Men jeg er også ret pjattet med at arbejde med det der Hoist, så tiden har ikke været til at fifle med noget i år. Og sitet skal flyttes / på en anden platform / aflives inden længe. Så en genoplivning af gammel teknik er desværre ikke en option.

Any takers? Kan vi gøre det til en community effort? Kan vi bare tage ideen og lave en fælles konto et sted eller noget?

Jeg bidrager gerne med en video eller to, men hjælp mig gerne med resten.

Lumiere video arises from the tradition of the French Lumiere brothers. Credited with some of the first footage captured, in 1895, the Lumieres are also recognized for holding the first public film screening, showing ten shorts that lasted only twenty minutes total. At the time, Louis Lumiere stated, “The cinema is an invention without a future,” believing that everyday photography and video was ultimately nonsensical. Yet, we stand firm that Lumiere principles are essential to our existence as artists, media producers, visual creatures, and world citizens.

I’ve been following his Lumiere videos (with the nice caption “This is a Lumiere video. The video contains no audio. Feel free to leave your own music running”) since the beginning. Good stuff, have a look.

Det bliver en anderledes måde at være til festival på, men programmet er godt og jeg er ikke just skræmt ved tanken om at være online under festivalen.

Mere info om hvordan og hvor følger. Forvent nogle optrædener, lidt stemningsbilleder og lidt interviews.

Jeg tænkte pÃ¥ at lave en videojulekalender, community-style. Jeg laver et site med en upload-dims (slendrian-delen) og en fin side med lÃ¥ger jeg kan gemme de uploadede videoer bag i en smart flash-player — interesserede uploader julevideoer og overraskes sammen med resten af befolkningen over, hvor de mon dukkker op.

Denne blog post blot for at sige, at der er meget kort tid til den 1. december — og at jeg selvfølgelig aldrig fik lavet den upload-dims i tide. Det vil jeg gøre meget snart. I mellemtiden ville jeg varsle projektet, sÃ¥ I kan gÃ¥ i gang med at producere.

Retningslinjerne (til diskussion, selvfølgelig):

- Filmene skal på en eller anden måde behandle konceptet jul.
– Film er max. 4 minutter lange.
– Filmene offentliggøres ikke andre steder, før de har været ‘Ã¥bnet’ i kalenderen.
– Copyright er ideelt set en form Creative Commons, men som udgangspunkt tilhører filmene de respektive bagmænd — ogsÃ¥ selvom det ligger pÃ¥ et site, der er mit (jeg hoster bare).
– Formatet er enten .flv, eller noget jeg selv kan konvertere til flash.

Fortæl en julehistorie, vis en juleting fra din familie, tag os med pÃ¥ juleshopping, film dig selv, mens du smadrer Magasin eller bager en særlig kage — eller tag os med behind-the-scenes, nÃ¥r du lander jobbet som julemand i Fisketorvet. Indhold og format er helt op til dig — bare det lugter af jul. PÃ¥ en eller anden mÃ¥de.

Tanken er at eksperimentere, kreere i flok og producere en lille jule-ting; en simpel, underholdende gestus i en måned, hvor vi slet ikke har tid.

Jeg prøver at fÃ¥ lavet den famøse uploader. Indtil da: GÃ¥ straks I gang, hvis du lyster. Og smid gerne en kommentar om evt. engagement, sÃ¥ jeg kan se, om jeg selv skal til at lave 10 ell. 24 film. Man mÃ¥ gerne producere sammen — man mÃ¥ gerne levere mere end een. Først til mølle ift. at fylde lÃ¥gerne (man vil kunne vælge en publiseringsdag). Hvis tingene tager overhÃ¥nd indholdsproduktionsmæssigt, kan man overveje at have flere videoer bag hver lÃ¥ge, eller at lade julen vare lige til pÃ¥ske. This is the internet — nothing can go wrong.

Videoerfaring ikke nødvendig, egen videoblog så absolut ikke nødvendig. Bredt udbud af bloggere og andet internetgodfolk absolut mest interessant. Send den videre til en ven, der ikke læser denne blog (dem skulle der nok være nogle stykker af).

