I’m posting them straight to YouTube, Twitter and maybe Facebook. It’s easier that way. I can just pump out whatever I want and worry about collating the more interesting ones here on Twittervlog.tv later.

But in the meantime, I’m going to embed a little widget with my fatgirlinohio YouTube channel below which should always contain the latest videos I post.

So those of you who subscribe to this blog by email won’t be emailed when I post new videos in the next 3 weeks, but please follow me on YouTube, Facebook or Twitter to get your videos freshly squeezed. I will eventually add highlights here, if there are any…

And I have a plan for something more inventive for the rest of this month, which may or may not work here…

30 days / 30 videos / 30 seconds / 30 frames per second

for videoblogging week 2011

shot, cut and posted from my ipod touch with imovie app

(view in HD on YouTube)

I just found out it’s videoblogging week. Starting today. Usually I’m on top of these things. At least to begin with.

So here’s one I made last week, when I got my iPad2. The girls had just watched a video of Amy riding a donkey on holiday, and as soon as it finished and reverted to Camera mode, they wanted to make their own. They didn’t need instructions.

for #Vlomo10 Day 9

in the Wye Valley
near Hay on Wye, Wales

The last minute of tonight’s Ravenscourt Park fireworks, seen from outside the park, on the way home with two very tired girls. A single clip for Day 6 of Vlomo. I was going to cut together a story about tonight, but then I remembered what I’d said. You see? I’m learning. So here’s the text version:

We had a party at our house, which was great – and then went to the park en masse. We agreed that we were going to stand outside the park and watch the fireworks from Starch Green – because they look just as good from there, and it’s hell inside the park: dark and crowded and expensive.

But some kind of zombie sheep effect took hold and we all kept walking into the park and paid £6 ($10) each. All of the children immediately wanted £5 lightsabres. I refused to get Amy one – and then felt like a douchebag. Luckily, we’d managed to smuggle in some booze in a child carrier backpack [classy]. So while we watched a small children’s firework display, I poured everyone an illegal glass of wine. This was the highlight. (Mostly because it reminded me of drinking Thunderbird on the beach when I was 15.)

Trying to atone for the lightsabre douchebaggery, I made the rookie mistake of loudly agreeing to let Amy go on the fairground Carousel in front of all the other children. Cue group Carousel expedition. We left before the main fireworks display.

It kicked off as we got back to Starch Green, where we’d intended to see it all in the first place. Amy was half dead. Lila was insane. The fireworks stuttered on and off for ages – from outside the park it felt particularly like a recession era display. But we did have this big ending, before we dragged ourselves home to clear up the mess from the party.

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This was shot with a Nokia N8, which Womworld/Nokia just sent me for testing, and which I assumed was set to HD video quality by default. I was really looking forward to seeing how it recorded the fireworks in HD, but was too stupid to check. Turns out it ships set to 640×480, so that’s all you’ve got here, I’m afraid. Spot the metaphor.

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Wisley, Surrey – play full screen for calming fishtank effect.

Shot on my iPod Touch – For Videoblogging Month 2010 – #Vlomo10

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Looking for a very reliable car? Look no further than the Toyota Camry

Mount Washington, Vancouver Island, September 2008

for #vlomo10

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A slideshow of fragments from my day today.

Shot on my iPod Touch and cut using Reeldirector app, in the car.

Also shot on Kate’s iPhone and edited in iMovie HD on my Mac.

for #vlomo10

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I’m in Cannes for Nokia, with Ernie and Robbie from WOMWorld, mobile videoblogging the Young Lions Competition at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival – young creatives from all over the world have 48 hours to make an advert using an N86 phone, to a brief set by the World Society for the Protection of Animals for their Compassionate Travel campaign.

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A film that appears to have been made by a 15 year old boy, with his daddy’s VHS camera.

On Friday afternoon, I got a call to tell me I’d won 50 EXTRAS

to remake a movie scene
with my PHONE
on monday morning

I had 15 MINUTES to decide what movie to do and where to do it.

It’s for the NokiaMinimo.com mobile filmmaking competition which ends this week. Please click here to vote for me on their site, and watch the movies that other people have been remaking. (Voting is easy and doesn’t require registration.)

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iPhone mp4 video file

I can’t embed this video, so here’s a link to it:

http://nokiaminimo.com/watch?movieID=3941

It’s a shorter 90 recut of Videoblogging The Conversation, for the Nokia MiniMO competition.

They want 90 second mobile videos, inspired by your favourite movie scenes. Shot on phones or point & shoot cameras. The standard of entries so far is pretty so-so – a lot of you vloggers could clean up here… The prizes include a trip to the Cannes Lions Advertising festival at the end of the month and a bunch of video kit and phones.

and I’d love your votes!

I’m going to shoot another one this weekend, I think, based on the opening scene of Narc, perhaps. More to follow.

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PS
I only found out about this competition by accident. Apparently, Nokia and MO Film have been touring universities this year, teaching mobile filmmaking to students.
I’m regularly amazed by how little joined-up thinking seems to happen with these initiatives. There are so many people around – like me – who are passionate about creative videoblogging and mobile filmmaking, and keep getting involved with trying to get people doing more of it. And then every time there’s a new competition or promotional event to get people doing it, they put a bunch of money behind promoting it, as if it’s never been done before – but never contact us. Frustrating.
All it would take is a simple email list. Maybe what we need, as has been mentioned before, is to start to organize ourselves?

This video was broadcast live from my cellphone at Speakers Corner today via Qik.com/twittervlog

Shot on my Nokia N93 phone

iPhone video file link