[videoblogging] Re: Decline in posts to this group.

[Bill Cammack]

No doubt.  Pioneers in uncharted territory.  Completely.

When I got here in '06, a few years after the pioneers started doing
what they were doing, the daily messages and the archives were
absolutely invaluable for me as far as figuring out what to do, how to
do it and how not to reinvent the wheel.

While twitter was the obvious "destruction" of this list, this list is
still the FOUNDATION for the relationships that people have carried to
practically-real-time communication on status update sites.  There's
no reason to send a message to this list, hope somebody looks at it
and then hope they send another email back when you can post a
question to twitter, and one of your followers might respond to it
within 5 minutes.  This list is a MAJOR reason I knew who to follow on
twitter in the first place.

Anyway... Wanted to +1 what Schlomo was saying.

Bill Cammack
http://billcammack.com

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "schlomo rabinowitz"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> One thing about this list that will never change is that this was
the place
> where the pioneers in uncharted territory would discuss
videoblogging.  The
> list may not have high educational content now, but the archives are
filled
> with it.
> For those that can understand this:  This list is like The Well. 
Very few
> people think about The Well anymore, but its place in history is
undisputed.
> 
> 
> And there are sexier people on this list than that were on The Well
in its
> early days:)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Schlomo Rabinowitz
> http://schlomolog.blogspot.com
> http://hatfactory.net
> AIM:schlomochat
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

Re: [videoblogging] Easy code generator for High Quality YouTube embeds

[Robin Harford]

Thanks for that Rupert, that's really helpful.

Robin

2008/6/26 Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've created a tool which generates the right HTML code to embed High
> Quality YouTube videos. Instead of you having to fiddle around
> altering the code yourselves with the code I posted here last night.

Re: [videoblogging] Easy code generator for High Quality YouTube embeds

[Brook Hinton]

Yay Rupert!


Brook Hinton
film/video/audio art
www.brookhinton.com
studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab


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[videoblogging] Essay on Photographers' Rights

[Adam Quirk]

http://www.maximumsorrow.com/writing/whyineverprintmyphotos.html

I have encountered the police dozens of times while taking photos in
> America. Once, while photographing houses at night, a squad car with blazing
> searchlights swarmed me for questioning as a pair of officers physically
> restrained a bath-robed homeowner who was screaming at me from a nearby
> yard, "there he is, that's him! He was taking photos of my boat!" I have
> been tailed by white security vans around the perimeters of office parks,
> had my ID examined at length on manicured lawns, been shouted at from moving
> vehicles, had my license plate number written down by dads and various men
> wearing sunglasses, and waited patiently in parking lots for my background
> to be checked via police radio.


The police here in NYC are under considerable pressure from higher-ups to
play the part of Big Brother.  And since it's the biggest tourist city in
America, it makes it even more difficult for them to figure out who is an
enemy combatant and who is taking pictures to show Grandma.

I'd be interested to hear some other folks ideas of privacy vs. artists'
rights.  Once you had kids, did it change?


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Re: [videoblogging] Essay on Photographers' Rights

[Brook Hinton]

That is awesome Adam, thanks for posting it.
I'm totally in the Life is Richer Thanks to Cartier-Bresson camp here.
Ironically, France now has some of the most restrictive laws regarding
public photography in the western world. C-B could not work there now.

I believe the documentation, analysis and artistic interpretation of
unstaged human public activity is essential for the advancement of art,
life, and knowledge. Speaking subjectively, my world would be infinitely
poorer, both spiritually and intellectually, without the work that has been
done in this area. I would also be a far lesser person - this is the work
that reminds us of our humanity, our connection to other human beings, and
our fleeting existence in time as mortals on earth. The faces and gestures
and actions revealed and captured (and even interpretively altered altered
in some cases) in this work are the real core of understanding humanity,
revealing or provoking aspects of life that words alone - even in those
sciences of human and social behaviour - or staged simulations, lack the
capacity to grasp.

All of that said, the age of hypercommercialization, infinite digital
reproduceability and humans as "property" is making me question my own
perhaps unconscious role in supporting systems I despise through work of
this sort. I've just started a project (not a vlog though) on the subject
which I'm designing partly to attack my own views on this subject and force
me to think about them more deeply.

That's my pretentious take on it. It goes beyond rights for me. Now I'll
shut up before I start ranting and raving about walled communities and the
decline of public space and on and on..

