vog (a BETA videoblog)

This is a vog that now appears to be broken. The work is a single shot video that has been sliced up into nine different videos. These have been reassembled together (in LiveStage Pro but it is easy to do this just in QuickTime Pro), and then a child movie track has been added below the video. The child movie is only a text track, and as far as I can make out nine years later it consists of three words: "a" and then "a silent". It does not scroll and so is meant to be visible for the entire duration, and as I mouse around (and have a peek at the movie properties using QuickTime player) there appear to be three sprites. Now, these appear to be doing nothing, but given the text track I can only assume that once upon a time mousing across the bottom three video panes (where the sprites are) may have toggled the soundtrack on and off, and this may have also toggled the visibility of the text track. I don't have the project files for this archived so I can't open it up to see the scripting, so this is guess work. However, I can say that mousing in to these sprites, even clicking on them, doesn't appear to be doing much of anything.

Actually, that appears to be wrong as reading the blog post published at the time (reproduced below) it appears the text movie is much longer and that the sprites controlled whether it played or not. I have extracted the text from the text movie (it is stored in QuickTime as ascii so it is easy to turn it back into a text file) so I suspect QuickTime has changed the way it deals with text files which is why it isn't working. However, the text is:

a
a silent
a silent movie
silent
movie

(silence inside the movie
sans sound)

noise
noise lies
noise lies
elsewhere

this is stuff shot by a friend.

from denmark (south of here north of) there
is markku
espen
jill
ulla
ragnhild

and not
lisbeth darkly red hair and dark blonde

(the colour of whiteness?)

patience or given time interesting fascination
with what or is that with that ( and where does the ? go) technology and even further of

uncovering mouths and flesh into zoom.

more formally what happens when you take one movie and present it as four movies (each independent of the other)? four timelines. four views.
post-proto-temporal-cubism.

a group descending into a staircase?

if to edit a film is to divide up something whole into something less but still whole what is this?

accidental montaging.

accidental collaging.

stochastic montage?

stochastic collage?

the combination of montage (serial selection in time) and collage (simultaneous selection in space) presents itself increasingly as a key trope for digital aesthetics. well, for vogging anyway. what tropes of user enaction ought to be available?

groundhog day

I like this writing, and am wondering why I stopped.

The footage was shot by Lisbeth Klastrup in Bergen while we were sharing beer and pizza at Espen Aarseth's house. Below is from the original post:

Lisbeth's vog. She shot this on my camera at Espen's one night as we were all round having pizza. and beer. Espen, Ulla, Dorrit, Aurora, Lisbeth, Ragnhild, Markku, Adrian, Jill.

Gossip and laughter.

The text track is a child movie. I had wanted to make every track a child movie but online there were always tracks that just didn't appear. Even for me a tad too much noise. so now the 9 video tracks and the soundtrack are all rolled into one movie. Just the text track is external.

I had made it all run backwards on the mouse events, but what's the point when they're all the same movie? With child movies then each child could run independently of the others and i'd have multiple timelines. Save that for another day. Now i've 2 timelines. The text track and the movie. They're variable in relation to each other.

Wonder if this = cybertext cinema? shoulda asked Espen.