vog (a BETA videoblog)

Footage shot while driving on major highways back to Melbourne from Canberra. This one you need to wait around a bit for, or just move the playhead along a bit, as there is a QuickTime text track that plays in the black space next to the video tiles. It doesn't arrive for a while in the movie, and once it appears its visibility is toggled by mousing into the video panels. Clicking the video panels also toggles the soundtrack off and on (though I must have made an error in the coding since it appears to be a bit hit and miss). The soundtrack is what was playing on the radio, so a bit of news and some footy.

This is what was originally posted on the blog page:

driving home from canberra down the freeway. + text.

this is a dip into higher bandwidth territory, as this has quite a high data rate and what i wanted here was a very clear indication of the movement. of course because it's about a road trip, but also because it is about letting people know that while most of the vogs are very quiet on the action front this is more a reflection of what i shoot than a reflection on the lack of movement that can be represented. (for instance the canberra rain vog below is a wide shot of approaching clouds, but really, not a lot of movement in clouds that are 40 kilometres away.)

the use of the text here progresses from the rollover semi transparent popups i used in canberra rain, just wanted to scroll text tracks that are similar in tone and style to what i used in the canberra rain vog but made them more, well ergodic. the scripts that control them are now much more time based so that different text tracks are available at different times. i think a combination of different text tracks at different times, combined with the roll overs of the canberra rain vog, would be much more interested visually, aesthetically, and as an exploratory softvideo environment.