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Day 30 - REM 30
Day 30 entry of 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a video by Steve Garfield.vimeo.com/7871542videobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/navlopomo09Published 3 months ago
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Day 29 - Trying to Sleep
This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a post by Kerry Brogan and is followed by a post by Mary Matthews. Music by: Imogen Heapvideobloggers.mirocommunity.org/category/navlopomo09Published 3 months ago
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Day 28 - Seeing
This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009. This follows a post by Brook Hinton and is followed by a post by Steve Garfield. Music by: Delmo from ccmixter.com.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 27 - What I Didn't See
Here’s my decidedly lo-fi contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos project for Navlopomo 2009. This video follows yesterdays collection of rituals rendered in animated gifs by Jennifer Proctor. Next up: Kerry Brogan.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 26 - Rituals - Animated GIFs
It’s NaVloPoMo ([Inter]National Vlog Posting Month), and this year, thanks to Rupert, a month-long video-chain has been created in lieu of the traditional post-a-video-a-day-all-month insanity. This year, vloggers were asked to sign up for a particular day during November and, based on the video that came before theirs, make and post something for that day. I chose American Thanksgiving, 26 days into the vlogging festivities. After viewing Trine’s NaVloPoMo video, I started thinking about the rituals we perform to mark moments in time. This Thanksgiving, I didn’t get to see my extended family, and, to my surprise, I found myself particularly missing those traditions that happen year after year. So I decided to document a few little rituals that took place on my holiday: baking, opening the window to the unusually empty street, a long day watching TV specials (this year, a “Band of Brothers” marathon that I only occasionally partook in). I’ve also been thinking quite a bit about loops lately, and of course the very notion of rituals or traditions implies a loop or cycle, a way of passing on heritage from one generation to the next. These little documents then became loops in the form of animated GIFs - a departure from conventional vlogging, I know, but it seemed the most appropriate form for these little moments to take. It’s an idea I’d like to explore more - animated GIF as documentary. Next up: Brook Hinton!Posted 3 months ago
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Day 25 - 3 Generations
Following from Frank's video exploration of Darwin and evolution yesterday, I was inspired to think about generations and families, how they change and evolve over time. David made a recording of his dad years ago, talking about what life was like when he was young. Listening to it again this morning, I was struck by the fact that he made £2.10 pr week in his first job, less money than I spent on his grandson's birthday cake! The third generation is a bit more subtle. I'll leave that for you to think about....Published 3 months ago
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Day 24 - NaVloPoMo 2009 Day 24
The Yahoo Videoblogging Group’s “30 videos by 30 Vloggers in 30 Day” Challenge is that each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. I was intrigued by all the chopping and changing in recent videos from Mike Moon and David Lee King, but I wanted to pick that up and show that change is a vital part of survival. And I wanted to celebrate Darwin, today at least.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 23 - where's daddy?
Here's my contribution for the NaVloPoMo videoblogging game 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos. The challenge? Each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. In Mike Moon's video, he appears and disappears a time or two, and his familiar backyard scene keeps jumping around. That reminded me of my busy work and travel schedule, and how I might be constantly appearing, disappearing, and reappearing again to my kids. Hence, I appear and disappear a bunch in the video, which is set to echoey music. Special thanks to the crow who somehow chirped in time to the beat.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 22 - ReTurn
The Yahoo Videoblogging Group’s “30 videos by 30 Vloggers in 30 Day” Challenge is that each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. Gena responded to Adam’s video “Death In The Morning” with her inspiration video “Life Walking“. Birth, death, life is a cycle, a circle, Deja vu. With that said, this is my video, Day 22, a link within the chain; “ReTurn”. Spanning several months, the video clips were taken from the comfort of my deck chair. While enjoying life’s moments, I pan my oasis.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 21 - Life Walking - VloMo 2009
The Yahoo Videoblogging Group 30 Vloggers, 30 Day Challenge is that each person draws inspiration from the video created the day before. Adam Quirk created Death In the Morning In honor of (Inter)National Videoblogging Posting Month this is my contribution to Day 21 for November 2009. This is my answer video, Life Walking 2009: This video is a mixture of what my original goal was, to get out and see life. Pulled in more directions but I hope to get back to doing more point and record slice of life videos. It is not the video I envisioned. It is ok. I'm good with it. My butt hurts, I've sat in this chair too long. It is a mixture of current and past videos I created. My main goal was to get out of the Bone yard. I don't like death. Not worried about the beyond because I'm good for an adventure or two whether it is a flicker of last light or a new dimension. I don't hate it or fear Death. I just don't like the process. The pain that is required to grow and go on as a human being is often too much. But what are the choices? Perhaps a ramble for another time. For more independent and not corporate videos check out the action at http://videobloggers.mirocommunity.org.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 20 - Death in the Morning
Jay emailed me this link and I watched it at around 8:30am, held back tears, then let a couple go when Ryanne showed up. Cursed him aloud, emailed him that I was going to go out and try to capture something. Started walking toward Prospect Park, then turned around and started walking toward Greenwood Cemetery. This is my video response to Jay'smomentshowing.net/2009/11/video-sure/ for NaVloPoMo Music by Chopin.Published 3 months ago
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Day 19 - VIDEO: Sure
Here’s my contribution to NaVloPoMo2009, the brainchild of the (RAAAA!) Rupert Howe where we all make videos together in November. Our videoblogging community has worked on a number of group projects such as Videoblogging Week 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. There was also a couple years of Carp Caviar orchestrated by the quietly creative, Erik Nelson. The archive for these projects are gone, but here are my two contributions: 2006 and 2008. There’s also NaVloPoMo2007. And of course there was Semanal where we all tried to post every week for all of 2008. I’m really amazed at the quality of video I see these days. Either the video/film people have finally embraced the web…or regular peole are just getting better at it. Probably a little of both. And it’s been less than five years since all this started. Anyway here’s my contribution shot on my iPhone. In memory of my mom, Nancy Jean Dedman, 1949-2009.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 18 NaVloPoMo
Day 18 of NaVloPoMo and day 18 is my day. Been very busy up early and all over the place. I hope it was worth it.Published 3 months ago
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Day 17 - Time...For A Dog Walk!
