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July 28, 2004
Video Surveillance as a gaming platform
Check this story on using surveillance cameras in gaming.
The Zone project --by Bernd Hitzeroth and Myriel Milicevic at Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea (Northern Italy.)-- wants to turn Video Surveillance into a gaming platform.
The games, played on pc, is fed by live surveillance footage from remote surveillance cameras over the Internet. The player becomes an active agent in the surveyed world, experiencing a feeling of control and yet an uncertainty of what is fiction and what is real.
Reminds me of a certain web comic from a short while back.
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July 26, 2004
we-make-money-not-art we-make-money-not-art we-make-money-not-art
i'm hoping whoever's behind the blog we-make-money-not-art will do a technorati search on themselves and find this post. you see, i reblogged one of their posts on friday and mistakenly linked to their images instead of the copies i had ftp'ed up to unmediated. so soon, the unmediated post was reblogged by the reblog and soon we-make-money-not-art disappeared.
so, sorry guys. if you were down b/c i killed your bandwidth, i didn't mean to.
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July 21, 2004
july 21 hüsekeeping.
been bizzy like a rascal lately. the ars show closed at eyebeam. panorama screening 'reagan babies' coming up this thursday @ 7.30. it's an evening of dirt-style video curated by ed halter. i'm authoring the dvd as i type. show looks damn good. come out and have a good tyme.
speaking of time: drove out to jersey and caught the prince show on sunday. didn't make it out there for the opening act - morris day and the time but i did do that little 'jungle love' dance as i waited for my sister to show up with my ticket in the parking lot. (thx sheila - i owe you $87.00 plus the service charge.) that'll prolly be my last time at brendan byrne arena now that kenyon's left the building.
haven't been too daily with the unmediated updates lately. gotta get another one of the crew to start reblogging on the reg. speaking of: check this out: a reblog of a reblog of a reblog. that may be our first.
wifitv for ya: shawn's big 'splainin over at dan gillmor's joint. and youthchannel did a live broadcast from union sq. today. (i was supposed to be interviewed but there were so many crews shooting in the park this evening, i couldn't find the right one.)
jay's videoblogging group is full of activity lately. that makes me happy.
jkinberg gets me to read a magazine i haven't picked up since elementary school b/c he's in it.
as i do every year, i forgot your bday, brian. one year i'll get it right. and everybody should go wish andrea a happy birthday on her site. i tell you, that girl doesn't look 39 at all.
oh yeah - come out to the blog workshop at eyeb wednesday night (7/21) b/c ain't no party like a blogging and alizé party.
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July 16, 2004
screensaversgroup @ newnation event - dumbo, bklyn 7.24.2004
it's time for a new screensaversgroup intervention. we'll be playing with puters, wifi, sms, live video, and projectors at the newnation event next saturday in nyc:
"For twelve hours, on this midsummer's night, explore the space between revelry and revolution - between seduction and sedition. Guerilla video projections and performance
patrols guide you through Dumbo's cobblestoned canyons of concrete and steel to 60,000 sq ft of indoor and outdoor space at the river's edge. There - in five areas of music
and performance, of voyeurs and visionaries, of djs and decadence, of drinks and debauchery ˆ on the broken banks of Brooklyn is your land of the free, your newnation... "
Proceeds from this event benefit: The League of Pissed off Voters, NYCSummer , and I Am New York City, a community media project by CounterConvention.org.
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July 15, 2004
videoblogging @ eyebeam last night, text blogging w/harner next wk.
people seemed to enjoy last night's video blogging workshop. i thought it went well, although i want to do more live streaming stuff next time.
now it's time to get something together for next week's text blogging workshop with ms. harner.
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July 14, 2004
Notes for Eyebeam Video Blogging Workshop 7.14.2004
Introduction.
What we're covering:
- The act and art of creating video blog posts for the internet
- HOWTO
- Best practices
- Resources to bookmark
What we're not covering:
- Text blogging (next week)
- Intermediate film and video production
- Advanced FCP Techniques
- HOWTO make money and retain copyright
What we might cover:
- Audioblogging
This Is Not A Definition of Video Blogging.
To better understand video and audio blogging we have to talk about some of the good things about text blogging.
Text blogging is the act of posting your ideas to a web page through easy-to-use, easy-to-maintain online journals. (thx, Harvard) It's also:
- Unfiltered by editors.
- Allows others to link to and comment on your ideas . (Takes advantage of that hyper-web thingy.)
