Audioboo

... and what is an audioboo, I hear you ask?

Jeremy of Wicked Days posted this minutes before birth of his (ahem) fourth. Busy man. ;-)

Kinda worrying for the teenager to come in 16 or so years - not just embarrassing baby pics, but sharing your pre-birth heartbeats with random contacts across the interweb...

And auidoboo - it's some kind of iPhone thingy. Record, hit button, uploads to Twitter. Now, I wonder if anyone wants to hear my kitten snore?

Lee Camp's moments of clarity

Lee Camp's moments of clarity is one of those reasons I'm glad YouTube exists - not for cute kittens and that ever-so-funny moment when your mate happy-slapped some tramp - but a cheap, quick, witty, snappy and above all fast response to things going on. Why aren't there more? 

(perhaps there are - links welcome)

For example, his latest response to GOP's response to funding healthcare

Or taking the longer view:

... AND you get bluegrass - what more can you want?

THIS is what video blogging should be - quick fun, informative and cheerful. Go Lee! 

Class one in any Film 101 course usually involves some kind of 'edit in camera' task. Like - forget loads of takes shot out of sequence, let's decide what we're gonna film, then film it in order, one take straight into the camera, take the film out, hit play: there's your film.

So what's the equivalent for class one on the Music Video 101 course?

If you were good. Like very good. It might end up like Nyle captured by Last Pictures. Filmed in one take, with the audio captured at the same time. The film is superb, Nyle's performance is superb, the singing and playing is superb... shame the song is a bit lame. But whatever - ENJOY:



Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo.



(Thanks to Alexandra Lexitricity for the recommend)

Spoiler alert

If you have a Scientologist friend. Now is the time for that friend to watch this video. You'll curse yourself if you don't show it to them before your friendship should end.

Missed opportunities and all that. ;-)



Of course, once they watch it the friendship will certainly end! ;-)

It's posted on the youtube channel called 'church of scientology'. I'm guessing that's not the official site.

Who's flashy?

Looking through web-examples for inspiration, I came across this. I both like it and don't like it. I don't know whether I'd use a similar approach, but it might be good for photogrpahers?


ImFlashy.com

What do you think?

Maybe you prefer shoes? ;-)


ImFlashy.com

Whatever happened to ShootingPeople? This question was sparked off by Scriptmonster's latest blog.

A simple email digest, that then grew and grew, it used to be required reading. I used it to develop services, learn, network, crew shoots... But somehow it fell behind the curve.

I realised how clunky it was once I came across forums. As soon as you get used to things like - hey, people replying in near-real time - threads of conversations (not strained day-late replies), chat, private messaging... the whole deal, suddenly a daily email digest seems like a system designed in the age of steam. And they're still at it.

Back in the day there was a debate about setting up a forum. The owners / moderators refused. Real filmmakers are too busy to waste time on fora, or some such argument. One brave soul set up a forum with nil support, and without being allowed to post about it. It failed (as far as a I know - I can't even remember the name of it now).

I put a post on there about a year ago - I needed an 'attractive woman' to play the part of someone getting married. That was considered offensive and I wasn't allowed to post 'attractive' (I kid you not).

Without the 'attractive' the post went ahead and I got millions of replies. Including one from an Italian male, who couldn't speak English and who wasn't based in the UK. This was for a one-day shoot. I was curious, so I asked him (via Babelfish) why the hell he thought it was a good idea to waste my time - oh, I'm thinking of moving to london in a few years and thought I should build up some contacts....

We also got some good replies - but the sheer effort of wading through them, including about half that were wildly inappropriate, plus more that came three days late (those who don't pay for the service), plus more from agencies who then spam you for ever more...

That's why I don't use or read Shooting People any more. About time to cancel my subscription, methinks. It's a shame - I have a real affection for a service that was a strong part of my development in video. But it just didn't keep up.

meanwhile, the latest on the Mac Vvs PC wars...

They are both good and bad for different things. Both have their frustrations and their joys, and we couldn't live without them. Doesn't mean that the PC "let's cobble it together from a bunch of junk" and the Mac "let's get smug" approaches don't grate...