12.27.2006

Spring Lambs


Spring Lambs
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan.
Newborn lambs. Spring.



Winter seems the right time to recall spring.

12.25.2006

customs


customs
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan.

union & proud


union & proud
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan.

Bread :: Fresh :: Brother's Hands

Yeast. Damp resistence.

From the oven.

Ciabatta.

Celebratory. Obligatory. Finite.

Boots :: Exact


boots exact
Originally uploaded by Jannie-Jan.
A metaphor for life @ the parental units' farmspace.

Is it any wonder I'm a recovering perfectionist / control freak?

This missive arrives with lots of light in the middle of the longest nights.

12.18.2006

The Whitehouse Vlogs & Podcasts!


I love this. Whereas a few minutes ago I was not in the holiday spirit, I am now, thanks to BarneyCam, the first dog's videoblog - click this link to see Barney's 2006 holiday preparations.

The Whitehouse is podcasting and videoblogging and this link will take you to the official page with all the feeds.

Aaah.

Cool.

I'm a subscriber.

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12.17.2006

MSM is Not Mainstream, They're 'Oldstream'


Hugh asks where marketing is headed:

"Here is one thought I came away with: As traditional, Madison-Avenue-style advertising gets more expensive and less relevant by the day, as the traditional mainstream media advertising business model gets continues to nosedive, where is all the client's business going to move to, as it seeks out greener pastures? Google? Perhaps. Purple Cow? Sure. But where else?

"Seriously. Where else?"
First, do let us begin to cease-and-desist referring to the MSM as 'mainstream'. They aren't. But what are they? The MSM is 'oldstream'.

Oldstream Media.

Has a nice kinda ring.

PRODUCT PLACEMENT

Seriously, marketing could be diving head first into product placement. Flickr. Video sites like Google and YouTube, and more pertinent to the instant conversation, to blog / vlog delivery in motion pictures and stills. Pay people who've shown your beer or breakfast cereal in their photos and videos. Just send 'em some real money.

In the still picture environment, that means billboards and banners as background. Begin to deploy these things as 'sets' rather than ads.

Similarly, wearable billboards like tee-shirts and hats with appropriately subtle logos cut through the noise. Lots of folks won't wear clothing with logos. Above all, these wearables should be groundbreakingly fashionable. Someone needs to reinvent the baseball cap and tee-shirt.

Think S.W.A.G. Advertising recipients are good and tired of being hit over the head with hammers; try generosity. Get a popular musical group to write your product into an extant (or new) hit song and give the song away - CC license it 'non-commercial / attribution'.

I'm waiting for the first non-cable television show to air sans ads breaking the narrative flow; product placement could certainly support the entire enterprise. Wouldn't that be something? I'm betting the first show to do it will win a huge audience.

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Image from Ryanne Hodson, who documented the centerpiece I contributed to Vloggercue '05.

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12.15.2006

Five Things Meme :: Faux Press Followup :: Tag Engines



Technorati's graphic representation of the '5things' tag search popularity.






Serra writes, asking where she can have a gander at others' Five Things Meme contributions. Here ya go, Serra:

  • BLIP: Here's the Blip.tv feed. And HERE's Blip's page with all the projects tagged '5things' there. Only 3 items show up so far. I know there are more.
  • TECHNORATI: Here are Technorati's 'Five Things' FEED and PAGE. There are separate pages for blog posts, photos & videos. Cool. Lots more and for longer than I expected.
  • MEFEEDIA: Mefeedia's tage FEED and PAGE show nada as of the date of this post. (Git yer ass over to Mefeedia and tag your shit, yo!)
  • DEL.ICIO.US: Guess the progenitors didn't do a Del.icio.us search on '5things' before they decided on a tag, for the search returns a crapload of unrelated stuff. Gah. Here's the '5things' search PAGE and FEED.
  • FLICKR: Flicker's PAGE and FEED. Whoops - Flickr doesn't generate a feed for tag searches. Surely there's a 'tag search' --> 'feed' hack. Anybody? Plus, my stuff never shows up in Flickr public searches. Sigh.
Well, that was fun. Curious how the early tag engines compare over the long run. Who's using what and how the tag engines pick up on stuff.

