Group's posts with tag: remix
Download this clip from and get your remix on television... or not http://www.colbertnation.com/
Those crazy kids... Radiohead ups the ante once again by releasing the data behind their 3D visualisation video. Download and play with it from http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/"In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects."
 Checked out Blinkbox after reading an article praising its business model. "Watch classic movies online, remix scenes and share with your friends." It didn't really live up to the hype.
For starters, the videos didn't play at all on my default browser (Firefox 2). This may be something to do with the Microsoft framework the site is built with but pretty clueless for a start-up to not support the reigning open source browser.
Secondly, the touted remix capability is simply the ability to add a text message to a pre-edited clip.
On the positive side, if you can view the video, the UI is nice and clean and its fun to be able to browse key scenes of classic movies.
However, it remains to be seen if blinkbox can convert this into anything that retains eyeballs. I should be the target audience (certainly all the films on the homepage were ones I knew well and would happily revisit/remix. But the proposition is pretty thin at present. Yet another site touting 'interactive' 'web2.0' without doing a hell of a lot. 
Why bother getting an A/V artist to remix your stuff if there's a site that can the work for you automatically? That's the premise of so-hot-right-now start-up Animato. Select your images and music and let the 'patent pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology' create a MTV-style video for you. Sony and others have been distributing automatic presentation software along with their hardware for years (think instant slideshow) and more recently, companies like Slide have capitalised on this market, supplying a range of widgets for your social networking site de jour, but auto-video creation remains in its infancy. Animoto has been generating considerable buzz in tech circles for its cloud computing backend, which led to a recent cash injection from Amazon, but it remains to be seen whether the aesthetic provided by their system can keep pace with oh-so-fickle audiences and their taste in visual effects. Nothing dates a video more than 'the effects'... What's certain is that VJ software companies would do well to consider whether the future of their tools lies more with web services than with stand-alone applications. http://animato.comhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/15/amazon-funds-animoto-music-video-creator/
 It had to happen..Here's a short film competition where budding editors compete to produce the definitive cut of a short film from over 160Gb of rushes. Shot on the RED 1 camera so nice quality material. Go fer it...
http://www.opencut.org/ "OpenCut is a completely open-source film competition designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way. As there is no "one way" to tell a story, so too can stories benefit from being re-edited and re-told from many different vantage points and perspectives.
The winner of OpenCut 1.0 will receive a brand new AJA IO HD from Silverado. They will also be recognized as the "editor-of-record" at IMDB and will have their cut submitted to multiple film festivals."
Entry costs US$25
 | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Other | | Artist: | Nine Inch Nails |
NIN go one step further in their pursuit of a two-way relationship with fans. Re-mixable multi-tracks and releases are nothing new for these guys if you've been following their exploits the last couple of years. What is fairly new though is the polished remix site giving fans access to Logic, Ableton and WAV multitrack originals and remixes. http://remix.nin.com/Oh yes, and their new album The Slip is entirely CC-licensed. While not as immediately satisfying as some of their older work, their trademark murky groove starts to grow on you by the end. The stand-out tracks for me were the last two - The Four Of Us Are Dying and Demon Seed.Some will question whether NIN have used this CC release as an excuse to put out substandard material but I'm not complaining. The experiment continues... http://theslip.nin.com/
 It was only a matter of time... 300 clips from the Star Wars films have been officially released for playing with on Eyespot. http://mashup.starwars.com
Would you believe it.. yet another re-mixable sci-fi called Sanctuary.. Webisode 1 of a Canadian production, made by some of the people behind Stargate, has been launched. Nice to see people taking this re-mix concept thing to heart. I wonder when they'll acknowledge that the MOD Films network exists! {;-) The story universe behind this Sanctuary is completely different from mine *phew* but a good kick up the arse anyhow for our post schedule. Welcome other Sanctuary folks if you're reading this! Expect more splicing and dicing of re-mixable sci-fi for some time to come... "The First Broadcast Caliber Online Sci-Fi Series" http://www.sanctuaryforall.com/They're selling each episode for a couple of dollars but Ep1 is already available on YouTube and torrent sites. As for re-mix material, I downloaded an HD res greenscreen clip a while back but the official "Media Browser" area of the site seems deserted. What do you think?
Link: http://www.microcinema.comMicrocinema International are curators, exhibitors and distributors of the international moving image arts.
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