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Christian Marclay | Frieze Magazine
"Christian Marclay’s installation Tape Fall (1989) is a grower." A review from October 2002 about the artist's installation at SFMOMA. See also: "Video Quartet (2002), a new piece commissioned by San Francisco MOMA and the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, is a much more ambitious approach to the intertwining of sound and vision. The 14-minute piece consists of four parallel audio-video channels, each one a montage of hundreds of musical scenes from classic Hollywood films, fused together into a dense and bewildering mix."
art  christianmarclay  sfmoma  frieze  review  installation  video  sculpture  from instapaper
8 weeks ago by blech
How Christian Marclay created “The Clock” | The New Yorker
On the art world's most recent hit, The Clock, and its creator. Lots of interesting tidbits here, such as his willingness to turn a blind eye to other's copyright to create his art while insisting that its display be under his control. I still want to see it, mind you.
art  film  video  copyright  christianmarclay  newyorker  newyork  london  twitter/capture  via:@objetsmart 
9 weeks ago by blech
No Copyright Intended | Waxy.org
"Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give."
copyright  copyfight  ip  youtube  future  law  video  music  mp3  via:deusx 
december 2011 by blech
‪Stand Your Ground‬‏ | YouTube
"On Tuesday 21 June 2011 six photographers were assigned different areas of the City to photograph. Some used tripods, some went hand held, one set up a 5 x 4. All were instructed to keep to public land and photograph the area as they would on a normal day." "All six photographers were stopped on at least one occasion. Three encounters led to police action."
video  london  photography  police  law  securitytheatre  via:tomtaylor  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
The nytimes they are a-changin' | phillmv
"Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour from September 2010 to July 2011, I accidentally collected about 12,000 screenshots of the front page of the nytimes.com." "As a rule of thumb no one is storing their frontpage layout data. It's all gone, and once newspapers shutter their physical distribution operations I get this feeling that we're no longer going to have a comprehensive archive of how our news-sources of note looked on a daily basis."
newspapers  nytimes  video  design  time  from delicious
july 2011 by blech
Chronicler of suburban sprawl Nick Papadimitriou | BBC News - Newsnight
"The writer Nick Papadimitriou has spent decades taking walks to explore the urban environment, and documenting these journeys and the items he finds on them in minute detail." It's a bit weird seeing the three people the BBC chose to praise him- Will Self and Iain Sinclair, fine, but Russell Brand? Good stuff, though.
london  suburbia  topographer  psychogeography  video  from delicious
march 2011 by blech
Conductor in progress video | Alexander Chen
"Tentatively titled Conductor, it recreates the New York subway system as a musical instrument. It’s currently built in HTML5 + Javascript. SVG was very useful, as I could create the design in Illustrator, then import the coordinates into Javascript." "I decided to use Vignelli’s beautiful 1972 subway map as a starting point for the design."
nyc  newyyorkcity  subway  transport  music  html5  javascript  svg  audio  visualisation  video  map  @shashashasha  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
Convert and Download Videos to iTunes | Evom
"Convert your movies and download flash videos from the internet." Earlier this year I had a huge pile of unwatched video URLs which would have been great to have on the iPhone, Instapaper-style. Luckily, it seems as if waiting long enough is enough to make products happen.
video  youtube  iphone  offline  instatelly  tools  software  application  macosx  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
go see three screen ray in person | this is sippey.com
He's right: if you're in San Francisco, this weekend or next go and see Three Screen Ray at SFMOMA. (I'm intending to post a still to Flickr at some point; hopefully it won't get served with the takedown notice that hit the videos.)
sanfrancisco  art  video  film  music  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
Vancouver 2010 - Olympics Live | BBC Sport
This is the page I need to bookmark so I can actually watch stuff live.