So far, Technorati's kickin' everybody's butt.


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Holiday Shopping :: Furi Rachael Ray Ozitech Diamond Fingers Knife Sharpener





My dad really gets a kick out of Rachael Ray's cooking show.

He's needed a knife sharpener for a while, but I'd not found just the right one. No use getting the man anything that isn't just what he wants / needs.

Think this knife sharpener is THE ONE.


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Monster Pod, Gravity Defying, Viscoelastic Morphing Polymer Super Grip Tripod


This, THIS has gone right to the top of my wish list. The wish list is where I go to dream and keep track of interesting tools.

What is 'Viscoelastic Morphing Polymer'? Whatever it is, I like to say the word aloud.


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12.14.2006

Five Things :: Faux Press Edition

Tagged by Chris Ritke, who was tagged by Markus Sandy, who was tagged by Josh Leo. I'm tagging a bunch of folks on the far side, too.

Jen
Serra
Jen
Maureen
Hummingcrow

Tagging everything '5 things'.
Formats available: MP3 Audio (.mp3)

Faux Press Gift Idea :: Contract w/American Underpants


Holiday Gift Ideas. Signed, limited-edition undergarments for men and women.

$40

From their website:

"Political issues today are driven more and more by money and market forces. So much so, that sometimes, the Home of the Brave and Arsenal of Democracy seems little more than a supermarket. Politicians use focus groups and clever marketing ideas to reach out to their constituents. They see us less as fully participating citizens than consumers for buying into their raw ideas and dishonest issues."
They inspire the faux artist as well as faux journalist in me.

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Advertising Campaign...

Greed Sux

Don't understand greed. Never have. Never will.


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12.13.2006

Modern Day Robin Hood


Regular followers of this blog and my art can imagine why these modern day Robin Hood fellas resonate.

Another page from "The World's Longest Open Love Letter"?

Another economics experiment.

Yes. Yes, I think so.


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12.11.2006

Adding Thought Bubbles & Links to Flash Videos



Ran the flash version a recent Faux Press promo through BubblePly's Thought Bubble Generator.

Thanks to Scoble's Link Blog for the pointer.

Link blog sharing is created as a function of Google Reader. Posts marked "share" are collected and an RSS feed is generated. Testing Google Reader these days. Don't know if it's making my blog reading more or less efficient. More on that later.

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Collected Audioworks :: The Search for an Audio Aggregation Machine, Continued...


free player from mysplayer.com

Still in search of the best way to aggregate the Faux Press' audioworks.

Let's see how this one operates.

It's touted as a free player for MySpace - yes, I've now got a MySpace page. Sigh. But the msplayer doesn't work there. Let's see if it works here.

Another downside is you have to enter each mp3 url and title by hand. And, it looks like the number of entries is limited. mp3's are the only format accepted.

Guess this is not the player for me, even though I like the various skins. Shucks.

Wish I could run my feeds through a program that would suck out all the audio ever produced, and let me choose and order the entries. So far, FeedCycle comes closest. You can enter a feed and Feedcycle will scrape it to capture media enclosures. You still have to go to your account page & clean up text formatting (including links), but that's infinitely less taxing than hand-entering all the information.

Feedcycle even picked up the PDF file of one of Hugh McLeod's cartoons sent through this site (Blip with thumbnail flipper code --> Blogger).

The capacity to send image files via RSS in the form of PDF's is critical for media producers, even if media producers don't fully understand their importance yet.

The order of media elements is easily changed with FeedCycle's sweet drag-and-drop interface.

While it picks up Flickr photo posts, it does not include the actual photo in their page. Alas. Don't yet know whether - having edited the photo page at FeedCycle - the photo post will arrive in my inbox.

