This is probably the sickest breakdancing I’ve ever seen.

(~7 MB .wmv) VIA Compfused.

Courtesy of the ol’ ACGang list.

I was browsing the torrent of emails from the VideoBlogging Yahoo Group and I came upon this email:

Friends…

Didn’t know where else to get this out there, thought it was definitely worth sharing.  I read Francois Truffaut’s biography in the fall, and wrote this down, well before I knew anything about vlogging, it was something I was trying to achieve in my own films, and now I realize he predicted vlogging well before digital technology became so readily accessible (he died in 1984).

For those of you interested, here’s the quote:

"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.  The young filmmakers will express themselves in the first person and will relate what has happened to them:  it may be the story of their first love or their most recent; of their political awakening; the story of a trip, a sickness, their military service, their marriage, their last vacation…and it will be enjoyable because it will be true and new…The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.  The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.  The film of tomorrow will be an act of love."

                        –Francois Truffaut

much respect…

Erik Nelson

This e-mail led me to what has to be my favorite video blog post of all time.

I enjoyed it so much I did my own little remix (I simply put the original track over top of the video)

Much respect to you Erik.

You know how people make shapes on buildings at night by using the lights in the building?  These dudes took that idea to the next level and hacked together a system that lets you play video games like Tetris on the side of a building using your cell phone.  (watch this animated .gif)  Pure genius.

Via The Abbott.

Videos here.

Images here.

Thursday .Mov fun.

Ann Coulter loves Canada.

O’Reilly lies.

Skype Ad.

Wokboarding. Yes Wok.

All these videos came from feeds on Me-Tv that I can’t remember.

"Last is a clock that is a record of its own history. Like a familiar
analogue clock, it has a second hand, a minute hand and an hour hand.
The hands are arranged in concentric circles, the outermost circle
being seconds, the middle circle is minutes, and the innermost circle
hours. Each of the hands of Last are made from a slice of live video
feed. As the hands rotate around the face of the clock they leave a
trace of what has been happening in front of the camera. Once Last has
been running for 12 hours, you end up with an easy-to read mandala of
archived time."

Check a video of the clock in action.

(more…)

For all you google searchers looking for video blogs check these sites out:

Videoblogging.info
Free Vlog
Mefeedia

I posted a couple of short films that I was involved with in film school.  Check out Four Spots which I DP’d (director of photography’d) and Growing Up which I "Produced" and was the First Assistant Director on. 

I haven’t posted the films that I wrote and directed at film school yet cause my family hasn’t even seen them.

Here’s a little video I put together for fun last night out of footage that a buddy of mine and I shot for no particular reason.  The song comes from the Kleptones new album and its called Revolverlution.

Enjoy. 

Occasional Link of Note:

The Wurst Gallery’s Vintage Vandals:

"each artist was asked to find a framed piece of artwork at their local thrift store and manipulate it into a piece of their own. select an artist below to see the results."

Thanks Sharyn for the link.