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Lights in the sky – videoblogging week, day 7

Rupert — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:32:28 +0000

Watching Cumberland’s Taiwanese Lantern Festival from our house on the hill.

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One for the grannies

Rupert — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:35:47 +0000

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Wild Salmon – VloMo08 Day 9

Rupert — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:26:16 +0000

Puntledge Hatchery, Courtenay, BC

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For everybody back home – VloMo Day 5

Rupert — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:45:04 +0000

I was putting together a big elaborate post-election video… but in the comments to the Placenta video, Frank Carver reminded me to take my own advice: the key to success in posting every day for Videoblogging Month is to avoid ambition – don’t up the ante each day. Just carry your camera with you, capture a simple moment and share it.

And I’ve been really enjoying Elsie Escobar’s VloMo videos – she’s recording her baby girl’s first few weeks. She made me realise: I have a videoblog, we’re thousands of miles from home, and I’ve hardly posted any video or pictures of Lila for all our family and friends. She’s seven weeks old and almost 14lbs already! So to start with, here’s 90 seconds from breakfast.

I love how all these VloMo videos and comments are creating responses and conversations.

Watch videoblogging month videos at:
http://mefeedia.com/channels/vlomo08
and join the group at Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/groups/vlomo

Shot on my Nokia N93 phone.

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The Decisive Moment – VloMo08 Day 4

Rupert — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:54:34 +0000

A family video. Our generation’s man on the moon moment.

All Canadian

Rupert — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:24:01 +0000

A ’son et lumi��?�re’ for British Columbia’s 150th Birthday today.

Shot on the dock behind the local halibut burger bar.

Everything about this, and about that sentence, is Canadian.

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I need you

Rupert — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:26:04 +0000

plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose

Rupert — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:41:12 +0000

I just watched three videos by Jen Proctor, Cheryl Colan and David Howell, and realised that I should really stop worrying about finding time to cut all this stuff I’ve been shooting. Nothing is too small. Moments are MacGuffins.

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Semanal #1: The Sound of Music?

Rupert — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:58:30 +0000

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This is my first post for Semanal

Post one video every week in 2008. That's all you have to do.

Five days after it was announced, there are already 80 people signed up!

Hopefully more will join throughout the year. (It's about the weekliness, and shouldn't be limited by whether people found out about it in its first seven days).

And this weekend in Brighton, Beth Tilston has organised a screening of films from Navlopomo – our month of videoblogging every day in November. Ryanne and Jay are visiting from America, and they'll be joining us. See more details about the screening here.

Semanal is continuing the spirit of Navlopomo, with a long-distance challenge instead of a 30 day sprint.

I expect that the cool things about Navlopomo will develop much further – the sense of community, the inspiration and the way that people replied to, referenced and remixed each other in their films. And we'll meet a whole load of new people from around the world.

Viva Semanal!

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Rainy Days and Mondays

Rupert — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:12:08 +0000

Another little film that’s just a moment I caught while working from home yesterday. No excuse not to get this up moments after I shot it yesterday. Just guilt about all the things I hadn’t done.

Getting Things Done – lesson 1: Multitasking

Rupert — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:34:22 +0000

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Navlopomo Day 18. I’ve been telling people a lot recently about how intimately I feel I’ve got to know other videobloggers through their work.

Today I’ve been getting to know you all *very* intimately. This is me getting up close and personal with Gogen’s great post from yesterday.

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Swingers

Rupert — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:10:39 +0000

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Navlopomo Day 17. Simple pleasures.

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Just film a moment and send it off. Stop dicking about and letting the side down.

Rupert — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:25:28 +0000

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It’s no wonder I’m behind with my posting. I’m spending too long doing my hair.

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Kate’s first videoblog post

Rupert — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:25:32 +0000

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I handed the camera to Kate today. We were in Burnham Beeches, just outside London (map/satphoto). The colours are incredible this year. Another thing I’ll miss in evergreen Vancouver Island.

I was trying to persuade her to sing her song The Falling of the Leaves (a Yeats poem she set to music – you can hear it on her Myspace page) so that I could use it as a soundtrack for the other moments I shot all around the woods. But this is better.

I think I’m going to give her the camera more often.

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Trip on the ferry to Dartmouth

Rupert — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:42:41 +0000

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Just some moments from a trip down the river yesterday.

It’s a funny thing – I probably wouldn’t post this if it weren’t for NaVloPoMo. Because it’s aspiring to be something it’s not.

I wanted to do NaVloPoMo because I thought it’d make me feel more comfortable posting just *anything* without judging it too much. I wonder whether it’s having the opposite effect. Seeing all the amazing things other people are posting has made me dissatisfied with the kind of stuff I’m doing with this phone.

It’s made me realise that I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with my mobile phone’s aesthetic limitations. It shoots good *resolution* for a phone but I don’t really like the colours, the contrast, the *character* of the video it makes.

So while it’s great for capturing personal human moments and posting them in the moment, without frills, it’s not so good for taking moving snapshots of *things* that I see and want to photograph. The images just look flat, and dull.

I know that making things on my phone has got me making things and posting more often, which is great. And the aesthetic limitation has stopped me getting too hung up about what I make, which is also great.

But in NaVloPoMo I wanted to post a whole load of different types of films up, and some of them just won’t work with this phone. I want to start playing with a proper camera again.

And the truth is, I haven’t got time to. It’s already causing tension at home, the amount of time I’m spending at my computer for NaVloPoMo – and all I’ve posted are simple single-shot nothingy little snapshots. The time spent cutting the San Francisco film last week and this film today are just *too much*.

So I guess I’m stuck with my phone and its boring image quality. And that’s what I’ve got to work with this month. That’s my challenge. Fight the aspirational demons that tell me that you’re all making more interesting videos than me. Fuck it. Just post stuff. And talk. Create and connect. Kill the artist.

And yeah, yeah, I know… a bad workman blames his tools…

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