Looks like their feed scraping engine missed an enclosure HERE, perhaps because I used a flash file along with a direct link to the .mov enclosure. They've gotta have a means to pull out the RSS-capable media from the flash stuff. iTunes and FireANT do. Mefeedia does.

Why-oh-why don't flash and PDF files travel down RSS pipes to aggregators???
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12.10.2006

Documentary Film Making Tool :: Click TV :: Digital Workflow :: Interview Strategy




Did I mention Click.tv?

Yeah. I've mentioned 'em before.

Lanza's the guy.

The workflow has inspired me to collect the filmworks from "The World's Longest Open Love Letter", run 'em through Blip.tv and Click.tv and here @ the Blogger site. This will hopefully help to find the voiceovers in the text and timing of it. Notes.

Perhaps this is a way in which ad-hoc directors among you might be able to field questions for the interview footage that needs to be recorded to stitch the aggregated performance pieces into a cohesive filmwork. A documentary. An art documentary. The next major project that fills the days.

Wonder how this Click.tv flash interface will translate over at Mefeedia. Hmmm. If it translates, I can collect the films over there. In a Mefeedia Collection.

From the pespective of the documentary-as-healing and giving-backness.

Who wants to play?

Find I cannot ask myself the right questions.

Will you help me find the right questions?

Pretty please.

Don't make me beg.

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POST NOTE: Contacted Mike Lanza about the fact that there's a problem with something or other over at Click. He says they're on it.

12/15 - 7:17 p.m. EST: Lanza sent me some new code a couple times. We're working on it.

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Dark Cities :: a Film Poem


An early 16mm film poem.

CREDITS:

DIRECTED BY EDWARD J. REASOR
PRODUCED / WRITTEN BY JAN MCLAUGHLIN
COMPOSER - PHIL PLATTEN
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - THOM OSTROWSKI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - PABLO PAGAN
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR / EDITOR - JANET LEVINE
CAMERA OPERATOR - CHARLES TINSLEY
FOCUS PULLER - ROBERT LOPEZ
DOLLY GRIP - PETER KOBIDZE
GRIP - CHRISTOPHER POOLE
SOUND DESIGN - JAN MCLAUGHLIN
BOOM OPERATOR - JOHN OUTCALT
CHOREOGRAPHY - SHARON O'CONNELL
PRODUCTION DESIGN - DAPHNE TSANTILUS
ART DIRECTOR - VIVIAN BARAD
WARDROBE - LOURDES PAGAN
KEY MAKEUP - JULIANA CRISS
CASTING - ANDREW R. ROSENTHAL
TRANSPORTATION - RALPH WUERTELE
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY - ADRIENNE AURICHIO / BILL EPPRIDGE
CRAFT SERVICES - ANDREW R. ROSENTHAL
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT - HOLLY BOSTWICK
TITLES - ANNE SHIELDS
STORYBOARDS - STERLING M. REASOR
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

12.09.2006

Andreas' Medal :: Vloggercon 'Collaboration'

For inexplicable reasons, created a buttload of these 'medals' for Vloggercon & gave 'em away. Only this one media medal - from Andreas Haugstrup - has returned home in some kind of digital derivative work.

Calling all media medals! Yo!
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

12.08.2006

Pocket Art






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HOST :: tell me everything :: entropy


HOST :: tell me everything :: entropy

Scanning more images of the ID-EA Tag Series.

This, a variation on the Haiku and poking a week bit of fun at our identification-happy culture.

The 13th Annual Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza

This event is something dreamed up with my ex-husband that he continues to produce. Don't much like going out on New Year's Eve, but the day after kinda rocks. Eerily quiet in New York City around noon. A lot of the folks whose body parts you see here are long-time poet-friends.

First posted this mashup / collaboration this summer at The-Hold: poetry, prose, art, multimedia.

Thirteen years ago my ex-husband and I took out an advertisement in the Village Voice.

