As an experiment (this should work), I’m reblogging a link to a video interview I did with Jay. If I add in the link to the video in this post, me-tv should pick up this video as well, once I run the cron job.
I edited this little movie (14 Megs, Quicktime) to get ready for election day. Have a look. I had a bunch of self shot footage to work into it from my travels, but my editing program wouldn’t accept those (drivers), so darn! So I just kept what I had. The source videos come from http://www.internetvetsfortruth.org, so go there to see all the original videos that I cut up…
This guy is trying to explain the difference between Indian and British English (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg). Afterwards I took the bus.
International phonecalls are easy (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg), little telephone boots are literally everywhere (even in the smallest village). It’s affordable too, a 30 minute call to the USA costs about 7 US$. Internet cafes are also in a lot of places (though you can spend days without finding one), this one is in Mysore.
I love to take pictures of cows, they have great shapes that catch the light in always interesting ways. Big eyes, too. I’m not sure if this activity was any weirder to the locals than many of the other stuff tourists do in India (Windows Media Video, about half a Meg).
Monkeying around in Mysore (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg).
When you spend a lot of time on buses, you get bored and take a lot of movies of busrides (Windows Media Movie, about half a Meg).
The covered market in Mysore is beautiful (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg). Here are some more scenes from Mysore.
A lovely mail prepared in the train station (Windows Media Video, about half a Meg). This was a good eat, we had Masala Dosa (spicy pancake).
Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is a busy bustling city. A lot of cars and there is also a crazy funky beach where lots of people with kids gather (Windows Media movies, about half a Meg each).
A beautiful little shrine on a hill in Goa (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg).
There are a bunch of tibetan settlements around Mysore (South India) - the Indian governement was nice to the refugees when the Chinese started fucking up Tibet. It’s hard to legally visit (you need a bunch of slow paperwork), and I didn’t want to get anyone in trouble by illegaly visiting (which supposedly is easy), so I didn’t go. I filmed some tibetans in the internet cafe (Windows Media Video, about a Meg) in Mysore.
Indian trains are a must (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg). Second class tends to get crazy, this is in first class (I think).
a portrait (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg).
Fishermen in Goa bringing in Sardines (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg). You can see the sardine schools swimming (they’re dark spots in the water), so the fishermen just get in the water with a net, find the sardines and then catch a load like this one.
I like cows (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg).
more getting around movies, on a bike and on the bus(Windows Media movies, about half a Meg each).
India is a country of many forts (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg).
Goa is a great place to hang out on the beach, this was an evening in one of the beach cafes (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg) in which we were wondering about the origin of chess (it does come from India), so one of the guys ran to the nearby internet cafe and googled it.
Half of the fun in India is getting around (Windows Media movie, about half a Meg). The movie shows a trip in a motorised riskshaw (3-weeler).
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On the small beach in Mumbai parents kan pay someone to push their kids around in small play-automobiles.
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My first video entries are inside. They were taken on my first day in Mumbai. I’m on a slow connection right now so no more videos or pictures for a few days.
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I met up in downtown Manhattan (Soho) with Jay and Drazen Pantic, a serb who helped create B-92, the radio station that was in sarejavo during the war and was the only independent voice out there, and former Yugoslavia’s first internet provider.
In the video (inside) he’s explaining how they had to log in remotely in their internet service and erase all user data to protect people. We talked about videoblogging and his new project dv.open4all.info which is like a bittorrent host where people can upload video (torrent files). Share the media - be the media.
One of his quotes I really liked: “Politics happens on the couch.”. Which is why we need Freevo - so people can watch real-people TV from the internet on the couch, not huddled behind a monitor. He also told me about FFMPEG, an open source product that can be used to optimize video serverside.
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Tornadowatch! Movie inside.
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This is a very long videoblogging post. It’s really an interview I did with Jay a while back, when we started thinking about this videoblogging stuff. 20 minutes, 20 Megs. I am putting it out here in part as an experiment to see how it affects my bandwdith (it only downloads after you click “Click to Play”). Enjoy.
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I mae a videoblog compilation, showing all the videos we made this week. It’s an experiment with SMIL, let me know how it works. It pulls in movies from all the relevant serves (talk about deep linking!), so some may be slow. It’s a SMIL file saved as a .mov file (with the word SMILtext before the first smil tag so Quicktime knows what it’s looking at). It took 2 hours to put together, and still has some (many) rough edges…
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Lucas from Webjay told us that users are using it to do videoblogging as well. Here’s an example. Today, I filmed myself checking out that example. I only took 1 simple video, otpimized and uploaded it. No editing, not even selecting. Overall under 10 minutes. Size is less than 300K, my kind of videosize. Videoblogging week rocks.
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Today, a short movie called sunset. Less than 200K. Jay’s entry for today is poetic, ųmund Garfors is a new guy with his first videoblogging entry, and Steve Garfield posts the hilarious the Office Monster Dance Party. Who have I missed? My entry inside.
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Day 4 already! I followed yesterdays approach again, but with a little bit of editing. I’m giving in to the dark force! Movie inside.
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I was going to do this as a SMIL presentation that plays the different movies in sequence, mixed with some text, but no time. It’s going to take a day or so for me to figure this SMIL stuff out… I’ll have to do it when I find some time. So here’s today entry for videoblogging week. Filmed during my commute home in small bits. I put together a bunch of the scenes I filmed (no editing). It’s my longest film so far, it’s 2.25 Megs, too large to upload through the browser upload of my MT installation so I had to FTP it.
Because it’s so large, it’s inside this entry. Yes I know I should use a “coverpage”, but no time to figure that one out today…
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Videoblogging week Day 2: another movie from sunday in central park. There is a red hawk nesting on one of the buildings, quite a rare sight.
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On the videoblogging mailing list, we decided to do a video blogging week. This page collects all videoblog posts from the participants.
You can join us in videoblogging week, just let us know and start posting!
Jay’s post for today is edited in iMovie and is a movie about MNN, a Manhattan public TV station where he works. Ordinary people making TV, just like videoblogging.
Steve Garfield’s first entry for the week is about a family tree.
I did a bunch of little movies this afternoon in central park, and decided to use the best ones, uncut and unedited. They’re inside this post.
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Other ingredients include noodles, some leftover beef and some old spinach leaves.
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Following up Jon Udell’s experiments, I’m experimenting with linking to a place within some video. Btw, I’ve started to put actual video inside the post itself (it doesn’t show on my main page or monthly archive pages), so click more and read on.
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My commute goes through some great industrial landscapes around Newark. The shot below is from the train window - 106K. Didn’t take long to optimize or upload - I used my default settings.
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This is me missing my train going home - the start of my commute is a 20 minute walk, pretty nice. For this one I used better optimization settings. It’s 361 K. All the optimizing, renaming and such took way too long though.
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My commute is kinda long. I took 20 little videos today and selected this one. I embedded it with more correct tags this time. It’s Quicktime, 178K. Still trying to figure it all out…
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