vlog 4.0 [a blog about vogs]

The Vogma Manifesto (2000)

(December 6, 2010)

a vog respects bandwidth
a vog is not streaming video (this is not the reinvention of television)
a vog uses performative video and/or audio
a vog is personal
a vog uses available technology
a vog experiments with writerly video and audio
a vog lies between writing and the televisual
a vog explores the proximate distance of words and moving media
a vog is dziga vertov with a mac and a modem

(added on February 2, 2002)

a vog is a video blog where video in a blog must be more than video in a blog

Authentic Self Assessemnt: A Protocol

Have added a draft of an essay that outlines a self assessment protocol for the evaluation of a student’s own participation within a subject. Lacks references and a proper edit. But the heart of the protocol is rather turgidly described. This is one of the teaching patterns I use in different ways at different times to help students ‘see’ their own abilities, styles and methods.

2011 Student Films Up

Have finally put the 2011 Korsakow student work online. Only 17 this time around, not actually certain how many are being made just now. As with the 2010 work, a widely varying bunch and batch.

Otto and Bernard

“Otto and Bernard” is an example of the next generation of interactive online video that as far as I can tell is using the stuff that HTML5, Javascript and so on makes available. Leave a comment within a moment. Related images, maps and so on appear and pause the film when selected, etc. Having said that, it is basically a video with some stuff on top, linear and so on. Sort of something bit closer to old skool multimedia except in that model we had text and image with a bit of video thrown in. This is video with a bit of text and image thrown in. Looks like it’s been made using “Europeana Remix” which is coming out of a large European digital heritage and archive project.

This is exciting, there are a range of platforms appearing specifically for ‘interactive documentary’ (still a misnomer but right now patience is a virtue, I’ve been waiting 12 years for these sorts of tools), and while what is being done with them remains a bit, well, thin, getting hands on ready to hand tools means we can test, prod, break, poke, probe.

Viddy

Viddy is a mobile app front end into a socialised web service back end. Think Instagram for video. Sort of all I want or need to say about it really.

Affective Media

From Hannah Brasier, an honours student I am supervising (we’re working in Korsakow):

How do I conceive of and make a slow interactive online video work? This is a problem because there is little work available that considers the slow in relation to interactive online video. Deleuze’s concept of the affect image provides a possible framework and method for how to make and theorise such a work/project. This may provide a method and theoretical model for making and understanding complex multilinear videos in the context of the slow.

Musings

And yesterday according to Sunniva I said “A shot has always been a lego brick. You can join it to anything.” Oh the things you say.

You Need to Work Within

From class today, about working inside multilinear authoring media:

The less a fragment narrates, the more possibilities of connection it has (think of Lego bricks). This is the general model of the blog. We are applying the same logic to film by making in a Korsakow film.

From my Delicious: Could this photograph change the future?

NOTE this is autopublished here via iftt.com because I’ve tagged it in delicious, so you know, being automated and all sometimes it might be odd without human intervention.

The new google glasses, recording. So, what sort of videographic future does this describe?

This can be found at: this spot

From my Delicious: THE JOHNNY CASH PROJECT

NOTE this is autopublished here via iftt.com because I’ve tagged it in delicious, so you know, being automated and all sometimes it might be odd without human intervention.

collaborative project where you contribute a frame to make a video clip based on a single Johnny Cash song. Interesting in terms of the level of work required to get the results feeling like a common project…. And the questions this raises as to just what it is. How the clip plays is really intriguing.

This can be found at: this spot

All our Ideas

The ACH have a simple poll system to determine where to spend their energies for the coming year. I like it. There are two proposals presented, you select the one that matters more. And it just keeps going. It is an elegant way to rank relative importance amongst a group. Quick squiz at the source code of the page and I find that All our Ideas. This is very nice. I want to play with this in class.