Momentshowing

This is what I love about Videoblogging.
Link: Daily Dancer

This guy posts videos of himself spontaneously dancing to hit songs.
You also get to see into his apartment (I love seeing where and how people live).

Subscribe to his feed and even send him a request dedicated to someone you love. I will love emailing a link to Ryan with this talented guy dancing to her favorite song.

Q. Do you take song requests?

A: Yes!  Please send me your song requests.  You can either e-mail them to me,
    or you can put them in my post comments, but I have one request for you.
    To make it easier for me to find song requests, please (after your message)
    put each song request on a new line with the following format:
 

Every community needs teachers…and Richard BF is one of teachers in the Videoblogging group. Check out his latest video:
Richard BF – The art of storytelling – part 1

Videoblogging makes it easy for anyone to post and distribute video.
What isn’t always easy is telling a good story with video.
In very clear terms he gives examples of people who have done it well.
You don’t need fancy equipment or big budgets; you just need to learn to tell well what you see around you.

Richard, who lives in Austraila, has always challenged the values and concepts that videobloggers have developed. Like any god artist, he obviously brings experience from software development, theater, and other talents he’s acquired over the years.

Richard also started the wikipedia entry for Videoblog though that might have gotten away from him as wikipedia entries can do when a community fights over definition.

Here’s a video from one of Manhattan neighbors…and newest favorite videoblogger.
She and her boyfriend went to his home in New Orleans…and shows us what it looks like:
VIDEO: …my medication saved me from crying…"

Josh and I were wondering last night how videoblogging will affect how we see the world around us. As more people learn to record and post things as they happpen….FROM THEIR OWN POINT OF VIEW….we will all think and talk about things differently because we will have different information than we get now.
A story like New Orleans will not fade from our memory because the 24-hour news networks decide it’s not a story anymore.
People can take up the story as their lives continue.
This is what we can do with videoblogging.

Bicycle Sidewalk does some innovative storytelling.
Nathan Miller lives and works in Japan…so he shows us videos of the world around him.
He plays the host by sitting in front of a blue screen while the video plays behind him.
This way he can narrate and comment on what’s going on.
Smart.
This is one way we can learn about other places. Let people who live there show and tell us what’s going on.
Subscribe to his feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BicycleSidewalk

I love the internet.
The first known motion picture(1888) is right here for you to see.
Halfway down explaining the site it says:
(i hate how websites dont have permalinks)

Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888, by Louis Le Prince
Photographic copy of paper prints from a film taken in the garden 
of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb 
of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain. Le Prince’s son, Adolphe, who appears in this picture, stated that it was shot in early October 
1888 (he suggests 14 October) as it shows Mrs Sarah Whitley, Le Prince’s
mother-in-law, who died on 24 October that year. The other subjects 
are Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley. They are plainly having fun walking round in circles, keeping within the area framed by the camera.

My uptown neighbor, Daniel Liss, remixed this super short movie.
pouringdown: roundhay remix

I think Daniel’s remix is better than the original because it lets me see and think about everything going on. The woman and the man dancing. the other woman standing there in a huge dress.
This is why I love the videoblogging culture: consume, create, remix.
Original things only get better by it being shared…unlike our current culture which is more and more paralyzed by illogical, paranoid copyright law.

I wonder what old Louis Le Prince would think of videoblogging.
Here he was, a enthusiastic amateur, trying to visually record something happening in his backyard. He wanted this to exist so badly.
120 years later, we’re at the point where someone can record his life and have it seen by anyone on the planet, automatically archived for history. Our grandkids will know us so well.