I don't have much to add to the conversation at the moment, but a vlog tour sounds fucking awesome and I'd love to be a part of it!
Josh On Aug 26, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Philip Clark wrote: > Thanks for the email Jan, I've decided to share my reply with the > list. > > Of course you can crash at my place, I live alone in the woods in a > seven-bedroom farmhouse. I have room for the whole crew. In fact, I > have contacts all the way from Halifax to Toronto. We won't have > any worries about a place to sleep. > > I'm thinking we should run this like a rock'n'roll tour. We could > set up in venues like the Khyber Club in Halifax, Gallery Connexion > in Fredericton, WAR Gallery in Montreal. The galleries are ideal > because they double as performance spaces and also there are no > specific corporate overtones like at a store. WAR Gallery, for > example, has a stage, projector, giant screen, wireless internet > and I could probably get it for free. > > So we'll show up and give a workshop in the early evening. People > can shoot their own videos and we'll upload them to a cross-country > group vlog. And then at night we'll have a party. We'll come back > to the space and I will perform live electronic music and Jan will > VJ (although she may not realize it yet) and she will mix in > excerpts from the day's videos while everyone dances their asses off. > > The workshops will be for free, and we will make money from the > parties. And also--as any touring band will tell you--from selling > merchandise. Who wants an official "Vlog Voyeur" t-shirt? Please > specify small medium or large. > > On 24-Aug-05, at 4:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> And don't expect Sony to come rushing to your door to sponsor your >> road trip. Maybe they will, but the chances are, if they're >> looking for ways to support videoblogging, they'll look at several >> different "nodes" and decide that door-to-door revivalism isn't a >> cost-efficient way of getting the word out. >> > > Tours mean publicity and there's a precedent for big companies > wanting to be involved. I just sent off an email to Sony Canada's > manager of customer relationships & retail marketing. Maybe she'll > recognize the tour as a good opportunity for them. If they don't > somebody else will. Although I'm not too worried about > sponsorships. We can easily make it happen on our own. > > The road trips could do a lot for videoblogging. I suspect there > are limitations to introducing people to a new internet phenomenon > by writing about it on the internet. In Halifax, for example, > blogging didn't really blow up huge until the fall of 2003, when a > bunch of people got written up... in the local newspaper. > > A vision of 2007. We pull into town in a giant bus, twice the > length of Taylor's RV. It is specially outfitted with a pair of > Final Cut Pro workstations, a hot-tub and a green-screen on one > wall. The bus rolls right into the centre of town and parts in a > wireless hotspot. On the side of the bus in giant letters: > "Videoblog Tour 2007, brought to you by the Apple G6." (A couple > people with binoculars look down from a window at Sony HQ and say > "Boy I wish we'd answered that guy's email." ) > > Anyone at all is welcome to come in off the street and upload a > video. We're right in the middle of everything with our cameras. > Little kids cheer at our approach. Politicians are fearful. > > Well, anything's possible. > > >> Obviously, you've decided to take time off from the rest of your >> life to do this >> > > This is the rest of my life. > > xo philip > http://swordfight.org > http://hotaction.ca/destroy ____________________________________________ "Don't hate the media, become the media."- Jello Biafra ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