bbc  video  olympics  sport 
february 2010 by blech
This Is a Photoshop; It Blew My Mind | Gizmodo
Gizmodo on Photosketch. "Take any rough sketch, with the shape of each element labeled with its name, find images corresponding to each drawn element, judge which are a better match to the shapes, and then seamlessly merge it all into one single image." Just watch the video.
photography  montage  photoshop  metadata  video  technology  graphics  via:migurski  via:zimpenfish 
october 2009 by blech
Ghostbusters - Full Movie | YouTube
This might be nice if it weren't for our old friend, "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions."
video  us  copyright  ghostbusters  sigh  via:jzawodn 
august 2009 by blech
Unit Four Plus Two (Concrete and Clay) | British Pathe
'The fantastic "Concrete and Clay" is performed by the Unit Four Plus Two on the site of the Barbican which is under construction. Pathe Pictorial use the setting as a literal interpretation of the song'
london  video  barbican  music 
july 2009 by blech
Hovercraft still afloat 50 years on | BBC News
A BBC News story on the 50th anniversary of the hovercraft's public debut (coinciding with the hovercraft museum open day, too). Includes video of a prototype hovercraft flying down the Thames past the Houses of Parliament.
hovercraft  bbc  news  transport  failedfuture  london  video 
july 2009 by blech
London Landmarks | British Pathe
Lots of tourist sites but also a bunch of now-demolished 50s/60s architecture in the backgrounds, plus Battersea Power Station in full steam and the building site for the National Theatre. See also ID 69398.
london  video  flash  landmarks 
july 2009 by blech
Free Download: London Airport | Internet Archive
If you liked the first episode of BBC Four's Secret Life of the Airport, or just want to know what Heathrow was like when it was the village of Heath Row, this is probably worth watching.
london  history  airport  heathrow  video  aviation 
july 2009 by blech
Nearest Tube Augmented Reality App | YouTube
Coming for the iPhone 3GS, apparently. How are they getting camera data? I didn't think there was an official API call for that. Also, not yet on the App Store, so no idea about the pricing, and what's with the huge black border on the video? (Why is there only video, for that matter?) Probably also more useful for tourists than Londoners. Still, quibbles aside, interesting to see apps like this emerging.
london  iphone  video  underground  tube  augmentedreality  via:@tim 
july 2009 by blech
Barton's Britain: Sizewell | guardian.co.uk
A video about Sizewell, Suffolk's nuclear power station. Nice pictures and a nicely poetic narrative from Laura Barton.
suffolk  sizewell  electricity  guardian  video 
may 2009 by blech
Clipstart | Riverfold Software
I'm currently battling with iMovie to process some videos, and it's not fun. This non-free (but reasonably cheap) app looks promising, although I haven't tried it yet. In particular, it sets "date taken" on Flickr when it uploads a video; unlike photos, there's not a metadata standard for videos with the ubiquity of EXIF, so using the file's metadata is definitely a Good Thing.
application  video  flickr  mac  via:daringfireball 
may 2009 by blech
David Hockney: Painting With Light (1/5) | YouTube
Mind you, Hockney's not exactly new to playing about with technology (as the Mail says): here's the TV show of him messing around with the Quantel Paintbox in the 1980s (with thanks to Phil Gyford who mentioned this at breakfast).
art  video  quantelpaintbox 
may 2009 by blech
The Robot Who Helps Astronomers Identify Stars | io9.com
Yay Foe! A short video on IO9 discussing the Astrometry bot and its use on Flickr and with the NMM's group there.
io9  science  astronomy  machinetags  video  foeromeo 
march 2009 by blech
Watch: Simon Reynolds | FACT magazine
"Simon Reynolds - Lecture on the Hardcore Continuum at FACT Liverpool (featuring a discussion with Mark 'K-Punk' Fisher" I saw this at work (we were looking at website designs) and then migurski noted an upcoming lecture, so I thought it was worth digging out.
