February 7th, 2008
Ryanne and I are helping out at Video 24/7, a DIY video summit in LA.
It goes from Feb 8-10. Here’s the full schedule.
Ryanne is leading a screening of videos that she put together, and we’ll also doing a panel with Kenyatta and Tiffiniy Cheng from Miro. Our goal is to discussion on how video creators could actually record, edit, post, distribute, and archive web videos using open source tools from beginning to end. There are still gaping holes in the current process, but it’s all developing.
On sunday Feb 10, we’ll be leading a 3-hour videoblogging workshop. They told us 15 people are already signed up. We’ll be walking people through our showinabox project using WordPress….or just see what help people need. If you’re in LA, call us (917 371 790) or come by the event.
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January 20th, 2008
Click To PlayThis is for
week 3 of Semanal where we are posting one video a week for 2008.
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January 13th, 2008
Here’s a video for week two of the Semanal project, where we are posting one video a week for 2008. Check out everyone’s work and join in. No rules, just encouragement and often madness. Music by: William Zeitler (playing glass harmonica) "The Fixed Stars"
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January 8th, 2008
Ryanne and I will be in Europe from Jan 8-Feb 6. We’ll be staying with friends in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Paris, and Barcelona.
Our main impetus for traveling is to present at these two video events: Video Vortex and VXmission. Discussions of the rights of online creators are at the center of discussion. Plus the need to really encourage creative work parallel to the commercial entertainment industry. It’ll definitely be different from all the video conferences in Silicon Valley.
If you’re in any or around any of these cities, we’d love to meet up with you. Just email me since we’ll be hanging out along the way. We’d love to get the local skinny.
And if you’re looking for something to do this year, join the Semenal video project. We’re all posting one video a week for 2008. You know some cool, weird stuff is going to be popping up.
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January 7th, 2008
This video settles my debt to two projects at once. It’s Carp Caviar Promo month (see my past contributions here and here). It’s also the first week of Semanal, where everyone is posting a video every week for 2008. I like these group video projects. Come join the fun.
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November 27th, 2007
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November 23rd, 2007
Ryanne learns to use a chainsaw as we prepare for the apocalypse.
Day 23 of NaVloPoMo.
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November 21st, 2007
Day 21 of NaVloPoMo.
I took this video of a creepy TV evangelist this week when I flew to the East Coast on an overnight.
TV evangelists in the US were in their prime during the 80′s with Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton, and James and Tammi Faye Baker. The style is simple: get a TV show, say that god has given you the power to create happiness, and keep asking for money.
This first group were all eventually convicted or humiliated off the TV screen only after their lavish lifestyles became too outrageous. TV evangelists have since become more sophisticated with James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Ted Haggard (recently uncovered). Instead of just asking for cash for their own pockets, they now help organize voting blocks that elect US politicians. Everyone knows this is where the real power and money is. Hook right into the vein.
Anyway, this guy is a throwback to the simple, "Give me money and god will reward you" days. He’s hypnotic like a vampire. I can only imagine the people who call to give money at 4am. Desperate, sad, confused.
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November 18th, 2007
What do you do when you find yourself being recorded?
Record back.
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November 18th, 2007
Several months ago I briefly met with the awesome Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive.
He was showing off the OLPC computer (One Laptop Per Child).
They were initially promoted as costing $100, but are now about $200 each.
The computer is designed to be bought in orders of 100,000 units by developing countries to jump start their educational process. If every kid has a computer that’s connected to the internet and each other, and is using open source software they can learn to program, then the kids in these countries can figure out their own solutions. This is the social techie dream.
But there are many people who say the OLPC program is bullshit.
I just got into another heated debate tonight over OLPC.
The argument is that children in developing nations need clean water and food first.
Many children barely have proper schools to attend. How are you going to give a kid who lives in a hut a computer? The corruption in many developing nations is incredible, and this would be another waste of precious resources. Why give computers to kids anyway? Give them to the adults.
I believe in appropriate technology and trust that the right people will find their ways to computers.
I truly believe that there are those of us who love to connect and explore. The OLPC computer just lowers the barrier to having a machine that connects you to the greater web so you can find your own way. Computers are not the answer, but they are a tool.
It’s a pretty cool computer if you check out the features.
It runs on linux, has a video camera built in, an automatic mesh network is created through the antennae, and can be powered by a hand pump. Brewster is especially excited because he’s working on Project Gutenberg which is scanning thousands of books that can be read on computers like these. He has a dream.
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