9.24.2006

Vlog Sustainability::Have Money Will Vlog Launches Third Project


The Columbia Migration Project is only the most recent Have Money Will Vlog endeavor.

In The Columbia Migration Project, anthropologist Maria Gomez will for four months explore the Columbian Diaspora as now ten percent of Columbians have headed to the United States with presumably many more emigres to come.

Is this migration brain drain, labor drain, or both? It's our hope that Maria will find answers that will open doors of understanding and promote the hearty embrace of a new emigrant population as they find homes here.

This is the most recent of three vlog projects that a group of active, vested members of the Videoblogging community through Have Money Will Vlog (HMWV) have agreed to support with their dollars and social currency.

Jay Dedman in particular fell in love with Maria's concept, and managed to elicit a concensus from the HMWV advocates that Maria's vlog dream was a thing worthy of both its fiscal & social capital.

Can't help but think of HMWV as an economic model for sustainable videoblogging. More than that, it's created a new kind of production company. And as a Hollywood / Television insider (sort of), I can say it is a good thing to have new models. It's time.

Jeff Pulver starts a conversation about vlog-as-entertainment / television with this post that lists research results for "TV Shows Only Available on the Internet."

Lots of the shows Pulver lists turn the idea of television at least on its side if not its head.

More of that upsidedownness, if you please.

The Columbian Migration is more of that.

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7 comments:

  1. I see you added co.mments tracking. Let me know if it makes a difference in the amount of comments or the tone of the conversations.

    As for the post... I like the idea. It's a sort of a bridge blog. A bridge blog is a blog in one culture that presents that culture to another culture, ussually in a different language. But here it's unique. We see people on both sides. It's a beautifully simple idea.

    Reminds me of a project called "video letters" which atempted to heal wounds in I think it was bosnia by using video "letters" to reaquainte friends that ended up on seperate sides of the conflict.

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  2. I forget to use the darned Co.ments thing. 'Twould be good if it send email notifications of replies. That would train me to deal with it.

    Hey - Co.ments - you listening?

    Video letters. I certainly feel in some part a deep aesthetic connection to letters-as-genre.

    As metaphrast I translate letters into multi-mediaworks.

    An underlying theme of this site is the notion that each 'page' is part of The World's Longest Open Love Letter.

    I'm interested in love.

    Love's bottom line is action.

    That's my best one-word synopsis of the condition.

    Beautiful in its theory-of-everything simplicity.

    If it's in conflict with love, I try not to do it.

    This community known as the vlogosphere brings me closer to love. Brings it viscerally into my life.

    I love doing this making-media thing.

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  3. Two things.

    1) co.mments.com DOES DO EMAIL! Why do you think I love it so much!? It's the GOOD kinda email too. Not just an email that says "you've got a post"... but it actually send you the original post and comments so you have CONTEXT... you needn't even leave your mail.app or gmail. On top of that... here's the best part... it THREADS.. that way in your mail each new comment stacks right up with the old one... so you can see everything right there... how it all stacks up. It nakes comments just as conversational and realtime as email. Only much more fun!

    Just put the co.mments bookmarklet in your browser's bookmarklet bar and click on it whenever you want to track a blog page. And if you can't find the setting to enable emailed comments let me know. I'll give you detailed instructions on where to find it.

    Really! That's all ther is too it.


    2) About the love... that is it... the pure simple beauty of it. What you love and who you love. Follow the love. As long as you do what you do with love and passion it's a beautiful thing. Videoblogging is about sharing that love. Don't know to many people out there that put hate videos out there, not to many who would follow it if they did. Interesting thoughts in a medium is the message way.

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  4. Added the amendment to my "no email at co.mment" to the wrong conversation. Much better user experience that way, to be sure. Thanks, MM.

    Got the bookmarklet, too, tho haven't yet used it. Do you have to be on the permalinked page for it to work? I'm guessing that to be the case.

    In politics, follow the money; in life, follow love.

    And love is proved in action.

    It's the plethora of emotional information contained in motion pictures that accelerates this particular medium's power.

    Because the computer screen is small, because our viewers' faces are a tit-to-eye-length away from the screen (back to breastfeeding), the closeup is the means to most effectively express that emotional information.

    Vlog on!

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  5. Yes, you have to be on the permalink page.

    "In politics, follow the money; in life, follow love."

    good quote

    What about in business?

    I've hear you mention the tit-to-eye distance before... not saying I disagree... but that's not a very academically grounded argument.

    So...

    life, love
    politics, money

    What about business, and let me add to that, what about about academics and education? if it is a comperable category. You might say academics and education are just a part of life... as such maybe the answer to them is love to... but academics is all abut passion and interest... where does this reflect the balance of science an rational? Or does true love of the subject matter imply a respect for ration and science?

    :)

    Peace,

    P.S. I fear I might have gone to long with this thread... much like the "nazi rule of thumb" in social groups there's got to be some indicator of when a comments thread should be terminated. ...and maybe we are approaching that point. :)

    I can only imagine what others stumbling on this conversation would think... not that I care what they think... just that they feel comfortable diving into it... encouraged even to comment... we may have made this conversation so intense as to be imposing to those would be participators. As we would say on evivlog we have to lower not just boundries, but expectations to change perceptions of accessibility.

    If "brookers" can get an MTV deal and "geriatric" guy can tell his life's story to 100's of thousands through a web came than anyone can do anything.

    In fact maybe you can place this quote... some film director from france... to paraphrase... "film will only become art when the camera is as cheap as a pencil" ... I think this sums up my theories on media.. I am to debase, debatch, and cheapen it until it is so cheap that everyone has access... only then can we even begin to truely explore and understand media... as art, communications, entertainment... WHATEVER it is. We must understand we don't know SQUAT yet and haven't done SQUAT.. With all do respect to your profession of course. I think you understand what I'm talking about. We've yet begun really to explore the possibilities of the photo and it's been 100 years... of the written word... and it's been getting "cheaper" for 500 years since guttenbergs press.

    When there is a tradition of art from developing coutries, people who make so called "naive" video art... and when we realize it is not them but us who are naive then we'll only be taking another step beyond blogs and "geriatric" guy on your tube... as mainstream media and america learns something is changing.

    That something is CONTEXT... context is the shifting sands beneath media.

    I hope that made sense. If not sorry. :(

    -Mike

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  6. Jeepers MM, just because we're getting into theory - specifically my own TOE (Theory of Everything) - you're gonna start backpeddling? Ha! Chicken!

    Regarding the tit-to-face distance - I'm not an academic but as with all things, faux - a faux academic.

    Based on other scientific research, I'm betting that when / if the research *is finished, they will find this distance telling and significant.

    With regard to art & commerce, traditional science and academia are political which lands both in the category of 'politics', so follow the money. If, however, you begin scientific research 'in love', then you're going somewhere 'in love'.

    The context of which you speak...outside ulterior motive or agenda...???...speak more to CONTEXT if you would be so kind.

    We will remain naive about western media until we begin to make it regularly and experience first-hand its power.

    The western idea of popularity must fall / fail / find another model, too, in order for things to change, hence my fancy for the imperfect.

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  7. Hello I'm mike

    I aim to kill the popularity culture.

    Perhaps that would be a good name for my book if I ever write it.

    The death of the popularity culture.

    Of course it might be a little premature... or maybe it could be considered "visionary". :)

    Peace, -Mike

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