Brook



On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Adam Quirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>   http://www.maximumsorrow.com/writing/whyineverprintmyphotos.html
>
> I have encountered the police dozens of times while taking photos in
> > America. Once, while photographing houses at night, a squad car with
> blazing
> > searchlights swarmed me for questioning as a pair of officers physically
> > restrained a bath-robed homeowner who was screaming at me from a nearby
> > yard, "there he is, that's him! He was taking photos of my boat!" I have
> > been tailed by white security vans around the perimeters of office parks,
> > had my ID examined at length on manicured lawns, been shouted at from
> moving
> > vehicles, had my license plate number written down by dads and various
> men
> > wearing sunglasses, and waited patiently in parking lots for my
> background
> > to be checked via police radio.
>
> The police here in NYC are under considerable pressure from higher-ups to
> play the part of Big Brother. And since it's the biggest tourist city in
> America, it makes it even more difficult for them to figure out who is an
> enemy combatant and who is taking pictures to show Grandma.
>
> I'd be interested to hear some other folks ideas of privacy vs. artists'
> rights. Once you had kids, did it change?
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>



-- 
___
Brook Hinton
film/video/audio art
www.brookhinton.com
studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab


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[videoblogging] phili based video bloggers, interns and designers wanted

[mboxser]

Hi,

A phili based web video company is looking for interns- do you have 
final cut or design experience? Web savvy? Also looking for show 
producers to pitch original content and great ideas. Good starting 
place for video bloggers who want to make original shows and get paid. 

Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Many thanks,

Marc Boxser

Re: [videoblogging] Easy code generator for High Quality YouTube embeds

[schlomo rabinowitz]

Awesome! Especially since most of my Video Bathroom is filled with YouTube
videos.
Who else uses tumblr? Mine is: 

One thing I love about tumblr is how people are using the service.
 Obviously, most are re-blogging, but many are not.

And, like they tell me in all the Social Network books, its good to Follow
each other. I want to be a follower of you!



On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>   I've created a tool which generates the right HTML code to embed High
> Quality YouTube videos. Instead of you having to fiddle around
> altering the code yourselves with the code I posted here last night.
>
> Most people I've told today seem pretty indifferent - but it makes a
> phenomenal difference to the quality of the video.
>
> If you play the two versions of Epic FU I've embedded on http://
> twittervlog.tumblr.com/ together, you can see that difference for
> yourselves, especially in shots of Zadi in the studio.
>
> The colours and resolution are better than you get with a Blip flash
> player. And you get to use YouTube without sacrificing quality.
>
> Anyway, for anybody who does see the difference and wants it, my
> embed code generator is here:
> http://www.twittervlog.tv/high-quality-youtube-embed-generator.html
>
> Rupert
> http://twittervlog.tv
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "ruperthowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> Date: June 25, 2008 1:32:08 AM PDT (CA)
> To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [videoblogging] How to embed high quality MP4 versions of
> YouTube videos!
> Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com 
>
> I've been reading about how to make YouTube videos look really good.
>
> There's quite a good article here: http://tinyurl.com/6lz636
>
> BUT the most useful thing I discovered was how to link to and embed
> the High Quality MP4 versions that you can toggle to watch on the site.
>
> If you're posting/linking to a YouTube video, add &fmt=18 to the end
> of the URL and it'll play in HQ.
>
> Doesn't work for embeds, but I found a way to cheat it:
> add &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of both URLs in the embed code and
> it'll embed as a High Quality MP4 video.
>
> NO MORE SHITTY YOUTUBE EMBEDS!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5c9e3h
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>



-- 
Schlomo Rabinowitz
http://schlomolog.blogspot.com
http://hatfactory.net
AIM:schlomochat


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[videoblogging] Re: Easy code generator for High Quality YouTube embeds

[Renat Zarbailov]

Tested the code... Works like a charm.
Thanks Rupert! Good job.
On another note, (please forgive me...)
Does anyone know of a fast AVI to WMV converter that produces great
looking youtube vids with good looking youtube thumbnail image? I just
used a trial version of MS Expression Encoder 2 and all the thumbnail
images are looking like abstract art :)
Take a look  

