day I decided I didn't want to vlog anymore, and I walked away. Sometimes I regret that decision, and sometimes I know it was necessary. Either way, I have been out of the vlogging loop for a little over a year. What's done is done. Fortunately, I am happy to say that I have gotten the itch back (mostly because I just discovered Twitter, and found many of my old vlogging friends there). After being gone for so long the idea of jumping back in is more than intimidating, but I'm doing it anyway! I've moved my site over to Wordpress now, and I hope it becomes as much of a home as my previous site was. For the time being I am posting some of my old videos to get reacquainted with the process. My feed is up and working, so please stop by and say hello. You can find me at realitysandwich.wordpress.com. Looking forward to the dialogue. Happy Almost New Year, Tim Vlog: realitysandwich.wordpress.com Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpress/YXkG Yahoo! Groups Links -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Hello Again
why buy ae when you can dl via bt and use your money for beer, On Dec 30, 2007 2:02 AM, Sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice move. :) On Dec 30, 2007 12:21 AM, rudy.jahchan [EMAIL PROTECTED]rudy.jahchan%40yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I am starting a New Year's resolution early and once again becoming an active member of this group. For those who don't know me, I am the co-creator (and now full producer) of a little show called GALACTICAST (http://galacticast.com), and have also created/produced A COMICBOOKORANGE and KITKAST with my lovely former co-star Casey McKinnon. I have a wee bit of experience in all of this online video stuff, and hope to learn more as well as giving a lot back. So if you have any questions, comments, critiques, fire them here, or through the many other ways to reach me. Now ... who to flame first? I kid ... a little bit. Cheers Rudy Jahchan [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Hello Again
Welcome, Rudy. I'll take a look at your podcast. Sounds interesting! :D -- Bill BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, rudy.jahchan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am starting a New Year's resolution early and once again becoming an active member of this group. For those who don't know me, I am the co-creator (and now full producer) of a little show called GALACTICAST (http://galacticast.com), and have also created/produced A COMICBOOKORANGE and KITKAST with my lovely former co-star Casey McKinnon. I have a wee bit of experience in all of this online video stuff, and hope to learn more as well as giving a lot back. So if you have any questions, comments, critiques, fire them here, or through the many other ways to reach me. Now ... who to flame first? I kid ... a little bit. Cheers Rudy Jahchan
[videoblogging] Re: Hello Again
Hi Kary, Well: 1.) My favorite sfx resources online are CreativeCows (http://forums.creativecow.net/) and the FanFilms section of theForce.net (http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/tutorials.asp). The latter is very Star Wars oriented of course but has some nice tips, but CreativeCows is just beautifully fantastic. If you want to pay for a community, you can try Pixelcorps. 2.) Projects? Just do something! 3.) Kids? Observe them for a while, determine which one is the leader. Garotte them while they sleep. Decapitation strikes are always effective, or at least make you feel like you're doing something. Cheers Rudy --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kary Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Rudy, I am planning to purchase After Effects for my Mac with some Christmas money. What are some good resources that you would recommend for learning the application or for reference? Or maybe some first projects/effects to tackle to get my feet wet with it? (I have The DV Rebel's Guide) Also, there are some neighborhood kids who just won't GET OFF MY LAWN. Any suggestions on how I should deal with them? Sincerely, Kary Rogers On Dec 29, 2007 11:21 PM, rudy.jahchan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am starting a New Year's resolution early and once again becoming an active member of this group. For those who don't know me, I am the co-creator (and now full producer) of a little show called GALACTICAST (http://galacticast.com), and have also created/produced A COMICBOOKORANGE and KITKAST with my lovely former co-star Casey McKinnon. I have a wee bit of experience in all of this online video stuff, and hope to learn more as well as giving a lot back. So if you have any questions, comments, critiques, fire them here, or through the many other ways to reach me. Now ... who to flame first? I kid ... a little bit. Cheers Rudy Jahchan -- Kary Rogers [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hello Again