Since our divorce, I've been increasingly less involved with the event - in part - because the new crop of movers & shakers didn't seem to 'get' the original intent.



The new generation must ever tweak the older generation a wee bit, in a spirit of satirical prodding and artistic commerce.


This year's event is subtitled EVENT HORIZON.


I'm bringing my big ol' projector for folks to use (evangelizing digital filmmaking), and am scheduled to perform between 6 & 8 p.m.

Begin to concieve of a 3-minute film to show at the poets' reunion.


Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
212.614.0505
1/1/2007
2pm - midnight

Got a Webcam? Leave us a Message with SideFlicks


As my colleagues over at Evilvlog have discovered, the webcam message machine in the sidebar slows everything down too much, so I've put it on its own page and linked to that page from the sidebar.

Thanks, Evilvlog.


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12.07.2006

Faux Press :: Sexy


Faux Press :: Sexy

From the ID-EA tag series. Making art of ID's.

One of the things I least like about our current state of affairs is the ubiquitous ID tag.

ID's make better art.

12.05.2006

The Faux Press @ Odeo :: Collected Audioworks



Had forgotten I'd added the Faux Press feed to Odeo's podcast aggregator. Embedding their flash player in order to congregate the collected audio works in on page. Check it out.


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Re-vlog :: Media Nipple on 49Media Podcast


Photo by Chuck Olsen

Holland Wilde is a cultural farmer and maker of the videoblog site "Media Nipple" whose motto is "nipples sell everything."

In the linked post - one of his recent best - he examines the recent media trend of demonizing nature. Holland says:

Television must make money. And one of the very best ways to attract viewer eyeballs is to create fear. This makes Nature a perfect target for exploitation. In a mediated world, humans must fear all that is natural.

Holland collects and shares moving images from the MSM for analysis and shows us where the media's headed. Consuming the soon-to-be Doctor Wilde's media excerpts is an effective antedote to propaganda and highly recommended.

Chris Ritke @ Road Node 101 House
In the media enclosure, Chris Ritke of 49Media interviews Holland on the what's and why's of the necessity of Cultural Farming. Chris is a fine interviewer. I know from experience.

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12.03.2006

"The Architect" in theaters December 1, 2006


"The Architect" - a film for which I did the sound - will be in theaters on December 1.

Was working when the crew screening was scheduled, so I've not seen it yet. Should YOU see it, let me know how it came out. Can't wait for news...

Excellent.

An inverview at Nerve.com with Anthony LaPaglia, who was exceptionally cool to work with.

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12.01.2006

The Faux Press :: Radio Man Hotline / Teamster Jokes / Crew Parking / Film Set Legends / Definition of Judaism
















NYC Film Hotline: 212-714-8045

"Call my hotline, you miserable movie whores!" New York legend, eccentric, and real life movie star Radio Man giggles. This bicycle-powered guy inexplicably shows up at darned near every NY/NJ film set. Bronx, Staten Island, Newark. He's there.

Crew members shake their heads and wonder how in God's name he knows where and when to show up for a meal and news. It's a mystery. And so is he. But his hotline is right on the money. Check it out.

One of the things I love about Radio Man is that he's a default member of the Faux Press, which is why a few years back I took out an advertisement on his hotline. This is the kind of back door marketing I find charming. Marketing, folks.

When eight years ago we met, he was wrapped head-to-toe in garbage bags and duct tape. He's cleaned up his act in the last decade, so you might not these days mistake him for homeless as I at first did.

In his celebrity, he's become an entrepreneur, collecting autographs along side the professional autograph hounds. Professionals are distinguished by the stacks of pre-addressed FedEx envelopes they hold as they wait outside the star campers.

I personally witnessed Radio Man (a/k/a Craig A. Castaldo / Craig-Radioman / Radio Man / Radioman / Craig Radioman Schwartz / Craig Schwartz) emerge from a stretch limo for the Season Five premiere of "The Sopranos" at Radio City Music Hall.