Thanks

Renat Zarbailov of Innomind.org

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've created a tool which generates the right HTML code to embed High
> Quality YouTube videos.  Instead of you having to fiddle around
> altering the code yourselves with the code I posted here last night.
>
> Most people I've told today seem pretty indifferent - but it makes a
> phenomenal difference to the quality of the video.
>
> If you play the two versions of Epic FU I've embedded on http://
> twittervlog.tumblr.com/ together, you can see that difference for
> yourselves, especially in shots of Zadi in the studio.
>
> The colours and resolution are better than you get with a Blip flash
> player.  And you get to use YouTube without sacrificing quality.
>
> Anyway, for anybody who does see the difference and wants it, my
> embed code generator is here:
> http://www.twittervlog.tv/high-quality-youtube-embed-generator.html
>
> Rupert
> http://twittervlog.tv
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "ruperthowe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: June 25, 2008 1:32:08 AM PDT (CA)
> To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [videoblogging] How to embed high quality MP4 versions of
> YouTube videos!
> Reply-To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
>
> I've been reading about how to make YouTube videos look really good.
>
> There's quite a good article here: http://tinyurl.com/6lz636
>
> BUT the most useful thing I discovered was how to link to and embed
> the High Quality MP4 versions that you can toggle to watch on the
site.
>
> If you're posting/linking to a YouTube video, add &fmt=18 to the end
> of the URL and it'll play in HQ.
>
> Doesn't work for embeds, but I found a way to cheat it:
> add &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of both URLs in the embed code and
> it'll embed as a High Quality MP4 video.
>
> NO MORE SHITTY YOUTUBE EMBEDS!
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5c9e3h
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>



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[videoblogging] Re:Essay on Photographers' Rights

[Tony Pelliccio]

NYPD does seem to be going off the deep end, but so too do the people that are 
calling the cops. 

If you look at my flickr set you'll see photos of houses, cars, people, and 
streets. Never have I ever been harassed for snapping a picture. 

It's out in public, if I can see it I can photograph it. You cannot prevent me 
from doing so unless it's a top secret installation. 





  

[videoblogging] Wordpress Theme Generator

[schlomo rabinowitz]

Hey all
Thought some of you may want to play with this:


An online form that will generate your own Wordpress template. I havent used
it as I'm on blogspot, but maybe you can make something cool.  Curious about
what people come up with.

-- 
Schlomo Rabinowitz
http://schlomolog.blogspot.com
http://hatfactory.net
AIM:schlomochat


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[videoblogging] Re:Essay on Photographers' Rights

[Robert Croma]

And while they're at it, no bums on cakes: 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7474968.stm

Re: [videoblogging] Easy code generator for High Quality YouTube embeds

[Sull]

i'll follow you. wherever you go, wherever you are, there i am.

http://sull.outputs.it is tumblr.

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:56 PM, schlomo rabinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>   Awesome! Especially since most of my Video Bathroom is filled with
> YouTube
> videos.
> Who else uses tumblr? Mine is: 
>
> One thing I love about tumblr is how people are using the service.
> Obviously, most are re-blogging, but many are not.
>
> And, like they tell me in all the Social Network books, its good to Follow
> each other. I want to be a follower of you!
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Rupert <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I've created a tool which generates the right HTML code to embed High
> > Quality YouTube videos. Instead of you having to fiddle around
> > altering the code yourselves with the code I posted here last night.
> >
> > Most people I've told today seem pretty indifferent - but it makes a
> > phenomenal difference to the quality of the video.
> >
> > If you play the two versions of Epic FU I've embedded on http://
> > twittervlog.tumblr.com/ together, you can see that difference for
> > yourselves, especially in shots of Zadi in the studio.
> >
> > The colours and resolution are better than you get with a Blip flash
> > player. And you get to use YouTube without sacrificing quality.
> >
> > Anyway, for anybody who does see the difference and wants it, my
> > embed code generator is here:
> > http://www.twittervlog.tv/high-quality-youtube-embed-generator.html
> >
> > Rupert
> > http://twittervlog.tv
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: "ruperthowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 40fatgirlinohio.org>>
> > Date: June 25, 2008 1:32:08 AM PDT (CA)
> > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com 
> >  40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [videoblogging] How to embed high quality MP4 versions of
> > YouTube videos!
> > Reply-To: 
> > videoblogging@yahoogroups.com 40yahoogroups.com>
> >
> > I've been reading about how to make YouTube videos look really good.
> >
> > There's quite a good article here: http://tinyurl.com/6lz636
> >
> > BUT the most useful thing I discovered was how to link to and embed
> > the High Quality MP4 versions that you can toggle to watch on the site.
> >
> > If you're posting/linking to a YouTube video, add &fmt=18 to the end
> > of the URL and it'll play in HQ.
> >
> > Doesn't work for embeds, but I found a way to cheat it:
> > add &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of both URLs in the embed code and
> > it'll embed as a High Quality MP4 video.
> >
> > NO MORE SHITTY YOUTUBE EMBEDS!
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/5c9e3h
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Schlomo Rabinowitz
> http://schlomolog.blogspot.com
> http://hatfactory.net
> AIM:schlomochat
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>



-- 
sull.outputs.it


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