27.11.00 Monday Bergen
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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
vogmae@flickr