Dog Walk is my contribution to NaVloPoMo The idea is to do a video that was inspired by the previous days video. I followed Cheryl Colan and was inspired by her use of windows, leaves and a morning face. This inspired me to imagine waking up to the big trees outside my bay windows and needing to take the dog out. Go figure. This was a great test for me as it really set into gears the task of quick script writitng, shooting, editing and my limited HTML all within a few hours to keep the game going for the next person...Good Luck Ernie! I'm happy with the final piece as time allowed, but somehow the aspect ratio got botched with bad settings when I imported from iMovie HD. Clark Park has one of the few, if not only statues in the world, of Charles Dickens.Published 3 months ago
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Day 16 - Little Pieces
Kath published some intriguing thoughts about time, the data-body, and outsourced memories along with her video. Her piece begins with a quote from “Time Squared,” a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. Which is kind of funny because when I think about time, I always come back to Delmore Schwartz’ poem Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day, which, of course, provides a big theme for the Star Trek Generations film: Time is the fire in which we burn. And I also come back to Don Charles’ song, “Little Pieces,” performed by D-Squared, which I used as the soundtrack. As Charles says, we’re all just “walking, talking, burning little pieces.” And for the origin of both, you can always look back to Heraclitus.Posted 3 months ago
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Day 15 - shadow out of time
Ian's video was called time travel. this initially brought to mind the Orbital song with the Star Trek TNG "Time Squared" episode sample for the Mobius & time becoming a loop. the past few weeks have felt like this for me - I've gone back to 2000, 2001, and hopefully 2003 this week if all goes well. then I also thought about "Moving Time" as I might be moving house soon but the theme I went with for the final video (though I sneaked the Mobius quote in the title text..) was the H.P. Lovecraft book "Shadow out of time". we read this for an online class I'm taking, and I really enjoyed it. I thought about Plato's ideas of "remembering knowledge" across the aeons (time travel of the mind?). one of the other class memebers mentioned the mental projections and mind swaps & the data-body and likened the spaces between dream/reality in the book, to the virtual spaces common these days & how we often have a data-body these days as well as a flesh-body. so I then thought about outsourcing memory using photos, videos, blogs etc and how by uploading these we become a virtual self on the internet. and how sometimes these things can become cluttered and cross-over each other and even annoying after a while (as I think watching this loop for 1:30 is..but this is on purpose :), and they're not an exact copy of ourselves. and how sometimes these things can overshadow our real selves, or at least other's impressions of our selves. and how, when watching something on loop you sometimes focus on the foreground moving text, and other times 'me' - this seems to match my real world experiences too - shifting between online me & real-world me focuses I represented the data-body using text words as this is the medium of the book. using Isadora I made a controller that would move the words around the screen - often blotting out the video of me playing in the background. but it's not really me - it's another virtual image -> mirror image of me, rather than the me I imagine in my mind, distorted by the join in the two glass mirrors and my face is covered most of the time by the camera - the recording of the data-body. the video is playing on loop with my washing machine as the soundtrack. using footage of 'me' in the video was inspired by Cheryl's videos, as this is unusal for my videos, so I looked forwards & backwards for inspiration - as in the book, Peaslee & the Yithians look forward & backwards in time for knowledge vlomo09 day15 vlomo09 30/30 project 15/11/2009 over to you Cheryl! good luck ::: "The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession. --wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Out_of_Time there is the theor of the mobius a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop of which there is no escape... when we reach this point - whatever happened will happen again -- "Time Squared" Star Trek Next Generation (I just noticed the text title slide has the date as 15/22/2009 instead of 15/11/2009 - oops! maybe in the future, there will be more time / months in the year ;)Published 3 months ago
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Day 11 - more than one home, sadly.
for vlomo09 11-11we tried to bring "home" to my grandmother's final year at a nursing facility.the little tangible conveniences and intimate objects and memories. and accompany her as much as we could.in the end, she went to her final home.... her resting place.Published 3 months ago
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Day 10 - Home Is Where The Tech Is
VloMo09 Day 10I have always had to have some kind of tech with me when in the outdoors. Even if it is a compass or a fancy multi-tool. It's more than just being prepared. I could live without it but it goes a hell of a long way to making any trip or adventure more 'comfortable'.In this case a home comfort for me tends to be tech related. I can feel at home anywhere, especially if I have a bag full of tech. To eat, sleep or communicate with.Published 3 months ago
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Day 09 - Home is where the larch is.