i love the cow ever go to creative co piolot or trap code? On Dec 30, 2007 9:55 AM, rudy.jahchan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kary, Well: 1.) My favorite sfx resources online are CreativeCows (http://forums.creativecow.net/) and the FanFilms section of theForce.net (http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/tutorials.asp). The latter is very Star Wars oriented of course but has some nice tips, but CreativeCows is just beautifully fantastic. If you want to pay for a community, you can try Pixelcorps. 2.) Projects? Just do something! 3.) Kids? Observe them for a while, determine which one is the leader. Garotte them while they sleep. Decapitation strikes are always effective, or at least make you feel like you're doing something. Cheers Rudy --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Kary Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Rudy, I am planning to purchase After Effects for my Mac with some Christmas money. What are some good resources that you would recommend for learning the application or for reference? Or maybe some first projects/effects to tackle to get my feet wet with it? (I have The DV Rebel's Guide) Also, there are some neighborhood kids who just won't GET OFF MY LAWN. Any suggestions on how I should deal with them? Sincerely, Kary Rogers On Dec 29, 2007 11:21 PM, rudy.jahchan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am starting a New Year's resolution early and once again becoming an active member of this group. For those who don't know me, I am the co-creator (and now full producer) of a little show called GALACTICAST (http://galacticast.com), and have also created/produced A COMICBOOKORANGE and KITKAST with my lovely former co-star Casey McKinnon. I have a wee bit of experience in all of this online video stuff, and hope to learn more as well as giving a lot back. So if you have any questions, comments, critiques, fire them here, or through the many other ways to reach me. Now ... who to flame first? I kid ... a little bit. Cheers Rudy Jahchan -- Kary Rogers [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: What I like about you
the feeling is totally totally mutual :) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i totally like you i totally totally like you On Dec 27, 2007 12:39 PM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, jonny goldstein spamjonny@ wrote: You helped me get started with videoblogging. That changed my life, led me to several interesting jobs, helped me connect with some wonderful people. All of whom are now dead. Coincidence? One wonders... ;)
[videoblogging] Re: Best Mac app for tweaking video sound
There's also Sound Soap from Bias Inc. http://www.bias-inc.com/products/ It will set you back $99 but it has tools for learning noises and then eliminating that noise. If you're editing in iMovie 06 or 08 you have some decent controls there. You can also bring the exported video into GarageBand. The Speech Enhancer effect works great.
[videoblogging] Re: Best Mac app for tweaking video sound
I tried bringing the sound file into GarageBand, but - for reasons that elude me - GarageBand sped the track up so that my actress sounded like a chipmunk. And I've not played with GB enough to figure out how to fix it. Anyway, I ended up taking the dumb guy approach... part of what made my actress sound so soft was that we cut right from her to loud music over the closing credits. So I just lowered the volume of the music. Curiously enough, it did the trick. Even though the dialogue and the music didn't overlap, the juxtaposition was jarring. Chris --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Polack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's also Sound Soap from Bias Inc. http://www.bias-inc.com/products/ It will set you back $99 but it has tools for learning noises and then eliminating that noise. If you're editing in iMovie 06 or 08 you have some decent controls there. You can also bring the exported video into GarageBand. The Speech Enhancer effect works great.
