Category Archives: video

Is Looking for Attention the new Paying Attention?

I have not got much patience with often-repeated phrases, even ones that made sense the first time I heard them. You often hear these days about how “passive consumers” have been replaced (as if by magic) with “active producers”. Now, quite apart from the tautological ugliness of the assignations (wouldn’t producer and consumer be sufficient?) I [...]
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Sharing videos privately

The New York Times has an article about A Site for the Videos You Don't Want Everyone to See. The site is called VidMe, and the idea is that you can use it to share videos with the people you know and love rather than with the entire world, as is normally the case with video sharing sites.
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Bank of Screens

I watched Red Road during the week. I thought it was great. But then I’m obsessed with all things to do with surveillance. The woman in it gets to watch this huge bank of screens and follow people around on them. I am totally against this kind of thing but I would really love to have [...]
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Watch Africa on TV and be purified

Watching Survivor with my friend Andra is one of my guilty pleasures. I just finished watching series 16 - Micronesia and at the end I had my usual reminder of just why this particular pleasure makes me feel guilty. At the end of each series season they show a little taster of the next one. Check out the preview for Survivor: Gabon
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90 Seconds of Dave: What I’ve Been Doing Lately

90 Seconds of Dave: What I’ve Been Doing Lately This is a wonderful piece of storytelling. It’s tiny snippets of video and lots of stills edited together to tell the story of a pregnancy from the moment of announcement to many moments of playing with the (extremely cute) baby. I love the start - it’s like you [...]
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DVblog » Man Man - Banana Ghost

DVblog » Man Man - Banana Ghost This is a pretty cool music video, quite beautiful actually. Not sure I’d even like the music were it not for the animation, but it’s certainly growing on me as I listen to it for the second time.
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Node666

Node666 This is genius - Node 666. Some videobloggers I like to watch and some I’ve never heard of are the final videoblog nodes in post apocalyptic world. Awesome.
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Science video of ferrofluid

Gallery of Fluid Motion 2003 - HELE-SHAW FERROHYDRODYNAMICS FOR ROTATING AND DC AXIAL MAGNETIC
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Moment Capturing 3

This is the third installation in the Moment Capturinng series. All three will be screened on Saturday at the ITP Video Show.
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Bird Cam

DropShots Day A family put a webcam into a birdhouse and you can see the birds all making nests and laying eggs.
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