Pinboard: bookmarks for McChris tagged 'video'

A Current TV segment discusses an issue I've raised with students: that the Internet has made it difficult for any media to remain an underground secret.

video subculture indie
february 2008 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Details: Experiments in the Revival of Organisms

If you want footage of disembodied dog hearts beating in a lab, you can find it here.

creepy soviet weird video b-roll
february 2008 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Details: Your Name Here Outtakes (Reel 4)

This may be a source of industrial b-roll.

video b-roll archive
february 2008 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Details: All in One

This would be a good source of b-roll of sheep.

video b-roll archive
february 2008 by McChris

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Industry and Traditional Communication

BoingBoing says, "A group of students at an "Interactive Art Director" course at Hyper Island in Sweden have produced a pitch-perfect "educational film" about their field; the short's a great little homage to the golden age of industrial films."

advertising video design nostalgia
february 2008 by McChris

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Bubble 2.0: The 10 most memorable tech Super Bowl ads

This Valleywag puff piece features YouTube videos of memorable technology commercials.

video TV linkbait advertising
february 2008 by McChris

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TV Land Video Player: Hi Honey, I'm Home!

Streaming episodes of the self-referential sitcom are available at this site.

TV TVontheWeb video nostalgia to:watch
january 2008 by McChris

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Talking Points Memo: Fried Squirrel: I'm Loving It!

I'm still chuckling over this video where Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee cops to frying squirrels on a popcorn popper.

food politics humor video scary
january 2008 by McChris

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You're Not My Father

Treewave's Paul Slocum re-enacts a scene from the TV show "Full House" several times with different actors.

art video awesome TV
january 2008 by McChris

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YouTube: Miss Teen USA 2007 South Carolina answers a question

Here's the classic video where a nervous teen flu

video education meme gender Iraq
december 2007 by McChris

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Adland: IBM Do Avatar

I love this ad, and I think its great that IBM can fall for then make fun of the Second Life hype.

SecondLife advertising video humor
december 2007 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Texas Knife-thrower Louella Gallagher throws knives at her daughters

This is the greatest newsreel clip ever.

whoa texas video
november 2007 by McChris

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Crazy Rulers of the World: The Men Who Stare at Goats

This BBC documentary reveals the US Military's interest in psychics and other fringe folks.

to:watch documentary military video weird
november 2007 by McChris

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YouTube - Brian Eno/David Byrne - America Is Waiting

Bruce Conner did the video for the classic Eno/Byrne song.

video YouTube Eno
september 2007 by McChris

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Common Craft Video: Wikis in Plain English

This video describes how to use a wiki as a collaboration tool in organizations.

video howto wiki knowledge_management
may 2007 by McChris

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vixy.net : Online FLV Converter

This online service allows you to download Flash Video (like on YouTube) in archive-friendly formats like DiVX.

TVontheWeb useful Flash video YouTube
april 2007 by McChris

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7 Words You Can't Say in Kindergarten

An amusing video that has children re-enact part of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words."

video humor protest education censorship
march 2007 by McChris

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Monocle: Interview with Lego CEO

In this video interview Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp describes the challenges facing toy manufacturers today.

video business interview toys Lego
february 2007 by McChris

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Four Eyed Monsters: “Humanity Lobotomy”

You should watch this video that compiles clips to make a case for networkneutrality. The most interesting part is how the Final Cut file is available for download.

networkneutrality video FCC media
february 2007 by McChris

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The Artist's Toolkit: Space

I may use this cute little Flash animation explaining positive and negative space in class.

design video
february 2007 by McChris

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YouTube: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

This video describing Web 2.0 by an anthropology professor at Kansas State is formally interesting, but I'd quibble with some technical details and worry it's a bit too utopian.

Web2.0 video utopianism
february 2007 by McChris

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Blogumentary on Google Video
blog documentary video
february 2007 by McChris

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Mediageek: Lame Retro-Geek Mash Note

Paul reminds readers that the Laserdisc format used analog encoding, despite its optical technology. I always wonder why the record labels don't introduce a similar sound format if they're so concerned about mp3 sharing.

oldmedia video DVD
january 2007 by McChris

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ABC News: Amanda Gets a Shock in Vegas

Marketdroids taser Amanda Congdon and her cheekbones at CES. "Oh my God," Congdon says, "I feel tingly."

video awesome
january 2007 by McChris

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Radical Software

I keep meaning to post this video art magazine from the 1970s. Now I have.

archive art history video magazine
december 2006 by McChris

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YouTube: War Pigs

The Flaming Lips and Chan Marshall of Cat Power cover Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" on Austin City LImits. I teach in the building where ACL is taped.

video indierock OKC austin YouTube
december 2006 by McChris

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Banksy: Films

Videos reveal how street artist Banksy conducted his pranks, such as dropping Guantanamo "detainee" dummy behind a fence at Disneyland.

streetart prank awesome video
november 2006 by McChris

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Joystiq: Girl in Austin not sure about PS3, waits in line for fun

This video is so Austin on so many levels. First, only in Austin do people stand in line just because something seems cool and, secondly, bundle up for 60-degree weather.

austin stupid gaming video
november 2006 by McChris

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Variety: VHS, 30, dies of loneliness

Variety eulogizes the venerable VHS cassette.

oldmedia end-of-life video
november 2006 by McChris

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Video shot by Brad Will immediately before his death

This loosely edited video is a must-watch since it provides an amazing window into the violence in Oaxaca. The video ends with an absolutely chilling first-person shot of Brad's death.