An inveterate sports fan, it's the radio always strapped to his torso that spawned the moniker.

TEAMSTER JOKES

Included in this podcast are the first in a series of Teamster jokes I'm collecting.

I love Teamsters and what they so thanklessly and mysteriously do, not least of which is work at least - at least - 18 hours a day. It's long been a personal mission to help people understand the importance and difficulty of what they do.

Folks laugh because Teamsters sleep as the film crew works. They laugh because they haven't done the math.

They and the trucks arrive on set an hour or more before we do, and can't leave until we're finished. Only after the shooting crew wraps can the trucks be driven an hour to secure storage. It's then Teamsters return home.

FILM SET LEGENDS

John gives us a tease of the John Wayne story he promises to tell as part of The Faux Press' continuing collection of Film Set Legends that began with the nameless production assistant who once lost a day's work to rise from the disaster a producer.




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11.30.2006

Hugh McLeod's Cartoons-on-the-Backs-of-Business-Cards

Crack me up. He's too cynical and real for words.

McLeod's hanging out with Robert and Maryam Scoble this weekend in London. Were I not working today, I'd join 'em. Feel the need for a vacation. Plus, I really want to meet Hugh.

Converted this cartoon to pdf format and trying once again to see how pdf images travel down the RSS pike.

The media enclosure file uploaded is the pdf I made of Hugh's cartoon with WordPerfect. The thumbnail is the original jpg. Let's see how this works with Blip.tv's thumbnail flipper.


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VERIZON FIOS :: the review from North NJ

Have been uploading the entire "Lady Chatterly's Lover" reading to Blip / archive.org this week. The motivations to do so were twofold:

  1. With three more chapters to read, need inspiration to complete the project;
  2. Verizon's added FIOS (fiber optic) to my North New Jersey neighborhood, and I bought the FedEx notification marketing bait 20 MB package for only $5 more a month.
Speakeasy's free online up/down speed test shows as follows:
  • 10MB download / 4MB up to Dallas
  • 20 MB download / 4.337 up to NYC
  • 5.5 MB / 3.3 to Seattle
Okay. FIOS is not as speedy on the download as I might have liked to places-other-than-New York, but uploading a series of 20-30MB audio files to Blip.tv was a breeze. Well, more like a gust. The Blip server must be nearby 'cause it took 1.5 minutes for the 30MB file to upload. In the DSL past, that would have taken just under an hour.

The thing is, Verizon's pushing their "Verizon Internet Security Suite" with annoying popup windows that - more annoying than the popups - insist you use Internet Explorer to do things. Baaaaad Verizon. Bad Verizon.

The installation guy - Kevin - was great. I mean really great. Customer service means a lot.


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11.29.2006

Manifesto Meme :: Change the World 500 Words at a Time


Hugh MacLeod's got a heck-uv-an Open Source Manifesto Meme going on over at GapingVoid.com.


CHANGE THE WORLD 500 WORDS AT A TIME


Because the idea moved me, I left a comment. Thereafter, Hugh quoted the comment in a post. Jeepers, had I known, I would have been more careful with the syntax.

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11.28.2006

The 9-11 Commission Report - HTML

Read the 9-11 Commission Report and decide for yourself if it's adequate.


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Click TV :: Tool for Documentary Film Makers





I'm not quite ready to send this film down the RSS pipeline quite yet, but am interested in checking out Click.tv's most recent interation.

As an aspiring documentary film maker, the idea of being able to develop voiceover content with this tool is entrancing. Envision it helpful as 'teleprompter' when the time comes to record.

Check it out - leave even an inane comment. This is a fine, intuitive UI.

Best to let Click's Mike Lanza speak for himself:

Dear Friend of Click.TV:

I'm excited to announce to you the general availability of the newest Click.TV Player. It's quite a leap for us. You can see it on a special demo page (http://www.click.tv/ctss/worldcup.html) or on our home page (www.click.tv). It has the following new features:

Pushbuttons for track selection
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Just like on that old car radio, you can push buttons to see "views" of a video. Just put your mouse over the videoand click one of those tiles on the left. "ENTIRE VIDEO"is the default, but clicking on a track name plays just the comments in that track. Try it!

