Starlings from Brighton Pier video clip
Camera phone clips. Music - Knee deep in the North Sea by Portico Quartet.
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"Near a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground.."
Finally made it to the arts/media monthly event which this month presented 80's pop star Nik Kershaw and Bond composer David Arnold. Nik Kershaw is looking a little bit Gary Glitter with his tinted specs and Goatee, but does look pretty spry, and was sporting a quite tidy, super-short, mohican style hair-do. Funniest moment was a weak knee'd middle aged woman asked Nik if "he worked out".
I tried to hold my crappy N70 steady at full zoom for a video of "Wouldn't it be good" acoustic" but failed miserably and was also thwarted by a moving person in front of me obscuring my frame. I like Kershaw songs, they have really tricky chords, especially when played on a banjo.
David Arnold was really entertaining and told extended Hollywood-dirt stories about some of his adventures. He's surprisingly normal for a man with such a fine hollywood profile.
This weekend I have also discovered Radio Reverb, Brighton's local community station. You can listen to it on analog at 97.2FM or live from the stream. DJ Lamp is very good and plays all kinds of music for his show Eclectic Chair, and also the 2 hour weekly show Simple Folk has some brilliant live sessions - check their archives.
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Fun at Flash on the Beach and Rob Chui's trailer
I've been thoroughly enjoying sessions at this year's Flash on the Beach conference. I took the liberty of converting Rob Chui's trailer to flash for this page. Taken from Chui's The Ronin homepage where the QT took a long time to load. Turn up the volume!
Flash on the Beach trailer - Rob Chui
Some older work which I liked.. Captain Q-tip boot.
Monday was also Chris Orwig, on The Art and Craft of Photographic Impact. Really inspiring.
Tuesday was Hoss Gifford on Abstract narrative. He made a cool gadget for the Edinburgh fringe festival called fringe magnets. This is as it appears, with the letters you're given you can re-arrange the letters and send to a friend, the interesting part is that the act of arranging the letters is recorded, so the friend recieves your note and can view the way you created it. Robert Hodgin was the final session on Tuesday (web or vimeo). He writes code in a language called Processing which creates visualisations. Solar (music by Goldfrapp) with lyrics from flight404 on Vimeo (HD available from that page). This was a pre-rendered sequence but for an energy drink company Hodgin and a programmer collaborator created this amazing visualisation engine that runs real time. Do view that last link, it'll blow you away!Labels: brighton, films, links, technology, webdev
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This one minute film is almost a time-lapse, lets call it a time-lurch. The Bench in question is in a small park that my flat looks out on.
I filmed the bench on a Saturday at midday for about four hours. It's a fun snapshot of some of the personalities who stopped by in the park.
I like the larger man in the blue shirt who can't quite find a comfy spot and seems to get pestered repeatedly by insects.
The music is a traditional fiddle tune Sally Ann, as played by Dirk Powell.
Video fans may note this stream is hosted by blip.tv a small New York start-up offering a service specialising in episodic video hosting. The layout and organisation of the site will mostly suit podcasts and serials, which may deter the more casual publisher that would currently use youtube.
I acidentally found some photos of their office from 2007 showing the scale of the operation.
Their site is simple and uncluttered, and has optional opt-in advertising revenue. Most importantly - you can upload, and download a variety of different file formats. That means I can offer you a link to my original hi res file and additionally any other ipod / iphone / alternative device versions that I see fit.
DOWNLOAD (640x360: The Bench [Format: h264 mov - Size: 89 MB - Running Time: 1 min.]
Blip are also hosting Michael Moore's new feature length documentary, Slacker Uprising which is being released online instead of in theaters. The movie, which debuts Tuesday, is also going to be available for download on iTunes and on Amazon.
Labels: brighton, links, tv, video
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Routes - documentary and Q&A at Duke Of Yorks
This Saturday at 4.30pm at the Duke Of York's Picturehouse Alex Reuben's documentary Routes will be shown followed by a Q&A with the director himself.
"Routes is a road movie through the dance and music of the American Deep South. Inspired by Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (and evocative of Maya Deren's seminal Meshes Of The Afternoon), Alex Reuben's film offers an idiosyncratic documentation of lesser-known forms of American culture, and the extraordinary dancing Americans of the Deep South. From North Carolina to the Holy Grail of his childhood hero, Fats Domino, and the Jazz of New Orleans, Reuben captured on the road Appalachian Bluegrass, Clogging, Mississippi Fife and Drum Blues, Krumping, Memphis Hip-Hop, Indian Smoke Dance, Louisiana Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop, all in a vivid stream of sound and vision."
Not sure? Be charmed by this peculiar video excerpt (mov).
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