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Not the storytelling video, but a piece on art and story.
This is also the first video that isn’t included in the feed as blog text and an enclosure. When I started videoblogging, 117 videos ago, a lot of friends didn’t have readers that supported enclosures, so I embedded them as HTML in the text as well. By now they should be using Ant or some enclosure capatable reader.
We did this shit at Synop many years ago. Now someone is making it happen on the web. If only…
I’ve been fairly dissatisfied with the content coming out of the videoblogging community recently. They’re mostly home video style pieces, which tend to get boring once you’ve seen the first dozen they’ve made, or these people tend to just stop making videos. I have no problem with the home movie style, because it is interesting getting to know people, but once you get a bit of what they’re about, for me at least, they then tend to blur into a single contuing stream of tedium.
I think I also hit my second wall of idea block for the year, and because culture feeds on culture, I think that’s partially why I’ve run out of ideas, there’s nothing innovative happening in the videoblogging space.
So here’s a rant about podcasting, which I haven’t done for over a year, and a cry for more innovation and storytelling.
Amusingly, I happened to be wearing my “CRASS – Destroy Power Not People” tshirt, but you can’t really see it in frame, and please don’t ask me what biodirectional means. 🙂
So finally Apple brings the iTunes Store to Australia. To quote the Sydney Morning Herald:
[..] Sony BMG – has withheld its music catalogue from the Apple store. That means [..] Pete Murray, Alex Lloyd, Franz Ferdinand, Rogue Traders and Australian Idol artists Anthony Callea and Shannon Noll will not be available.
Well thank fuck for that.
Maybe not the prodigal son, but he seems to be having more fun than I am. Yes, Singleton is back.
This may lose me some audience, having just picked up a whole bunch through being highlighted on wearethemedia.com, but that’s what I love about this medium, I can do what I like, and there aint a damn thing you can do about it.
A friend of mine’s sketch show, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, has just been picked up by Australian network television. College humour abounds, but to be honest we just don’t see enough of it on TV now do we? And anyway, who am I to judge, when I do a radio show of similar material.
This is an uncensored version of a sketch which ran on their first show, which went to air tonight. My friend Jordan writes and performs in the show, and in fact plays the father in this sketch. Enjoy.
A recently recorded video conference, discussing how the people will take over the mainstream media. (Yeah, so I fucked up the start, but I wasn’t going to reconvene the meeting was I…)