The photographer and the cleaner
Music video from Väla Shopping Centre, Helsingborg
This is an aesthetic extension of the text post Citizen journalists in semi-public places.
Featured music: "Le nettoyeur " by Greg Baumont.
http://ia200101.eu.archive.org/1/audio/WOOD/2_Greg_Baumont-Le_nettoyeur_64kb.mp3
Greg Baumont's home page.
The interactive map from Väla Shopping Centre.
Music moods
-> landscape -> music ->
music and landscape tangled into a video, ready made music, some filters in imovie used to enhance the colours, bridge over Black River (Svartån) in the town of Tranås
Tractor Movie: John Deere
The tractor's name is John Deere.
After I had seen the video "Red Tractor", I decided to publish this short clip with Jason Ringenberg. Today's movie is dedicated to tractor manufacturer John Deere.
Lat55.4204_ Long12.8501
Here and now.
"ahh. great idea. fine video. multitasking...:-)
the intersting thing would be to leave the first part out. thus the video would both be a piece of conceptual art, sort of "ready-made" in the Duchamp sence, and at the same time authentic documentary... the irony about it would be, that one might believe the combination of speach and pictures to be "fake"... yet it would be pure reality...
maybe one possible solution could be, to add a geo-tag in the openings, and then just let the footage roll..."
sam
latiitude 55.4204, longitude 12.8501
Skanör castle ruin
Taking a guided tour by mobile phone.
The mobile phone service is provided by the company InstantPhone Guide.
The location of the ruin by Eniro.
Yard
inside-outside, inside-outside etc
the film is partly a visual palindrome, actually 2 x palindrome
Stockholm Marathon 2006
The last film from 2006-06-03
This film is a short home video from the trip to the manifestation for The Pirate Bay and others in Stockholm 2006-06-03.
The thumbnail from the video depicts a short moment of altered perception of the camera eye. (See spacetwo : patalab for an interesting discussion, especially in the comments).
Added: Here are some focused studies from Stockholm Marathon footage. Focused study #1 and focused study #2. Actually the second film looses its focused aim and becomes curious about the surroundings.
Catching the sun
It's a difficult task.
During the manifestation for the Pirate Bay and others in Stockholm 2006-06-03, I filmed the black flag and the music.
Manifestation for the Pirate Bay
People gathered in Stockholm 2006-06-03
The Swedish authorities confiscated the servers of The Pirate Bay, Piratbyrån (temporary site in English) and others. People and representatives from Piratpartiet, the youth sections of the Green, Left and Liberal parties gathered near the Swedish parliament for a support manifestation in Stockholm 2006-06-03.
More about the campaign against The Pirate Bay in Wikipedia.
Combo-post: Video
Videoblogging and maps
The video post is supporting this text post.
The videos from Stockholma are located on this map.
The bells were recorded from Storkyrkan, Stockholm.
Hong Kong x 3
Better than Hong Kong x 2
Yet another Hong Kong Movie, which is arguably better than Hong Kong x 2.
In this version some footage from hombrelobotv is used. Hombrelobotv has the by-nc-sa license from Creative Commons and I can use the footage as I use the same license in Hong Kong x 3.
Hong Kong x2
The fourth and last entry from the videoblogger meet-up.
A parallell visit to the bar Hongkong in Copenhagen.
I was later told that one should visit Hong Kong late at night/ early in the morning, when all the other bars have closed – not in the middle of the day on a Sunday.
Parts of the footage is from Tikitag's blog.
Translation of the conversation (loop) at the end of the video:
A: (in Danish) Would you like me to take a photo?
B: (in Swedish): No, I'm only filming.
A: (in Danish): Well, just ask and I will take a picture of you.
Pelikan talk
Another video from the videoblogger meet-up
It was a great meet-up in Copenhagen, with many interesting discussions about videoblogging and media at large.
The second part of the meet-up was held in Café Pelikan.The videopost was an attempt to elaborate Kristoffer's idea, but my arguments did soon take a different direction and turned into a discussion about how videoblogs of the "point-of-view" style decieve us to equate the footage with the perception of the videoblogger.
I tried to make a point in the film by directing my physical attention in a different direction compared to the camera. The camera moved around randomly.
Searching for José Andersen
During the meet-up, the question about José Andersen came up.
Christian made some fundamental research.NB: The film is in Danish.