RE: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
I've been offline for a bit and I'm not trying to drag this thread out further, but felt like I should respond: Jake You obviously care about distributed media. You want to help people do that. So your beliefs have something to do with being on this list. I want to help people get from whatever their vision is to something approximating that vision, whether that's something as simple as recording video from their webcam or something complex like figuring out the right tools for some grand video project. It is my belief that everyone who wants to make video (whether it be for their family and friends, or for everyone on the planet) should be able to harness all the tools available to do so. So I suppose in that sense, my beliefs come into play. I do not, however, have any kind of us versus them agenda, because it is also my belief that the corporate machine being raged against here is equally entitled to making video and distributing it however they want to. I don't have to like the end result, but I vote for what I like by watching it or tuning out. I, want help with media. That's why I'm on this list. I get the sense that many people are on the list for this same reason, in spite of the original thread all this discussion evolved out of. I think you are missing an important point. the Corporate Media would like to coopt this space to make it stream profit to them. Then my interests and the Corporate Media (as described by you) have something in common. I enjoy making videos. Sometimes making videos means streaming profit to me. When I get paid for doing something I enjoy, it means I have more freedom to continue doing that thing I enjoy. If by co-opting this space, you mean Corporate Media want to distribute videos via RSS, rise to the most popular spots in iTunes, We are basically stealing their profit by giving people another outlet for their media consumption. This is where you get off track a bit... Every person on the planet has a finite amount of time to do anything. We all make tradeoffs and choices about how we spend that time - especially the time allotted as free time throughout the day. Networking programming competes with sporting events which compete with the arts which in turn compete with taking the kids to soccer practice, which competes with millions of other options like podcasts, videoblogs, etc. How much has Youtube taken from their bottom line? YouTube and the rest of the video sharing sites are taking from Corporate Media's bottom line by leveraging the expensive content created by Corporate Media. If you look at what is consistently among the most viewed shows on YouTube, etc., it's stuff uploaded from places like Comedy Central, ABC, NBC, etc., not from indie content creators. I personally think it's a lousy deal for the content creators for Joe Smith YouTube user to upload Corporate Media content and the content creator get nothing for it. YouTube makes ad money (even if it's less than a penny per view). The creator gets nothing. If you set aside WHO the content creator is, it's not a real stretch to empathize with the content creator who makes money from making content when someone else is making money from their efforts while they get nothing. TV is going down the toilet. TV was never great, it was merely the most available option. But this is a subjective argument because I can list at least 10 people I know who ask me if I saw television show X last night when I run into them at the coffee shop. It's naive to assume that because many of us on this list have little interest in what's on television that the rest of the world is just like us. The studios will live on. The affiliate networks who have maintained a gravy train of checks from both the studios and the advertisers are the ones who are in real trouble because the studios don't need them anymore. The Internet is the affiliate network and the local affiliates are going to have to start paying to be a distributor so that they have something to run ads against, similar to the way AP wire stories are licensed by Internet portals. People are networking socially, watching independent video online, and that's a problem for the corporate media. Some people are watching independent video. Many people are still watching Corporate Media that was uploaded by individuals. Most of the hey check out this video emails I get are either links to Jon Stewart uploads or some video of a pet doing something cute. The former is not a problem for corporate media as soon as they figure out a way to allow people to share their stuff and still have a bottom line (there is an easy way to do it but they just aren't listening), the latter isn't a threat to anyone because it's a distraction. As a side note: If you look at the peak viewing periods for YouTube, it is not network television that's getting beat up by YouTube viewing, it's corporate productivity. The peak viewing times are when most people in
Re: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
I happen to need an income of some kind in order to meet my basic needs of food, shelter, new video equipment, luxury suite at the Bellagio, etc. (maybe you are independently wealthy?) as I assume is true of most people on the list. If I can get paid to make video or blog or anything else that I happen to enjoy, I'll actively seek ways to get paid to do something I enjoy, rather than doing something I hate and making the thing I enjoy a sideline. we've discussed this since the beginnings of this list, when videoblogging when just a gleam in the web's eye. I think there's an agreement on the need to make money in this world. I think we are simply talking about our values as we continue to become publishers ourselves. Does it even matter what we're making and how we interact with the people who give us money? what is it about commercial TV that bothers so many people as they flip channels? (obviously not everyone but many people) what effect do our creative choices have? does it matter? Everyone knows that getting recommended by Youtube gets you on the front page. Being on the front page gets you tens of thousands of views. What kind of content do you need to make to get on the front page? What kind of audience is Youtube going after? Markus pointed out this video, but I think it'd very relevant: http://www.denveropenmedia.org/ The first 10 minutes is the best part. no answers; only more questions. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] more of the same ... double take time
adopt or adapt ... round and round like a dog chasing it's tail. then again, while we are bent over watching the pooch, the pony, ponies up behind... The main point of the story linked below: ...Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his personal computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer. http://peaurl.com/X65n By Marc Fisher Washington Post Staff Writer ...As technologies evolve, old media companies tend not to be the source of the innovation that allows them to survive. Even so, new technologies don't usually kill off old media: That's the good news for the recording industry, as for the TV, movie, newspaper and magazine businesses. But for those old media to survive, they must adapt, finding new business models and new, compelling content to offer. The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed. Four years of a failed strategy has only created a whole market of people who specifically look to buy independent goods so as not to deal with the big record companies, Beckerman says. Every problem they're trying to solve is worse now than when they started. Funny, but not funny, maybe ironic ... who knows.