Oaxaca video indymedia Mexico whoa
october 2006 by McChris

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SubGenius Foundation - Google Video

Although I owned SubGenius books and whatnot as a lad, I'd never seen any of their video until I ran across these on Google Video.

TVontheWeb video religion satire whoa
october 2006 by McChris

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Break.com: Smells Like Teen Spirit

A high-school orchestra performs the Nirvana hit in this amateur video. No fair: the coolest thing we ever got to play in high school was "Caravan."

music video education
october 2006 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Showdown in Seattle

I was looking for videos from the N30 protests to show in class today, Students are snickering...

video history labor citizensmedia indymedia archive environmentalism economics
october 2006 by McChris

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The History Of Hacking - Google Video

Via Cory Arcangel, this TLC documentary from 2001 doesn't present a lot of information new to me, but it's interesting to watch Kevin Mitnick and Captain Crunch talk about their lives.

hacking documentary history video cable
september 2006 by McChris

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Prisoners of Katrina - Google Video

BBC documentary about inmates at Orleans Parish Prison kept in lockup as the city flooded. It's interesting how the sheriff was politicking all through Katrina and its aftermath.

documentary disaster politics video
september 2006 by McChris

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Lights Out: The halcyon days of film programming at the University of Texas

An older story that discusses how the VCR killed public screenings at UT-Austin.

film video utexas austin oldmedia history
august 2006 by McChris

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Bush Explains His "Ek-A-Lec-Tic" Reading List: "I Also Read Three Shakespeares"...

This had me rolling when I saw it on MSNBC. Brian Williams presses the president on the news that he read Camus's The Stranger - a book about a white man killing an Arab for no reason - and hilarity ensues.

video books news politics
august 2006 by McChris

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U B U W E B - Joseph Beuys: "Sonne statt Reagan"

Oh my, here's a 1982 music video starring Joseph Beuys. He's singing a song protesting US President Ronald Reagan's defense policy, and it's as unkrautrocklich as imaginable.

video anti-war art history weird
august 2006 by McChris

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Technology Review: Capturing Online Video Pirates

A company called Guba says it has developed a technology that would enable video-sharing sites like YouTube to compare uploaded videos to a database of copyrighted works and prevent unauthorized distribution. The article doesn't say if the "fingerprints"

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Macrovision Trying To Plug the Analog Hole with a Suit

Mediageek discusses Macrovision's lawsuit against Sima Products, which sells signal-correction "bricks" that allow, among other things, media studies instructors to make nice looking clip tapes.

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Not Coming to a Theater Near You

This blog-like site has features about movies that won't be in wide distribution and capsule reviews of forgotten chestnuts.

film review video distribution blog
august 2006 by McChris

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New Mac Ads!

Via Plasticbag,org, an excellent parody of those annoying hipster Apple ads that make me embarrassed to love my Mac.

OSX parody video
july 2006 by McChris

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zefrank on ugly MySpace profiles

This vlog post situates ugly MySpace profiles within the history of print design and adds a little Web 2.0 sassy sauce.

myspace design typography production authorship history video
july 2006 by McChris

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KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion!

A service that allows users to download online videos to the hard drive.

TVontheWeb google video useful
june 2006 by McChris

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Technology Review: Taking Media in Our Own Hands
academic copyright citizensmedia production video pxl-2000
may 2006 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Details: Media Burn

I was looking around for this for a presentation tomorrow, and, sweet sassy molassy, Ant Farm's groundbreaking video Media Burn is available on the Internet Archive.

history media TV video art archive
may 2006 by McChris

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Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner

Crooks and Liars entry with video of Stephen Colbert's address to the president and press. It's hard to imagine anyone taking "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenberg" in stride.

humor awesome politics video TVontheWeb satire
april 2006 by McChris

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Internet Video Services Primed for Explosive Growth

Market research firm IDC expects Internet video to to grow to be a $1.7 billion business by 2010. That actually sounds a little low.

media video business TVontheWeb
april 2006 by McChris

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SFFS International Remix

Online tool that allows you to re-edit clips from films in the San Francisco Film Festival. Take that, Chevy Tahoe!

video film neato mashup
april 2006 by McChris

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Austin Pillow Fight

Video footage from the local paper of the Austin pillow fight.

austin silly video newspaper
april 2006 by McChris

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Netflix awarded business model patent, immediately sues Blockbuster

I'm no fan of Blockbuster, but I like business model and software patents even less.

intellectualproperty patents business video
april 2006 by McChris

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Reel.com: DVD Royalty

Interview with the president of the Criterion Collection, Peter Becker. The criterion re-releases classic films on DVD and formerly LaserDisc. I wish they'd hurry up and release Alex Cox's _Walker_ on DVD.

video film history archive business
march 2006 by McChris

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BBC NEWS | Technology | The rise of clip culture online

article from a media studies professor arguing that teh Internets are fostering a "clip culture," where short clips of video are central.

video file-sharing copyright
march 2006 by McChris

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Build a Blue Screen for $30

I'm not sure this could compare to a production-quality chroma screen, but it might be worth trying as an experiment.

DIY film video
march 2006 by McChris

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Bradley Horowitz » Capture v. Derive

"It is easier, cheaper and more accurate to capture metadata upstream, than to reverse engineer it downstream."