having thought about my previous post, here's a pertinent reminder of what video/movie/blogs/vogs can be. behold the manifesto of adrian miles!:
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. A vog is a video blog where video in a blog must be more than video in a blog.

adrian is very cool. check out more here.

textamerica now supports the publishing of video content direct from your phone to the web. i'm more interested in seeing what they do next. how will they move beyond the novelty factor? or am i being presumptous in assuming that people will get tired of posting random videos that receive few responses.

these are the kind of movie presentations i want to be able to make directly from my phone - follow the developments of this project here. all content was recorded using the nokia 3650 videophone. click on the images to open the movies!

four movies playing simultaneously. this layout shows four composite closeup shots of a large object - good for capturing 'the sense' of something
one movie plays over a background of still images captured during the same mountain hike. with this waterfall trail you ascend from warm sunshine to cold snow conditions in a matter of hours. the various images show the changes while the video demonstrates the focal part of the whole hike
blending and merging different size images of a fun evening in the snow, with a quickly recorded introduction audio track

Cheers to the Garden! watch the festivity in motion
btw, What happened to the voodoo-tech doll?
specs: 1 frame/15mins through the eyes of a webcam

New York must be healthier than it was in days past.

my bday present to my sister: dinner for 12!