Additional material is from: http://www.tiderneskifter.dk/vis.asp?isbn=8779730728
Pavlovian Vlogging: Didactic
The third reconfigured Town Hall movie.
Explaining text is added to the third film, but the text is not as dominating as in the original Pavlovian Vlogging video.
Pavlovian Vlogging: Focused
The second reconfigured Town Hall movie.
The second film is about having a focused approach to the Town Hall.
Pavlovian Vlogging: Plain
The first reconfigured Town Hall movie.
The discussion with Sam Renseiw convinced me that the movie Pavlovian vlogging could be further elaborated.
I made three new versions of the original film clip from Helsingborg.
The first version is the original clip. Nothing added, nothing deleted.
The video post had a different text on blip.tv and I began to edit a response to the discussion in the text about the role of a video.
Now, the "response" seems a bit off-topic if it responds to the current text!
Will you re-publish the "original" text on your vlog?
Maybe I'm only getting confused in the revolving world of texts and videos and have lost your text somewhere – if it was your text from the beginning or if it was only some kind of coinsidence.
Hello Kristian,
Here is the original text, first posted at blip.tv, as appendix to the uploaded video:
"Every video, it is said, should inculcate a media message and by this moral is the media merit of the work to be adjudged. We have taken it into our heads that to film a video simply for the video's sake, and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and force:--but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very video, this video per se, this video which is a video and nothing more, this video written solely for the video's sake"
The text is an an altered quote from Edgar Allan Poe's essay from 1850 "The Poetic Principle"; link >
http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Poe5/00000021.htm
Intended, at first to start a fruitful discussion about vlogging... But I then decided to leave the videos speak for themselves... together with the "absurd" linkings...
The original text was only posted for a short time. Funny that is has been noticed at all. Thanks for the reply. Would appreciate eventual comments.
best regards
sam
How to make your own google-map to include video clips.
In this screencast, I show how to upload a film to Blip TV and then use it on a google map provided by Communitywalk.com.
My CommunityWalk-map is called Turning Torso Films.
I used Snapz Pro for the screencast and recorded the voice over with my digital camera.
The voice over is in English and some of the Mac apps are in Swedish.
NB: The file is large ~14 Mb and it is 13 minutes long.
The web site of Turning Torso.
More about Turning Torso.
New camera
I bought a Samsung Digimax A50 digital camera.
Time to upgrade.
The post was influnced by an old bitlab post.
The catalogue is for Byggfabriken.
To be or not to be in the same room.
Actually, most of the guests probably listened to the interview, but not as an audience; we listened as we listen to the radio. It didn't matter that the conversation was held in the same room.
After the interview, a very happy man in a wheel chair shook Ulf Elfving's hand. The rest of the "audience" continued with our own business. Johan Ulveson rushed away to his theatre and everything returned to normal.
The interview is available on the net. (The link to the file is in the centre column)
Endnotes to the film "Desktop Essays: #2 Ballet".
The endnotes can be used to explain the story behind "Desktop Essays: #2 Ballet".
1.Frederick Wiseman retrospective film festival, 2. Ballet (1995), 3. Many months of aggregated videoposts, 4. Tap dancing, 5. Coincidence, 6. An attempt (i.e. an essay).
Desktop essay: #2 Ballet
The documentary "Ballet" by Frederick Wiseman is in focus of this desktop essay.
The first picture is from the video Tapdancing by Mica Scalin.
All the pictures in the film are screen shots from an iMac.
The fifth (and last) film in the series: Tracking "Chasing Windmills".
"Emergency" is the last film in the series Tracking "Chasing Windmills".
NB: QuickTime 7 is required to watch the film.
The fourth film in the series: Tracking "Chasing Windmills".
"Milk and meat" is a film which is meaningless without knowledge of the storyline in Chasing Windmills. Even with such knowledge, the film does not contribute anything to a conscious understanding of Chasing Windmills.
"Milk and meat" is made in the style of iconography.
The third film in the series: Tracking "Chasing Windmills".
The third comment originates from the question of travelling to friends and relatives. The film departs, however, fundamentally from the actual plot in Chasing Windmills.
"The trip" is an attempt to create a film, which originates from a specific plot, but which works as a standalone film as well; i.e. the film can be watched and valued independently from its origin.