24 dage, 24 låger, 24 videoer.

Just got back from a quick getaway to the Netherlands. With a brilliant sense of timing, I chose to return the day before Cross Media Week, Picnic ’06 which looks nice. I’m a lot more into the picnic concept than to the cross media idea which I’m not sure adds anything interesting to the deal. Anyway, I’m sorry I couldn’t stay, so I’ll be following Christian Lausten’s live blogging from the event.

Christian did his own event, Knock Knock, last week which I had the pleasure doing a lightning talk on videoblogging at. So I should be posting some interesting things on videoblogging as a follow-up; that’s on the list too.

I’m not sure I pulled the presentation off. I went for the Dick Hardt–approach, doing 120+ slides in 5 minutes flat which was new to me. My feeling was that the style is well-suited for short talks where you want to paint a picture rather than go deep into various parts of your subject. But as expected you have to practise stuff like that to keep the flow going. Which I only sort of managed. It’s a bit strange being so tied up to the exact words you’re using that you hardly get a chance to look up from your monitor. Eyecontact will be considered for next time.

You can discuss how much actual knowledge you can stuff into 5 minutes. I tried not to touch too many things in need of extensive arguments, but it’s a tough format for sure.

But now, onwards. There are mails to be answered, calls to be returned, shitloads of pictures from a boatcruise round the port of Rotterdam to be tampered with and uploaded (containers, yummy) and car video from the trip to Ã…rhus (first in a series) to be edited, just as I’ll try and get some relevant video-related material posted for the people attending Knock Knock.

Fredag den 15. september lyder startskuddet til en spritny dokumentarfilm-konkurrence, lommefilm.dk. Med et enkelt greb i lommen kan alle deltage. Konceptet er simpelt. Man tager sin mobil, skyder en film af maks. 60 sekunders varighed og sender den derefter til en professionel jury med dokumentarfilm-instruktør Max Kestner i spidsen.

Idéen med konkurrencen er at udnytte mobilen kreativt som medie, fordi den er tilgængelig for alle og enhver. Efter devisen ‘alle har en historie, lad os se historierne’ hÃ¥ber filmfolkene Kasper B. Olesen og Martin Spenner, der stÃ¥r bag lommefilm.dk, at skabe aktive producerende mediebrugere frem for passive observerende.

Det er som om traditionelle medier nødvendigvis skal garantere seriøsiteten for det er sjovt — og virkeligt. PÃ¥ Youtube og alle de andre sjove steder, bestemmer folket selv, hvad der er godt.

What: An unconventional conference about videoblogging in Europe.
Where: Milan, Italy.
When: November 18–19 2006.
Who: Videobloggers, potential videobloggers and anyone interested in new media in general.

I’ll be there, looking forward to meeting fellow videbloggers and talk about videoblogging for two days straight. I plan on being there some days in advance to slam espressos and eat nice foods. Let me know if you’re in town.

Sign up if you wanna join us. Add your thoughts and ideas to the vortex.

Keep an eye on Andreas, who is one of the organizers.

Open evenings on tv-tv:

Tuesday Aug. 8 , Wednesday Aug. 9 , Thursday Aug. 10, 23 — 01 hrs (wednesday to 00.30)

During these days and time slots tv-tv will be open for anyone to participate with their own programs simply by uploading to t-vlog. You are welcome to upload any short video clips but please note that the max filesize is 40 mb. Everything will be transmitted on tv-tv during the dates mentioned above. Upload now or during the actual transmission — think of it as remote-controlling a whole tv-station!

The studio couch and tv will be open during transmissions so feel free to drop by for a drink, snacks and some collective tv-viewing!

I had the pleasure of watching Svanes excellent quest for José Andersen a second time as well as some other fine pieces by Kristoffer Gansing that’s one of the guys behind it all.

Tonight it’s on again. Yesterday I missed it, but this time I’ll try and make it. Maybe a few of my things will be on, you never know.

It’ll be broadcasted on the Copenhagen local channel, so if small movies and videoblogging’s not your thing, there’ll be something for you at around 1AM…