EMAIL
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Click on the EMAIL button to email the video to someone. Note that if you're currently viewing a track, you can email *just* that track. This even works for a search track! Here's an example - a "zidane" search track of the 2006 World Cup between Italy and France: View the movie

Creating clips with comments
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Creating or editing comments with precise start and end points is easy now. To check it out, click "+COMMENT" to add a comment and press "edit start/end points" to reveal the start/end point editing interface.

Compact mode
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Compact mode is now accessible via the button on the upper right. Now, all functionality is accessible in compact mode. The only thing that you give up is the ability to view all comments in a list. Instead, they appear one-by-one as subtitles overlaying the bottom of the video.

Usability enhancements
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We've made dozens of subtle usability enhancements. For instance, the matrix that overlays the video now fades away after a couple seconds of inactivity. Also, you can now scroll through comments in the comment pane while the video is playing.


Please let me know what you think of this new version, and also please contact me if you have new ideas for how you might use Click.TV on your web site.

Thanks for your support.

- Mike Lanza

PS We'll be launching many more exciting things in the coming months. Stay tuned!

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Mike Lanza
mlanza@click.tv
www.click.tv
415-641-1985
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Social Implications of the Ubiquitous Video Phone

As an avid cameraphone user (I love my Nokia 6682 and can't wait to upgrade to a new N-series phone - hint) must take note of the thoughtful aftermath of the most recent MSM-covered events that no one would have heard of were it not for video phones.

  1. UCLA camera phone footage captured a student being repeatedly tasered.
  2. Michael Richards losing it.
Having become a walking, talking media-making machine, surrounded by many GO and NGO cameras, turnabout is only fair play. There are great advantages to being a media-making machine in the 21st Century, not least of which is fair play.

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11.27.2006

Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing Banned TV Commercial #2

If NBC and CW won't air ads for the Dixie Chicks' "Shut Up & Sing" the Faux Press will.

Calling all vloggers, yo.

"This is the second TV spot for the new movie "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing". This was also banned by NBC and CW. They are both rethinking their descisions. From The Weinstein Company." - text from Google Video.

11.26.2006

New voice message from Jan McLaughlin -


I know the following looks aesthetically creepy, but it's a beta test of Pinger, a potentially radical kinda new cellphone/browser/email voice messaging system. Don't think Pinger's yet dealt with the multimedia aspects of their endeavor, but, were they to do such a thing, I'd be happy as the crust of a hot apple pie.

I've been searching for an alternative cellphone-to-vlog option since Audioblogger gave up the ghost November 1, 2006.

Odeo/Audioblogger recommended Gabcast. Gabcast's click-heavy user interface keeps me from using it regularly, but at least podcasts are sucked down RSS tubes and easily crossposted to vlog/blog sites. You can also create (free) a bunch of different channels. Comments allowed.

It's been a couple of days since I posted the below entry from the also-free Pinger. I also posted results of the test with appropriate links to the Pinger forum. No response yet. Customer service - egh. Check.

Nonetheless, the features are so interesting and copious, that I must trudge forward.

The most impressive Pinger feature is their voice recognition interface. After you on-so-easily import gmail contacts into their service, all you have to do is say the name of the person you want to message and by golly, this computer chick voice repeats the name back to you and bingo - press '#' - you're recording a voice message for 'em.

Messages sent and received are archived, editable, notable and downloadable in wav format.

You can also create groups to which messages are collectively sent. Wow.

If only one could easily post those Pinger messages to one's vlog..

I'd pay for that.

