For you map freaks out there, the locations in this video are:Â
Turnham Green Station (Map)
Leon, Ludgate Circus (Map - Website) Â Â
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7/25/2007
"Who will he bang?" Gritty Street Poetry Reading
Thanks to Gogen for reminding me about this song. Lyrical gold.
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Signs Of The Times - Rotating Portrait Of A High Street In Britain, 2007
More pseudoarty nonsense, no ranting or babies today. Just stood on a spot in posh & leafy Chiswick and pretended I was a CCTV camera. Kind of like the way that Coppola used the camera in my favourite movie, The Conversation. But with a cellphone.
It's interesting what you notice, if you stop in one place and zoom in and out with your camera or with your brain. My phone is helping me to see things in the world around me that I take for granted and blank out.
Today has been a day for noticing how much things have changed since I've been alive. Not just non-smoking pubs, coffee bars and CCTV - I was flicking through Microserfs and thinking about how futuristic the email and geek lifestyle seemed in 1995, and how real it is now. And then I came downstairs and found this post from Gogen, about his memories of the 1980s. I said everything else I've got to say about that in my comment there.
In other weird news, the last film I did like this one, Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime, might be screened in San Francisco tonight in the NewTeeVee Metacafe Pier Screenings after some of you were nice enough to give it a handful of 5 star ratings. I find this idea almost erotically exciting. Partly because I always associate San Francisco with The Conversation, and so I've always secretly wished I could live there.
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7/23/2007
Lumiere - From the Scaffold
We're having our loft turned into a bedroom. Our house is enmeshed with scaffolding.  I have mild intermittend Vertigo. Sometimes I totally freak out at heights. But it was too beautiful an evening to resist climbing the extremely wobbly ladder.
This video has no sound. It's a Lumiere Rules video.
The rules are as follows. They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s:
- 60 seconds max.
- Fixed camera
- No audio
- No zoom
- No edit
- No effects
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Lumiere: Amy makes a video
The only thing she loves more than watching herself in my videos ("again! AGAIN!") is holding my phone and looking at herself on the screen, thru the little low-res camera next to the screen.
The camera was glitching, which produces quite a nice effect. There's no sound because this is a Lumiere.
It doesn't seem to matter how many times you say that, people still say "Oh! I can't hear anything."
Just goes to show how pointless it is to write text on a videoblog. Why am I even writing this? You're not reading it. I killed a man in Reno just to watch him die.
I'm loving the Lumieres that are being made all over the world. Hundreds of them. To browse them, visit http://videoblogging.info/lumiere/
The rules are as follows. They mimic the conditions under which the Lumiere brothers made their movies in the late 1800s:
- 60 seconds max.
- Fixed camera
- No audio
- No zoom
- No edit
- No effects
Formats available: Third Generation Platform (.3gp)
7/21/2007
7/14/2007
"I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El duderino if you're not into the whole brev ity thing."
This was the second throw of the night tonight. I thought I'd share it with you, as trying to roll while filming would be sure to fuck it up to comic effect. And as it finished, the battery died.
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7/13/2007
Mad As Hell (6 minute rant)
It's a while since i had a good heretical rant on camera.
RAAAAAAAAAAAA
Since I became a freelance, I've spent the whole time feeling I should be working harder, and worrying that I'm not making enough money. Enough already.
Vanity note: My hair's not greasy, I'd had a shower and it was raining.
Also today (when I was feeling a little calmer) I set up a video comments vlog - see link at top.
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7/12/2007
7/07/2007
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
For Lucy
Two things that have hypnotized and haunted me all week:
Music: performed by Adam Quirk
from standards.bullemhead.com - see comments for explanation
Image: on every phone box in West London.
see also flickr.com/photos/ruperthowe
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7/03/2007
Lumiere Rules 2: Amy Zoetrope
Cheating, because the camera's not fixed - but I can't fix my phone, so I just held it still. Until she started to scream.
From Andreass 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."
See more by other people at Blip.tv - search for "lumierevideo"
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7/02/2007
Nokia: Connecting People
Nothing really. Just a snapshot from the council housing estate that makes up one half of our road. With nice crappy audio that gives a flavour of the area.
The other half is being 'gentrified' by people like me, with privately owned terraced houses rising 40-50% in value in the last two years. A 3 bed house is now worth £600k ($1.2m). When I was working in Investor Relations, I used to find this estate a scary place to walk through, and avoided it. Now I walk through it at least twice a day to get the bus.
When I passed this Nokia box just now, I was in the middle of calculating that the retail price of my Nokia phone was around a month's salary on minimum wage after tax - and a quarter of a year or so on the dole.
On the plus side, I think 3 to 5 thousand people in the City take home bonuses of over one million pounds ($2m) each year, now (in addition to their 6 figure salaries, of course) - and in total around £10 billion is given in bonuses in the uk. So I'm sure all that will trickle down soon enough. That's the theory, isn't it? Strange it hasn't happened yet. And last week our finance minister became our PM, promising opportunities for all. Things can only get better.
But anyway, what the fuck am I wittering on about my neighbourhood and the economy for? This is just a video of a dirty, broken down, badly-patched-up high tech box on my street.
The other half is being 'gentrified' by people like me, with privately owned terraced houses rising 40-50% in value in the last two years. A 3 bed house is now worth £600k ($1.2m). When I was working in Investor Relations, I used to find this estate a scary place to walk through, and avoided it. Now I walk through it at least twice a day to get the bus.
When I passed this Nokia box just now, I was in the middle of calculating that the retail price of my Nokia phone was around a month's salary on minimum wage after tax - and a quarter of a year or so on the dole.
On the plus side, I think 3 to 5 thousand people in the City take home bonuses of over one million pounds ($2m) each year, now (in addition to their 6 figure salaries, of course) - and in total around £10 billion is given in bonuses in the uk. So I'm sure all that will trickle down soon enough. That's the theory, isn't it? Strange it hasn't happened yet. And last week our finance minister became our PM, promising opportunities for all. Things can only get better.
But anyway, what the fuck am I wittering on about my neighbourhood and the economy for? This is just a video of a dirty, broken down, badly-patched-up high tech box on my street.
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4)
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