The style of the third film is supposed to be humoristic.
The merry tune in the film is known as "Adventure" - a default melody on the Sony Ericsson K 750i mobile phone.
The second film in the series: Tracking "Chasing Windmills"
The most important place in Chasing Windmills is the home of the protagonists.
The seven five films in the Tracking Chasing Windmills series were recorded during a weekend. All films take place within a "home".
The style of the second film is location description.The first film was located in the living room; the second film is located in the bathroom.
The waterfall is made as a video installation from the 1990s, with its fondness of the written word and of "messages".
The first film in the series: Tracking "Chasing Windmills"
This series is an attempt to "comment" the videoblog Chasing Windmills.
In the video comments I will try to discuss the work of Cristina Cordova and Juan Antonio del Rosario from different points of view. Since bitlab malmö is a videoblog and not a review site, the films will be rather loosely related to the content in "Chasing Windmills".
The first film in the series is called "the child" and it is in the style of opinion. The film presents a position concerning the relative importance of the characters in Chasing Windmills, although it is easy to argue against this opinion.
Choose a vlog
A prologue starting with a hypothetical question.
The film starts with a hypothetical question:
Which videoblog would you choose if you were allowed to have only one feed in your video aggregator?
It ends with a prologue of a forthcoming bitlab malmö project.
Videoblogs mentioned in the post are:
Ryanne Hodson, Human Dog, Momentshowing, Rocketboom and Chasing Windmills.
Aladdin's cave
Entering a world of riches and divine music.
Sometimes, when strolling around and living the ordinary life of mediocracy, reality can suddenly push you somewhere else...
I went into this cavern plated with gold and comforted by divine music.
Please, enter Aladdin's cave!
Driving south
A film about making some stops during a road trip.
Story: Here I made a film with a classic Super-8 tourist narrative. Famous places and funny activities are put together with the only context of being linked by a common road trip.
The most interesting part of the trip was not documented. I picked up some hitch hikers who belonged to the Dutch squatter movement. They were on a European tour visiting squatters around Europe. We had a great discussion for a couple of hours and I drove them to the ferry in Helsingborg. They intended to go to a party in Copenhagen.
Hardware: Sony Ericsson K750i, iBook G4
Apps: iMovie
Links: Great article about rune stones. The rune stone in the film is located outside Vadstena monastery church, which was built according to the instructions of Saint Birgitta. During the reformation the monastery was closed and parts of the compound was demolished.
Mount Omberg.
Mazes: #3 Aspelin 1877
The third film about mazes.
Story: The third and last film in the maze-series is about an article (1877) by the Finnish Archaeologist Johan Reinhold Aspelin (1842-1915), which was published in the German journal "Zeitschrift für Ethnologie".
Hardware: Sony Ericsson K750i, iBook G4
Apps: iMovie
Links: The first film was about watching a maze. The second film was about being inside a maze. The third film is about explaining the maze.
Does surveillance matter?
A film about surveillance and public transport.
Story: This is a film which I made after having read the comment
by Renegade on a previous post. The film is made at Flemingsberg Railway station.
Hardware: Sony Ericsson K750i, iBook G4
Apps: iMovie
Links: The raining indoors is of course inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky.
A video excursion to Cinema Elektron.
Story: I will focus more on trips to various places in my videoposts. Here is an example of a video excursion to the Cinema Elektron in the town of Gnesta, Sweden.
The soundtrack "Sci-Fi" is a theme from the Sony Ericsson k750i VideoDj.
Hardware: Sony Ericsson k750i, iBook G4
Apps: iMovie
Links: About Harry Martinson
Listening to Sofia Karlsson
This is a film made according to the vlogme05-manifesto.
Story: This is a film made according to the vlogme05-manifesto.
The film is about me listening to the great record "Svarta Ballader" with the artist Sofia Karlsson. Sofia interprets well known songs by the poet Dan Andersson.
As a vlogme05-project, the film is made in one shot, no effects, the music is live (the CD is playing on the computer, we hear the end of song #1 and the beginning of song #2). The film was originally in 3gp-format, but was exported as a streaming mpeg4-video.
The "application effects" in the film are made in real time. Unfortunately, the typo is also made in real time.
Hardware: Sony Ericsson k750i, iBook G4
Apps: QuickTime 7
Links: vlogme05, Sofia Karlsson
Mazes: #2 Julita
The glass is now empty: Let's enter the maze!