music  video  techno  towatch  lecture  discussion 
march 2009 by blech
Tick Tock | Flickr Blog
A short post introducing the Flickr Clock pool, which takes videos and puts them into what looks like it'll be a very nice looking Stamen... interactive thingy? Interestingly, submissions have to use machine tags with the time:hour namespace:predicate pair, because video sucks and doesn't have metadata.
flickr  video  stamen  machinetags  via:blackbeltjones 
january 2009 by blech
A Typographic Survey of the City of London | Vimeo
A nice survey of the various typefaces used by the City of London, its Corporation, and the Barbican Art Centre. (Maybe a video would be a good way for me to talk about highwalks, finally.)
london  design  type  video  documentary  blogcomment 
january 2009 by blech
The Long Decline of Reading | Mssv
"The situation is undeniably bad. What’s going to happen next?" Adrian Hon talks about the future of books.
books  reading  culture  video  internet  games 
december 2008 by blech
video play snippet for iPhone | Flickr API
digitalnomad asked how to get embed codes for the new, iPhone friendly MP4 videos from Flickr. I'm not sure my answer is exactly what he was looking for, but it might be useful to people anyway.
flickr  video  iphone  quicktime  html  sharing 
december 2008 by blech
Saint Etienne | Monocle
"St Etienne have mined the rainy pavements, smoky cafés and sweaty nightclubs of London to tell cinematic stories of life, love and iconic architecture." A video interview on Monocle.
video  saintetienne  interview  monocle  london  music 
october 2008 by blech
Tonite Let’s All Make Movies in London | boicozine
A reasonable list of art films about/in London, including the classic triumvirate of London, Finisterre and The London Nobody Knows, but also some works of fiction like The Young Americans and Naked.
london  film  list  video 
october 2008 by blech
International Video, featuring iPlayer vs Hulu | more chaff
An oldie, for everyone linking to the MTV video site today. " I don't have much of a problem with the fact that Hulu is US only... My problem is with people assuming that, just because something is available to them, it's available to everyone they care about."
video  international  copyright 
october 2008 by blech
MTV Launches Music Video Archive | Laughing Squid
This looks nice. Of course, what would a video service be without geoblocking? This doesn't disappoint, showing big red "not outside the US" screens. Just as annoying, there's no upfront warning of it either in this post or on the archive itself.
music  video  archive  media  copyright  blogcomment  via:ffg 
october 2008 by blech
Philippe Priasso's duet with a digger | guardian.co.uk
Why do I always find out about these things after they've finished? And why don't the Guardian offer embeddable video? (Ads, I suppose.)
london  event  dance  video  guardian  via:megp 
october 2008 by blech
Storrow Drive Commute | Flickr
'Setting a map "point" for a photo is fine in nearly all cases, but for many or even most videos, the concept doesn't work. ... Flickr should let you should be able to trace a line, set waypoints, or at least set start & end points for video uploads.' Yes, it's a lot of work, but Chris might have a point here.
flickr  video  maps  geowanking  geotagging 
october 2008 by blech
Production Quality Applications on GAE | Google I/O
Video and slides from a talk a while ago on how to build good apps on Google App Engine. Covers profiling and has a version of the "email on error" recipe. (I've read the slides but not watched it.)
google  appengine  presentation  towatch  video  python  testing 
september 2008 by blech
Stephen Fry - Happy birthday to GNU | GNU
Stephen Fry continues to cement his reputation as Britain's favourite technologically-inclined national treasure with this video wishing GNU a happy birthday. (Is it ironic, then, that you can see a MacBook Air in the background?)
stephenfry  towatch  video  opensource  gnu  fsf  via:zimpenfish 
september 2008 by blech
Big Ideas (don't get any) | Vimeo
Just to make sure you get the reference, here's the retro-devices-play-Radiohead video that came out earlier this year.
radiohead  video  music  hardware  retro  technology  spectrum  remix 
august 2008 by blech
Radiohead-houseofcards | ianmackinnon.co.uk
What is it with Radiohead fans and absurdly impressive, but undoubtedly time-consiming videos? First Big Ideas (Don't Get Any) and now this (using the data from Google Code).
radiohead  video  visualisation  lego  music  via:pauldwaite 
august 2008 by blech
Iain M Banks and Ken MacLeod | Aye Write!
