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>From: "Jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com >To: <videoblogging@yahoogroups.com> >Subject: Re: [videoblogging] vlogger road trip 2005 >Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:26:48 -0400 > >Hehehe. Don't know if it's the codeine from the root canal, but this made >my socks rock. > >You're on, fella. > >Naw, it's not the codeine. It's you. > >And Sull. > >And Mariah. > >And Tim D. > >And Dooser - where the heck are ya, Dooser? > >And Jen & Jen's fine Philly friends. > >And Randy Mann (he's in). > >And Schlomo. > >And whoever else between NYC and Nova Scotia. Open source. > >Yeah: this is my life, too. > >Road Node 103, kid. > >Give me a day or two to figure out when it's most likely we'll hit Nova >Scotia; then start booking. > >Jan > >-- >"It isn't done alone. Pay more." >http://fauxpress.blogspot.com - motion >http://blog.urbanartadventures.com - sound >http://vlogpresskit.blogspot.com - community >http://the-hold.blogspot.com - literature >. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Philip Clark > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com > Cc: Jan McLaughlin > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:51 PM > Subject: [videoblogging] vlogger road trip 2005 > > > Thanks for the email Jan, I've decided to share my reply with the list. > > Of course you can crash at my place, I live alone in the woods in a >seven-bedroom farmhouse. I have room for the whole crew. In fact, I have >contacts all the way from Halifax to Toronto. We won't have any worries >about a place to sleep. > > I'm thinking we should run this like a rock'n'roll tour. We could set up >in venues like the Khyber Club in Halifax, Gallery Connexion in >Fredericton, WAR Gallery in Montreal. The galleries are ideal because they >double as performance spaces and also there are no specific corporate >overtones like at a store. WAR Gallery, for example, has a stage, >projector, giant screen, wireless internet and I could probably get it for >free. > > So we'll show up and give a workshop in the early evening. People can >shoot their own videos and we'll upload them to a cross-country group vlog. >And then at night we'll have a party. We'll come back to the space and I >will perform live electronic music and Jan will VJ (although she may not >realize it yet) and she will mix in excerpts from the day's videos while >everyone dances their asses off. > > The workshops will be for free, and we will make money from the parties. >And also--as any touring band will tell you--from selling merchandise. Who >wants an official "Vlog Voyeur" t-shirt? Please specify small medium or >large. > > On 24-Aug-05, at 4:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > And don't expect Sony to come rushing to your door to sponsor your >road trip. Maybe they will, but the chances are, if they're looking for >ways to support videoblogging, they'll look at several different "nodes" >and decide that door-to-door revivalism isn't a cost-efficient way of >getting the word out. > > > Tours mean publicity and there's a precedent for big companies wanting >to be involved. I just sent off an email to Sony Canada's manager of >customer relationships & retail marketing. Maybe she'll recognize the tour >as a good opportunity for them. If they don't somebody else will. Although >I'm not too worried about sponsorships. We can easily make it happen on our >own. > > The road trips could do a lot for videoblogging. I suspect there are >limitations to introducing people to a new internet phenomenon by writing >about it on the internet. In Halifax, for example, blogging didn't really >blow up huge until the fall of 2003, when a bunch of people got written >up... in the local newspaper. > > A vision of 2007. We pull into town in a giant bus, twice the length of >Taylor's RV. It is specially outfitted with a pair of Final Cut Pro >workstations, a hot-tub and a green-screen on one wall. The bus rolls right >into the centre of town and parts in a wireless hotspot. On the side of the >bus in giant letters: "Videoblog Tour 2007, brought to you by the Apple >G6." (A couple people with binoculars look down from a window at Sony HQ >and say "Boy I wish we'd answered that guy's email." ) > > Anyone at all is welcome to come in off the street and upload a video. >We're right in the middle of everything with our cameras. Little kids cheer >at our approach. Politicians are fearful. > > Well, anything's possible. > > > Obviously, you've decided to take time off from the rest of your life >to do this > > > This is the rest of my life. > > xo philip > http://swordfight.org > http://hotaction.ca/destroy ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
