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14:31:25 05/06/08
Amazing Rainbows! London says goodbye as we emigrate
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08:44:19 04/09/08
Mrs Patel
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The next person to inspire me: Mrs Patel from our local Post Office, about to be closed down by incompetence and corruption in government and the privatised Post Office.
This is today's film for the Pangea Day Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards.
The brief is to make 2 minute films about:
The next thing that makes you smile.
An act of kindness.
The next person to inspire you.
The best part of today.
They don't stipulate in the rules that it has to even be shot on a phone, never mind a Nokia, but I'm doing what I always do and shooting AND editing on my N93. Hopefully that'll give me extra brownie points with the judges! (if I get that far)
Please go here to the Pangea Day channel on Ovi and give me VIEWS and COMMENTS and FAVORITES to help me out. You need to sign up for an Ovi account to comment, but if you have a spare two minutes, *please* do (also, you should upload your own)! It's only the most popular films that will get a chance to go in front of the judges.
I should say that aside from the main competition at Ovi, the remarkable Mr David Howell has been appointed by Nokia to run his own Pangea Day competition at http://davidhowellstudios.com - post a link to your film in his comment section by May 2nd.
ANYWAY, enough selling
as for today's film...
The Government are currently engaged in a disgraceful act of cultural vandalism. I believe that in 10-20 years - and beyond - they will be remembered for two things: The Iraq War, and the loss of the Post Office.
For the sake of a mere £200m per year, they are closing the last remaining centre of community in thousands of towns, villages and urban neighbourhoods. This is a brief interview with Mrs Patel, who has run our Post Office for 35 years. Two posts offices within half a mile of here are closing. Seven in our Borough. We have a higher density of older and disabled people in this ward than anywhere else in the borough - people who will lose vital services.
I'm glad that I'm not going to be in the country at the next election. I'd be in a real dilemma at the ballot box. I couldn't bring myself to vote Tory, but nor could I bring myself to reward the current bastards for everything they're doing. Every day, more reasons to emigrate.
The Post Office issue is a classic case of everything that's wrong with a) blind Privatisation and b) our party-based representative democracy. The local MP, Andy Slaughter , who lives opposite me, was fiercely against the closure of the Post Offices. But he couldn't express that view in Parliament, where he represents us, or he'd lose his job. He was forced to vote for something he knew to be wrong, because his weak, venal party leadership had decreed it as policy.
Anyway, you probably came here to watch me making my usual arse of myself, not listen to my political opinions, so I'll stfu and let you meet the lovely, inspiring, discarded Mrs Patel.
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14:43:05 06/22/07
Lumiere Rules: Friday evening in a heavy rainstorm, moments after putting the baby to bed
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A crucial inconsequential moment. The only one I've posted all week. It's been a H.A.R.D. week.
Lumiere Rules is a game I've been wanting to play for a few weeks, inspired by Andreas.
I put down my Nokia for the first time in months and picked up my old Kodak DX7440 (which, totally coincidentally and appropriately) Andreas recommended to me before I even started Fatgirlinohio, when I was looking for a camera and was admiring the colours on his photos and videos on his blog. I love that camera. I needed it for this because it has a flat bottom, unlike my Nokia.
From Andreas's blog , Solitude.dk:
"The rules are as follows:
* 60 seconds max.
* Fixed camera
* No audio
* No zoom
* No edit
* No effects
They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s.
"Aske Dam, a good friend, told me about these rules last summer when we were attached to the same research project. They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s. All transfer seamlessly to web-video and videoblogs except the last one. On the web we are used to compress our videos because the raw files from our cameras are too big to be practical. But is the compression not an added effect? You can certainly tweak the compression settings to provide results that differ tremendously from the raw camera files.
If you make any videos that abide by the Lumiere Rules tag them lumierevideo ."
More info and Andreas's videos at: http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20070522-2202/
Also see great lumieres by Gogen and Bshoot
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16:32:12 04/04/07
twittervlog: 6.53pm MASSIVE FLASHMOB silent rave in London Victoria train station!
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13:17:28 01/12/07
this will never work. It's too futuristic.
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For those of you coming direct to this post via links, I guess it's kind of superseded by the next one I did , which I edited IN-PHONE...
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16:18:37 01/11/07
Shot, cut, scored and posted by email from my Nokia N93 phone
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this morning I went out for a 15 minute run, shot a film with my new phone,
cut together a few different clips using the in-phone editor, added
some music and posted to blip & my blog using a free wifi hotspot.
I am TOTALLY PSYCHED that i can do this. I've been completely unable to make any films or post anything because of work and travel and family, but that may all change with this - it's so quick. Will make catching moments, EDITING and posting immediately a practical reality. And all for free. AMAZING.
if you know other people who are editing with their phones - or just shooting and posting from mobile devices, please let me know. i've been a bit out of the loop for a few months.
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06/22/07