One to watch later, perhaps: two of the Scottish science fiction authors I like talking to each other at a literary festival earlier this year. Of course, being video, I don't know if it's any good yet, but hopefully it won't turn out to be a waste of time. (Oh for transcripts.)
iainbanks  kenmacleod  video  towatch  sciencefiction  conversation 
august 2008 by blech
Britain seen from above | BBC News
BBC News pimping their TV shows again, but what a show: this is a video of some of the best bits of Britain from the Air, which will feature visualitions of such things as air traffic, London taxis, ships in the Channel and telephone exchanges.
uk  bbc  visualisation  traffic  aviation  shipping  taxi  london  gps  video  telephone  via:joshua 
august 2008 by blech
Videos in the Flickr API | code.flickr.com
The official "how to do video via the Flickr API" post, which thankfully doesn't seem to contradict anything in my post from a few weeks ago (which is, shockingly, top result for 'flickr video api' - for now).
flickr  video  api  howto  documentation 
may 2008 by blech
Newsnight Gold: Arts complex | BBC News
A retro wonder as Joan Bakewell looks at the Barbican. Good bits: titles, nominative determinism ("Henry Wrong, Administrator"), a look at the old signage. Bad bits: a long dull intro, and it cuts off just as it gets going.
london  barbican  video  news  arts  architecture  design  history  date:1981 
april 2008 by blech
Life in London captured digitally | BBC News
"a snapshot of London is taken every five seconds from the banks of the River Thames" by a bank of digital cameras. Interesting, but sponsored, and the official site is Flash and not very skimmable. Oh, and the report is video. Only there for three days.
london  news  photography  art  time  video  via:arp 
april 2008 by blech
Discussing Video? | Flickr Ideas
In reply to the "who asked for video?" comment that seems a standard part of the "no to video" rhetoric, here's people wanting video on Flickr. In 2004. Before I'd posted a photo, and most of the commenters had even joined.
flickr  video  comment 
april 2008 by blech
WorldWide Telescope (video) | TED Talks
Not a bad teaching tool, I suppose, but it's not unique (Google Sky) and the hyperbole is nauseating. A revolution on a par with Galileo? Please. The name's awful, too, candace points out: a telescope gives you new data, not just new combinations.
science  astronomy  microsoft  visualisation  maps  video  planetarium  via:plasticbag  via:foe 
march 2008 by blech
Revealing Paris Through Velib' Data | 7.5th Floor
A nice video showing the amount of the Velib rental bicycles at each of the stations for a single day in February 2008.
paris  bicycle  transport  google  google/earth  visualisation  video  data  youtube  via:cityofsound 
march 2008 by blech
Nuclear Weapons Test - Hardtack-Teak | YouTube
Exoatmospheric atomic bomb test. Skip to the end of the video for the really freaky second of daylight-during-nighttime. Wikipedia has a little more detail on the Teak test in particular, which distrupted the ionosphere.
nuclear  weapon  testing  video  history 
february 2008 by blech
Reach From The Sky | FUJIFILM UK Motion Picture
On the filming of the Catherine Yass art piece, Descent, at Canary Wharf.
london  art  video  interview  architecture  craneporn 
january 2008 by blech
Hulu Blog Beta testing begins for Hulu
I'm wondering why the comments are quite so harsh on this, when I've not seem the same geographic complaints about iTMS or iPlayer. Is it the technology (comparisons with YouTube) or the price (free implies freely available), or something else?
us  video  technology  television 
october 2007 by blech
Launch day for video site Hulu.com
One of the Guardian's technology blogs reports breathlessly on Hulu, without actually mentioning the geographical restriction on most of the videos hosted there, which, for a UK site, certainly seems like an oversight.