Navlopomo #9(number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine)Miguel's video got me thinking about home -- specifically returning home. Brian & I have been sort of floundering re:home. Is the city home? Is the country home? Is New Orleans home? We seem unable to decide.Then I remembered the larch we planted last Spring. Our very first tree at our very first house. We planted it together so that we could watch it grow as we got old.Home is where the larch is. edit: I'm just now looking outside my office window and can see quite plainly the the larch is dead. This does not bode well.Published 4 months ago
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Day 08 - navlopomo#08
I think some of the previous work is in my video. Then again... HD Version: http://vimeo.com/7510280Published 4 months ago
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Day 07 - Obstructed (happily)
Mike's video yesterday rather spookily echoed my 6th November. Both the video and the day's experiences gave me conflicting feelings of possibility and limitation, excitement and frustration. Thanks Mike. Good luck to Miguel.Published 4 months ago
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Day 06 - Got The Time?
30 Days of Vlog 30 vloggers steal a day from November and create something based on the day before. This is mine. Thanks to Michael Verdi. Good luck to Dee.Published 4 months ago
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Day 05 - Sequence 47
Here’s the chain of though that led to this video. I started by writing down some things that interested me in Heath’s video. One of those was the closeup of his eyes. That made me think of the scene in 2001 where David Bowman goes into the monolith. I’ve been listening to The Flaming Lips a lot lately and I thought the end of Silver Trembling Hands and the beginning of Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast would make a cool alternate soundtrack. My original idea was to have Aren (the robot from Talkbot.tv) just say something funny at the end but I’d been listening to the Glee soundtrack all day and I thought it would be better if I could somehow work in one of those tracks. The best one is their version of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing which, I realized, is the song that they used in the last scene of The Sopranos. And that fits perfectly with the Walt Whitman poem that Heath used. All of that happened in my head in about a minute after not coming up with an idea all day.Posted 4 months ago
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Day 04 - Answer
It’s day 4 of NaVloPoMo and it’s also day 4 of the NaVloPoMo vlogging game, 30 vlogger 30 days. Or is it 30 days 30 vloggers. Or is it something else completely? Shrug. Anyway yesterday Dennis made a post, the day before that it was Rupert and the day before that it was Adrian. Each video builds on the previous video in some way in some form. Tomorrow Verdi will do a video built in some way on mine today and so on and so on. I have to say I like this video, it was actually my second choice but I think I like this more than my orginal idea. Every once in a while I like to show you all that I can do more than just create goofy, funny, talking head, baby video’s. Nothing wrong with any of those mind you, I enjoy those as well…but it feels good sometimes to go outside of my self imposed box and do something different. The music is the Greatest Story Every Told The poem is of course by Walt WhitmanPosted 4 months ago
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Day 03 - Legacy
Everyday I walk past these pictures of men and women who founded the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary. They inspire me to leave a legacy.Published 4 months ago
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Day 02 - Ghosts
As I mentioned yesterday, I and a bunch of other people are playing a big game of video consequences this month. Each day, someone different makes a 90 second video, inspired in some way by the previous day’s piece. Adrian Miles kicked it off yesterday with Like A Match, a love poem in audio, looping over a video of a match being struck, which changes when you move your mouse over the video. The rules are that your video has to be 90 seconds or less, and inspired in any way (you don’t have to explain how) by the previous day’s video. While I was pondering my response late last night, and filming the fire in my father in law’s rambling old country house, I caught this moment, which I decided to share as it is. Then I went up to bed, in the haunted room. At 3am, Kate and I lay wide awake in the pitch black. Old country houses are dark. Every few minutes there was a loud and unexplained bang of wood on wood from somewhere within the room. Turning on the light would have woken the baby, so we spent a rigid hour with Kate asking me to whisper reassurances in her ear about the lack of scientific evidence for ghosts. Neither of us wanted to admit to the other how freaked out we were – Kate had already been in bed when I shot this video, and I didn’t want to frighten her by telling her what I’d just heard. Eventually, she quietly got up, turned on the light in the hallway, left the door open a little, and the noises stopped. Turns out that Kate had had the same conversation with her stepmother yesterday evening about ‘the flamingo room’ – only she had the details, which for obvious reasons aren’t widely available, but which do add an eerie extra level of synchronicity to this video. If you want to know, the code is here, you’ll just have to View the Fire again, and think “Fox” and “Source”Posted 4 months ago
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Day 01 - Adrian Miles
Love is like a match. For the full experience, view at original website. Commentary repeats. Transcript availablePosted 4 months ago
