I know, I know - a bad idea to make NY's resolutions, so I won't. So it's just coincidental that I'm starting this blog in the new year, ok? I'm going to avoid defining it as I'm fairly clear how I'd like to use it, but want to leave it develop on it's ownsome for a while in case I'm wrong about that. Plus that makes for an overly obvious first post. ;-)
Ok, closer to being a NY resolution - I've been concentrating so much on making video for clients, that I've allowed my own stuff to fall a little by the wayside, so I must change that. Btw, how cool is it to discover that there's a Meconopsis variant called 'horridula' (this very one).
I've started work on a kind of disposable throwaway videoart approach to creating a music video that will work for YouTube type spaces. I've already chosen a track, but I can't mentioned it until/unless I get permission.
An interesting possibility with site-specific theatre group Crying Out Loud that might or might not come to anything, who got in touch via the derelict sensation (if you've seen Punch Drunk's take on Goethe's Faust in Wapping you'll know what kind of theatre we're talking about).
I've got a couple of urban exploration trips planned with Bartolomy so who knows what'll come out of that. We're supposed to do some time-based collaboration on his collection of Brian Haw photos. The whole 'Parliament Square' issue is throwing up interesting actions like the lone mass protests and free speech border posts - great that he's recorded some of it. We must make time for that. Sorry.
Ok, closer to being a NY resolution - I've been concentrating so much on making video for clients, that I've allowed my own stuff to fall a little by the wayside, so I must change that. Btw, how cool is it to discover that there's a Meconopsis variant called 'horridula' (this very one).
I've started work on a kind of disposable throwaway videoart approach to creating a music video that will work for YouTube type spaces. I've already chosen a track, but I can't mentioned it until/unless I get permission.
An interesting possibility with site-specific theatre group Crying Out Loud that might or might not come to anything, who got in touch via the derelict sensation (if you've seen Punch Drunk's take on Goethe's Faust in Wapping you'll know what kind of theatre we're talking about).
I've got a couple of urban exploration trips planned with Bartolomy so who knows what'll come out of that. We're supposed to do some time-based collaboration on his collection of Brian Haw photos. The whole 'Parliament Square' issue is throwing up interesting actions like the lone mass protests and free speech border posts - great that he's recorded some of it. We must make time for that. Sorry.On the 'resolution' front - there's the on-going nightmare of 'shall we? / shan't we?' upgrade to HD going on for everybody in video. I'm going to have to come back to this one, sorry. It's a bad enough decision for 'early adopter' consumers - for content providers its far far worse. Even if we're only delivering in SD for the moment, there's that nagging feeling that we need HD archives for future use. So there's the whole triple-nightmare camera / computer / delivery set of issues. My resolution on this resolution thing is to use HD when a client requires it (and wants to pay for it) otherwise give it a year to wait for prices and formats to bed down. Remind me to tell you about my home-cinema-buff neighbour on that one. Ok, don't. Be like that.
Let's hope that resolution, at least, is a wise one, and let's hope I stick to the other "sort-of" resolutions. Happy 2007.