[videoblogging] what about the artists?
we talk about crass commercialism taking weaving itself through mediawhat about if artists were in control? http://www.vimeo.com/457221/ Josh Harris' experiments from 1999-2000 are funny to see now. lots of big thinking. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Re:Hello Again
Rudy, Galacticast rocks! I'm new to the videoblogging community and recently discovered your show on Blip. I look forward to watching more of it in 2008. Happy new year, Dina Dina Prioste By the way, you can Get Exercised with me at: http://getexercised.com/ - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] what about the artists?
FWIW Back at the end of the We Live In Public experiment I was part of a group of artists that took over the loft for the weekend. There is still a bit of documentation on-line here: http://www.treasurecrumbs.com/verbal/wlip/ It was a pretty bizarre experience to be in that space with all those cameras. We made it impossible to forget that folks were watching constantly by projecting the chat rooms very large on the wall... On Dec 30, 2007 4:51 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we talk about crass commercialism taking weaving itself through mediawhat about if artists were in control? http://www.vimeo.com/457221/ Josh Harris' experiments from 1999-2000 are funny to see now. lots of big thinking. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] what about the artists?
oops. just a clarification... After Harris did the project depicted in the trailer, he did another project in his own living space also called we live in public. I didn't live in a pod :) On Dec 30, 2007 5:04 PM, T. Whid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW Back at the end of the We Live In Public experiment I was part of a group of artists that took over the loft for the weekend. There is still a bit of documentation on-line here: http://www.treasurecrumbs.com/verbal/wlip/ It was a pretty bizarre experience to be in that space with all those cameras. We made it impossible to forget that folks were watching constantly by projecting the chat rooms very large on the wall... On Dec 30, 2007 4:51 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we talk about crass commercialism taking weaving itself through mediawhat about if artists were in control? http://www.vimeo.com/457221/ Josh Harris' experiments from 1999-2000 are funny to see now. lots of big thinking. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Movies v TV (was...My Amends...)
Friday, December 28, 2007, 7:39:14 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: WHAT good tv? As an aside, I have been watching episodes of the old Max Headroom drama series from the 1980s over the last few days and they are so much part of this discussion of old vs new media and advertsing-driven content that it's scary. Once you get past the 80's haircuts and the grunge-punk sets it's fascinating and thoughtful stuff. A world where turning a TV off is illegal, ad minutes are traded instead of stocks and shares, and death is just another way to stop channel-hopping. I don't know if the episodes are available to buy, but I found two full series available via bittorrent. See also: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/maxheadroom/maxheadroom.htm http://www.theora.org/faq/#15 -- Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
Re: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
Great post, Jake. I wish we could talk. I'm sure it'd be far more productive. This is not a very efficient way to communicate, and there's a lot left out that takes too damn long to write, and then there's even more spaces open for misunderstanding. I'm going to bow out now. Cheers, Ron On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Jake Ludington wrote: I've been offline for a bit and I'm not trying to drag this thread out further, but felt like I should respond: Jake You obviously care about distributed media. You want to help people do that. So your beliefs have something to do with being on this list. I want to help people get from whatever their vision is to