Vlogging, a New Tube + Flash

Today I learnt a new word: vlogging, which means video blogging or a blog that uses video as its medium. For more this go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog and you can see that the word has apparently been around since 2000 and since 2005 there have been Vloggercons: videoblogger conferences.

I came across the word because I received an invitation to a workshop called Hitting vlogging with a hammer, and so before I could get the hammer out...

It is given by the Melbourne-based Aussie, media theorist: Seth Keen (www.sethkeen.net) and Video Defunct Collective (which is Seth + the programmer, Keith Deverell) see: www.videodefunct.net

I'm still not sure what they do exactly in terms of look and feel because nothing would work without QuickTime (oh those apple people) but they refer to their video-blogs as poetic interventions into vlogging.
I thought, well, the workshop's free and if there's space still, then I'll go.

The workshop is in the context of the conference: Video Vortex: Responses to YouTube (www.networkcultures.org/videovortex), coming up this week, but I've a paper on Making Community: a survey of some European Festival Websites to finish by Sunday for my own study.

In the Rhizome newsletter there was a link to a New Tube. Actually called New Art TV, (www.newarttv.com) an online "channel" of well-made short videos on contemporary art. Launched in mid 2007, by creator Robert Knafo, who used to be a writer and editor of various art and culture magazines such as Slate, Art in America and GQ, also the brains behind another online art project Studio Visit, the New Art TV mini-documentaries (5 to 15 minutes) include interviews with artists, curators, and collectors, exhibition walk-ins.

And... finally a note on flash. I'm very excited to be able to attend a workshop in February on ActionScript3 by Colin Moock (http://www.moock.org/) in Amsterdam. He is here as a guest of Adobe and the Flash in the Can conference (www.fitc.ca).

And while I"m on the topic on flash, I've been working on a new animation, only this time for broadcast (for a festival) and so have been experimenting to see if it is best to export a sequence of stills which I then import into Premiere or to export the animation directly out of flash as an AVI. Yesterday I came to conclusion that both methods seemed to result in equal sharpness on our television, so now I have to make a choice :)

All the above links are also on my delicious bookmarks.