guardian  tv  video  online  digital  blogcomment 
october 2007 by blech
FourDocs Archive - London - Patrick Keiller
One of the seminal London narrative/documentary films, now available free for streaming on the Channel 4 site. Seemed to work for me on Windows.
channel4  london  video  documentary  via:antimega 
july 2007 by blech
Nintendo tests interactive fan network
Odd, this. At some baseball games you can get TV feeds (interesting), play games and order food from your DS (via a temporary upload). Not that anybody's publicising it much.
nintentdo  ds  video  sport 
july 2007 by blech
jwz's livejournal - iDVD
"I'm pretty sure they are the worst designed, worst implemented, and buggiest software that Apple has ever released." Interesting comments on iMovie's history and wondering if inexperienced users get more out of the iApps.
apple  comment  video  editing  dvd 
may 2007 by blech
Apple (UK and Ireland) - Final Cut Studio 2 - Color
Not "Colour"? Tut. Yesterday's comments about embedded sound and video go for this page too; watch out.
apple  uk  language  video 
april 2007 by blech
Apple - Final Cut Server
You'd think that a site for a professional product wouldn't have an embedded auto-starting movie with sound, but you'd be wrong. I still don't like Apple's new too-wide pages either.
apple  software  video 
april 2007 by blech
Last.tv
"a music video player which matches your music taste from last.fm to videos on YouTube" I've wondered if I should submit music videos I've watched to last.fm. Can't quite decide. Maybe this does that too?
video  music  lastfm  media  social 
april 2007 by blech
FO: film & TV: Children of Men
Nice stuff here. I think the film was a bit grim for my tastes at the cinema but if I'd waited for the DVD I'd have raved more about it. The design stuff here is *very* good.
advertising  design  film  video  london  sciencefiction 
february 2007 by blech
Wired News: Goodbye TV, Hello Broadband
Broadband seems to be able to replace broadcast, although you really have to be in the US to do so legally. Also of note: "À la carte content costs money. TV shows at $2 a pop, and movies at $10-plus, add up." Murdoch's rubbing his hands already.
television  culture  broadband  video  post-tivo 
december 2006 by blech
Macintouch Reader Report - HD Video
"a proof-of-concept application demonstrating Apple's private API for playing back MPEG-2 clips at up to HD resolution" "on a 1.33 GHz PowerBook it can play back a 1080p (1920x1080 progressive) MPEG-2 stream with perfect fluidity"
macosx  macintouch  report  application  video 
november 2006 by blech
RealNetworks to support WMV on Linux
"Real is now entitled to include support for Microsoft's proprietary video formats in its video player products" but presumably not the DRM
video  linux  realmedia 
august 2006 by blech
Londonist: Shooting in London part three - Capital Gusset
LONDON BRIDGE is not TOWER BRIDGE and I am on a one man mission to correct people on Flickr (well, until I get yelled at)
london  londonist  music  video  awful  blogcomment 
july 2006 by blech
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Baggy tshirt! Dodgy overuse of colour! Table football!
saintetienne  video  youtube 
may 2006 by blech
VLC media player for Mac OS X
(not new but) needed to play aacPlus on Mac OS X until iTunes gets its finger out. A really good Unix app port (unlike so many others)
mp3  media  video  tools  apple  aac  radio 
january 2005 by blech
Drums
Product demonstration of a keyboard. Starts off slow, gets a bit insane at the end
gadgets  music  video 
december 2004 by blech
Danmere (video backup)
Same idea as DV Backup, but years ago, to VHS tapes. Also nutty.
backup  video 
december 2004 by blech
Apple - Downloads - System/Disk Utilities - DV Backup 1.4
Genius, if somewhat nutty
apple  backup  video 
december 2004 by blech
QT Tools
Command line interface to QuickTime. Could turn out useful.
apple  macosx  video 
august 2004 by blech

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