something approximating that vision, whether that's something as simple as recording video from their webcam or something complex like figuring out the right tools for some grand video project. It is my belief that everyone who wants to make video (whether it be for their family and friends, or for everyone on the planet) should be able to harness all the tools available to do so. So I suppose in that sense, my beliefs come into play. I do not, however, have any kind of us versus them agenda, because it is also my belief that the corporate machine being raged against here is equally entitled to making video and distributing it however they want to. I don't have to like the end result, but I vote for what I like by watching it or tuning out. I, want help with media. That's why I'm on this list. I get the sense that many people are on the list for this same reason, in spite of the original thread all this discussion evolved out of. I think you are missing an important point. the Corporate Media would like to coopt this space to make it stream profit to them. Then my interests and the Corporate Media (as described by you) have something in common. I enjoy making videos. Sometimes making videos means streaming profit to me. When I get paid for doing something I enjoy, it means I have more freedom to continue doing that thing I enjoy. If by co-opting this space, you mean Corporate Media want to distribute videos via RSS, rise to the most popular spots in iTunes, We are basically stealing their profit by giving people another outlet for their media consumption. This is where you get off track a bit... Every person on the planet has a finite amount of time to do anything. We all make tradeoffs and choices about how we spend that time - especially the time allotted as free time throughout the day. Networking programming competes with sporting events which compete with the arts which in turn compete with taking the kids to soccer practice, which competes with millions of other options like podcasts, videoblogs, etc. How much has Youtube taken from their bottom line? YouTube and the rest of the video sharing sites are taking from Corporate Media's bottom line by leveraging the expensive content created by Corporate Media. If you look at what is consistently among the most viewed shows on YouTube, etc., it's stuff uploaded from places like Comedy Central, ABC, NBC, etc., not from indie content creators. I personally think it's a lousy deal for the content creators for Joe Smith YouTube user to upload Corporate Media content and the content creator get nothing for it. YouTube makes ad money (even if it's less than a penny per view). The creator gets nothing. If you set aside WHO the content creator is, it's not a real stretch to empathize with the content creator who makes money from making content when someone else is making money from their efforts while they get nothing. TV is going down the toilet. TV was never great, it was merely the most available option. But this is a subjective argument because I can list at least 10 people I know who ask me if I saw television show X last night when I run into them at the coffee shop. It's naive to assume that because many of us on this list have little interest in what's on television that the rest of the world is just like us. The studios will live on. The affiliate networks who have maintained a gravy train of checks from both the studios and the advertisers are the ones who are in real trouble because the studios don't need them anymore. The Internet is the affiliate network and the local affiliates are going to have to start paying to be a distributor so that they have something to run ads against, similar to the way AP wire stories are licensed by Internet portals. People are networking socially, watching independent video online, and that's a problem for the corporate media. Some people are watching independent video. Many people are still watching Corporate Media that was uploaded by individuals. Most of the hey check out this video emails I get are either links to Jon Stewart uploads or
[videoblogging] Re: what about the artists?
