Archive for June, 2007

just another day as rupert howe

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on June 23, 2007 in Uncategorized.

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UPDATE:
God, it’s been a busy few days. Very low activity here. Sorry.
Thought I’d registered Twittervlog.com – turns out I hadn’t completed payment and someone else has cybersquatted it. And .org. And .net. Vermin.
But screw it – at Pixelodeon, I was talking to Daniel and David and Michael about a logo for Twittervlog for the new site while we were drawing on our placemats like kids at Mel’s Diner, and Daniel (I think) pointed out the obvious gag to me: that TwitterVlog was TV. So I’ve registered Twittervlog.tv – which is perfect. I’ve made a nice square red TV Guide logo and I’ll be uploading everything there in the next couple of days. HURRAY! And then I’ll get back on the case posting films again.
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When I shot this, I thought I’d end up posting this tomorrow morning, but actually posted this from their house as soon as I got there, just a few minutes later… so I haven’t put my Wordpress blog online yet.
The domain will be Twittervlog.com – currently dead.
And I’m talking about ShowInABox.tv, which is the best thing to happen to videoblogging since Blip.tv

I wish I’d taken another video of what I looked like by the time I arrived. The rain didn’t abate at all. It intensified. I was *soaked*. Had to borrow a t shirt and tracksuit trousers, just like John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson.

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Lumiere Rules: Friday evening in a heavy rainstorm, moments after putting the baby to bed

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on June 22, 2007 in Uncategorized.

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A crucial inconsequential moment. The only one I’ve posted all week. It’s been a H.A.R.D. week.

Lumiere Rules is a game I’ve been wanting to play for a few weeks, inspired by Andreas.

I put down my Nokia for the first time in months and picked up my old Kodak DX7440 (which, totally coincidentally and appropriately) Andreas recommended to me before I even started Fatgirlinohio, when I was looking for a camera and was admiring the colours on his photos and videos on his blog. I love that camera. I needed it for this because it has a flat bottom, unlike my Nokia.

From Andreas’s blog, Solitude.dk:

“The rules are as follows:

60 seconds max.
Fixed camera
No audio
No zoom
No edit
No effects

They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s.

“Aske Dam, a good friend, told me about these rules last summer when we were attached to the same research project. They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s. All transfer seamlessly to web-video and videoblogs except the last one. On the web we are used to compress our videos because the raw files from our cameras are too big to be practical. But is the compression not an added effect? You can certainly tweak the compression settings to provide results that differ tremendously from the raw camera files.

If you make any videos that abide by the Lumiere Rules tag them lumierevideo.”

More info and Andreas’s videos at: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070522-2202/

Also see great lumieres by Gogen and Bshoot

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Waking up

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on June 14, 2007 in Uncategorized.

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Today, I realised that everything i’ve been looking for is right here in front of me.

It’s happening right now.

It might not be your dream, but it’s mine, and I’ve only put the pieces together after meeting everyone at Pixelodeon and seeing all the curated sessions of films.

This is why i’ve fallen in love with internet video distribution. Funny how it’s taken me so long to realise the obvious.

I guess i was too busy looking ahead for the one big idea, and not realising that it wasn’t a ’show’.

As we say in Jedi school:
It’s not the End, it’s the Means Whereby.

And as the Dwarf said in Twin Peaks:
Let’s rock.

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