thanks! (looked so different than the metaloge experpt i had seen) apreciated the look at doors: the sublime in the very common. the subdued insistence, multiplied. nice link to DLT, also. have recently found this site (you probably know it ): quiet, powerful layout, very fine videos.> http://cinematicfilm.com/
Metalogue is 27 minutes long, this DL (Directors Lounge/Direct Language? hmmm) version is the first 3 minutes. It moves through a number of sections and the extract on my website is closer to the end, so there have been some 'developments' by that point.
I had seen Cinematic Film via the link on your blog. It's very interesting that there are so many of these popping up in what seems to me to be a very short period of time. Many of them with videos by people that I've never heard of, so it seems to me that the practice of 'personal' filmmaking (for want of another name) in the era of the blog, has moved onto the web. I wrote a bit about this a while back and attributed it partly to the recent availability of servers to upload to (our media/internet archive, etc) and partly to the increase in the video facilities available at a consumer level (the cheapest Macs are bundled with DV editing capabilities, miniDV and even phone video gets cheaper, etc...) and faster and cheaper DSL connections.
There's a lot more to it than that though. I think that there are signs of a fundamental change in the way people are thinking about the relationship between public space and private lives, so you get blogs that are essentially online diaries and anyone in the world can read the most personal details about individuals' lives. If I was a prospective employer of some people, one read of their blog might easily sway my decision about employing them - and usually negatively. Whether this is simply naivety on their part, or narcissism, or exhibitionism, or part of some sort of shift in the way individuals are perceived, or want to be perceived - both sides of the 'Big Brother' society, the fact that we're all presumably under some form of surveillance anyway and some people seem to have the will to place themselves under surveillance on TV reality shows, or on blogs... I digress - but not so much - and I'm not enough of a social pyschologist to be able to work out.
Anyway that's all maybe for another essay, (and actually I'm kind of rehearsing these ideas for a future conference paper so where better than to do it on a blog - all opinions gratefully received, perhaps!) the point is that this move towards self-expression or self-revelation, seems to have filtered into videoblog practice (and of course photoblogs) and there is an interesting burgeoning of audiovisual media online that bears a remarkable similarity (in terms of form, subject, approach) to the work that has emerged in personal/artists film and video over the decades.
So where have all these videobloggers come from? What's your backgound Sam? (don't feel obliged to answer that though!)
steven, many thanks for your fine comments. still geting used to the blogging etiquette. a hint: patalab02 > archives >august> a moment of our time>text>Dr.Sam Renseiw best regards sam more on mail
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thanks!
(looked so different than the metaloge experpt i had seen) apreciated the look at doors: the sublime in the very common. the subdued insistence, multiplied.
nice link to DLT, also.
have recently found this site (you probably know it ): quiet, powerful layout, very fine videos.> http://cinematicfilm.com/
Metalogue is 27 minutes long, this DL (Directors Lounge/Direct Language? hmmm) version is the first 3 minutes. It moves through a number of sections and the extract on my website is closer to the end, so there have been some 'developments' by that point.
I had seen Cinematic Film via the link on your blog. It's very interesting that there are so many of these popping up in what seems to me to be a very short period of time. Many of them with videos by people that I've never heard of, so it seems to me that the practice of 'personal' filmmaking (for want of another name) in the era of the blog, has moved onto the web. I wrote a bit about this a while back and attributed it partly to the recent availability of servers to upload to (our media/internet archive, etc) and partly to the increase in the video facilities available at a consumer level (the cheapest Macs are bundled with DV editing capabilities, miniDV and even phone video gets cheaper, etc...) and faster and cheaper DSL connections.
There's a lot more to it than that though. I think that there are signs of a fundamental change in the way people are thinking about the relationship between public space and private lives, so you get blogs that are essentially online diaries and anyone in the world can read the most personal details about individuals' lives. If I was a prospective employer of some people, one read of their blog might easily sway my decision about employing them - and usually negatively. Whether this is simply naivety on their part, or narcissism, or exhibitionism, or part of some sort of shift in the way individuals are perceived, or want to be perceived - both sides of the 'Big Brother' society, the fact that we're all presumably under some form of surveillance anyway and some people seem to have the will to place themselves under surveillance on TV reality shows, or on blogs... I digress - but not so much - and I'm not enough of a social pyschologist to be able to work out.
Anyway that's all maybe for another essay, (and actually I'm kind of rehearsing these ideas for a future conference paper so where better than to do it on a blog - all opinions gratefully received, perhaps!) the point is that this move towards self-expression or self-revelation, seems to have filtered into videoblog practice (and of course photoblogs) and there is an interesting burgeoning of audiovisual media online that bears a remarkable similarity (in terms of form, subject, approach) to the work that has emerged in personal/artists film and video over the decades.
So where have all these videobloggers come from? What's your backgound Sam? (don't feel obliged to answer that though!)
steven,
many thanks for your fine comments.
still geting used to the blogging etiquette.
a hint:
patalab02 > archives >august> a moment of our time>text>Dr.Sam Renseiw
best regards
sam
more on mail
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