Wow! That gave me goose bumps and chills (as in chilling). Where the hell was I looking. Never crossed my radar (no pun intended) and that is really unusual considering it was even covered by I am assuming 60 minutes and Fox. Next, I am off to learn more about this project. Wow again. That trailer could have been 30 mins long and it would have gone by just as quickly, there were so many images distracting from the many questions and feelings I had watching/listening. Entertainment or a disturbing look at the warehousing of people. Reminds me of so many things, concentration camps being just one. The experiments in the 40's, 50's and 60's. University studies. Timothy Leary, Communes. Whoa ... in Japan (I have read) hotels are like the pods, a place to sleep (basically like a compartment on a train). Damn that was/is just too damn big brother/meets plantation owner or some other horror. And yes, GOOD stuff. Is there a Study or Paper published or to accompany this release? If I learn more or find more links I will gladly post them. Thanks --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we talk about crass commercialism taking weaving itself through mediawhat about if artists were in control? http://www.vimeo.com/457221/ Josh Harris' experiments from 1999-2000 are funny to see now. lots of big thinking. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Re: Hello Again
Hey Chris! I'm afraid it was mostly boring lighting questions... how many, what kind, do you bounce them or do you soften them with gels, etc. ... yes! ;-) Seriously, we usually have 4-5 going. I have recently started using gels, having spent some time learning how to make use of them with my amazingly talented friend Matt Campagna (he makes BSGCast and You're Greek News, and is releasing a movie called Six Reasons Why, check it out). Also an inspiration is Dave Tames. Man is media Zod, whether the technical or the philosophical. I noticed around the time of the Dr. Slasher episode that your lighting and greenscreening had come a long way, and was especially impressed at how well some of the lighting matched the background images. What software do you use for your editing and compositing? When we started we were Adobe Suite people, as we were on PC. But Apple has shown us the way so apart from switching systems we also moved to FCP and are not looking back. I am a big fan of Motion and of a plugin we bought called Conduit. Mmm-mmm-good. I warned you these were boring questions. You lied. They are important, and I really should blog them. On the non-technical side... do you still accept scripts/story submissions for GALACTICAST? I started a real humdinger of one just before the big show shakeup, and I'd kind of like to finish it up and bounce it off you. Sure. No promises on actually performing it. And you have to be open to criticism. That goes for me too by the way. I like hearing I suck, especially when it comes with instructions on how to avoid it in the future. I look to my friends for that. I just started a show of my own, very much a work in progress (as you can tell just by looking; I need to get the mic closer to my subject, tighten up the frame and be more mindful of the wind noises... oy, all this technical crap will be the death of me). Anyway, check it out if you dare: http://action83.blip.tv/ I love the 70s retro filmed news look!!! Keep it I say, and all those technical worries ADD to the effect. There's nothing much to it yet - I haven't gone as far as building a proper website around it - but I'm going to keep hammering at it. To be fair, it's less than two days old. :) Just move forward with it is all I can say. No other questions I can think of... oh wait, there is one: what was Casey's beef with Peter Jackson's KING KONG? ;) Both her AND MY beef with King Kong is that it was an hour took long and had wholly unnecessary subplots (Jimmy the cabin boy ftw?). It really needed more time in the editing Bay. Movies like that hurt me cause they are just SO close to perfection and I feel I just want to take it home and slice through it. Hope you have a great New Year's, Same to you! Rudy
[videoblogging] Radiohead NYE Special On Current TV
Hey Guys, Sorry about the blatant plug, but this is a really cool rare Radiohead special on Current TV that I thought the group should know about. Here's the deal: on New Years Eve, Current TV will be broadcasting the band performing all of the tracks from In Rainbows in an intimate, taped, private, hour-long performance. It will run commercial-free on Current TV and simultaneously on www.current.com http://www.current.com Details: The performance will air uninterrupted on Current TV and Current.com DECEMBER 31, 2007: 9 p.m. PST / 12 a.m. EST, and repeat again at 10PM/1AM. us channels: directv 366 dish network 196 comcast 107 att u-verse 189 You can also check out (and contribute!) more Radiohead videos, news and conversations at www.current.com/radiohead http://www.current.com/radiohead , and come back after the show to share your thoughts, reactions or Radiohead-inspired New Year's resolutionsÂ… you might even make it on Current TV! Hope you enjoy, Best, -- Erik Nordby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [videoblogging] Wikipedia Hypocrisy (was... Scoble...)
