Group's posts with tag: video
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. 
| Start: | Jun 20, '08 7:00p | | End: | Jun 28, '08 11:00p | | Location: | Gertrude Street, Melbourne |
Selected digital art works will be projected on exterior buildings, pavements, out of windows and on to laneways along Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. Visit Gertrude Street after dark - 20 - 27 June 2008. Be part of Australia's 1st projection street festival! http://thegertrudeassociation.com/DISCLAIMER - one of my remixable films Extreme T is part of the exhibition {;-)
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/
Link: http://www.microcinema.comMicrocinema International are curators, exhibitors and distributors of the international moving image arts.
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