That is the question. If you have the answer you could be in with the chance to win some pretty cool prizes. Total Recut is hosting a Video Remix challenge with this as it’s theme. You can submit a video between 30 seconds and 3 minutes to give your take on what you think Remix Culture is all about. There are many ways you could go about this so why not fire up you imagination and get creative. I have a few ideas swimming around in that fishbowl on top of my shoulders! Hopefully I can pull something out the the bag for this. Anyways, here’s some more info…
TotalRecut.com is hosting a Video Remix Challenge over the next two months and we want you to create a short video using the theme: ‘What is Remix Culture?’ You can you use any footage you can find, including Public Domain and Creative Commons work, but the finished video cannot be longer than 3 minutes or shorter than 30 seconds long. The prizes include a Laptop computer loaded with video editing and conversion software, a digital camcorder, a digital media player, as well as Special Edition Total Recut T-Shirts, Books, DVDs and CDs. We have an amazing lineup of judges for the contest including Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Kembrew McLeod, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica and Mark Hosler. You can find out more information at: http://www.totalrecut.com/contest1.php. Entries will be accepted from the 1st of May until the 2nd June 2008 when public voting will begin. The best 10 videos at the end of the 2 week voting period will be put forward into the final, where they will be voted on by the judging panel. The winners will be announced around the 1st of July. So get busy making those videos!
Your Video Remix…
- must not exceed 3 minutes in length, including credit sequence
- must not be less than 30 seconds in duration
- must reflect the theme: ‘What is Remix Culture?’
- must remix previously published video footage
- may include your own original footage, typography and effects
- must include a credits sequence at the end attributing all sampled material
- should be licenced with a Creative Commons license
Submission Period Begins : 1st May 2008
Deadline for Submission : 2nd June 2008
Public Voting Begins : 2nd June 2008
Public Voting Ends :16th June 2008
Finalists Announced : 16th June 2008
Judging Panel Begins : 16th June 2008
Judging Ends : 30th June 2008
Bliss me blog for I have been lockedinned, it’s been 19 days since my last post!!
Well, it has been a busy couple of weeks so I have a lot to post about here, where I will get into in the next post. The last one was 19 days ago and I haven’t got my Nine Inch Nails cd yet, but not to worry as it is still been by soundtrack for the last few week. Class album, nuff said.. well except that I must make a video for them (along with all the other videos I am making!).
Talking about video, that is what this post is about.. well one aspect of it… online video.. and how you search and view it. One of my favourite web apps from the last couple of months has been Cool Iris’ “PicLens“. I gave it a mini review in the asides post on the, well, side of this page. Really I should have gave it more of a review as I think it is a fantastic little add-on for Firefox and really puts an new slant on image search. It is so slick and I reckon we will be seeing a lot more webapps in this style over the next few months. I guess they are built in the Adobe Flex environment, but I can’t be sure. Anyway I was showing it off the other day and was thinking “wouldn’t it be really cool if it done video too?”. Well, guess what… it does!! Just as I got online today there was an update for it.. for YouTube videos and it works a charm. You can see it in action in the images above where I did a search for remix (something on my mind a lot this week) and the random video I pulled up is from Matt & Kim… and here it is…
(can you guess where they got that riff from?… answers on the back of a postcard or in the comments!!)
Whohoo! This just reminded me that I never did get round to review the Nine Inch Nails album “Ghosts”. Well, I was hooked on first impressions and bought it straight away. Not just the $5 download version but the CD for $10 (plus postage and packaging.. still cheaper than buying it in the shops). The album is a fantastic soundtrack and that is what it is. No vocals, just lush instrumentals on an electronic vibe. Incidentally there is now a contest running to make videos for it in a sort of film festival on YouTube. I plan to add that to the queue of projects currently on @ IT:IS:ON HQ!
Anyway, as I said the album is fantastic and has been playing on repeat a lot while I work away on my projects.
Well, there’s not been any updates in a while, I haven’t had the time. Plenty to write about, so expect a backlog of blogs soon. Just testing out Wordpress 2.5 here with this post as I am building a site for a client using good old Wordpress as the CMS. Some of the plugins I had selected for it don’t work after the upgrade so it’s troubleshooting time now. Perhaps I should have left it the way it was, but there are some new features, such as the better way to add media which is more user-friendly and like another plugin I had previously used.
So anyway I will update here when I can. I have some nice half written articles which I will finish off soon and get them up here. Some may be stale bread now as they relate to current affairs but may put them up anyway.
A brave protester known as Squeak is down in a tunnel at Rath Lugh in a surprise move in the campaign. She has firmly embedded herself beneath the path of the road. The tunnel is a the result of massive undertaking over the past few months by protesters opposed to the construction of the M3 motorway in the Gabhra Valley. This is an eleven minute cutdown of the video released by Tara Pixie earlier. You can see the full half hour video which shows another confrontation at the national monument between the activists, road workers and gardai on Tara Pixie’s LiveVideo site
Statement on behalf of the Rath Lugh Direct Action Camp
21st century souterrain
The Protectors at Rath Lugh have planned a Direct Action method used for the first time on protest sites in Ireland. They have dug a tunnel under the route of the M3 directly in front of the Rath Lugh promontory fort in the Gabhra Valley, Co Meath in Ireland. The Protectors intend to occupy this tunnel and seal themselves inside indefinitely to prevent construction traffic from passing overhead. They are laying their very lives on the line to protect and preserve Tara’s
landscape from the destruction wrought by their own Government.
The Protectors said: “We want to draw attention to the continued erosion of the esker by passing construction traffic, hence damaging the base and foundation of the Rath.”
This is a continuation of their non-violent direct action. The tunnel acts like a souterrain giving the occupant protection and making it very difficult for the enemy to enter.
