I started a job yesterday at a new startup company in NYC. I’m employee #2. I can’t say much about it yet, but will say that it’s going to be fun work, and lots of it. I’m confident in the idea, and the CEO. We’re going to change the world. Or at least make a bunch of money.
My session title for PodcampNYC this year is “Podcasting Television”: Why are the majority of video podcasters using television paradigms, self-censoring, and dumbing down their material? I’ll make a case for doing the opposite.
I’m going to make notes here on this post and try to arrange it into something coherent in the next couple weeks.
What are the rules of television shows? Why is it different on the web?
Freedom of creativity in Broadcast vs Cable vs HBO vs Internet
Purpose of the Internet
What does self-censorship do to a video?
Why do producers censor their own work?
Youtube vs The Internet; walled gardens;
Who is your audience? Are they smart?
Why do producers resort to l.c.d. methods and fodder?
Mouth-breathers
Putting television lessons to good use.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Sunset timelapse, tree shivers, HV20, After Effects, and Lullatone music.
Download the full Quicktime HD version (44mb) here. Or watch the fullscreen HD version online here (click the “FULL” button in the lower right corner).
I live above a bakery in Brooklyn, so there are enough mice to keep my cat plenty busy. She’s caught 3 in the past week, usually bringing them into my room and setting them at my feet. This time I heard her playing with something in the kitchen, and came in to find this. I’m pretty sure she was showing off.
I don’t want to embed this video here because you won’t be able to see it’s true glory. First footage shot with my new Canon HV20.
Go to the link and blow it up full-screen by clicking the Full-Screen button in the bottom-right of the video.
Pretentious notes for videotards: Shot at night, so there are some artefacts from compression, and the built-in deinterlacer in Premiere CS3 doesn’t cut it. But damn, it still looks rool good. Canon HV20 w/52mm wide-angle lens, HD 1080i Cinemode, 1280×720 at 29.97fps, h.264 around 3mpbs average. No idea what Vimeo chops it down to for their Flash player, but they don’t take much off. Looks damn close to the original source.
Michel Gondry and Robert Stickgold discuss dreams, filmmaking and the scientific method:
I met the producer of this video, Jacob Klein, last night at the Big Screen Little Screen meetup at For Your Imagination, a great meetup where local online video producers showcase some of their work and then answer questions from the audience and discuss the piece. The discussion focuses almost exclusively on content, instead of the technical side of online video that so many meetups I’ve attended seem to lean towards.
Jacob mentioned that he had interviewed Michel Gondry, and I played it cool, but I gotta admit I was jealous and anxious to watch the interview. Gondry is one of my favorite all-time filmmakers, and this interview is amazing.
Oktoberfest is a celebration of beer, food, music, and the fall harvest!
WHEN: Saturday, September 29 WHERE: 55 Lexington Ave., Clinton Hill, Brooklyn WHO: You…you…maybe you…and definitely you WHY: ? WHAT: Great German beer, great German food, great German and non-German music
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