Some may lean towards an opinion of 'you were both right' but I think this was an example of truthiness vs. critical thinking. I have no doubt that the majority of this community is capable of the latter. They're just less often heard. It was interesting to see my original argument take human shape in Ron's email. It was even more interesting to hear Jake's response. These are the kinds of responses that are often lacking from our heated threads. Much of what Scoble is referring to might have been avoided had the community stood up for itself when confronted with these kinds of conspiratorial opinions. What do we want more? A long list of 'People who hate and/or pity this group' or rational, evidence based discussions? On Dec 30, 2007 5:18 PM, Ron Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great post, Jake. I wish we could talk. I'm sure it'd be far more productive. This is not a very efficient way to communicate, and there's a lot left out that takes too damn long to write, and then there's even more spaces open for misunderstanding. I'm going to bow out now. Cheers, Ron On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Jake Ludington wrote: I've been offline for a bit and I'm not trying to drag this thread out further, but felt like I should respond: Jake You obviously care about distributed media. You want to help people do that. So your beliefs have something to do with being on this list. I want to help people get from whatever their vision is to something approximating that vision, whether that's something as simple as recording video from their webcam or something complex like figuring out the right tools for some grand video project. It is my belief that everyone who wants to make video (whether it be for their family and friends, or for everyone on the planet) should be able to harness all the tools available to do so. So I suppose in that sense, my beliefs come into play. I do not, however, have any kind of us versus them agenda, because it is also my belief that the corporate machine being raged against here is equally entitled to making video and distributing it however they want to. I don't have to like the end result, but I vote for what I like by watching it or tuning out. I, want help with media. That's why I'm on this list. I get the sense that many people are on the list for this same reason, in spite of the original thread all this discussion evolved out of. I think you are missing an important point. the Corporate Media would like to coopt this space to make it stream profit to them. Then my interests and the Corporate Media (as described by you) have something in common. I enjoy making videos. Sometimes making videos means streaming profit to me. When I get paid for doing something I enjoy, it means I have more freedom to continue doing that thing I enjoy. If by co-opting this space, you mean Corporate Media want to distribute videos via RSS, rise to the most popular spots in iTunes, We are basically stealing their profit by giving people another outlet for their media consumption. This is where you get off track a bit... Every person on the planet has a finite amount of time to do anything. We all make tradeoffs and choices about how we spend that time - especially the time allotted as free time throughout the day. Networking programming competes with sporting events which compete with the arts which in turn compete with taking the kids to soccer practice, which competes with millions of other options like podcasts, videoblogs, etc. How much has Youtube taken from their bottom line? YouTube and the rest of the video sharing sites are taking from Corporate Media's bottom line by leveraging the expensive content created by Corporate Media. If you look at what is consistently among the most viewed shows on YouTube, etc., it's stuff uploaded from places like Comedy Central, ABC, NBC, etc., not from indie content creators. I personally think it's a lousy deal for the content creators for Joe Smith YouTube user to upload Corporate Media content and the content creator get nothing for it. YouTube makes ad money (even if it's less than a penny per view). The creator gets nothing. If you set aside WHO the content creator is, it's not a real stretch to empathize with the content creator who makes money from making content when someone else is making money from their efforts while they get nothing. TV is going down the toilet. TV was never great, it was merely the most available option. But this is a subjective argument because I can list at least 10 people I know who ask me if I saw television show X last night when I run into them at the coffee shop. It's naive to
Re: [videoblogging] Re: Hello Again
A follow on question to my AE question. On Dec 30, 2007 5:28 PM, rudy.jahchan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When we started we were Adobe Suite people, as we were on PC. But Apple has shown us the way so apart from switching systems we also moved to FCP and are not looking back. I am a big fan of Motion and of a plugin we bought called Conduit. Mmm-mmm-good. I was looking at purchasing the Adobe Production CS3 bundle (http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/ ) and I would also like to upgrade from FCE to FCP at some point in the near future. I can afford to get one or the other at this time and am leaning towards purchasing Final Cut Studio 2 since it sounds like you've replaced your effects work in AE with Motion. However, the thing making me hesitate is that I have a significant discount on the Adobe bundle available to me for a limited time through my place of work. But if I don't really need it and can do most things with FCS2, maybe I can skip it altogether. My work isn't SFX heavy, partly because I don't have the tools and partly because it doesn't call for it, but I'd like to have the tools available. So Adobe now (cheap) and FCS2 later or FCS2 now and skip Adobe? TIA, -- Kary Rogers http://www.GoodCommitment.tv http://www.goodcommitment.tv/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
