Bergen
12.12.00 Friday Bergen
Sun, 18/11/2007 - 09:17 — AdrianPublication Data
I've been here for 6 weeks and the temperature has, but for one day, been unwaveringly steady between 6 and 10 degrees. Every day. Every night. . .
video on a web page is making a face with a screen in a page in a screen. This faceness, what Deleuze (and Guattari) have called faciality, is often not liked by people because they can't see the face well enough. artefacts, bandwidth limitations, crappy compressing - whatever, masks the face where no mask ought to be. people don't like it when they can't see a face that ought to be visible like a face.
then. when they can see the face. they often decide it isn't fast enough.
but faces don't need to be fast.
this applies to all our moving images on web pages. not just pictures of faces.
This is probably the first vog where I really tried to do something with compression. The video is deliberately compressed very heavily (which was very hard to do since it is a talking head and it needs a very low data rate, I actually had to double the frame rate to get an acceptable level of artefacts in the compression), because I wanted to foreground the role of compression and noise in video online. That it is a positive, a productive constraint. To be embraced. (In 2000 not many thought video online was viable, and most of the talk was about the big glossy future when we'd have enormous and instant bandwidth, I thought - and still do - that this is just )
There are no text tracks, links or anything else in this vog, it is just about compression - sometimes the lack of links or other things can be as meaningful as their presence - but only in an environment where this is the norm. It is as significant to not link from your blog post to another as it is to link.
QuickTime Pro
Lake
Tue, 13/11/2007 - 20:59 — AdrianPublication Data
the
loop
stillness of
stillness
this
ice
lake
where
are
these words
ever
not in
the picture?
This vog is a simple QuickTime movie which contains an auto HREF track. This plays with the movie but is not visible, it contains URLs which are automatically loaded and sent to the browser when they arrive. In this example these URLs target a frame within the web page and so as the video plays a simple text poem, consisting of new frames, are loaded. The object of this work is to reverse the usual relation between video (and image) and text so that rather than the video illustrating the text, here the poem (the text) can only play, can only be read, if and when the video plays.
27.11.00 Monday Bergen
Mon, 12/11/2007 - 20:17 — AdrianPublication Data
um.
welcome. this is a video blog. don't know if there are lots around, or what they should be called. but if its ok to call a web log a blog then it this can be a vog. i guess. don't really know, since its my first blog of any description. I think it will have video for each posting, however irregular that may be. the video might be all the content, or it might just be illustration. don't know yet. have to test it out. maybe a video diary?
my current office is the window just to the left of the tree. i'm not waving or anything. i'm taking the picture. the mountain is ulriken. the text is from an email list where greg ulmer is offering an elegant description of deconstruction.
i miss my kids. i enjoy my work.
This is the first vog I ever created. It is a still image (a photo) with a text track. The text track contains a single HREF link which is clickable, and appears as a blue URL. The link goes to Greg Ulmer's web site. The text is taken directly from an email. This was early web video days where I really wanted work to be bandwidth friendly. Dial up was predominant so I believed that any video format needed to be network appropriate to be viable and sustainable - for vogging to work it had to work in the everyday and not for an imaginary future where bandwidth didn't matter. This work also used the most basic things, just a still image and a text track in QuickTime. Of course these were also things that a lot of people didn't know about - that you could stretch the duration of a still image in QuickTime Pro so that the image is not drawn 24 times a second for the duration of the work but just shown once. While text tracks, which are text and not rendered into the surface of the video (which is why the URL is live) was also something that a lot of people didn't know about.
SimpleText, QuickTime Pro, Photoshop
29.11.00 Wednesday Bergen
Thu, 08/11/2007 - 21:53 — AdrianPublication Data
TOOLS
QuickTime Pro
Domestic Sony DV camcorder [ 2 years old ]
BBedit Pro
PowerBook
iMovie
thanks to Jill Walker for introducing me to blogs
This was the third work I made and at this point I thought I ought to be able to author a movie a day. I was already struggling. This is some text that the computer reads out which is describing the tools I was using at this point to make the vogs.
PowerBook, QuickTime Pro, BBEdit.
28.11.00 Tuesday Bergen
Sun, 30/09/2007 - 21:02 — AdrianPublication Data
a class in bergen.
links (buttons,or however things are connected in new media) are promises that generate connection and hermeneutic connectedness.
as promises they express force.
as a promise they are not subject to truth or falsity but are governed by felicitiousness.
felicity is about being good, or not so good.
links can't be untrue, just bad.
rules about what is good, or bad, are not about what is true, or false.
rules about what is good, or bad, are always made as if they were about what is true, or false.
rules about what is good, or bad, are always ideological.
ideology is always about force.
force can be good. force can be bad.
force does not know true, or false.
what is the force of a link?
what is the ideology of a link?
This is video footage shot directly of the computer screen. It is of a window in SimpleText (then the basic text editor that came with the Macintosh) and the speech reading software is enabled so the computer reads the text on the screen. This text also appears in the video via a text track, and also made up the content of the blog post.
QuickTime Pro, SimpleText
vogmae@flickr
