PAN Fan and fellow video maker Bruce (of Brucine) made this video for a friend of his that was trying to quit smoking. He used some footage from this PAN episode.

I was interested in the hypnosis tape that he sampled. I used to smoke quite a bit (pack a day) when I worked in the restaurant industry. Then I quit altogether for a couple years. Then I picked it back up, but much less than before. Now I smoke a few cigarettes per week, and only when drinking alcohol. I can’t separate the two habits in my head. A gin and tonic just isn’t the same without a cigarette.

So anyway, I asked Bruce where I could find the original hypnosis tape, and he was nice enough to MP3 it and upload it to Blip.

This is a dub of a quit-smoking (audio) tape that the American Lung Association of Wisconsin put out sometime in the 1970’s. I helped me to quit. I’m putting it up here for the use of anybody who wants to give it a try. Probably best not to listen to this while driving.

Here is the MP3 File

Thanks Bruce.

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What can I say. I am continually learning from my friend Ryanne. She knows this Asian child that luckily has an iffy appearance contract. His parents auctioned him off at an early age to Microsoftee to use in their wonderful Movie Maker program as sample footage. We sampled it.

It’s come to my attention (thanks) that some people are still using the old Feedburner RSS feed.

Stop that.

Use this: http://bullemhead.com/index.xml

You may ask yourself: “But why should I bother subscribing to Bullemhead?”.
You may hesitate.
Well let me tell you.

Bullemhead is a publication. Bullemhead uses videos. Bullemhead lives in New Jersey. Bullemhead cares about what goes into your mind. Bullemhead cares about what is on your walls and in your music machines and on your white rock t-shirts. Bullemhead loves videos and music and animation (especially when mixed). Bullemhead loves other things too, but likes to narrow its focus. Bullemhead does what it wants and publishes what it wants. Still, Bullemhead wants you to want it and like what it publishes. Bullemhead is what it is.

Bullemhead wants you to subscribe.

That is all.

From theQview:

A vlog requires focus on the video. While this difference is the same as between radio and television, the difference is amplified significantly when the content is “citizen” created.

I understand that this is just an opinion and not a scientific evaluation of video blogs vs. podcasts. That being said, I disagree with the opinion.
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“fucking_machine” (Quicktime movie quote using Mefeedia. Original movie found at DLTQ.org.)

For those of you who came here in search of a machine that fucks, I give you Wreck & Salvage.

Clark Boyd was interviewing Raymond for The World and Raymond turned the camera around on him. He makes some good points about the disconnect between “Mainstream Media” and the general public. Though, my favorite quote was from Raymond in his thoughts after the interview:

My hope is that with blogging, podcasting and videoblogging we can become more connected. That we can manage to punch enough holes in that membrane that separates us that we can start to understand each other, have more tolerance towards each other, and ultimately build a better world.

Watch the interview and read Raymond’s comments here.

Adrian Miles of RMIT has been issued a grant to develop an easy-to-use videoblogging tool. The tool will work with iMovie on the Mac.

Here’s what it will do:

• compress your edited video to appropriate format (ideally a decent mp4 file)
• export this compressed video directly into your blog
• allow text entry to accompany the blog post (including title of post)

Should be available by the end of 2005!

This kind of thing will make videoblogging easy for the average non-geek.

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