- Inexpensive or free. (Blogger, TypePad)
Other thoughts on Text Blogging:
- Blogs (Blogger, TypePad, etc.) make it easy to publish and share our ideas on the web.
- It's sociable. (The web is text-based.)
- Searches are built on text. (Google.)
- Browsers are built to render text (rich media requires "plug-ins".)
- Most importantly, we've been practicing our writing skills since we were young. We know how to write.
Video blogging is the act of posting an idea expressed through video and audio to the web, usually through an existing text blog. (ugh. did i argue myself into a corner here? is video always experiential? is it about providing an environment? context? a speed bump in flatland?)
In order to video blog, you need to:
- Capture video and audio from camcorders, webcams, videophones to a digital format.
- Editing and preparing the video to be viewed through the web.
- Posting the video to a weblog for people to view.
Okay, if text does all of that, why Video Blog?
- Some people express themselves better through video (we forget most people can't write worth a damn.)
- It's a richer experience than text.
- Collective documentary (nod to Jon Hoem.)
- Enabling citizens media/personal media/participatory media. The media becomes less about centralized distribution of (approved) ideas and more about decentralized and distributed ideas relying on social networks for approval and distribution. (oversimplification, yes)
Video blogging is a little different from text blogging in that it allows you to share both an idea and an experience. You share your idea through both audio and video. Every shot, every sound clip, every edit contributes to the communication of an experience that can sometimes be lost beyond a nifty font and page formatting (text blogging. unfair, i know.).
By sharing an experience you are able to share context. By sharing context you increase the chances for understanding.
You're letting people know how something plays out over time. (Reading this idea is a lot different than seeing me, standing in front of you, reciting this sentence, making eye contact, and communicating supplementary information through my hand movements and facial expressions.)
Types of Videoblog
Much like text blogging can be a two sentence post or a 2000 word rant, videoblogging also takes different forms. Here are three types. (Props to Jon Hoem's Jon Hoem's "Videoblogs as Collective Documentary")
moblog (mobile blogging) - stream of consciousness. - captured on the fly. - related to photoblogging. capture a moment, a raw thought as opposed to a well formed idea. usually from mobile devices and webcams. (Michael Cossarwal)
vog (video blog) - well produced, well structured. video captured and edited before distribution. may include titles, transitions, music, and other elements to make the video richer. May use traditional media production techniques. It's a well formed video blog. (Adrian Miles, Steve Garfield, Jay Dedman)
revog (reblogged) - well prepared video blog. references something found on web, uses web source as content. Not edited, more like a screen capture. (browsetv)
HOW TO videoblog
moblog (not necessarily mobile. just fast and furious.)
what you need:
[computer] [webcam] [mic(optional)] [NLE - iMovie] [web server space]
- Set up your NLE to capture video through your webcam.
- Type your idea into a text editor. () Prepare your idea by giving yourself an outline . (Use text editor as a teleprompter.)
- Check your lighting. Check your audio. (We're going to edit this later so don't worry if you stumble out of the gate. Start over and we'll fix it in post.)
- Press record.
- Say your piece.
- Press stop.
- Play your video back in iMovie.
- Lop off the handles.
- Give it a title.
- "Share Movie" Export to MP4 video with a size of 320x240
- FTP it to our site.
(Poster movie)
Difference in Delivery
Streaming vs. Download.
videophone blogging.
http://textamerica.com
Futuremaybe stuff.
If text is good for browsers, what about the web outside of HTML? How do you deliver ideas to people driving cars or sitting on subways? Or zoning out at 3am in an airline seat or in front of a television? Different media formats can serve different purposes. (I'm not saying that video and audio blogging is just for "other devices". Video and audio blogging also works perfectly well in a browser. None of this is exclusive.)
Text blogging is citizens' media for browsers.
Think of audio blogging as blogging for your ipod.
Think of video blogging as blogging for your personal media player.
Resources:
videoblogging wiki resource - http://www.me-tv.org/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage
http://www.blogvideo.org/ - instructions
http://videoblogging.info/
http://audioblog.typepad.com/
http://www.audioblogger.com/faq.html
http://www.audblog.com
http://www.unmediated.org
audioblogger - 661.716.BLOG
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July 9, 2004
bloc party
nice to see i'm not the only one obsessed with this video.
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July 7, 2004
how much difference does a movie trailer really mean?
a movie i would consider seeing.
a movie i would not consider seeing.
what a difference an edit makes.