Here's the original, unedited automated post from Pinger --> Blip.tv's Blipfoot email --> autopost to Blogger result:


Hi Blip,

I just sent you a voice message using Pinger. Click the listen button to hear me (you might check your computer speaker volume first).

fromnotesdatedurJan McLaughlin6:07am Nov-2640s

Learn how to use Pinger on your mobile phone

If the listen button doesn't work, copy and paste this link into your browser.

http://www.pinger.com/inbox.php?_=519fd5d50379491bd325a504a9d3805343d93b5e&m=90617&u=17639

-Jan

PS If you want to forward this message, please use the Pinger web interface.

Note
Wondering why you didn't get a text notification for this Pinger? Double-check the email address this message was sent to. Likely you signed up under a different email/login. Click merging multiple email addresses under one account to learn more.



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Post Note: Pinger replied to my forum comment yesterday, and they said they'd be in touch with Blip.tv

11.24.2006

Roy Trumbull's Story Spieler Podcast

Re-re-vlog - er - podcast.

Roy Trumbull's voice is exceptionally well suited for reading. His Story Spieler Podcast includes childrens' books (including fairytales), poetry, and my favorite, the Short Attention Span Philosopher. Check him out.

This is Roy's feed.

Trumbull's November 23rd reading was of Carl Sandburg's "Chicago".

Enjoy.

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Juicer-wear :: Tech Fashion


My buddy Meg's created a line of grip/electric-related images for tee shirts.

A "pigeon on a plate" is a 750 stud attached to a pancake (also known as a 'quarter apple'). Still don't know what I'm talking about? Well...you'll just have to visit me on set one day.


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11.22.2006

"So Long, Sucka!"

Watch movie

Miss B. Haven's fine dance vlog gave me a few giggles today.

She rocks.

Original post on November 09, 2006 from the miscellaneous mischievous misadventures of missbhavens: (RSS feed)

nnnnnnnnnnClick the pic or here to Dance in Quicktimennnor Click here to Flail in Flash @ blip.tvnnnThe election results gave me a serious case of happy feet...but the Rumsfeld resignation made my head spin! I am rarely moved by The Power of Dance; I have been known to dance at weddings and also when I bring home a sack of White Castle cheeseburgers.nThe resignation of Secretaries of Defenses can now be added to my short list of dance-worthy occasions...or flail-worthy occasions. Flailing followed by brief, sweaty, political commentary.nAnd yes, my neck really, really really hurts today.nFor more election-related good times head over to Dave's Long Box and find out the various political affiliations of your favorite superheroes.nn[rumsfeld]

(Via Mefeedia)

Faux Press Recon :: Barry Diller's New Building in NY


Extraordinary architecture. I'm hoping Mr. Diller draws the cream of the crop from the vlogosphere to create content for IP/TV.


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11.21.2006

One Reason to Love the Film Business


One repeating advantage of being in the film business is the demand crews spend lots of time in places and under circumstances others are not likely to enjoy.

Having spent a night at the Statue of Liberty crawling around her belly for four hours as she was lit, how could I pleasurably see her in the company of thousands of strangers? I am a jealous friend of beauty.

Lady Liberty is especially beautiful at night; her abdomen a warren of stairways.

Here is the view from Roosevelt Island to the sunrise. Aaah. And the 59th Street (or Queensboro) Bridge. I've lots of friends working at Silvercup Studios these days. I miss 'em.

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Roadie Poetry from Savage Chickens




Impossible for me to resist sharing this with y'all.

Gigglin' m'self silly over here.

Thanks Doug.

Hey, Doug, if your cartoons were in pdf format, they'd be sucked down the RSS tube for distribution through iTunes. I'm just saying...

I'm currently subscribed to your fine cartoons via RssFwd.com They arrive with my email. Would love to have 'em come through iTunes.

iTunes recognizes pdf files, which is a great way to share text / photos where layout means something.

The ulterior motive in mentioning this is to encourage developers to create a single means of aggregation that will deal with any rich media I want to create or consume - audio, video, still images, pdf's and text.