Story: This is the second film in the series about mazes. This film was recorded at the Julita Manor in the western part of the landscape Södermanland.
While the question of rules and breaking rules was quite straight forward in the first film, it becomes more complicated in this film. This is due to the world is being distorted, with no obvious exit from the maze. The question this time is how one can leave a maze which does not follow the rules.
Hardware: Sony Ericsson K750i, iBook G4
Apps: HyperEngine, QuickTime 7
Links: Web page about Julita Manor. (Don't look for a maze – there is no maze to be found.)
Historic places: Björn Borg's garage
This is a film about the garage where Björn Borg created his double-fisted backhand.
Story: This film is about the street in Södertälje, where the Swedish tennis-player Björn Borg lived 1960-1976.
Hardware: iBook G4, Sony Ericsson K750i
Apps: HyperEngine, Quicktime 7
Links: TennisLovers.com
Mazes: #1 Södertälje
Första filmen om labyrinter: The first film about mazes
Hardware: Sony Ericsson K750i, ibook g4
Apps: QuickTime 7, HyperEngine 1.5
Instant soundtrack
Improvisation med GarageBand - Improvised soundtrack
Story: This is an improvisation with the soundtrack. With a soundtrack you need a film. The film was shot with the soundtrack playing on the computer. The soundtrack guided the camera. When editing, I added the sountrack also as an extra layer. Therefore the deliberate echo-effect.
Hardware: SonyEricsson K750i, iBook G4
Apps: GarageBand, iMovie
Citizen journalist, citizen scavenger
En film om mobiltelefonsanvändande - A film about the use of camera phones
Story: This film was made after some hours of reading about the horrible terrorist attack on London and about an assassination of a man in Malmoe.
There have been many discussions about the pictures and films taken by citizens who were on location of the terrorist attack in London and about how the photos became public through flickr and other services. This can be seen as citizen journalism.
In Malmoe some people, according to Aftonbladet, took pictures on the location of the assassination with their mobile phones.
Hardware: Sony Ericsson K750i, iBook G4
Software: iMovie
Links: http://aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,669903,00.html
The future of citizen journalism?
http://www.scoopt.com
Countdown to Kent
Konsert med Kent: Concert with Swedish rock band Kent
Story: The Swedish rock band played in Malmö 20050520. Almost 18 000 fans. The crowd gets excited when we approach T-minus 7.47. That is the name and length of one of Kent's most popular songs.
Hardware: SonyEricsson K700, iBook G4
Apps: iMovie, Quicktime 7
Links: Richard BF asks for more instant vlogs. Unfortunately this video is not an instant vlog since it is edited. The intro was not as dramatic as it looks in the film.
Vem var världens första videobloggare? Who was the first videoblogger?
Story: We had some beers at Ölkaféet in Malmö. We took a look at a book about iconography in the history of art. The book included an illustration of the first videoblogger in the world.
Hardware: SonyEricsson K750i, iBook G4
Apps: QuickTime 7, iMovie
K 750: Cafe
Tredje testfilmen med K750: The third test film with K750
Note: This film does not stream.
Story: The third test film was made with VideoDj – an application bundled with the SonyEricsson K750. It is possible to edit films with five components (video clips, photos or texts) with the application. The K750 has a feature of pausing films, so it is possible to create VideoDJ films which include more "shots", i.e. clips with one or more "pauses". The music is a default theme, which can be added to the the film.
The test film consists of two clips. They use different settings for the lighting. The first setting is "Lightbulb" and the second is "Cloudy". The second clip includes a "paus" and consists thus of two shots.
The film is shot in 176x144 and in 3gp-format. I have kept these default settings and posted the film ready-made from the mobile phone. Usually we double the mobile films to 352x288, which only marginally increases the size of the file, but the films get the great blurred pixel character.
Martin's café was as empty as the People's Park. Perhaps the new law against smoking in restaurants has pushed out the guests from the previously crowded smoking area of the Café.
Hardware: SonyEricsson K750
Apps: VideoDJ
Story: This is the second test film. This time in People's Park, Malmoe. The park was almost empty - the weather was bad. In this film I used the same "cloudy" settings as in Test Film 1.
Hardware: Sony Ericsson K750
Apps: QT 7, iMovie