So far, iTunes comes closest since they pass pdf's, but as MMeiser says, iTunes doesn't link back to creators, and the capacity to travel with one click to the original post is more important than you might at first blush think.

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Google Bombing for Social Change

Scoble pointed out this instance of Googlebombing for change.

Evidently, a white supremicist group's coopted Martin Luther King, Jr's Googlejuice.

Bloggers intend to pour the Googlejuice back where it belongs.

Most of the discussion on this initiative is happening HERE if you're interested.

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11.20.2006

The Faux Press :: Film Crew Legends - First in the Series

I've been hearing this particular legend repeated since joining the happy misfits who make movies happen sixteen years ago.

True? You decide. My guess is that this version of the story is true, if only based upon the discomfort of the first fellow who declined to tell the tale on camera.

Names withheld to protect everybody.

I love to provide y'all these loving glimpses into our respective strange and wonderful media-making worlds; to bridge videobloggers and film makers. Nomenclator Michael Meiser has aptly named the phenom 'bridge vlog'. Yeah.

One of the things I particularly enjoy about the film business is that a facility with poetry is an asset many have mastered. Poetry? Well, stay with me now...

The sun's going down. At sunset the work day ends. Everybody's moving fast as they can to help make it happen before it's too late. In any case, the camera will roll soon, ready or not. In moments like these, many small , important communications happen and it is my contention that these communiques are poetry: the essence of need.

Manhattan. Near dusk. Half a block away, a watermain breaks. There's a small flood.

The camera operator needs to ask the set dresser to clock the picture so it doesn't glint in the lens, but the set dresser's busy moving a small mountain of furniture for video village because when the shot changed, the village was in the frame.

The boom operator needs a six-step ladder from the grips because a last-minute reflector board has been set exactly where he or she needed to stand, but all the grips are hastily moving all their carts out of the new foot-deep gutter river that's lately sprung up.

The sound utility person needs access to the lead actor's spike heels to put some click-dampening rubber on the bottom, but Wardbobe's frantically hand-sewing a faux seam in the shirt that ripped during the fight scene's wide shot and unbeknownst to the AD's, the lead actor shivers shirtless in a room a block away.

The First AD needs to release the background extras because they go into meal penalties in 30 seconds, but the 2nd 2nd AD's walkie battery just died. The Sound Mixer needs the First AD to ask locations to find and quell the jackhammer that's just started to dig down to the watermain break on the corner. Locations is out and about trying to find and the 3 store owners who've turned on their lights and have 'em turned off. Because the scene takes place during the day, the stores' lights on will break the afternoon illusion.

Everybody's moving their gear out of the gushing water from the watermain break. Lots of folks' feet are soaked through in process; they're gushing.

The DP asks for metal light-reducing screens in all the daylight-balanced HMI lights that make the afternoon last longer. Electricians scramble.

Communicating in chaos. It happens all the time.

It's in moments like these that the most extreme compromises are reached. Despite not being ready, we shoot. We compromise and shoot because we must. Maybe it will work. We cross our fingers.

"Clock left. Hold."

Poetry.

I admire the capacity to communicate in essence.

While I've essentially stopped writing poetry, a poet I remain.

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11.16.2006

Revlog :: Expedition 360 :: Circumnavigate the World

Jason's human-powered trip around the world captures the Road Node's traveling imagination.

The Faux Press sponsored this leg of Jason's journey where - alone and cold - he deals with altitude sickness.

Why don't you indulge your adventurer's spirit & sponsor a wee bit of his trek? It costs $50 per video upload via sat phone.


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11.15.2006

Helen & Fred @ the Wrap Party :: Newlyweds

This moment of Helen & Fred nourishing one another was for me the story of the wrap party.

Romance. Ah. Sweet.


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11.14.2006

Revlog :: The Faux Press from Ze Frank's New Set



Whoo-whoo!

The vlog big-time.

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11.12.2006

Joe Rilla :: Grip


Halloween hijinks.


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